Ohio State University announced last week that it was putting head football coach Urban Meyer on administrative leave while it conducted an independent investigation into his handling of a 2015 account of domestic abuse involving former Buckeyes assistant Zach Smith. On Friday, Meyer released a statement via Twitter in which he said that he followed protocol by “elevating the issues to the proper channels.” Meyer’s statement was released two days after longtime college football insider Brett McMurphy published an August 1 report in which Courtney Smith said her ex-husband, Zach Smith, “shoved me up against the wall, with his hands around my neck” in 2015 and provided text messages showing that Meyer’s wife, Shelley, was aware of the incident. The report intimated that Meyer may have known about the 2015 account, too—a direct contradiction to the head coach’s remarks at Big Ten media days, when he said that he first…
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