COLUMBUS, Ohio — Zach Smith created the name for the Ohio State receivers in 2014, and it stuck. Zone Six. Actually coined by receiver Dontre Wilson that spring, Smith grabbed the name and ran. By November, there were separate Zone Six stickers for the receivers, a special name for a group once called a clown show by Urban Meyer in 2012. “We operate on the power of a unit, and I wanted our unit to be the strongest unit on the team,” Smith said in November of 2014. “Whatever it is, and however that mentality got developed, I wanted to kind of help that along.” Ditch it now. Whatever is decided this week about the future of football coach Urban Meyer and athletic director Gene Smith, Zach Smith is gone from Ohio State football and will never return. Though never charged by the police with a domestic-violence crime, the past…
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