Scarlet and gray smoke did not emerge from the campus building following the board of trustees' decision, but it would have been fitting.
After a two-week investigation and a day-long deliberation, Ohio State kept its national championship football coach, in what many are calling a misstep that only gets worse through the eyes of instant replay.
Urban Meyer was hit with a three-game suspension for mishandling incidents involving ex-wide receivers coach Zach Smith. He'll be back before September ends.
Memory loss. Deleted texts. Staffers looking the other way over a coach's other transgressions, and a press conference that included no actual apology to the victim.