Ohio State announced Wednesday evening that the school’s head football coach, Urban Meyer, was being put on paid administrative leave while the university investigates allegations that Meyer knew that a longtime former assistant coach had been accused of domestic abuse in 2015.
Meyer told media last week that he had not heard of those accusations until they came to light last week.
On Wednesday morning, an independent journalist published a report on Facebook in which the ex-wife of the former assistant coach, Zach Smith, explained that Meyer’s wife had extensive knowledge of the 2015 allegations, and that another coach’s wife had told her that Meyer had confronted Smith with the allegation.