Ohio State has reportedly fired wide receivers coach Zach Smith, three days after his ex-wife filed a domestic violence civil protection order against him, and just about two months after Smith was charged with criminal trespassing in mid May. OSU’s statement was brief:
Smith’s attorney was on 105.7 The Zone in Columbus today, and described domestic violence allegations against Smith, stretching back to a 2009 felony arrest in Florida for aggravated battery, as “just not true.” But according to a police report officers on the scene of the incident in 2009 “determined Zach was the primary aggressor” in an altercation with his then-pregnant wife. Smith was reportedly arrested in May for trespassing on his now ex-wife’s property, and a judge granted the ex-wife’s request for a protection order on Friday.