Ohio State’s investigation into football coach Urban Meyer now has a timeline. According to a release Sunday night, the investigation is expected to wrap within the next two weeks. That release also revealed that former Securities and Exchange Commission chair Mary Jo White will lead an investigative team that will be directed by the members of the six-person working group Ohio State empaneled last week to look into whether Meyer properly handled allegations of domestic abuse against former receivers coach Zach Smith. So what does all this mean? Don’t assume that the timeline indicates a particular result. For comparison’s sake, the investigation by law firm Pepper Hamilton at Baylor that resulted in the ousters of football coach Art Briles, athletic director Ian McCaw and president Ken Starr lasted from September 2015 until April 2016. But that was a wide-ranging look into how sexual assault cases were handled on the entire…
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