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Post 23 Season tOSU Coaching Changes

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BuckBackHome said:
I have to imagine there aren’t major changes coming to the defensive side. Just one coach.

Offensive side may only have three people who are safe. Hartline, Alford and the TE coach?
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My guess:

Hartline (WR/“Co-OC”) - Safe
Alford (RB) - Safe, unless he chooses to go elsewhere for a promotion
Bailey (TE) - Safe
Frye (OL/OC) - Gone. Likely replaced by a Dan Mullen type.

Defense intact. Maybe we see a replacement at LB coach with JL? If not I would look to see JL takeover for Fleming.
 
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SEREbuckeye said:
My guess:

Hartline (WR/“Co-OC”) - Safe
Alford (RB) - Safe, unless he chooses to go elsewhere for a promotion
Bailey (TE) - Safe
Frye (OL/OC) - Gone. Likely replaced by a Dan Mullen type.

Defense intact. Maybe we see a replacement at LB coach with JL? If not I would look to see JL takeover for Fleming.
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Dan Mullen would be a great choice, he's been a HC, probably not looking for another HC position, and may stick around "long term". I think Little Animal has to come on board with some full time coaching spot.

Eleven Warriors offers some names for the possible OC position:

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Coaches Who Could Fit the Bill If Ohio State Hires A New Quarterbacks Coach and Offensive Play Caller

We look at some names who could be worthy of consideration if Ohio State decides to add a new offensive play caller and/or quarterbacks coach to its staff.
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WILL STEIN, OREGON OFFENSIVE COORDINATOR
JOE BRADY, BUFFALO BILLS INTERIM OFFENSIVE COORDINATOR
JOE MOORHEAD, AKRON HEAD COACH
DAN MULLEN, FORMER FLORIDA HEAD COACH
DOUG NUSSMEIER, LOS ANGELES CHARGERS QUARTERBACKS COACH
DINO BABERS, FORMER SYRACUSE HEAD COACH
J.T. BARRETT, DETROIT LIONS ASSISTANT QUARTERBACKS COACH
JERROD JOHNSON, HOUSTON TEXANS QUARTERBACKS COACH
JOE PHILBIN, OHIO STATE SENIOR ADVISOR AND ANALYST
BILL O’BRIEN, NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS OFFENSIVE COORDINATOR
FRANK REICH, FORMER INDIANAPOLIS COLTS HEAD COACH
JOSH MCDANIELS, FORMER LAS VEGAS RAIDERS HEAD COACH

Just sayin': Almost any of those 12 would be a great hire.
 
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Buckeye86 said:
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Potential Staff Changes Discussion (Part 4)

Probably won't hear anything until mid to late next week at the earliest. AFCA Convention is held Jan 7-10 and anything will likely wait until after that. Also appears Day is looking to the NFL so that will have to wait until whoever he is looking at is done with the season/playoff run. Latest...
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Torg, formerly of 97.1 but now on a podcast affiliated with Zach Smith (that was promoted in my feed), says he confirmed with sources that Fleming and Dennis are for sure gone, and there’s a third big surprise coach who might be gone that he was told not to talk about, presumably pending how things work out with the new OC hire.

I also assume the new DL coach to tutor with Johnson for one year is still in play, and if that doesn’t work out, just promote Laurinaitis to full time.

That’s the 3-4 moves previously reported/expected. No action is expected to be announced until the end of next week after the coaches have had a chance to look for new jobs at the coaches conference from the 7th through the 10th.
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Interesting candidate that lines up with the “if OC (Joe Brady), then surprise additional move” theory.
www.elevenwarriors.com

Potential Staff Changes Discussion (Part 4)

Probably won't hear anything until mid to late next week at the earliest. AFCA Convention is held Jan 7-10 and anything will likely wait until after that. Also appears Day is looking to the NFL so that will have to wait until whoever he is looking at is done with the season/playoff run. Latest...
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Joe Brady and he will bring in his old buddy James Cregg as OL coach. Cregg is currently an assistant OL coach for the 49ers but was the OL/Run Game Coordinator at LSU while Brady was there as the Passing Game Coordinator. Just my thoughts.
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sg86 said:
Matt Guerreri was not retained by Indiana and it would not surprise me at all if Knowles let Eliano go and hired Guerreri
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To be blunt, even if they were looking to replace Eliano, which I don’t think they are, hiring Guerrieri would result in a problematic lack of diversity on the coaching staff and I don’t think they would be interested in pursuing that.

Regarding Eliano, the safeties played great most of the year until Ransom was injured and Styles showed some flaws and took some bad angles. That’s from being out of position more than bad coaching, in my opinion. There’s a reason the general consensus seems to be that he needs to move to LB next season.

People are also disgruntled that Eliano “missed” on the NIL driven recruitments of Caleb Downs and KJ Bolden, which I really don’t think you can hold against him.

And even if recruiting was your main consideration in making the move, Guerrieri’s recruiting chops are a handful of years at Duke and one year at Indiana, I’m going to go out on a limb and say he wasn’t stacking elite classes at either place and has no proven track record recruiting at a high level making it is impossible to say if he’d be any better at the thing you’re ostensibly hiring him for.
 
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Buckeye86 said:
To be blunt, even if they were looking to replace Eliano, which I don’t think they are, hiring Guerrieri would result in a problematic lack of diversity on the coaching staff and I don’t think they would be interested in pursuing that.

Regarding Eliano, the safeties played great most of the year until Ransom was injured and Styles showed some flaws and took some bad angles. That’s from being out of position more than bad coaching, in my opinion. There’s a reason the general consensus seems to be that he needs to move to LB next season.

People are also disgruntled that Eliano “missed” on the NIL driven recruitments of Caleb Downs and KJ Bolden, which I really don’t think you can hold against him.

And even if recruiting was your main consideration in making the move, Guerrieri’s recruiting chops are a handful of years at Duke and one year at Indiana, I’m going to go out on a limb and say he wasn’t stacking elite classes at either place and has no proven track record recruiting at a high level making it is impossible to say if he’d be any better at the thing you’re ostensibly hiring him for.
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I don’t know why they would be making any changes to the defensive staff other than adding JL or setting up the transition to a new DL coach.
 
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TampaBuckeyes said:
I don’t know why they would be making any changes to the defensive staff other than adding JL or setting up the transition to a new DL coach.
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Correct. To catch everyone up with everything (to my understanding):

It is widely reported that there will be three or four staff moves.

Parker Fleming and Corey Dennis are both definitely gone. There is a “surprise” move that’s not for sure yet.

On defense, Birm has said definitively that LJ Sr (and Mickey Marroti) are both back next season.

Austin Ward has reported hearing that the (or at least a) plan is to use the spot freed up by releasing Parker Fleming to bring in a second defensive line coach to work with Johnson for a year, keeping Laurinaitis as GA. Then next year, Johnson officially transitions to GA, or retirement, or whatever, and Laurinaitis moves into his spot on the staff at LB while the second DL coach takes over (maybe with Johnson in some sort of role still).

The surprise move is almost certainly on offense under a new OC.

The plan on offense would be: don’t renew Corey Dennis’s contract and bring in a new OC/QB coach—the speculation is that Day is looking to the NFL for this spot.

Football Scoop reported that this OC would then have the power (like Knowles before him) to evaluate and make additional staff changes if desired, which would possibly result in the “surprise” addition move of replacing Frye at OL coach (or maybe something else, but that seems less likely).

Specifically, my favorite speculation about the plan A on offense is hiring Joe Brady as OC/QB coach, who would then bring in James Cregg as OL coach/run game coordinator, duplicating the tandem that coached Joe Burrow and the prolific 2019 LSU national championship offense.
 
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Would be nice if they did something to upgrade S&C. Maybe bring in a running coach, like Tressel had, to help prevent injuries. Get those ankles ready for a football season. I remember Urban saying he assigned each player to a "mission" this time of year.
 
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