Meyer Adds Two Veterans to Complete Coaching Staff
Ohio natives Ed Warinner and Tim Hinton have a combined 58 years of coaching experience
        	     	 			
		
		
	
	
 		     	 			
			     		 		       	   	     	
	        Jan. 13, 2012
 
   
 COLUMBUS, Ohio - 
Urban Meyer  has his Ohio State coaching staff assembled. Today, Meyer announced the  addition to his staff of two veteran collegiate coaches who have a  combined 58 years of coaching experience: 
Ed Warinner will coordinate the running game as the team's co-offensive coordinator/offensive line coach, and 
Tim Hinton  will be the tight ends and fullbacks coach. Both coaches were at the  University of Notre Dame the past two seasons under coach Brian Kelly. 
 "I was very pleased with the coaches already in place on this staff,"  Meyer said, "and now we've gotten even better with the additions of 
Ed Warinner and 
Tim Hinton. Both are excellent coaches who bring a tremendous amount of experience and knowledge to our staff." 
 Warinner, the offensive line coach the past two years at Notre Dame and  who had the added responsibility of run game coordinator this past  season, will coach his 29th collegiate season in 2012. He was a finalist  this past season for the FootballScoop Offensive Line Coach of the  Year. He has nine years of experience in a coordinator position,  including three years as offensive coordinator at Kansas when the  Jayhawks averaged 445.5 total yards per game and 35.3 points during that  three-year period. 
 "I really wanted to hire a coach with coordinator experience," Meyer  said. "That was very important to me. Ed has that experience. His  offenses at Kansas were not only impressive, but they were some of the  top offenses in the country."  
 Hinton, running backs coach during his two years at Notre Dame, will be  in his 17th collegiate coaching season next year and his 31st year of  coaching overall. His coaching resume includes 11 highly successful  seasons as the head coach at Harding High School in Marion, Ohio. He led  Harding to five state playoff berths and five conference titles and he  was the 1995 Ohio Division I co-Coach of the Year.   
  
  "Tim is an awesome coach," Meyer said. "He and I worked together on the  Ohio State staff in 1986, but what I am most impressed with is his time  spent as a high school coach in Ohio. He had some outstanding teams at  Harding and his extensive experiences coaching in the state were crucial  in my desire to want him on our staff."  Both coaches are Ohio natives who have also recruited the state for many  years. 
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 Hinton is from Amanda. He is a 1982 graduate of  Wilmington College with a degree in industrial education and he has a  master's degree in educational policy and leadership from Ohio State  (1987). 
Tim Hinton - Tight Ends and Fullbacks
 Hinton's 30 seasons of coaching experience includes 16 seasons in the  collegiate ranks with positions at Ohio State, Wilmington, Ohio,  Cincinnati and Notre Dame, and 14 years as a head coach at three Ohio  high schools:  Zane Trace (1987-88); Van Wert (1989) and Harding  (1993-2003). 
 "I have always felt it would be an honor to have an opportunity to coach  for and to represent Ohio State," Hinton said. "This is a once in a  lifetime opportunity to be able to work with great people and great  coaches at such a wonderful place." 
 This past season Notre Dame running back Cierre Wood rushed for 1,102  yards and nine touchdowns. In 2010, a quartet of Notre Dame rushers  combined for 1,517 yards and a 4.8 yards per carry average and,  impressively, fumbled only twice all season and both occurred in the  same game. 
 Excellent ball protection was also evident among Hinton's running backs  at the University of Cincinnati, where he coached six years between  2004-09, including three seasons under former Ohio State assistant and  current Michigan State coach Mark Dantonio. Neither of his two leading  rushers during the 2009 UC season lost a fumble in 195 carries. 
 Hinton, who is 51, spent his first three seasons as running backs coach  for Dantonio's Bearcats teams. After coaching linebackers for the first  year of the Kelly administration, he moved back to running backs for the  2008 and 2009 seasons. 
 Dantonio pulled Hinton from the high school ranks back into the college  ranks after Hinton's 11-year run at Harding High School, where in  addition to directing his teams to five state playoff appearances, he  developed 13 players who would go on to major college programs. He was  extremely active in the Ohio High School Football Coaches Association,  serving as an officer for six years, including vice-president of the  organization in 2003. 
 "I've either coached or recruited in the state of Ohio for my entire  30-year coaching career," Hinton said. "I still have great friends in  the state. Ohio high school coaches are a unique group of individuals.  They are excellent coaches, very professional, extremely loyal and they  have great passion for the game." 
 Three seasons at Ohio University, coaching the wide receivers in 1990  and the defensive line in 1991-92, preceded Hinton's position at Harding  and followed his first two head coaching positions at Zane Trace and  Van Wert high schools, respectively. 
 While attending Wilmington College, Hinton was an assistant coach at  Amanda-Clearcreek High School for three seasons (1978-80) and then  parlayed that experience into a student-assistant position at Wilmington  that started in 1981 and concluded in 1984. Wilmington won two  conference titles during that time and made two appearances in the NAIA  playoffs. 
 Hinton then enrolled at Ohio State to coach in a graduate assistant  capacity for two seasons (1985-86) under Earle Bruce and to work on his  master's degree. The Buckeyes went to two bowl games and earned a share  of the 1986 Big Ten championship. 
 Hinton and his wife, Bev, have two daughters: Dawn and Drew.