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Everett Withers (Off Analyst Texas Longhorns)

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For some reason Everett was really on my mind today seeing this class come together. What in the world must he be thinking? He seems like a good guy who has put his time in the profession. Obviously he must be well thought of for UFM to hire him. He comes to a school like tOSU and his first class he steps into is loaded like this. I mean, can you imagine what must be going through this guys mind? He has to be like the most excited kid on Christmas morning, waiting to get outside and play with his new gifts.

Go get em coach. Work with Luke. Mold these young men into warriors. I want to see the bullets playing with their hair on fire. I want furry. I want it bad. Please deliver post-haste. I realize we won't have a bowl game next year. Please make it so that every team in America is thankful for this one year reprieve. It's been a long, hard year. I want to see some demons excercised on the field of battle. I want it to come at the expense of weasels, badgers, etc. I want them to fear us like never before.

I think you are the right man for the job. You've got an unbelievable class to work with. Do us proud.

Go Bucks.
 
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You have to remember though, he has had some serious studs on his UNC defenses over the past few years. He's probably thinking, "business as usual but with better facilities." He certainly isnt upset about it I'm sure.
 
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It definitely looks like the Buckeyes won't get outworked this season. They may not finish a game on the winning side, I don't believe they will, but they wont get outworked in practice or games. I love the way this is starting.
 
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Withers eager to mesh with Fickell
OSU co-defensive coordinators have similiarities heading into spring practice
Mar. 28, 2012
Written by
Jon Spencer
CentralOhio.com

COLUMBUS -- Titles can be a tricky thing.

Take the Ohio State football coaching staff, for instance. Urban Meyer has named Everett Withers assistant head coach and co-defensive coordinator. Luke Fickell, whom Meyer has replaced as head coach, is defensive coordinator and linebackers coach -- and, apparently, more than that.

"He's the general manager," Meyer recently said of Fickell. "He has an obligation to me to do the best he can, and he has. I have an obligation to him, too. I think he'll be a head coach real soon, and deservedly so."

Meyer has said Fickell will call the defense. So where does that leave Withers when it comes to the defensive chain of command? His ego, or lack thereof, doesn't allow him to care.

"We have a lot of respect for each other and what we've done in the profession," Withers said of meshing with Fickell. "I think that's something you feel and you see daily.

"There are a lot of ideas in our staff room, guys who have done a lot of different things in a lot of different places. I think that's important to have; to not be stale as a staff. I think you need guys who have ideas and who can come together at the end of the day with one common goal."

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http://www.chillicothegazette.com/article/20120328/SPORTS/203280320
 
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Thrown into a big role
Co-defensive coordinator Everett Withers has made the best of tough situations
Updated: July 6, 2012,
By Austin Ward | BuckeyeNation

The goal was simply to be the best defensive backs coach he could be.

Just two years after Everett Withers starting working on it, the staff at Austin Peay was fired and he was suddenly working with wide receivers.

Two decades later, Withers had set a new bar.

Despite a winning season after finally getting to lead his own program, North Carolina elected not to turn the interim status Withers was working with into something more permanent.

But whether it was at the beginning of his career or only six months ago, regardless of positive results or an ugly season or two, Withers will gladly take experience any way it comes. And as he prepares for his first season with Ohio State as a co-defensive coordinator in charge of safeties, he has packed his resume since those early days at Austin Peay.

"Well, that guy [in 1988] was running around like a chicken with his head cut off, to be honest with you," Withers said. "That guy was a graduate assistant who took a job for the first time in July of that first year, the defensive coordinator resigns and the head coach comes in and says, 'You're the defensive coordinator.' That guy was 24 years old, and he had to learn some leadership skills in a hurry, he had to deal with guys on staff that wanted to be the coordinator that were a lot older.

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Everett Withers is working toward another shot at a head coaching job after a season as the interim coach at North Carolina.

"That guy had to grow up real fast."

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http://espn.go.com/colleges/osu/story/_/id/8133095/everett-withers-makes-best-tough-situations
 
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Despite the fever pitch of anticipation for the upcoming season, the last post for Withers was back in July. I'm not surprised. Seems like he is a guy very much in the background but for some reason, despite the lack of coverage my perception of him is very high. I think he is the real deal but honestly I don't know what he was known for at UNC. Even during the ESPiN special there was little to no coverage of him. I know he is coaching safeties but I'm just curious where his mark will show up from a DC perspective. Thoughts?
 
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