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2014
I'm guessing he means by the role TP played in the downfall of Tressel which ultimately led to Urban Meyer coming "home." Butterfly Effect.??????
THIS.It was no secret while I was at Ohio State that nobody liked Pryor, even most of his own teammates. That being said, it is frustrating to see a Buckeye try to create a public pissing match with another Buckeye.
Gay.I'm guessing he means by the role TP played in the downfall of Tressel which ultimately led to Urban Meyer coming "home." Butterfly Effect.
The former Buckeyes wide receiver, who spent seven seasons in the NFL with the Miami Dolphins and Cleveland Browns, didn’t know what he was walking into last year when he came back on a whim to work with the scout team. An invitation to stick around through the spring turned into a quality control position, which was all it took to hook the receiver who wore the scarlet and gray from 2006-08.
Now, Hartline is thinking about an unexpected career in coaching and making the most of his first exposure to Urban Meyer’s way of doing business after playing under Jim Tressel.
“I was always told I’d be good coach,” Hartline said after practice on Monday. “And I always said I’d never coach because it would take too much time. But I’m just hooked on it.
“As a football junky, [being around Meyer is] a huge opportunity and a huge blessing. I can’t be grateful enough. It’s been awesome. The amount I’ve learned in the last three months has been very beneficial. Every coach has their own niche and things they do well, but Coach Meyer – his ability to establish culture and hold to that culture and not waver – although very generalized, is something that’s been very special. I never realized how much it played until being here. It’s hard to put in words, you have to be in it, you have to be behind the curtain to understand. But his ability to create culture, and just do what he does, has been a special thing to see.”
Hartline has seen something else, too. A look at how his own career might have been different had he learned under this particular Ohio State regime.
“Urban [Meyer] and his staff runs a pretty tight ship here. It’s awesome,” Hartline said. “I catch myself at times wishing I was put through the trials and tribulations of these camps and this coaching staff, just to see what I could’ve become out of here. That’s just a credit to them, to [strength coach] Mick Marotti and his staff and everybody. It’s a pretty special thing.
“The attention to detail, and the work that is put in the offseason – and throughout the season, which I’m looking forward to seeing – it’s probably a little different. I think it’s a little more intense in the offseason than I was around.”
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