COLUMBUS, Ohio — For several hours Wednesday, the Ohio State board of trustees has been meeting behind closed doors to decide what to do about the famed football coach Urban Meyer and what he knew about a domestic violence case involving one of his assistant coaches.
Meyer, one of the most successful coaches in the sport, arrived midmorning at a building just across from the football complex and went inside but, one trustee said, was not attending the meeting there. His wife, Shelley, showed up hours later, too. And in the late afternoon, some eight hours after the board began meeting, the athletic director, Gene Smith, was spotted entering the building, the Longaberger Alumni House.