Some players are better leaders than others. It can come naturally for some, and in others it can be taught. Not everyone is necessarily capable of leading, but they better be if they’re going to play quarterback. JT Barrett was a fantastic leader. Kenny Guiton was a captain as a backup. For a time, Dwayne Haskins simply let his play provide the way.
Prior to the 2018 season, the NCAA allowed football programs to hire a 10th assistant coach. Ohio State made that 10th coach Alex Grinch from Washington State. Grinch took over the safeties from defensive coordinator Greg Schiano, who was then left without a position to coach. Instead of now having a position…
The Ohio State football media team has released their latest edition of The Room, detailing the inside workings of each specific Buckeye position group. Today, the tight ends get the spotlight. Voted the unit of the offseason for their work in the winter, the Buckeye tight ends talk about the importance of their position and the coaching that…
Good help can be hard to find. If you are Ohio State offensive line coach Greg Studrawa, however, you don’t have to look very hard. When it comes to making the Buckeye offensive line better, sure, Studrawa does quite a bit of coaching, but he also an entire defensive line on the other side of the line of scrimmage putting his players through a test on every snap.
When Ryan Day was named Ohio State’s head coach, he had to go out and find his replacement as one of the Buckeyes’ offensive coordinators and the quarterback coach. He didn’t have to look too hard to find Mike Yurcich at Oklahoma State. Yurcich is one of the most respected offensive coaches in the nation and has been able to produce…
Tight end Jeremy Ruckert played in 12 games last year as a true freshman, but caught just one pass for 13 yards. It also happened to be his first real experience as a tight end. In high school, at 6-foot-5 and 230-odd pounds, Ruckert played receiver. He played it very well, but was always projected to play tight end in high school.
The Buckeyes have gone through winter workouts and now spring football has come and gone, but this is only the beginning. Work rarely stops inside the walls of the Woody Hayes Athletic Center, and that is certainly the case for the Ohio State quarterbacks. Sophomore Justin Fields and redshirt freshman Matthew Baldwin are attempting…
During the winter, when coaches aren’t out recruiting, they are in meetings trying to decide what they think will work on offense, defense, and special teams. If a team returns a lot of veterans, it can almost become like paint by numbers. It’s easy to follow and everything has a place. Where there are no veterans, however, things…
This past week, Ohio State co-offensive coordinator Kevin Wilson met with reporters following a spring practice to talk about the Buckeye offense, as well as the group of tight ends that he is coaching. Normally, this would be the part of spring where the articles are written about this being the year the tight ends are used. This is not that article.
Ohio State offensive coordinator Kevin Wilson, defensive line coach Larry Johnson, and OSU tight ends and defensive linemen discuss 2019 spring football.
