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A Private Matter
A thing that can ignite
Can go, itself, without a fan
Upon the slowest night.
You cannot fold a flood
And put it in a drawer,
Because the winds would find it out,
And tell your cedar floor.
-Emily Dickinson
Ohio State Buckeyes wide receivers coach Zach Smith assaulted his wife, Courtney Smith. |
In any case, Zach Smith contends that what happened between himself and his wife was "a private matter" that should have stayed "behind closed doors."
But it didn't. And it's ponder-worthy that the violence inflicted behind close doors in private moments between a man and his wife has had so many far-reaching reverberations, like the outward ripples from a stone suddenly hitting still waters.
It was because of what happened in private moments that Zach Smith lost his marriage and a job that paid him, at 33 years old, $340,000 a year and accorded him great honor, status and prestige in the world of college sports. He lost the means to support his children, who will soon be old enough to understand what their father did.
Because of the those private moments of one of his assistant coaches, Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer,
Urban Meyer has been suspended with pay from his job and will likely lose that $7.9 million-a-year job along with his good name.
Bob Evans Restaurant, which was about to begin a new cleverly-conceived marketing campaign featuring Coach Meyer as Breakfast Coach, has had to jettison the campaign.
The Ohio State football team members have had to face the first practices of the season without Coach Meyer or Coach Smith, unsure of what's in store for themselves as a team, knowing only that they've been put under a media blackout. |
Now Lynn Bruce, a fund-raiser for charitable causes in honor of her father, is in the midst of planning an Alzheimer's fundraiser to be held next week. |
And the football-loving populace of Columbus Ohio who refer to themselves as Buckeye Nation are bewildered and heart-broken over the of downfall of their beloved Coach Meyer.
All over what a naive, heavy-handed young man thought was a private matter.
https://sports.yahoo.com/ex-osu-coach-zach-smith-found-investigated-abuse-ohio-state-ad-220120736.html
http://www.dispatch.com/news/20180803/powell-police-refuse-to-release-report-involving-zach-smith
http://www.buckeyextra.com/news/20180803/urban-meyer-says-he-reported-allegation-regarding-zach-smith
https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/heat-ratchets-up-as-urban-meyer-zach-smith-try-to-pass-the-buck-in-confounding-media-tour/
http://www.sportingnews.com/us/ncaa-football/news/zach-smith-urban-meyer-timeline-domestic-violence-allegations-ohio-state-florida-courtney-smith-ex-wife/qdgwf1d3j9n41skbguxgqsql0
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/76-Joel-Riley-28190899/episode/lynn-bruce-the-fedora-ball-is-29675149/?campid=homepage_featured_shows&pname=0&cid=%2F&autoplay=true