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Impending Assistant Coach Vacancies

I'll believe it when I see it. Highly respected guy at his alma-mater which is known to pay stupid money to retain people...
I'd be shocked. He's from Louisiana, went to LSU, has a AHC title already, puts guys in the league every year.

Either it's bullshit, he wants a raise after they made it rain on Aranda, or he really hates Shrimp Boat, in which case I'm sure he could easily pull a NFL offer.
 
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I'd be shocked. He's from Louisiana, went to LSU, has a AHC title already, puts guys in the league every year.

Either it's bullshit, he wants a raise after they made it rain on Aranda, or he really hates Shrimp Boat, in which case I'm sure he could easily pull a NFL offer.
LSU just hired another DB coach as their 10th assistant, and also made him a co-DC...
Could be nothing. :thinking:

https://247sports.com/college/lsu/Article/LSU-hired-Rutgers-DB-coach-Bill-Busch-114870765
 
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Despite Flux, Buckeye Assistants Express Desire to Remain at Ohio State

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When Ryan Day takes over the reins as Ohio State’s head coach in three days, he will have a long list of things to do. Chief among those things is putting together his coaching staff.

As the head coach, Day will have total control of who he wants to hire, and from the sounds of it, the current Buckeye assistant coaches are hoping they’ll be back next season.

It has already been announced that receivers coach Brian Hartline will be retained for 2019.

Speaking at Rose Bowl media day on Sunday, the company line by almost every assistant coach was a desire to return. Linebackers coach Bill Davis and running backs coach Tony Alford said they would like to be back, as did offensive line coach Greg Studrawa.

Studrawa actually interviewed for the open head coaching job at his alma mater Bowling Green and would have taken the offer, but the job went to Scot Loeffler instead. Despite the desire to be the head coach at a place he loves, he is very happy at Ohio State and hopes to be a part of Day’s staff next year.

“I’m just preparing for this game and preparing to win,” Studrawa said. “Ryan and I have been talking about moving forward in the spring and what’s going to happen, so I have no indication otherwise. I expect to be here. If not, then hey, that’s Ryan’s decision and I understand that.”

Studrawa has been a football coach for a long time and has had addresses in a number of cities. In each of those cities, the most important thing is always the players.

“You have to do what’s best for the kids first,” he said. “Not what’s best for you. What’s best for you or your job at that time might not be the best thing that these kids needs. That’s always first. What does the head coach want in a program and then what do the kids need. Your needs become behind those two.”

Offensive coordinator Kevin Wilson’s contract is up in January and he has received calls from other schools. He understands he still has a job to do this season, and he also understands that whatever will be, will be.

“I’m kind of old enough and for some things you’ve been through, you trust your faith and don’t worry,” he said.

Wilson would like to be a head coach again, but doesn’t know if that will happen. In the meantime, he is perfectly content at Ohio State.

He hasn’t had much talk with Day about next year, but it doesn’t sound like Day has told him he needs to look around.

In fact, it’s been the opposite.

“There’s not been serious conversations other than ‘if you need to be looking for a job should you,’ and ‘are you okay?,'” he said. “I think it will get worked out as we finish this game. There’s not been a lot of talk. We’ll have those discussions in the week to come.”

When those talks do occur, he expects they will end with him still being around in 2019.

“Oh yeah,” he said. “I hope I’m going to be a positive part of that team.”

The mark of a veteran coach is apparently one who doesn’t worry too much about next year, especially when there are days still left in this year.

Entire article: https://theozone.net/2018/12/buckeye-assistants-remain-ohio-state/
 
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OKLAHOMA STATE OFFENSIVE COORDINATOR MIKE YURCICH TO JOIN OHIO STATE'S COACHING STAFF, PER REPORTS

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Oklahoma State offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Mike Yurcich is leaving the Cowboys to join Ohio State's coaching staff, according to multiple reports by ESPN's Adam Rittenberg and Lettermen Row's Austin Ward.

Yurcich comes to Ohio State after six seasons in Stillwater, in which Oklahoma State has ranked in the top 10 nationally in total offense for each of the past two seasons and in the top 10 nationally in passing offense in each of the past four seasons.

According to Rittenberg, Yurcich's formal title is yet to be named, but his role is likely to involve coaching quarterbacks, a role Ryan Day oversaw the past two seasons. Ward reported that Yurcich is expected to "be given pass-game coordinating responsibilities, and Ohio State is also expected to retain Kevin Wilson in a co-coordinator role."

A native of Euclid, Ohio, Yurcich is a 1999 graduate of California University (Pa.), where he was the starting quarterback for three seasons. After beginning his coaching career at the University of Saint Francis (Ind.), Yurcich was an offensive graduate assistant at Indiana for two seasons before joining the coaching staff at Edinboro in 2005. He became Edinboro's offensive coordinator in 2006, and spent five more seasons there before becoming the offensive coordinator at Shippensburg for two seasons.

Entire article: https://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio...ke-yurcich-to-join-ohio-states-coaching-staff
 
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A couple of questions for Mr. Yurcich.
  1. Do you know what it means to run the ball and bleed the clock at the line when the situation dictates it?
  2. Do you know what a TE is in the passing game?
Like it or not, i think we're about to become a decidedly "pass heavy" offense going forward. If that's the case, i think Day/Yurcich are the guys you want deploying that kind of attack.
 
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