Associate HC/DL Coach Larry Johnson Sr. (National Champion)

[RugbyBuck]

We need and should be able to get a Laurinaitis level DL coach. Doesn't have to be an alum (I don't know who that would even be), but a baller and then just call it what it is in recruiting. Johnson's gonna be another year or two, you're going to work with both of them until he's done, and then it will be seamless. If we own it, we're not susceptible to counter-recruiting on the level that we seem to be now.

 

[Bestbuck36]

La Allan Clark is still here isn't he? I think he's the next one

 

[pnuts34]

 

[zincfinger]

After watching a bunch of videos in the last few days on the creativity of the OSU defense against Texas, it seems to me one of two things is true:

1) Larry Johnson has been brought to heel, or

2) The online chatter from the last three years about how Larry Johnson was schematically inflexible and borderline insubordinate, to the point he was preventing Jim Knowles from really deploying his creative defensive schemes, had little basis in reality.

 

[Mike80]

After watching a bunch of videos in the last few days on the creativity of the OSU defense against Texas, it seems to me one of two things is true:

1) Larry Johnson has been brought to heel, or

2) The online chatter from the last three years about how Larry Johnson was schematically inflexible and borderline insubordinate, to the point he was preventing Jim Knowles from really deploying his creative defensive schemes, had little basis in reality.

I thought we knew this last year - the problem was Knowles, not LJ.

 

[scarletngray]

Today, in his briefing, Day said that Larry shared with the team about Gambling and Eddie Robinsons legacy and his impact on CFB. I thought that was a classy move and I'm sure that LJ did a great job in his presentation.

 

[zincfinger]

I thought we knew this last year - the problem was Knowles, not LJ.

Did we? It seemed to me a lot of people were praising Knowles to the heavens, and crediting him for OSU's late season defensive improvement, up to the day he took the Penn State job.

 

[Mike80]

Did we? It seemed to me a lot of people were praising Knowles to the heavens, and crediting him for OSU's late season defensive improvement, up to the day he took the Penn State job.

When your head coach comes in to "fix" the defense mid-season, it's not because of the D-line coach.

 

[BuckeyeNation27]

Did we? It seemed to me a lot of people were praising Knowles to the heavens, and crediting him for OSU's late season defensive improvement, up to the day he took the Penn State job.

That's right around the time I realized who the problem was, that's for damn sure.

 

[calibuck]

Naw, LeAllen went to Texas a year or so ago. Believe he was made DL coordinator, which is better than waiting-in-the-wings at tOSU. Now just maybe, he's in Texas to get some seasoning, and then when LJ Sr hangs 'em up, he'll be brought back at DL coach here. Although the Texas DL was highly touted to be 'best' in the land, and our ragtag group of OL guys pretty much shut them down......

 

[CMic]

Knowles has a "pass" for me because of the nati.
Of course, LJSr has two "passes".

 

[BuckBackHome]

Seems like the D Line has meshed with the rest of the D much more smoothly than under the previous D Coordinator.