Ohio State report on Meyer due next week
Ohio State says fact finders investigating coach Urban Meyer’s handling of domestic abuse allegations against a former assistant will deliver a report to university leaders next week.
The school announced Friday that the investigation will wrap up Sunday and a report will be delivered to the six-person group appointed by trustees to coordinate the probe.
The report will then be shared with trustees in a still-unscheduled executive meeting next week.
Meyer has been on paid leave since Ohio State began investigating this month his handling of 2015 allegations leveled by the ex-wife of former receivers coach Zach Smith.
Smith, the grandson of former Ohio State coach and Meyer mentor Earle Bruce, was dismissed July 23 after Courtney Smith was granted a domestic protection.
Maryland
The University System of Maryland’s governing board held a special meeting Friday to examine the response of the state’s flagship public university to the death of a player who collapsed in a spring training session.
Jordan McNair, 19, an offensive lineman for the University of Maryland, died in June after suffering exertional heatstroke at a May 29 workout. Leaders of the university in College Park met with McNair’s family this week to apologize for lapses in treatment of the student.
Trainers failed to take the player’s temperature at the time of the collapse or bathe him in ice water immediately, officials acknowledged, steps that experts say would have been likely to save McNair’s life.
The system’s Board of Regents was briefed on the situation in a conference call Friday that lasted nearly four hours, most of it closed to the public.
System officials have been monitoring the growing uproar over McNair’s death as well as news reports that have described the culture of the football program as abusive.