Every week during football season, Ohio State football coach Urban Meyer hosts a radio show on 97.1 The Fan in Columbus, Ohio. And since the Buckeyes pretty much always win, Meyer presumably doesn’t feel too burdened by fielding calls from crazy fans who pepper him with questions.
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Naturally, fans viewed the decision not to get any input from viewers as Meyer dodging fans who might be unhappy after a loss.
It was kind of weak that they wouldn't take calls on the Urban Meyer call in show after taking a loss.
— jbook™ (@jbook37) October 27, 2016
Urban Meyer call in show… Takes calls when they win, takes no calls when they lose. Lol. #Buckeyes
— Dustin Barnard (@theragingbeard) October 27, 2016
Urban Meyer Call-In Show*
*May not contain actual calls.
— Tony Gerdeman (@TonyGerdeman) October 27, 2016
Ohio State starts 6-0, multiple calls taken each week on the Urban Meyer Call-In Show.
Ohio State loses a game, no calls taken. 🤔
— Eric Seger (@EricSeger33) October 27, 2016
Even Anthony Rothman, who hosts the show that comes on immediately after Meyer’s, criticized the coach for cutting the phone lines. Via the Dispatch:
After Meyer’s show ended, Rothman described it as the “so-called” call-in show and said the lack of calls was the “elephant in the room.”
“I’m very disappointed,” he said. “I thought we’d have calls or that they would take calls. I don’t understand. It was a loss. I know it’s disappointing and everyone wants to move on when that happens, but I think these fans have a right to call in and be cordial and be objective and ask their coach some football questions, which they get to do every week after wins.
“You can’t ignore it. I’m not going to ignore. I’d be selling out my own integrity.”
Here’s the company line on why Meyer didn’t take any calls:
But Skip Mosic, executive producer of the OSU radio network, said the decision not to take calls was strictly his.
“For 31 years, I have determined what phone calls are put on the air,” Mosic told The Dispatch. “There were no phone calls that had not already been asked or answered this week (in Meyer’s media sessions). We have a screening process, and I determine whether something has been asked and answered.
Mosic said he has followed the same procedure on the radio shows for every Ohio State coach.
“If there are questions that have not been asked before, then obviously yes (we’d take them),” Mosic said. “What was popping up on my screener was nothing that hadn’t already been talked about.”
Suuuuure.
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