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RIP Coach Joe Daniels (Former QB Coach/Director of Personnel--official thread)

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Pryor's play good medicine for Daniels

Thursday, October 9, 2008 3:19 AM
By Tim May


THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
For someone coaching football while also fighting cancer, Ohio State quarterbacks coach Joe Daniels is looking better and stronger these days. "I'm feeling good, thank you," Daniels said after practice yesterday.
It helps, of course, watching the way freshman quarterback Terrelle Pryor has performed since being named the starter three games ago. Daniels was one of the point men in recruiting Pryor, of Jeannette, Pa.
"I've been very pleased by the way Terrelle has responded and by the way he has grasped our offense," Daniels said.
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Just wanted to give props to the man behind the scenes making it all happen. Keep up the great work, Coach! We talk about Pryor's maturation and Boeckman's class in handling his situation, and we know that Coach Daniels holds no small part in their success on and off the field.
 
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Sticking to his game plan
Despite what his cancer doctors told him 2 1/2 years ago, Joe Daniels still coaches the Buckeyes' quarterbacks
Sunday, November 16, 2008 3:39 AM
By Story by Mike Wagner


THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
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Neal C. Lauron | Dispatch
Assistant coach Joe Daniels, center, and his son, intern coach Matt Daniels, watch quarterback Terrelle Pryor and other Ohio State players warm up before a September home game against Ohio University.

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Neal C. Lauron | Dispatch
Daniels schedules medical appointments, such as this cancer scan in Ohio State's James Cancer Hospital, around his coaching duties with the Buckeyes.



Doctors had just told Joe Daniels that he probably wouldn't live past Christmas. The cancer from the tumor on his kidney already had spread to his liver and lungs.
His wife hugged him and prayed, his friends offered encouragement, and doctors shuffled in and out.
Shortly after Jim Tressel arrived to visit his Ohio State quarterbacks coach, Daniels asked everyone but his boss to leave his hospital room.
Daniels looked up at Tressel on that June day in 2006 and clasped his hand. Both tried but failed to fight back tears.
If Daniels had only half a year left, he knew what he wanted to do with it.
"I want to coach, Tress," he said.
"Absolutely," Tressel told him. "You are going to coach."

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there is no national championship, no heisman trophy, no all american can make me feel more proud to be a Buckeye. a great piece by Mike Wagner.

Thank you, Coach Daniel. Thank you, Coach Tressel.

GO BUCKS!! BEAT CANCER!

:osu2:

osu.edu ROCKS!!!
 
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Coach Daniels and his family must be pretty amazing people to see him go through all of that and Coach must be a very very strong person to have grown through all of that chemo and still be able to contribute to the football program.
 
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