Posted on 08/22/2018 6:17:39 PM PDT by usafa92
Ohio State has suspended coach Urban Meyer through Sept. 2 without pay. Meyer can rejoin the program after Sept. 2 but will not be allowed to coach in the team's first three games.
Additionally, OSU athletic director Gene Smith has also been suspended without pay from Aug. 31 until Sept. 16
The moves come after a two-week investigation into allegations that Meyer and others mishandled domestic assault accusations made against former assistant coach Zach Smith.
Meyer will miss the fifth-ranked Buckeyes' games against Oregon State, Rutgers and No. 16 TCU.
Ohio State placed Meyer on paid administrative leave Aug. 1, shortly after Courtney Smith, Zach Smith's ex-wife, said in an interview with Stadium that she believed Meyer and others at the football program knew that her ex-husband was abusing her in 2015 and failed to do anything to stop it. Meyer fired Zach Smith on July 23 after a pattern of past allegations of abuse came to light in a report by college football reporter Brett McMurphy.
Meyer initially said he was previously unaware of any domestic issues between the Smiths that occurred during the time that Zach Smith was a coach at Ohio State. He backtracked shortly after being placed on leave, saying instead that he misspoke when first answering questions about Smith and that he followed proper protocol in reporting the incident in 2015.
Meyer has a 73-8 record in seven years at Ohio State and won the national championship with the Buckeyes following the 2014 season.
He had a 65-15 record at Florida and won two national championships there, following the 2006 season and the 2008 season. His overall record in 17 years at Bowling Green, Utah, Florida and Ohio State is 177-31.
Meyer has a salary of $7.6 million for the 2018 season and is under contract through 2022.
Pretty soft schedule at the beginning of the season, so not much punishment there.
They should totally clear him. It seems he did nothing illegal.
He didn’t have to do anything illegal. He just had to violate his contract.
This decision is a cop put and will make nobody happy.
Either Meyer violated his contract, or he didn’t.
If he didn’t, why the suspension?
If he did, why in Hades is he still there?
As a Buckeye Fan no big surprise.
I know who the big donors are.
This will come back to bite OSU on the a$$.
If any memorandum or even an e-mail exists of Meyer talking about Zach Smith’s domestic violence incidents surfaces - and OSU will have to turn them over if any reporter fills out a FOIA - then The university looks really bad.
Appeasement.
Suspension issued to please the on/off campus SJWs and hope they back off, weasels.
They play TCU in Dallas on game three. That’s no cakewalk.
I’m about fed up with everyone in the vicinity being guilty. And I can’t stand Meyer.
I watched the news conference and the vibe I got from Meyer was he was furious over this. He said the right things but I doubt he agrees with the outcome. The body language when Meyer left the stage didn’t line up with the words he spoke.
AD Gene Smith, dodges another bullet. I think there will be more fallout from this over time.
I don’t like Ohio State and I don’t like Meyer but I do not see why he should face any punishment for this.
So the NFL CANCER has now infected the college ranks?
I guess it’s HS Football this season. Effing PERVS ruin EVERYTHING good. *SPIT*
I think the only thing that saved Meyer's job was that he did meet the technicalities of reporting the DV incident. He suspension was likely because he harbored/hired an assistant coach that had known issues when both were at Florida. That and the University's image. It boiled down to perceived lack of institutional control and PC public relations. I am an OSU alum and fan but I think Meyer will be gone after seasons end.
I figured Meyer was just waiting for the Notre Dame job to open up and take it then.
From the TV news reports, it didn't seem he did anything wrong. The wife, maybe.....she was an OSU employee and knew about it. Anyone in that position in OH by law has to report abuse of a minor. This is PC running even further amuck. It's a step beyond guilty until proven innocent. It's guilty even when proven innocent.
That's what it looks sounds like anyway.
It is appalling any jock would take nudes pics at the White House, or screw one of the admin staff especially as a married man. I can see his wife exploding over these two details. Divorce and separation are sometimes ugly, this was just a terrible end for a coach to hang up forever his young carer.
Go Bucks and OH-IO!
A woman was sad on TV. That seems to be all it takes these days.
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