Two-Minute Drill: Ryan Day, Player Updates for Maryland Week
COLUMBUS — Ohio State head coach Ryan Day and a handful of players met with the media on Tuesday to preview the Buckeyes’ game against…
Kerry Coombs Looking Forward to Working With Matt Barnes
Coaching the secondary is a two-person job. For years at Ohio State, one coach would take the cornerbacks and the other controlled the safeties. During his first go-round with the Buckeyes, Kerry Coombs always had the cornerbacks. In his six seasons at Ohio State, Coombs worked with three different safeties coaches. His first two years were spent with Everett Withers…
Three Things To Watch For From The Maryland Terrapins
The bye week came at a perfect time, in my estimation, for the Ohio State Buckeyes. After what has traditionally been a physically imposing match-up…
Three Things To Watch For From The Nebraska Cornhuskers
In the game many Ohio State fans — including this one — anticipated as being one of the biggest challenges for the Buckeyes in 2019, Ohio State travels to Lincoln, Nebraska, to take on the Nebraska Cornhuskers. At 3-1, the Cornhuskers believe that this is the type of game that will help put their program back into the national conversation.
Live Updates From Matt Barnes, Brian Hartline, Justin Fields, and More
COLUMBUS — Ohio State assistant coaches Matt Barnes and Brian Hartline will be speaking with reporters today following Tuesday’s noon session with head coach. Also…
Where Will Ryan Day’s Coaching Staff Be Stationed On Game Days?
It won’t be hard to find Ryan Day’s coaching staff on Saturdays this season, provided you know where to look. Some of his assistants will be upstairs, watching the field from the press box. Others will be on the sidelines, able to give face-to-face feedback to their players. As to where the Buckeye assistants will be next Saturday, that is still being worked out.
What Are the Buckeyes Doing at Punt Returner?
The last time Ohio State returned a punt for a touchdown was last November against Michigan. Freshman wide receiver Chris Olave blocked a Will Hart punt and it ended up in the arms of freshman cornerback Sevyn Banks, who ran it in the rest of the way for a touchdown. It’s a great way to return punts, but it doesn’t happen nearly often enough to be…
Ohio State Football Notebook: ‘Obviously speed is a huge factor’
For several reasons, Ryan Day raised some eyebrows when he hired Greg Mattison to be one of his two defensive coordinators. From the outset, Mattison has been paired with Jeff Hafley as the Buckeyes’ coordinators, and they sat down with Larry Johnson back in the winter to start putting their defensive system together. Two weeks out from the…
Ohio State Football Notebook: ‘Tyreke Smith will be a wicked guy coming off the edge’
In a perfect world, Dwayne Haskins would be back for his redshirt junior season this year and the only questions about the Ohio State quarterbacks would be who’s all going to the Heisman ceremony in December. Instead, Haskins did what anybody would have done and began the career that he went to college to pursue. Now Buckeye head coach…
Morning Conversational: What Does Ohio State Need From Their Safeties?
In football — in general — the free safety is the centerfielder of a defense. He is the deepest guy on the field because he is tasked with covering so much ground. The strong safety then plays closer to the line of scrimmage to help out with the run game if needed. Over the last five years or so, that’s been the opposite of OSU’s safety duties.
Watch: The Room — Buckeye DBs Moving ‘Faster and Faster and Faster and Faster’
The stellar Ohio State social media crew has put together their latest edition of “The Room,” which features defensive backs coach and co-defensive coordinator Jeff Hafley and assistant secondary coach Matt Barnes talking about the process of creating a cohesive secondary. Hafley and Barnes have only been at Ohio State since January, so…
