In a statement released late Sunday night, Ohio State announced that it plans to have its investigation into coach Urban Meyer and what he did or did not know regarding former assistant Zach Smith’s history of alleged domestic violence wrapped up at some point over the next 14 days. Ohio State put Meyer on paid administrative leave last week as it planned to convene an “independent working group” that would hire an investigative team to look into allegations that Meyer was aware of Smith’s troubled past both in 2009 when he was a graduate assistant at Florida and again in 2015 following an incident with Smith’s now-ex wife Courtney. The Buckeyes fired Smith ahead of 2018 Big Ten Media Days, an event at which Meyer claimed he had no prior knowledge of Smith’s past and chided college football reporter Brett McMurphy, who accurately reported the story. That all changed Friday…
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