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Former OSU assistant coach accepts plea deal

Former OSU assistant coach accepts plea deal
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<p>FILE - In this Sept. 17, 2016, file photo, Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer, right, and then-assistant coach Zach Smith, left, gesture from the sidelines during an NCAA college football game against Oklahoma in Norman, Okla. What has transpired over the last three weeks at Ohio State should be a lesson to all coaches. Your football program is not a family. Urban Meyer treated Zach Smith like family, and it almost cost one of the most accomplished coaches in college football his job. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)</p>
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A former Ohio State assistant coach accepted a plea deal Tuesday to resolve the criminal charges that spared a months-long controversy for the Buckeyes football program, ESPN reports. 

Zach Smith pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct in exchange for the dismissal of a criminal trespassing charge. 

A judge in Delaware County, Ohio ordered him to pay $289 in fines and court fees associated with the case. 

Smith tweeted out that he agreed to a three-year domestic violence protection order. 

Smith was fired from the program earlier this year. 

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