Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit DAVID GREENE, HOST: Ohio State is going to be kicking off its new college football season next week without its famous head coach pacing the sidelines. Coach Urban Meyer, who led the Buckeyes to a national title, has been suspended for the first three games of the year. Meyer and Ohio State's athletic director were sanctioned yesterday for not doing enough in a case involving domestic violence allegations against an assistant football coach. NPR's Tom Goldman has more. TOM GOLDMAN, BYLINE: Former assistant coach Zach Smith served under Urban Meyer at Florida before following Meyer to Ohio State. And while Smith followed Meyer, trouble followed Smith. He was arrested in 2009 after his former wife alleged he assaulted her. Smith wasn't charged. There was another alleged incident in 2015, and it was that incident that landed Urban Meyer in trouble. When asked by reporters late last month about the 2015 allegation, Meyer said he just found out about
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