Ohio State Football / Urban Meyer debacle: Pattern of of domestic cases against assistant coach Zach Smith depicted by police reports according to OSU student run publication.

Editor & Publisher Jeff Brown.

According to The Lantern which is the Ohio State University student run and published news publication, the Lantern obtained police reports stating that Ohio State wide receivers coach Zach Smith displayed a history of domestic incidents that were previously reported to the police by Smith's ex-wife Courtney Smith.

Ohio State fired Zach Smith on Friday, July 23 as a result of allegations that surfaced of domestic violence that involved Courtney Smith. According to the Lantern, Smith filed for domestic violence civil protection order on July 20th.

According to the Lantern, OSU head football coach Urban Meyer stated, “I can’t say it didn’t happen because I wasn’t there,” Meyer said about the 2015 incident. “ I was never told about anything, never anything came to light, never had a conversation about it, so I know nothing about that.”