Former Ohio State Football players denounce Marcus Williamson’s allegations
By Ryan Stano
![Ohio State Buckeyes head coach Urban Meyer watches his team during a punt return against Northwestern Wildcats during the 2nd quarter in the Big Ten Championship game in Indianapolis, Ind on December 1, 2018. [Kyle Robertson/Dispatch]](https://images2.minutemediacdn.com/image/upload/c_fill,w_1080,ar_16:9,f_auto,q_auto,g_auto/shape%2Fcover%2Fsport%2F02f2d7e029f0171c0f366b4bdca0e45f084df6d6d04c04d3c7c99503c0750e08.jpg "Ohio State Buckeyes head coach Urban Meyer watches his team during a punt return against Northwestern Wildcats during the 2nd quarter in the Big Ten Championship game in Indianapolis, Ind on December 1, 2018. [Kyle Robertson/Dispatch]")
While the Ohio State football team was playing their final game of the season in the Rose Bowl, there was more drama happening off the field. Marcus Williamson, who didn’t make the trip to Pasadena, had some interesting things to say on Twitter. We told you about that yesterday.
Since then, several former Ohio State football players have come out to denounce the accusations of racist activities by former coach Urban Meyer. A lot of prominent former Buckeyes too to Twitter to share their experiences with Meyer. Below are just a few tweets from former players.
Man, where do I start about Williamson comments about the OSU football program. Trying to paint the program & it’s leaders out to be racist is mind blowing! I can’t speak on his experience but I’m sure a LARGE number of players who played at OSU would disagree with his comments.
— Cardale Jones (@CJ1two) January 2, 2022
I can say this… idk what Marcus Williamson is talking about when it comes to racism. I didn’t feel that type of energy from anybody in the building. Everyone involved in sports at OSU always showed us love and support. The love was tough at times but never racist.
— Tyvis Powell (@1Tyvis) January 2, 2022
Saw a former Buckeye brother sharing about his career last night. We can get into the free labor economy of CFB as a whole, but painting OSU as racist ain’t it. And Urban was a tough ass coach, but he always invested in us as players and people. Just a window into my experience.
— Joshua Perry (@RIP_JEP) January 2, 2022
— Evan Spencer (@E_Spencer6) January 2, 2022
These are just a few of the tweets from former players that have been sent in the last few days. Plenty of other Buckeyes, former and current, have come out to negate what Williamson said. It seems that the majority of football players don’t share his sentiments when it comes to Meyer.
Look, I wasn’t there. I don’t know what happened with Williamson because I wasn’t in the locker room. What I do know is that several other Buckeyes came out to say that Meyer never once acted racist at any time. I hate to think that a player would just say this because he didn’t play very much, but maybe that’s the case.
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We should be talking about how the Ohio State football team had a great win to end the season. Instead, we’re talking about more things that happened off the field. Just another wrinkle to an odd 2021 season.