… as Simkin the lawyer says to Moses Herzog, and today’s just been a long long day of university sports corruption, topped off by the just-released big story about Ohio State’s Urban Meyer (what a beaut of a program he ran at Florida before he went to Ohio! OSU really knew what it was after when it hired him; and it got it.) probably having known about his assistant’s frequent domestic violence against the assistant’s then-wife…
Ohio State gives Urban Meyer more than seven million dollars a year to run a dirty program – even dirtier than that of his predecessor, the disgraced Jim Tressel – and everything works beautifully – the team wins games – but what are you going to do about ex-wives who give interviews blowing the lid off of everything?
OSU must be good at multitasking: there’s the sex scandal in the wrestling program too, with the lads routinely diddled by the long-serving team doctor…
August 2nd, 2018 at 12:38AM
What the hell is going on here? Isn’t it the job of assistant coaches to cover up and fall on their swords for the head coach? So why is one of college fballs most successful HC covering up for an assistant who could easily be replaced? This is one very special underling, and I’m thinking he was a bagman or liaison for something far more sinister. Nothing else makes any sense….
August 2nd, 2018 at 7:17AM
charlie: I think I read that he and Urban went way back – true old pals.
August 2nd, 2018 at 8:21AM
UD, after doing a bit of digging, the guy who beat up his wife, Zach Smith, is a position coach, working with wide receivers. Not an offensive/defensive coordinator, nor anyone higher in the coaching hierarchy. Anyone who aspires to becoming anything more starts as a position coach, but in this case, Urban refused to give Zach tenure, so he lounged in adjunctville.
So why did Urban not help his buddy attain anything more than a job some washed up NFL player could have easily fulfilled? That alone raises suspicions that Zach Smith was doing far more than inducing reluctant teenagers to run crossing patterns. Given what you’ve chronicled regarding Athletic Department corruption, anything is possible….
August 2nd, 2018 at 8:28AM
Maybe he took his frustration over adjunctville out on his wife.
August 2nd, 2018 at 9:35AM
Wouldn’t be the first time…..