Why did Brett McMurphy dig deeper into Zach Smith's past and release information regarding his sexual history during his tenure at Ohio State?

The college football reporter answered that question and more during Monday morning's appearance on Fox Sports 1's Outkick radio show with Clay Travis.

“If you’re an Ohio State fan, you don’t like (the new info) and if you’re not an Ohio State fan, you love it,” McMurphy said. “The main reason I reported it is because Zach Smith was an employee at Ohio State having sex with a subordinate in the football office. He (took pictures) on a phone he conducts university business on. He was having all the (sex toys) items delivered, not to his personal home, but his place of employment.

"This goes toward the lack of credibility this guy has when you factor in (the other stuff). The woman he had sex with was reassigned to another department in the summer of 2015. She was reassigned after what went on, but he remained employed.”

According to McMurphy’s report, Smith had a number of sex toys delivered to him at Ohio State. The nature of the items ordered is graphic but can be read in McMurphy’s original report. The report also alleges that Smith took photos of his male genitalia on multiple occasions, including at the White House when the team visited following their victory in the College Football Playoff National Championship back in 2015. Perhaps the most scandalous part of McMurphy’s report is that there are photos of Smith receiving “receiving oral sex and having sex with a OSU staffer” in the coaches’ offices at the Woody Hayes Athletic Center.

Details involving the university employee involved sexually with Smith are cloudy, McMurphy says.

“According to Ohio State, she is no longer at the university, however her information for her bio is still on the university website,” McMurphy said. "I'm getting two different stories. On July 12, 2015, she left the football office and she was then placed in another department at the university within the athletic department. I don’t know the reason, all Ohio State would tell me was her dates of employment and the different departments she worked at within the athletic department.”

Travis asked McMurphy why he believes Meyer kept Smith on staff through the years despite numerous transgressions.

“If I could ask Urban Meyer two questions, that would be one of the questions and the other question would be, 'Why did you lie about this at media days?'" McMurphy said. "Everything I reported about Zach Smith’s past in 2009 and 2015, somebody at Ohio State knew about this information. Or multiple people. Zach Smith is the same person he is today as he was in 2015, 2013 and 2009. Ohio State never had a problem with Zach Smith until the information went public. Ohio State, not only Urban, needs to answer that question.”

McMurphy says, by law, Ohio State must give 24 hours notice before releasing its investigative findings to the public this week. One caveat to this would be if Meyer chooses to resign when presented with the information. The results of the investigation don’t have to be released if Meyer resigns, McMurphy says.

"The investigators have compiled all this information and they're dumping it in the lap of the President and the Board of Trustees and they make the (final) decision," McMurphy said. "Does (OSU President) Michael Drake want to be viewed as a cheerleader or a leader?"