BRIAN HARTLINE LOOKING TO PROVE HE BELONGS, HELP OHIO STATE'S WIDE RECEIVERS GET BETTER EVERY DAY
July 26, 2018 was a life-changing day for Brian Hartline.
On that day, Ohio State named him interim wide receivers coach, just three days after former wide receivers coach Zach Smith was fired, and just eight days before the Buckeyes began preseason camp.
Hartline described that day as “a little surreal,” as it meant Hartline would have the opportunity to coach the position he once played at Ohio State, less than 10 years after he concluded his own career playing for the Buckeyes.
“I’m very passionate about this particular room,” Hartline said Wednesday while meeting with the media for the first time since his promotion. “Just really thinking back on really thinking I’d ever be in this position, I think I’d probably laugh at you.”
Quickly, though, Hartline moved past the surreality of his new position and turned his focus to his new responsibility, because he wants his interim role to be only the beginning of his coaching career.
“I’m looking forward to earning past that, so to me, it was an opportunity that I wanted to capitalize on. It was not the end role,” Hartline said. “I don’t take it for granted.”
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“I love him,” Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer said Wednesday of Hartline. “He’s doing a great job.”
Meyer says Hartline has brought “instant credibility and knowledge” to Ohio State’s wide receivers, because of his own experience playing the position at Ohio State and in the NFL, and offensive coordinator Ryan Day has also praised what Hartline has brought to the team.
“His energy’s been excellent,” Day said earlier this season. “I think he has credibility with the players. I think they respect when he says something that he’s been through it before. So energy’s been great, and credibility’s probably the second thing.”
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