The Beat of Sports

When Urban Meyer went to one of the members of his football staff and asked how to delete text messages that were older than a year did he violate some kind of law? There is some belief that him destroying evidence against him could lead to some lawsuits against Meyer and potentially Ohio State.

This past month the state of Florida has found itself in the spotlight for the wrong reasons, 2 high school football games were cut short due to gunfire. Now the demand to make attending games safer has begun but no one knows where the money will come from to make this happen. In Palm Bay a few after one shooting metal detectors are now being used, is this the future for high school sports?

Mike Bianchi and Marc Daniels open up The Bridge discussing UCF making the NCAA’s official guide under the label of ‘national champs’ next to Alabama. Daniels mentions that Danny White is the only reason the NCAA listed them as such.

First of all this is not a political statement, BUT is there a chance that a major television network (ESPN) told one of their reporters to not investigate the FBI going after college basketball? Marc explains how this is something that might have happened last year and we hear from one of those reporters that was told to not go after the story.

Now that the penalties have been given out at Ohio State and Urban Meyer will be suspended for the first 3 games, could have face charges for destroying text messages that could have been used as evidence? Plus with the recent trend of NBA players speaking up about their mental health and challenges with anxiety, could owners start requesting files on the mental state of their players? And with high school football kicking off tonight, why does it seem like transfer rules so complicated.

Mike Bianchi and Marc Daniels discuss comments made by ESPN's Michelle Beadle that she made saying that she will not be watching football for the second straight year. They also discuss the fallout from the Urban Meyer suspension.

If you are mad that the only penalty that Urban Meyer got is just a 3 game suspension then don't get mad at him he is just the coach. If you want someone to yell at then just yell at the sport of college football itself. College football is just doing what all big business does: ignore the criticism, protect the brand and do whatever it takes to succeed.

After yesterdays meeting with the board of trustees at Ohio State a decision was made to suspend Urban Meyer for the first 3 games of the season. After that decision was made Meyer made a statement that looked as if he wanted to attack everyone because he feels he did nothing wrong and it is only his job to win football games. Marc explains that when watching Meyer he realizes that this is very similar to a scene from A Few Good Men when Tom Cruise just wants the truth.

Yesterday details were finally released about the Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson event Thanksgiving Weekend but Marc explains that there are a lot of problems with it. First of all, PAY PER VIEW?! Who thought that was a good idea? Marc explains his plan to fix this event to maximize fan interest and generating more eyeballs to watch. He also talks about his surprise that despite the renewed interest in Tiger Woods that no major television network was interested in airing this.

The first year for Jimbo Fisher hasn't started off as easy as the Aggies would have expected when they signed up to a 10 year contract, Dan Wolken joins the show to discuss the story about how NCAA investigators are looking into a transfer situation. He talks about what this may mean for Jimbo and if there is any kind of penalty that could be levied against him. Dan also discusses how the transfer rule was created after the Ole Miss situation and could lead to more problems throughout college football. Dan also talks about how after this incident at Texas A&M and what happened at Maryland that college football players need to take a strong look at forming a union so that they will have more say in decisions that affect them.