DeanCast: How Tim May sees the Brett McMurphy situation
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🗓️ 16 November 2018
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Today we have the return of the DeanCast.
DeanCast guest today is 35-year Buckeye football beat writer for the Columbus Dispatch Tim May.
On today’s show we talk:
** May talks about how he sees the Brett McMurphy/Urban Meyer situation
** May’s initial reaction to what McMurphy wrote and what he found most interesting
** May talks about Urban Meyer and his reaction to McMurphy’s article
** May talks about his impending retirement after 35 years of covering Ohio State football - what he will and won’t miss...
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back. Your dreams were your ticket out. |
| 0:15.0 | I'd like to welcome back in Tim May of the Columbus Dispatch. Tim May of the Columbus Dispatch. |
| 0:20.0 | Tim will be retiring after the Buckeyes final game this season, whatever that final game is. |
| 0:27.0 | He's been the beat writer for the Ohio State Football Buckeyes for the Columbus Dispatch for 35 years now. |
| 0:35.0 | And I want to get to that in just a few minutes, Tim. |
| 0:39.0 | Your impending retirement, but first, we've got to talk about the Brett Mc Murphy situation that arose in the last |
| 0:50.7 | couple of days, or should I say the latest Brett Murphy situation regarding |
| 0:55.0 | Ohio State when you heard about and read about Brett Murphy in a situation |
| 1:02.2 | where Urban Meyer supposedly was covering up a racially charged situation regarding |
| 1:07.6 | former high state wide receiver Trayvon Grimes and former high state wide receiver coach Zack Smith. |
| 1:14.0 | Well, you know, what were your first reaction? |
| 1:17.0 | And what were you thinking when you first heard and read about all this? |
| 1:21.0 | Yeah, I prefer to refer to it as the Watch Stadium.com story instead of the Brett McMurphy story, because obviously they published it. |
| 1:29.0 | So with that said, my first obviously in action was, well, that's not what I heard. |
| 1:35.0 | And, you know, that's going back a year ago. |
| 1:38.0 | And, you know, you hear a lot of things under the, you know, |
| 1:42.0 | under the table or whatever you want to call it you know between the |
| 1:46.2 | door here a lot of things as you cover a beat but that had never that it never come up in any kind of fashion and any kind of |
| 1:56.6 | rumbling when Trayvon Grimes suddenly as you remember last year suddenly |
| 2:01.8 | disappeared and as we found out a week later he was down with his mom who was dealing we were told with a |
| 2:11.2 | Diagnosis of a fairly significant disease or problem turns out you know |
| 2:17.4 | the story revealed on Tuesday ovarian cancer and he wanted to be with his mom you know probably there was |
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