Kevin McGuff’s arrest video is a terrible look for Ohio State women’s basketball

Ohio State Women’s Basketball Chief Coach Kevin McGuff was arrested outside his home on May 6 and accused of operating a vehicle with disabilities.

In Ohio, an OVI position, Essentialy is the same as a DIZ or DWI in other states. In a nutshell, McGuff was arrested for drinking and driving.

The position itself was already worrying for the 55 -year -old who has trained the Buckeyes since 2013. But the images of the body chamber of the moments before the McGuff trial have an incredible terrible aspect for the coach of the state of Ohio.

In the images published by the Dublin Police Department, McGuff’s condition is worrying.

But that’s where we find mcguff when the video Begins, dressed in nike sweatpants and a windbreaker, sixtting in the driver’s seat of a 2013 Toyota Sequoia is parked in front of the garage of his dublin, ohio, house river and mally and socked to the socks and Sockdeded to the Socks and Sockded to the Ended and Socked and Sockded to the Ended after the Ended and Knocking and Screped. He saw the sequoia hit several curbs and drive through a patio.

During the first 90 seconds of the video, McGuff seems to be playing with the door of his vehicle. Pootoly, the officer at the scene opens the door. After several moments to find its identification, McGuff tells the police that it has bone driving and has consumed alcohol. Then he tells a second police officer who has just come home, but does not clarify where he comes from. McGuff again denies that he is drinking bones.

The Ohio state coach does not give him details and is answering police questions in very short statements, of often contradictory letters. Most of their answers come after long pauses or delays. McGuff then admits that he came from dinner, but again denies having consumed alcohol.

Then, the police try to perform some sobriety tests in the field in McGuff, the first of which that is to say the alphabet of R without singing. McGuff never conforms to the letter D. The officer then asks McGuff to touch his thumbs to his fingers while he counts, what also fails. Then, the officer asks McGuff to count from 63 to 48, what McGuff cannot do either.

“Does it stumble a bit?” The officer asks.

“Yes,” says McGuff while his chin is touched.

Then, the officer asks McGuff to leave the car and perform more field sobriety tests. After McGuff cannot perform a test in which he is supposed to lift one foot from the ground while keeping his arms by his side and while he counts out loud, an officer tells another on the scene: “I think you have you (probable cause).”

Police then handcuffed McGuff and informs him that they are being put into trial for operating a motorized vehicle while it is intoxicated. Later, McGuff rejected a breathalyzer test, according to the police report annoyed by Columbus’s office.

On Tuesday, McGuff did not appear before the court, but the lawyer Richard Piatt entered a plea that is not from the Hiral. Duration of that hearing, a judge temporarily restored the McGuff driving privileges. The prosecutor did not oppose, pointing out that this is the first OVI crime of McGuff.

“Please understand that Kevin McGuff presumes innocent and, like all the other accused of a crime, it deserves that this case is resolved in the merits and the events that really happened,” Piatt said in a statement to Associated Press.

The state of Ohio issued a statement saying that it is “monitoring the situation closely.”

Photo by Michael Hickey/Getty Images

Althegh, nobody was harmed by McGuff’s irresponsible savage and dangerous decisions, does not acquit him or his actions. While legal matters will be resolved in the Court of Justice, the State of Ohio has to deal with the Public Opinion Court. What the video and the police report show is one of the best paid employees of the university that act in an immature and immature way. According to USA Today, McGuff obtained total compensation of approximately $ 1 million for the 2023-24 season, making it the 15th public school coach better paid in the female basketball of Division I. Surely, an Uber can afford.

What Ohio State now has to decide is whether this event is shameful and harmful enough to move from McGuff. According to the Holy Land of the Earth, there is a language in the McGuff contract that would allow the Buckeyes to fire him because of this: “A violation of the coach of any university rule or Violation of the coach of any law of the state of Ohio or the United States, including, among others, Ohio’s ethics laws, as determined by the state of Ohio. “

It is also the wedding that the former athletic director who protected the previous fake steps of McGUff Duration, which include VIUTIONS of the NCAA that led to the victories and a postseason prohibition of one year, is no longer there. Ross Bjork exited Gene Smith in that work last year.

While Bjork’s work as athletic director is better known in the University Football Space (see also: Houston Nate, Hugh Freeze, Jimbo Fisher, Mike Elko) of his time at Ole Miss and Texas A&M, also Madot Botots. In Ole Miss, Bjork dismissed Matt Insell and replaced him with Yolett McPhee-Mccuin, who has tasks of the rebels to four consecutive NCAA tournaments and two sweets 16 appearances. This spring, through the transfer portal, got one of the best Ohio State players in Cotie McMahon. Bjork also hunted Joni Taylor from Georgia to succeed Gary Blair in Texas A&M.

Bjork also has an internal candidate in Katie Smith, who joined McGuff’s staff last season. Smith-a two times All-American and one of the best players of Ohio State who have trained Bonafides well after spending a decade on the WNBA coast as an assistant and chief coach with Minnesota Lynx and New York Liberty. As a player, she won two WNBA titles, she was the scoring champion in 2001, she won three Olympic gold medals with the United States team, was named for the 25th anniversary team of the WNBA and was included in the Naismith Hall of Fame in 2018.

McGuff has a victory record in the 531-212 race, winning percentage A.715. A former Mfffet McGraw assistant coach in Notre Dame, made Xavier a power of mid -elderly at the end of the 2000s before training two seasons in Washington, then returned to Ohio to lead the Buckeyes in 2013. Since then, Ohio State has won four regular titles of the Big Ten season and appeared in the Eight Eight once. He was appointed coach of the year Big Ten in 2024.

But at this time, with this incident on him, McGuff’s future in Columbus is cloudy.