Ohio State announced last week that coach Urban Meyer’s punishment for mishandling domestic abuse claims against former wide receivers coach Zach Smith would be a three-game suspension. But apparently not every member of the Board of Trustees agreed with it. Jeffrey Wadsworth, a member of the board, told the New York Times that the punishment should have been more “profound.” “I didn’t feel that I’d seen high-integrity behavior,” Wadsworth said in the interview. He also went on the record about some of the oddities of the 23-page report — which came out hours after Ohio State held a press conference announcing Meyer’s three-game suspension. “You read the report,” Wadsworth said, “and there’s seven or eight things about emails, memory loss, hearing things five times, and to me, that raised an issue of standards, values — not how many games someone should be suspended for.” He went on to suggest that…
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