Looks an awful lot like Urban did some lying and attempted to cover things up:
http://www.espn.com/college-footbal...ummary-findings-casts-doubt-coach-urban-meyer
Among other items detailed in that report are:
• Urban Meyer told investigators that Zach and Courtney Smith met with him in his office at Florida in 2009, and they told him Zach's arrest for aggravated battery on a pregnant female had been based off incorrect information Courtney provided to police. Courtney Smith denied meeting with Meyer or recanting any of her allegations; Zach Smith also recalled that only he met with Meyer. Investigators found that it's likely only Zach Smith met with Meyer, and that both Urban and Shelley Meyer believed Courtney Smith "was not entirely truthful when she called 911 to have Zach arrested."
Meyer did not inform athletic director Gene Smith or anyone at Ohio State about Zach Smith's 2009 arrest when Meyer hired him as an assistant coach in December 2011. Ohio State performed a standard background check on Zach Smith in 2011, but it neither sought nor received arrest information. Gene Smith told investigators he did not become aware of Zach Smith's 2009 arrest until a media report last month.
• In the fall of 2015, Courtney Smith told Shelley Meyer of Zach's alleged abuse in a series of text messages and phone calls. Shelley Meyer repeatedly expressed concern for Courtney Smith's well-being, and, according to investigators, contacted the Powell Police Department in Ohio to find out more information on the investigation of Zach Smith. Shelley Meyer told investigators she did not relay Courtney Smith's text messages to Urban Meyer because "she had doubts about the veracity of Courtney Smith's allegations."
Urban Meyer denied knowing about the text messages Courtney Smith sent to his wife in 2015, but the independent investigators concluded that "given the closeness of their relationship and Shelley's concerns, we believe it is likely that Shelley and Urban Meyer had at least some communication about these allegations in 2015 and were concerned about them, although both had doubts about the credibility of Courtney's claims ..."
• Meyer told investigators he had no memory of the 2015 investigation of Zach Smith when he appeared at Big Ten media days on July 24 in Chicago. He said he focused his responses solely on an accusation that Zach Smith was arrested on a felony charge in 2015, which proved to be erroneous. But in a text message chain obtained by investigators, Gene Smith advised Meyer to acknowledge he knew about two legal situations involving Zach Smith in 2009 and 2015. Meyer acknowledged receiving the text.
When repeatedly asked about the 2015 investigation of Zach Smith, Meyer denied any knowledge of the situation, saying, "I don't know who creates a story like that." Both Gene Smith and football operations director Brian Voltolini, surprised by Meyer's comments in Chicago, later informed Meyer that he was, in fact, aware of the 2015 investigation into domestic violence allegations against Zach Smith.
"We cannot logically square Coach Meyer's responses on Big Ten Media Days broadly denying knowledge of the 2015 events regarding Zach Smith with his extensive knowledge of those events in 2015 and the evident knowledge of AD Gene Smith of the 2015 events reflected in the group text message of July 23 and July 24, 2018 sent to Coach Meyer," investigators wrote in their report.
Investigators acknowledged that Urban Meyer was affected by the firing of Zach Smith, as well as the erroneous report about Smith's felony arrest in 2015. Investigators also learned Meyer "sometimes had significant memory issues in other situations where he had prior extensive knowledge of events" and that the coach has periodically taken medicine that "can negatively impair his memory, concentration, and focus."
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• On Aug. 1, after a published report indicated that Urban and Shelley Meyer were aware of Courtney Smith's allegations of abuse and a police investigation in 2015, OSU chief of football operations Brian Voltolini approached Meyer on the practice field and advised him that it was a "bad article." The summary report claims the men "specifically discussed how to adjust the settings on Meyer's phone so that text messages older than one year would be deleted."
"Our review of Coach Meyer's phone revealed no messages older than one year, indicating that at the time it was obtained by OSU on August 2nd, Coach Meyer's phone was set to retain text messages only for that period, as Coach Meyer and Brian Voltolini discussed," the report said.
"We cannot determine, however, whether Coach Meyer's phone was set to retain messages only for one year in response to the August 1st media report or at some earlier time. It is nonetheless concerning that his first reaction to a negative media piece exposing his knowledge of the 2015-2016 law enforcement investigation was to worry about the media getting access to information and discussing how to delete messages older than a year."
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I'll wait for the excuses for why Urban did nothing, lied, is continuing to be dishonest, and went out of his way to get rid of old texts once the story broke.
