Ohio State football coach Urban Meyer and athletic director Gene Smith acknowledged having committed secondary NCAA violations in recent months, according to a report in The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer.
The ancillary errors by Meyer and Smith are part of 46 secondary violations in 21 sports at Ohio State reported since last May 30. The Plain Dealer obtained the list of violations through an open records request.
Meyer is reported to have said “good luck” to football recruit Noah Spence at a Dec. 16 high school game, violating NCAA rules prohibiting direct contact with recruits during competition.
“It’s nothing that troubles me,” Smith said Friday, according to The Associated Press. “It’s normal operating business. It’s nothing that troubles me. I’ve seen all the cases, we know all the cases. You look at them, and they’re inadvertent mistakes.”
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