October 11, 2024

In Urban Meyer, Ohio State employs a football coach it doubts it can trust: Doug Lesmerises

COLUMBUS, Ohio — “As as result, he has cast doubt on his own honesty, in a way that reflects adversely on him, the football program, and Ohio State.” — Summary findings of the Ohio State independent investigative group Across the parking lot six years and nine months earlier, Urban Meyer had owned the room and saved a program, confident and refreshed as the new head of the Ohio State football team. The Urban Meyer introduced in the Fawcett Center on Nov. 28, 2011, had a year off from coaching and a new job leading the program he followed as a child. On Aug. 23, 2018, inside the Longaberger Alumni House, Meyer sat, sullen and disconnected, offering an apology to Ohio State fans, sorry for what he had done to Buckeye Nation, but reading from a prepared statement, rather than speaking from the heart. Meyer seemed cowed by a press conference focused…

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