{"id":886287,"date":"2026-05-09T04:24:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T04:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/886287\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T04:24:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T04:24:13","slug":"former-ohio-coach-brian-smith-sues-university-over-firing-seeks-damages-including-contract-balance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/886287\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Ohio coach Brian Smith sues university over firing, seeks damages including contract balance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"UZXA7FNW5FHBPJ7ISQPC5EIQ3E\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Former Ohio University football coach Brian Smith is suing the school, alleging he was wrongfully terminated in breach of his contract.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"DFHBQSOYZVHPVLCUCCBIT5ESBE\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Ohio fired Smith on Dec. 17, citing \u201cserious professional misconduct.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/ohio-smith-fired-misconduct-24f85214fed06bae266b54ece3652894\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Personnel records obtained by The Associated Press<\/a> through a public records request alleged Smith\u2019s \u201cparticipation in extramarital affairs,\u201d including with an undergraduate student, and \u201calcohol-related conduct.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Ohio University football coach Brian Smith is suing the school, alleging he was wrongfully terminated in breach&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":886288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[339,7256,119518,7,565,5553,49,48,9],"class_list":["post-886287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-college-sports","tag-courts","tag-fbc-ohio-smith-lawsuit","tag-football","tag-general-news","tag-lawsuits","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116542718815748942","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=886287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/886288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}