Ohio State learned the fate of Urban Meyer late on Wednesday evening, with the football coach having to serve a three-game suspension. After 12 hours of deliberation by the Board of Trustees and university president Michael V. Drake, the latter, along with Gene Smith and Urban Meyer held a press conference about the decision.
Meyer read from his notes in his opening statement and then was open to a barrage of questions. He twice asked the reporter asking a question to repeat it, and Gene Smith jumped in with a reply on occasion.
Near the end of the press conference, he was asked what he would say to Courtney Smith, to which Meyer replied:
“Well, I have a message for everyone involved in this.