SportsPulse: USA TODAY Sports' Dan Wolken discusses why Ohio State football head coach Urban Meyer is under fire after reports surfaced he was in position to know about 2015 domestic violence allegation made against former assistant Zach Smith. USA TODAY
It has never been enough for Urban Meyer to be just a football coach, even if being one of the best to ever do it should have been plenty.
For Meyer, the trophies, the massive paychecks and the adulation are part of a larger mission. In Meyer's world, he and he alone serves as the creator of leaders and virtuous citizens, the benevolent giver of second chances, the all-knowing arbiter of right and wrong.