If the head coach knew, he did not seem to care enough to do anything substantial. The women did know, and they texted about it, and it looked a lot like they cared—and they weren’t able to do anything at all.
Wednesday’s exhaustively detailed story from reporter Brett McMurphy indicates Urban Meyer was aware in 2015 of domestic abuse allegations against former wide receivers coach Zach Smith. In explaining his firing of Smith last week at Big Ten media days, Meyer cited that relationship’s turbulent past but said he had known nothing about the ’15 incident until the night before.