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Zach Smith (Official Thread)

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Have appreciated the rivals recruiting site which has some info/details that may give insight into the position or region for assignments of assistant coaches.

Zach Smith bio

Smith's targets in 2013 are RB Derrick Green and WR Kwamane Bowens both in Virginia.

Scrolling down the list you will find other coaches and their recruiting "Targets".
Of note Ed Warriner has many targets from Eastern PA and NJ.

Herman's assignments hail from Texas and California.

Hinton has some key targets in Florida and GA
Coombs has assignments in southern Ohio and Indiana. etc.
 
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Born this way
WRs coach Zach Smith has been on path to Buckeyes coaching staff since birth
Updated: June 22, 2012
By Austin Ward | BuckeyeNation

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Courtesy of Ohio State University
Ohio State assistant coach Zach Smith, shown during a spring practice earlier this year, was a graduate assistant under Urban Meyer at Florida.

Familiarity with the area isn't a problem.

Zach Smith grew up in the Columbus area and graduated from Dublin Coffman High School, so he knows his way around.

There's no need for a lesson in the traditions at Ohio State.

One of his earliest memories is of the band playing on the lawn for his grandfather, former Buckeyes coach Earle Bruce, and he has certainly spent plenty of time in the Horseshoe.

An acclimation period with his new boss isn't even necessary, as Smith has known Urban Meyer since he was a kid and has already worked for him for five years in his young career.

All of those factors add up to what could be the most painless professional transition anybody could ask for, and Smith is certainly aware of the advantages of his new position coaching wide receivers for the Buckeyes. But that doesn't mean he'll actually allow himself to get comfortable.

Zach Smith

Position coaching: Receivers
High school: Dublin (Ohio) Coffman
College: Florida (2007)
Years coaching: 8 (2 full-time)
Family: Wife, Courtney; son, Cameron
Coaching resume: Florida (special teams quality control, 2005-07; offensive graduate assistant, 2008-09); Marshall (wide receivers and special teams, 2010); Temple (wide receivers and special teams, 2011)
Head coach Urban Meyer, on Smith: "Zach Smith has already coached with me for five seasons, and so I know what a quality coach he is. He knows my system inside and out and he teaches the system the way I want it to be taught. He has coached and taught some great players already, like Percy Harvin, Aaron Hernandez and Louis Murphy."
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"I don't think you ever get that way in this profession," said Smith, 27. "Now you're constantly going, constantly moving, constantly working. You know, it's a year-round job, so there's not a lot of time for things to settle in.

"I mean, it's a fortunate situation for anyone. It's a situation that was never even really a possibility of thought until it happened -- too unreal to be real."

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http://espn.go.com/colleges/osu/sto...path-ohio-state-buckeyes-coaching-staff-birth
 
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Home tweet home
OSU assistant Smith starts Twitter trend with surrealistic view of new job
Updated: July 11, 2012,
By Austin Ward | BuckeyeNation

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- There might be some subtle recruiting advantages.

Zach Smith's approach to social media might well be the envy of a professional marketer, but the new Ohio State wide receivers coach isn't necessarily trying to sell anything with the trending topic he has made popular in the last few months.

All he wants to do is give a glimpse at how overwhelming it might be for a lifelong Buckeyes fan to suddenly have an office off a hallway that pipes in clips of Woody Hayes or be required to attend staff meetings with a Heisman Trophy winner, both of which helped give birth to the idea for the tongue-in-cheek Twitter posts tagged with #BuckeyeNationProblems.

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Courtesy of Ohio State University
Zach Smith, born and raised a Buckeyes fan, is having fun on Twitter as he shares experiences about his new job.

"I think it's both fun and creates excitement," Smith said. "That's a positive for Ohio State and a positive for the football program. But it's one of those things -- you get a job like this, I mean who wouldn't have fun? What are we talking about here?

"The stuff I put on there, it's not marketing or recruiting, it's legitimately that I sit there and think, 'Holy cow, I'm sitting next to Eddie George in a staff meeting.' Are you kidding me?"

Smith has shown plenty of humor on Twitter (@CoachZachSmith), though the facts he has thrown out in front of his hashtag aren't meant to be punch lines.

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http://espn.go.com/colleges/osu/sto...istant-coach-zach-smith-starts-twitter-trend-
 
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OSU's Smith living his dream
Bruce's grandson talks to all-star teams
BY DAVID BRIGGS
BLADE SPORTS WRITER

Ever driven five hours for a 10-minute commitment and felt more honored than bound by duty?

That's exactly how first-year Ohio State football assistant Zach Smith felt Tuesday when he delivered his speech to local high school football players in Perrysburg.

Smith said he is living a dream as a coach for his favorite boyhood team. Forgive the 27-year-old if he is still getting used to making appearances across Ohio as the ? guest of honor.

"It was always in my head that coaching at Ohio State would be the most amazing thing to happen," said Smith, who graduated from Dublin Coffman High School outside Columbus. "Shoot, since I was born, really, I just thought about how cool it would be."

Smith addressed players who will be competing in the Regional All-Star Football Game on Friday at Perrysburg's Steinecker Stadium. Channeling the fire of his grandfather, former Buckeyes coach Earle Bruce, he challenged the group to make the most of their lives -- including the opportunity to play one last high school game.

"I mean this from the bottom of my heart," he told the players. "I would give everything I have to go play another Friday night under the lights. Have fun, man. It is a fun game. It's fun to coach, but it's even more fun to play."

Smith, though, is getting along just fine on the sidelines in a charmed but peripatetic career that began just up the road.

Knowing he wanted to coach, Smith walked on to Bowling Green as a receiver in 2002 to learn under then-Falcons coach Urban Meyer -- a former Bruce understudy -- then transferred to Kentucky after the season when Meyer left for Utah.

Smith transferred again in 2005 to reunite with Meyer at Florida, where he spent five seasons as graduate assistant and quality control assistant.

Smith coached the receivers for a year apiece at Marshall and Temple before Meyer called this winter to offer him the same position at Ohio State.

"I know what a quality coach he is," Meyer said at the time. "He knows my system inside and out, and he teaches the system the way I want it to be taught."

Smith, who is charged to develop a group of receivers that remain one of the Buckeyes' largest question marks, still at times cannot believe his good fortune.

In the spring, he began posting a series of messages on Twitter about his affinity for OSU. A sampling from #BuckeyeNationProblems:

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http://www.toledoblade.com/Ohio-State/2012/07/18/OSU-s-Smith-living-his-dream.html
 
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Courtney Smith Hoping Her Husband Can Follow Urban Meyer?s Lead
By Michael Chung

When someone grows up in Worthington, Ohio and later marries the grandson of an Ohio State coaching legend, it is a safe bet they are destined to be Buckeye.

To top it off, spending time with Urban Meyer at Florida before he returned to Ohio for his dream job further hammered the nails of fate for this Columbus-born Buckeye. Such is the life of Courtney Smith. The great grand father of her children is none other than Buckeye legend Earle Bruce and her husband Zach ? Earle?s grandson ? got his start under current Meyer down in Gainesville.

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http://www.the-ozone.net/football/2012/ByeWeek/ZachSmithFeature.html
 
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Scout 2014 Conference Recruiters of the Year

Big Ten: Zach Smith, Ohio State.
Smith has the tough job of going down South on behalf of the Buckeyes and battling it out with SEC programs, but he won some big ones this year like four-star wide receiver Johnnie Dixon and athletic pass rusher Jalyn Holmes. He recruited Noah Brown away from many other BCS programs, some closer to home and had a hand in recruiting speedy Terry McLaurin as well. Honorable Mention: James Franklin (Penn State), Greg Mattison (Michigan)
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WELL deserved. Congrats Zach!!!
 
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