Urban Meyer, the highly successful head coach of the Ohio State football team, has been suspended without pay for three games after a university investigation found fault with the way he handled the case of Zach Smith, an assistant coach who was accused of domestic violence.
The investigation’s findings, made public late Wednesday night, detail Smith’s behavior and the university leadership’s knowledge and reaction to that behavior. Here are the highlights:
Meyer talked to a staff member about deleting text messages to keep them away from the news media.
On Aug. 1, the independent journalist Brett McMurphy published an article detailing Meyer’s knowledge of a 2015 domestic violence allegation against Zach Smith.