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Urban Meyer Sticks to the Same Script in First Press Conference Since Suspension

Urban Meyer is back. As Ohio State passed its final on-field test without him, a 40–28 win over TCU on Saturday in Arlington, Texas, his three-game suspension expired. Monday, he held his first news conference since the university announced his punishment last month for how he mishandled the domestic abuse allegations about former assistant Zach Smith. The nearly hour-long session was mostly a reiteration of what he told ESPN’s Tom Rinaldi in a sit down interview that aired over the weekend during College GameDay.

Most importantly, it showed that the three-time national championship winning coach hasn’t learned enough from his time away from the sideline, making it all about himself rather than victims of domestic violence.