My first question for Urban Meyer

So you fired your longest-tenured assistant coach despite believing he’d never been in trouble, other than for a recent trespassing charge?

If you felt the 2009 battery allegation against your former wide receivers coach “wasn’t actually what happened” and didn’t know about a 2015 incident that either did or didn’t produce an arrest (Brett McMurphy reports the police paperwork has changed) and have had no comment yet about Courtney Smith’s many other police complaints against Zach Smith, then why’d you fire him on July 23, a month before kickoff?

Smith spent 11 years on your coaching staffs and was on your roster at Bowling Green. And all it took for you to fire the grandson of your mentor, Earle Bruce, was July’s public revelation of an arrest two months prior for what his lawyer described as him and his ex-wife disagreeing over where he should’ve dropped off their kids? So was there more to that incident, or did you learn something about previous allegations that you didn’t describe when asked at Big Ten Media Days?

When you were asked, what were you thinking about the fact publicly revealed on the previous day that a local court had just prohibited Zach Smith from coming within 500 feet of her?

There, you were asked, “Why fire Zach now if you had kept him on staff after 2009?” and “Just to clarify, did firing Zach now, is that -- is it because any of this became public, or is it because there was another incident that led to the latest protective order on Friday?” You declined to answer directly, also saying “that ship has sailed” when asked by McMurphy why Smith was fired, if the 2015 incident was “nothing” and the 2009 incident was already known.

Did you, one of the most detail-hungry men in a profession full of them, really not know about consistent police complaints against one of your closest colleagues over a nine-year period until that local court indicated the pattern?

Or did you trust there was “nothing” to all of it, in addition to the two incidents you were asked about at Media Days?

Or did you know, but think you could fix the issue (you did say that after the 2009 incident, you and your wife “advised” “the young couple,” with whom you had a “relationship”), like you helped the Utah player who was twice arrested for DUI and like you, perhaps in your point of view, tried to help so many troubled Gators?

(This is all in addition to the question of whether your wife knew about injuries suffered by Courtney Smith, whether your wife told you, whether texts described by McMurphy show people with knowledge confirming you were aware, and many other questions.)

Considering you’ve kept players on your rosters who’ve threatened to kill a woman (Chris Rainey), fired an AK-47 during a fight (Ronnie Wilson), and so on, why would an alleged miscommunication over dropping off children and a court order result in a disruptive staff change right as fall camp begins?

This is all just the same question, worded differently, so:

If you believed there was “nothing” to Courtney Smith’s pre-2018 allegations ... then why’d you fire Zach Smith?