Ohio State football coach Urban Meyer has been placed on administrative leave by the university. (USA Today Sports/Reuters)by Will Hobson August 4 at 12:26 PM Email the author POWELL, Ohio — The white stone townhome Zach and Courtney Smith used to share with their two young children sits just behind the pool, tennis court, and putting green in an upscale apartment complex in this quiet, affluent Columbus suburb. Police came to know the home well. Officers visited, for the first time, on Oct. 21, 2015, when Courtney thought a strange man had followed her home from the grocery store and she told them, in passing, she was having problems with her “soon to be ex-husband,” an assistant football coach at Ohio State. Four days later, Courtney Smith called police again, alleging she was a long-running abuse victim and had text messages to prove it, and police filed a report that…
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