The Josh Innes Show - Ohio Coach Fired For Dumb Reason..Allegedly

Episode Date: December 18, 2025

Brian Smith was the head coach at Ohio University. He has been fired for "serious professional misconduct". The misconduct? Having drinks in his office. Something smells weird about this story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

So I was reading this story about the coach at Ohio University who got fired. And it was like there was a cloud of controversy and like he got fired for it. Let me see what the exact quote was. He got fired for serious professional misconduct participating in activities that reflect unfavorably on the university. Now, apparently what that meant is he was drinking on the job, but not drinking on the job, but drinking, like, drinking like in non-work hours in the office is what the story reads. Now, I find that hard to believe that that's the reason why you would fire someone. So I feel like there's more to it.

But let's talk a little bit about this. We'll do that after these words. So this guy, his name is Brian Smith, and he is the coach at Ohio University, the Bobcats, not Ohio State University, but Ohio University. Who are the most famous alumni of Ohio? Ohio University famous alumni. Let's see. The list of Ohio University alumni.

Let's see. That is in Athens, Ohio. Let's see. Politicians. Anybody that we recognize here? No. I don't know who any of these people are. Let's see.

Athletes. That's probably an easier one. Let's see. Marchette Adams. Can you guys just like help me out here and like narrow it down? Oh, look, Ed O'Neill went to Ohio University. So Al Bundy, Piper Paribu went to Ohio University. How about that?

I used to find her to be adorable. She was the chick. She was Jersey was her name in the Coyote Ugly film. So you got that. Mike Schmidt went to Ohio University. I guess I should have known that. Tom Brennaman went to Ohio University. Bob Brenley went to Ohio University.

Matt Lauer went to it. Look, you got some disgraced people. They went to Ohio University. Matt Lauer, obviously Tom Brenneman, who's now calling, like, the PAC-2 games on the CW, which is actually kind of a remarkable turnaround, because after he said the F. Gay Slur on a Reds broadcast and was done doing Fox and everything else, and they kind of kicked into the curb, and he was doing high school football trying to work his way back. And then he goes, and then now he's calling college games again, albeit in the PAC-2. on the C.W. Nancy Cartwright, is she the voice of Marge? Is Nancy Cartwright the voice of Marge Simpson? Yes. She's from Dayton, Ohio. So look, Ohio University, pumped out some bangers, Arsenio Hall. Look at that. Ohio University's got a pretty solid list. What I enjoy here is this picture of some. I love when the pictures are wrong. So on one, it says, Rick Charles went to Ohio University. I have no idea who Rick Charles is, but the picture is

a picture of Michael Cain. I'm pretty sure that's Michael Cain did not attend classes at Ohio University. Oh, Ali LaForest? I used to be in love with Ali LaForest. I like hardcore in love with Ali LaFource. Bob Huggins, the old Huggy Bear, went to Ohio University? Did Logan Paul go to? No way.

Logan Paul went to Ohio University. They didn't go to any university, did he? No, I don't think so. Or did he? No, I don't think he did. Or did he? He did. He took classes in industrial engineering at Ohio University. Way to go, Logan, Paul. You did it. Anyway, this podcast is not about the famous alumni of Ohio University. It's about the coach that allegedly got fired. He got fired. That's not alleged. But the reason he got fired is because of allegedly having glasses of bourbon and keeping booze in his desk in the locker room or in his office. And I'm like, what happened to us being a decent society? What happened to us being a world where a guy after a hard day's work can go into his office, take the cork out of a bottle of bourbon, pour a glass for him and some of his assistant coaches, and take the edge off a little bit while you're watching some game film?

Like, I don't understand. Like, our country is broken. We have a broken country right now. And I don't know that you can debate that. Like, I listen to this audio a lot, and I like to make fun of it because it's this 1980s news story about not drinking and driving. But the more I hear these people, the more I'm like, you know what, they were on to something. It's kind of getting common when a fellow can't put in a hard day's work, put in 11, 12 hours a day, and then getting your truck, and the lease around one or two beers. They're making it laws where you can't drink when you want to.

You have to wear a seatbelt when you're driving. Pretty soon we're going to be calm in this country. Soon, you didn't know how right you were a lady in the 1980s and other fellow that just wants to drive his truck and have one or two beers after a hard day's work. Dadgummit, this is a communist country when a man who coaches a hard day at Ohio University out there trying to get the bobcats ready to play some games, win some big-time Mac football action, and you got his boss who won't let him drink some bourbon, that's what leads me to believe there's more to it. There's got to be, right? Like, there's got to be like this dude was banging somebody. He shouldn't be banging or something. I find it hard to believe that you fire a coach because the coach is like, you know what I'm going to do?

I'm going to have a bourbon. Have a glass of bourbon with some of my assistant coaches. Like, that's what men do. Like, when did it become a world where being a football coach meant you had to be a bitch? People want to go drink a beer, man. That's what dudes do. I remember a story that Rich told. I don't know if he told it on the air or not.

Now, granted, this is professional football, so this is different. But when Rich used to do the sideline stuff for the Texans, I forgot which game it was, but the Texans had won like a hard-fought game against somebody. They beat somebody. And Rich is going down there to interview Kubiak after the game. And Kubiak's sitting there with like a Coors Light or something. He's got a good cold, crisp, domestic light beer, right? And he's sitting there. And it's so Texas, right?

Like Texas boy, Houston guy, Aggie, Texas lifer, guy like Gary Kubi, Texas lifer, guy like Gary Kubi. sitting down there coaching the Houston Texans after winning a hard-fought game. And he says, Rich, you want a beer? And Rich turned it down. He's like, sorry, I can't because I'm working. And I guess that's commendable because, you know, Rich is the pro. But, man, I wouldn't have. I would have sat my eyes down.

And it might have been even after a playoff game or something. I forgot what it was. And Rich, I think, told the story on the air. I don't know if he told the story on the air or not. But he's like, I really wish I would have done that now. I really wish I just would have sat my ass down and just drank the beer, you know? And I'm like, yeah, I get that because that would have been badass. Like, what a story.

Like, you know, 10 years, 15 years down the road, having that story is awesome. That you sat there with the head coach of the Houston Texans in his office after a ball game that they won. And you're interviewing him for the post game show. And he says, let's have a beer. You know who would have done it? Sparky. Sparky would have had that beer because Sparky's getting wet. But, man, like, I don't know.

That's why there's got to be more to this story. And, of course, like, there are people who are notorious race baiters. People that I didn't follow, but they show up on my feed, so I've blocked them. Like Clarence Hill Jr., I think, is his name. And I have no idea. Like, up until yesterday, I had zero clue who the coach of Ohio University was. And I'm reading the story, and I see it from Clarence Williams, Jr. I guess it, is it Clarence Hill?

Clarence Hill, Jr. And he goes, we knew everything about Sharon Moore's issue, and now we know nothing about this guy at Ohio University, interesting, blah, blah, blah. And I'm like, well, it might be because one guy coaches one of the five biggest brands in the history of college football. And, you know, one tried to stab somebody with a butter knife, and one was fucking around on his wife with his assistant. And one is the coach at Ohio, who nobody knew existed before yesterday, and nobody knows exists now. because no one gives a shit because he's the head coach at Ohio. Now, if the head coach at Ohio showed up at his mistress's house and tried to slice his own throat with a butter knife, then I think it'd be a bigger story. If the guy showed up at his mistress's house threatening to kill himself and her with a butter knife and kitchen scissors, then I think, yeah, it might be a bigger story.

It's not a big story because that did not happen, and this guy is the coach at Ohio University, not Ohio State. Ohio University. If you pulled nine out of ten people on the street, you walk up to him and you say, hey, Ohio University, what is the mascot of Ohio University? Nine out of ten people would go, I have no freaking clue. They'd have no idea. It's the bobcats. They would have no clue.

So that's why. I know what you're intimating here, Clarence and people of your ilk, that it's obviously there's something racist because we're trying to bring down the black man and put all of his information out there, but we don't want to put any information out about this white guy. No, there's no information about him because no one gives a fuck that the coach at Ohio University got fired. And if the story is true about why he got fired, which again, I'm skeptical of. If you want to be skeptical of that story, then let's be skeptical of the story because it's fair to be skeptical of the story. The story is that the guy got fired because

he kept booze in his desk and had some bourbon after practices with his assistant coaches who were all over 21 years of age. I don't buy it. That I find hard to believe. So you You're not going to convince me that that's real. Like, there's got to be more to it. He had to have been banging somebody. He had to have done something super nefarious. Because if we're having grown-ass men lose their jobs because they're having drinks on, not even on the job, but after practice. Shit, when I was in Nashville, I had a damn bar.

Now, granted, I was on the radio. It's a little different, I guess. I had a full damn bar in the studio, all sorts of booze. Then I went to St. Louis, assuming it would be the same kind of rules. So I go in there and I'm doing shots and drinking beers on the air. and apparently that wasn't allowed in this company. That should have been my first sign that that thing was never going to work when they were like they brought in these beers for us to try

because these guys might have been someone spending money on the station. I'm like, well, shit, let's get on the air and sample these beers and tell people what we think of them. And of course, they told me that I'm not allowed to drink beer on the air. And I'm like, but why? Like, hey, you can't operate the board. Now, like, when we were on remotes, I could get hammered, and I did. I'd be super hammered on remotes.

But on the air, like, you can't run the board and be drunk. I'm like, guys, it isn't hard. You hit F9, you hit this button, and it goes, who gives a shit? I should have known. It was going to be a failure there whenever they were like, no, sir, you cannot drink alcohol on the air. They'd actually let me walk downstairs. So, like, there was a bar below the station in this Italian restaurant. And, like, I'd walk down there during songs, you know.

And my boss would always be down there drinking every day after work. All the bosses would be down there drinking. And I'd go down there and be like, hey, I'm going to get a quick drink. Boy, chug-a-lug, go back up and do it. That was fine. But I could not actually drink the alcohol on the air, which was preposterous. But I could drink the alcohol on the air if I was on location. All that said, I still need to know more details about this Ohio coach.

There has to be more to it. And maybe there is. But this is not a case, Clarence Hill, of, oh, the white guy is getting a free pass because he's a white guy. And we've got to tear down the black guy. If Ohio University were replaced with Ohio State University and that were Ryan Day, it'd be a gigantic story. But there's two main reasons why Clarence Hill. It's not a gigantic story. One, it's a no-name coach at a no-name football program, Brian Smith at Ohio University. And two, this guy didn't try to kill himself and his slam piece. If he did, it'd probably be a pretty big story. But when

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