The wide receivers coach has been fired. The head coach is serving a three-game suspension and, aside from one meeting, hasn’t been allowed around the team for nearly a month. The athletic director will also serve a suspension. And, don’t forget, a game has yet to be played. It’s fair to say fifth-ranked Ohio State has never approached a season quite like this one, engulfed by the scandal over former wide receiver coach Zach Smith’s alleged domestic abuse of his ex-wife and how much head coach Urban Meyer knew about it. “I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a town impacted, positively or negatively, by a typical Saturday afternoon, the result of a football game, let alone when something like this happens to its program,” former Ohio State quarterback and ESPN analyst Kirk Herbstreit said. “So it’s kind of uncharted waters, I think, for the university and for that fan…
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