Jeffrey Wadsworth resigned as an Ohio State trustee after the school gave what he believes was too light of a punishment to football coach Urban Meyer for the scandal involving Zach Smith.
Meyer was suspended by Ohio State for the first three games of the season after an investigative team determined he didn't handle domestic abuse claims against Smith, his receivers coach, aggressively enough.
"I didn't feel that I'd seen high-integrity behavior," Wadsworth said to Marc Tracy of The New York Times.
Smith was fired by the Buckeyes in July, only after his ex-wife filed a protective order against him and his past incidents were brought to light by the media. Smith was accused of domestic violence in 2009 while he was on Meyer's staff at Florida, and in 2015 when he was an assistant for Meyer at Ohio State.
Charges against Smith in the 2009 case were eventually dropped; he wasn't charged in connection with the 2015 incidents.
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"Most people were concerned about whether it was a several-game suspension or not," Wadsworth said, who was at the board meeting where Ohio State decided on Meyer's discipline.
"To me, there was something altogether wrong about reducing it to a couple of games."
Wadsworth added that he was the "lone voice" in the room advocating for a more severe penalty against Meyer. He said he submitted his resignation about an hour after the three-game suspension was announced.
"You read the report (from the investigation) and there's seven or eight things about emails, memory loss, hearing things five times, and to me, that raised an issue of standards, values - not how many games someone should be suspended for."
