BRIAN HARTLINE'S HANDS-ON APPROACH TO COACHING, NFL EXPERIENCE RESONATING WITH OHIO STATE WIDE RECEIVERS
In just one month as Ohio State’s interim wide receivers coach, Brian Hartline has already made a big impression on the players he is now responsible for coaching.
Ohio State’s three fifth-year senior wide receiver captains met with the media on Tuesday, and all of them had good things to say about what Hartline has brought to their position group so far.
“Everyone loves Coach Hartline,” Parris Campbell said. “He’s a very great coach. He’s very knowledgeable of the game.”
In the brief glimpses of practice that were open to the media during fall camp, Hartline’s energy and his hands-on approach to coaching were evident, and that has resonated with the Buckeyes’ wide receivers.
“He’s very energetic, and hands-on,” said Terry McLaurin. “He’s always running around, always critiquing everybody, coaching everybody up, whether you’re a starter or you’re a walk-on. So he really brings a lot to our room, and we’re happy to have him.”
It helps that approach resonate that Hartline is a former Ohio State wide receiver himself – so he can relate to the position that all of his players are currently in – and that he played for seven seasons in the NFL, where Campbell, McLaurin and Johnnie Dixon all hope to be next year and other Ohio State wide receivers hope to be in the future.
“Since he’s been at OSU, since he’s done what I’ve done, if he wants me to do something, if he tells me something that I need to do, he can go on the field and actually show me and I can see what it looks like,” Campbell said. “So it’s great. And for him to have skills, and for him to dominate at the next level, obviously, it’s easy to listen to a guy like that.”
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Interim head coach Ryan Day is also impressed with what he’s seen from Hartline in his first month on the job.
“Brian's, on short notice, has stepped in and brought a lot of energy,” Day said Monday. “He's got great experience. He's sat in their seats. He's played wide receiver at Ohio State, he's played in the NFL, so he has great experience that he can obviously relay to those guys. He's done a great job so far.”
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