One of the prime conclusions in the independent investigation into Urban Meyer’s conduct is that the Ohio State football coach had a “blind spot” for Zach Smith, who is the grandson of Meyer’s beloved mentor, Earle Bruce. Meyer, it seems, gave every benefit of the doubt to Smith, an assistant coach with an ever-growing compendium of personal issues that should have led to his ouster long before Meyer finally gave him the boot last month. But Meyer kept wagging his finger and stringing Smith along, enduring his peccadillos and keeping him employed despite two separate allegations of domestic violence against his wife, Courtney Smith — an issue for which the coach purports to have a zero-tolerance policy. Turns out Ohio State also has a blind spot — for Meyer, the highly successful coach whose glittering record (73-8 and one national title in six seasons at OSU) and undeniable success in…
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