With the investigation concluded and the Board of Trustees scheduled to meet Wednesday, the end to the ongoing saga at Ohio State may be near.

Some fans may be expecting Buckeyes coach Urban Meyer to be fired, or at least suspended. But reporter/author Jeff Snook, an Ohio State insider, claims that might not happen, and it might not be what Meyer deserves.

Meyer is on administrative leave after it was reported that he knew of domestic violence allegations against one of his former assistants, ex-wide receivers coach Zach Smith, and that he didn’t follow the proper protocol in reporting what was happening.

However, in an opinion column he published on Facebook on Tuesday, Snook thinks the national media portrayed this story in a way it shouldn’t have been.

“Those in the national media didn’t care much about the facts in this case from the beginning, so why would they start now?” Snook wrote. “That term ‘paid administrative leave’ equated to guilt in their collective eyes. They wanted blood, and for the past three weeks, they sucked on it like a thirsty vampire.
The blood was Meyer’s. They jumped on the original report of domestic violence accusations out of the gate and rode that report and the accuser’s validity like Secretariat. They just didn’t reach the finish line with the outcome they desired. They won’t get Meyer’s scalp, not this time around anyway.”

Snook finished his column by alluding that Meyer may not have done anything wrong in the whole situation.

“It became clearer by the day during the past three weeks that, while opposing coaches oversaw their respective practices, schemed and planned for the 2018 season, Urban Meyer deserved to be back with his football team,” Snook wrote. “And now he may deserve something else … one big, fat apology.”