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Former S&C Coach Allan Johnson

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ShakerBuck said:
I bet they bring Mike Cochran Back as strength coach (who was an asst. under Johnson)....and went with Snyder to Marshall

Mike was Tressels strength coach at YSU and I know coach Tressel brought him with him from YSU.

Incidently, Mike's brother Nick played quarterback for Tressel at YSU and won a Nat'l championship (if memory serves). Out of high school (Girard) , Nick signed LOI to play for OSU and then redshirted and later transfered to YSU...he was behind Joe Pickens who also transfered, Nick probably would have been our starting QB had he stayed.
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girard is my old stomping ground. nick got a nc at ysu, so it's hard to complain. however, word is that mike was probably going to be the head S&C guy somewhere in '05, be it marshall or elsewhere. he was a sought after commodity.
 
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Dispatch

5/13/06

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

Strength coach for OSU leaves

Saturday, May 13, 2006

Ken Gordon
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

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Allan Johnson resigned as Ohio State’s football and conditioning coach yesterday, as expected. Whether he decided to leave on his own or was encouraged is unclear.

One source close to the program who spoke on condition of anonymity told The Dispatch that Johnson was forced out.

But assistant strength coach Butch Reynolds vehemently denied that.

"It was nothing like that; that’s not accurate," Reynolds said. "Coach (Jim) Tressel and Al never bumped heads, from what I saw."

Johnson has not returned phone calls. In a release, Johnson thanked Tressel for the chance to work at OSU for the past five years and said he wanted to get out of the strength-coach business.

"At this point in my career, I would like the chance to pursue other opportunities, including getting into athletic administration, motivational speaking and consulting," Johnson said.

Tressel was complimentary of Johnson in the release.

"It was obvious to me (that) any time we took the field, we were the best-conditioned team out there," Tressel said. "Much of the credit for our success over the past five seasons goes to Al Johnson and his staff."

Johnson’s resignation is effective Aug. 31. He came to OSU in June 2001, five months after Tressel was hired.

A successor is expected to be named by early June.

Assistant Bernardo Amerson is a potential candidate, as is former OSU assistant Mike Cochran, who worked with Tressel at Youngstown State and is now strength coach at Marshall.

Reynolds’ area of expertise is speed and nutrition, and he has just one year of experience. He does not consider himself a candidate.

"I’m sure before the weekend is over with, (Tressel) will have 15 or 20 potential candidates," Reynolds said. "This is a big job."

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I'm getting in on this late... didn't the Athletic department hire Butch Reynolds (OSU track star and former world record holder in the 400) as S&C for football and all other sports? That would conform to Tressel's love for speed and I thought I read that Tressel was solidly behind the signing of Reynolds. So is Reynolds REALLY the S&C guy, or is he part of a team?... going back to an earlier post on the thread, that Tressel was giving up on strength for pure speed... speed is a product of strength though not necessarily a product of muscle mass.
 
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The Tressel giving up strenght for speed was a joke.

When I was at the football camp, we met Reynolds. He was strickly a speed coach. He was there to teach the football players proper running techniques and how to maxiumize their speed.

I very highly doubt that Butch will take over the strength program. The deal was, he ran the speed part of the S&C program. And Johnson ran the strength part.
 
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I'm not sure if it's been mentioned before, but I was listening to Herbie yesterday and he brought up a good point. He said the strength coach was a very important asset to the team because he is allowed to see/work with the players year round opposed to coaches who cannot by NCAA ruling.
 
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I always thought this would happen, but not this soon. Mike Cochran went to Marshall to be the head guy there and get experience. I think that he will be our head guy now. I know that I missed his glowing head during the spring game this year leading the charge on to the field. This guy is a bull. If he comes back could lead the way for his brother to someday join the staff. For those that dont know, Nick Cochran is an offensive coordinator for Girard High School and has put up some outstanding offensive numbers.
 
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Golferdow01 said:
I'm not sure if it's been mentioned before, but I was listening to Herbie yesterday and he brought up a good point. He said the strength coach was a very important asset to the team because he is allowed to see/work with the players year round opposed to coaches who cannot by NCAA ruling.
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true - see lagunasurf's post - #55 on the previous page.
 
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cincibuck said:
I'm getting in on this late... didn't the Athletic department hire Butch Reynolds (OSU track star and former world record holder in the 400) as S&C for football and all other sports? That would conform to Tressel's love for speed and I thought I read that Tressel was solidly behind the signing of Reynolds. So is Reynolds REALLY the S&C guy, or is he part of a team?... going back to an earlier post on the thread, that Tressel was giving up on strength for pure speed... speed is a product of strength though not necessarily a product of muscle mass.
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Here's the Football S&C staff and links to their profiles (from the official site):

<table class="tablecontent" border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" width="600"><tbody><tr><td>Allan Johnson</td><td>Supv, Ath Cond-FB</td></tr> <tr><td>Bernardo Amerson</td><td>Ath Cond Spec-FB</td></tr> <tr><td>Butch Reynolds</td><td>Ath Cond Spec-FB</td></tr> <tr><td>Tim Seder</td><td>Vol Coach</td></tr></tbody></table>
 
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Johnson ready to get started
Parkersburg native new middle school athletic coordinator
By STEVE HEMMELGARN [email protected]
POSTED: August 4, 2010

PARKERSBURG - Parkersburg native Allan Johnson, 53, was approved by the Wood County Board of Education as the Wood County Schools middle school athletic coordinator at a board meeting Tuesday.

Johnson, a 1974 Parkersburg High School grad, brings a lengthy background in sports, including working as strength and conditioning coaches at WVU and Ohio State and with the Baltimore Orioles, to his new position, taking over for Fred Bartimoccia, who is retiring.

In his job as basically a middle schools athletic director, Johnson, like his predecessors, will be responsible for overseeing all nine Wood County middle school sports, including cheerleading, throughout the school year. The other middle school sports by season are football, cross country, tennis, volleyball and golf in the fall, basketball and wrestling in the winter, and track in the spring at Edison, Blennerhassett, Hamilton, VanDevender, Jackson and Williamstown middle schools.

''For practically my whole life, I've been involved in athletics, so for me, this job was an opportunity to get back involved in athletics,'' said Johnson, who worked for almost three years in the private sector after leaving Ohio State in 2006, but returned to the Mid-Ohio Valley in the last couple years.
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Johnson ready to get started - NewsandSentinel.com | News, Sports, Jobs, Community Information - Parkersburg News and Sentinel
 
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Johnson has different take on Tressel
April 9, 2011
Parkersburg News and Sentinel

Spring football practice has started for Ohio State, with lots of questions to be answered - not the least of which is who is going to replace the Tattoogate five, suspended for the first five games of the 2011 season.

Of course, Buckeye head coach Jim Tressel is in the same boat -a five-game suspension in addition to a $250,000 fine -- for knowing about his players' involvement in the sale of memorabilia, but apparently not letting anyone in authority at OSU know about it.

But around here, no one knows Tressel any better than Parkersburg's own Allan Johnson, who served as Tressel's head strength and conditioning coach for his first years on the job, from 2001 through 2005.

So Johnson, currently serving as the Wood County middle school athletic coordinator, has a little bit of a different take than most on Tressel's tenuous situation in Columbus.

And Johnson even now says unequivocably that his "attitude, respect and loyalty" to Tressel "has never wavered. And through this whole thing, you know what, I'm sure he's taken the brunt of everything in all the allegations.

"But I know what he stands for and I know what he's about. So when I first heard about this, the first thing that entered my mind with this whole thing was that (OSU) president (Gordon) Gee and (athletic director) Gene Smith knew from Day 1, because Tressel is that type of person. He's very honest, very sincere and very loyal."

In fact, Johnson said "in the five years I worked with Jim Tressel, there's no gray area. There's no question about, 'Should we be doing this or doing that?' If there's any way that it teeters on breaking NCAA rules at all, that's not even an option for him. It's a no-brainer.

"So when all this came out, I'll tell you what, he didn't do anything. I mean sure, maybe did he protect his players and protect the program, etc. and etc.?

"But going in, I guarantee you he knew this was coming. He's the kind of person who will, first of all, do what's right, and also he will protect his university, his players and his coaches." So much so, noted Johnson, that Tressel "will take all the punishment, all the negativity and all the criticism.

"This is a classic example, in my opinion, with Tressel being the type of person he is -- being extremely loyal -- of him taking the fall."

Johnson related he's "talked to a couple people up there (at OSU) in the athletic department with football, and Tressel's taking all the bullets. He's standing up front with a cape. He's the face, the picture of the program."

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http://newsandsentinel.com/page/con...n-has-different-take-on-Tressel.html?nav=5064
 
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