Have you wondered these past 36 hours or so how Ohio State football coach Urban Meyer could not apologize directly to Courtney Smith and still keep his job?
#MeToo.
Smith, of course, is the ex-wife of ex-OSU assistant Zach Smith, who almost cost Meyer his $7.6 million annual salary because the Buckeyes boss long refused to fire him despite numerous charges that he was abusing her while they were married. If nothing else shocked – and much did – about Meyer’s 3-D performance (defiant, disrespecting, disturbing) at the close of The Ohio State University’s Wednesday night news conference confirming the coach’s three-game suspension without pay, it was his refusal to acknowledge Ms. Smith by name when asked about her.
Such petulance and pandering should have been completely unacceptable to those folks above him in rank, though no employee in the Buckeye State is above Meyer in salary.
And that’s part of the problem. Not just at The Ohio State University, but everywhere that places its state university football or basketball coach in a position of perceived power and importance that dwarfs everyone else within their jock-addicted fiefdoms.