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Well, well.  A Wall Street journal follow up story on the legend that Urban Meyer is has found that the esteemed panel that led the investigation into his actions decided to not attempt to recover deleted text messages.  The deleted texts that might have made a difference in discovery were wiped from AD Gene Smith’s phone.  Smith stated that he always deletes texts after sending or receiving them.  The texts of Urban Meyer were deleted at some point in the past too.  Urban is said to have asked a university employee how to delete texts just as the controversy festered.

Deleted texts are recoverable just like deleted emails are and deleted IP address searches are as well.  It only takes time and some forensic effort.  Time-hmmm.  Maybe that would have kept Urban on the sidelines of the sidelines for too long.

If the convened panel was convened to make THE Ohio St University look like they really cared about the matter it failed nearly as badly as Coach Urban Meyer did in his duties, denials, and cover up.