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.
I don’t think he should have even been bothered about this. If some guy beats his wife why is it the problem of his employer?
Here in the SEC, we just practice good 'ol recruit-buying.
You call yourself the "Big 10", but have 14 teams....and you call the SEC "stupid".
It is the problem of the employer if that employer receives federal funds. Good old Title IX. Meyer’s biggest mistake was hiring the idiot assistant coach at OSU when he had domestic violence problems when he was with Urban at Florida.
All other aspects of this story aside, who in their right mind thinks one man can stop another man from being abusive to his wife?
The only person who can stop it is his wife, which she would do by leaving. If she didn’t leave or have him arrested the responsibility falls on her.
This piece is way short of indicating what her accusation of assault constitutes. She won’t call the cops but she somehow expects his boss to stop it. These is no indication here that he ever saw it happen.
I thought the police handle domestic violence situations. It shouldn’t concern a coach.
I think Meyer is through coaching past this season and it would not shock me to see him resign in the next few days. Meyer’s strength is recruiting and is only average in X’s and O’s. His failing is that his judgement is too often clouded due to misplaced loyalty.
Yep, once Tebow left it was all downhill from there.
And he still had a pretty decent QB in Gainesville by the name of Cam Newton.
I speculate that Urban Meyer reported the incidents to the A.D. who in turn did nothing. If true and they fired Urban Meyer without cause it would cost them $38 million to buy out his contract.
The mess goes away if they just suspend him.
You only do that if you're guilty.
OSU fans, like Penn state fans, will overlook and attempt to whitewash this.
Urban should be fired.
Yet another example of the “benefits” of the #metoo, #toxicmasculinity agenda of the Left.
You’re correct she wasn’t a minor. I think the laws are written so the wife, an OSU employee, was obligated to report the abuse.
Does “mandatory reporter” also apply to adults who are abused?
The whole thing stinks. I, for the life of me, can't figure out why the Ass't Coach and wifey aren't responsible for their own actions.
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