10:40 PM ET Texas Longhorns head coach Tom Herman was the assistant coach who accompanied former Buckeyes assistant Zach Smith to a strip club while on a recruiting trip, an Ohio State spokesperson confirmed to ESPN. The 2014 strip club trip also included high school coaches, in addition to Smith. Smith’s $600 involvement in the Miami-based excursion was noted in the school’s detailed 23-page summary of its investigation released last week, though Smith was the only person named in the documents. The $600 came from Smith’s own money, and he did not seek reimbursement for it from the football program or the school. Herman was the Buckeyes’ offensive coordinator from 2012 to 2014, before taking over as head coach at Houston (2015-16) and now Texas (2017). News of Herman’s involvement in Smith’s transgressions comes on the same day Ohio State released to the public some of the documents its investigative…
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