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Mickey Marotti serves as a lot more than a strength coach to Meyer's Buckeyes
Updated: July 27, 2012
By Austin Ward | BuckeyeNation


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Mickey Marotti (right) has worked with Urban Meyer at four different coaching stops.

CHICAGO -- Black Friday was accompanied by a motorcycle theme.

And while the dress code helped make the workout memorable, the leg presses and squats are still what stand out in the mind of linebacker Etienne Sabino.

A romantic holiday included two grueling hours in the weight room with all the windows blacked out for John Simon. The Ohio State defensive end still hasn't forgotten the gift he received in the form of the Valentine's Day Massacre.

Zach Boren doesn't even try to pick out just one of the sessions as the most unique.

The last one Mickey Marotti led on Wednesday before Boren and a pair of senior teammates left for Big Ten Media Days is fresh enough in his mind, and even that alone provides an example of the offseason intensity that had all three Buckeyes raving about their new strength program.

"They were all tough workouts, they were all hard," Boren said Friday morning. "Even Wednesday night before we came here we had a night run, kind of like our conditioning test, and that was hard.

"I'm actually going to say that we've had the best offseason in the history of college football. I honestly think we had that, because guys are pushing themselves that hard. I've never seen it before. I have never even come close to seeing that."

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Ohio St. strength coach Marotti gets buy-in, leadership, development

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- So this is Year Two of the Urban Meyer Era at Ohio State, which typically means his program is set to make a big jump. In Meyer's first stint as a head coach, at Bowling Green, the Falcons made modest improvement, going from 8-3 to 9-3, but since then things have certainly perked up in more profound ways as Meyer has evolved as a head coach. At Utah, the Utes went from 10-2 to 12-0 and a No. 4 finish. At Florida, the Gators went from 9-3 to 12-1 and a BCS title.

How can the Buckeyes, a 6-7 team the year before Meyer's arrival in Columbus, improve on a 12-0 season in a year plagued by NCAA sanctions? It'd seem like the only way would be another BCS title. To do that, and end the SEC's stranglehold on the college football world, a young team that has to replace almost its entire front seven on defense will need to continue to make the type of strides that Meyer teams have in the past early in his tenure.

How exactly does that happen? Start with Mickey Marotti, Meyer's right-hand man, a no-BS guy who has been around him for two decades, including at Florida. When Meyer got hired at Ohio State, he brought Marotti with him and named him his assistant athletic director for football sports performance, a fancy title that might as well be called director of development. He says there is no simple explanation as to why Meyer's teams improve the way they do.

"I think a lot of that has to do with the adjustment to the program of how he does things, to how we do things," Marotti said. "Then, there's the buy-in factor. There's a time period of adjusting to it. These kids had to adjust to us doing things different. We do do things differently -- and that's not to say it's right or wrong, but it is different, and it took 'em awhile. They weren't used to it. 'What is this?' There was a lot of evaluating going on. 'Well, we did it this way.'

"'Just shut the hell up. Just follow our lead and good things will happen.' I think it's an adjustment period."

It also doesn't hurt that Meyer's track record of two national titles and five top-five finishes in his past eight seasons will get players' attention.

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Ohio State football: Mickey Marotti preaches more than just weights

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ADAM CAIRNS | DISPATCH
Ohio State's Mickey Marotti: ?What I care about is team leadership, and team unity, and toughness.?

By Tim May
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH FRIDAY AUGUST 23, 2013

It was just after 5 a.m. a few days after Ohio State lost to Florida in the Gator Bowl in January 2012, and Mickey Marotti was yelling instructions at the returning players who would make up the bulk of coach Urban Meyer?s first team.

The workouts were going to be at 6, but when a couple of players blew off the first team meeting early in the morning after returning from the bowl game, things were accelerated. And Marotti ? the new assistant athletic director for football sports performance ? was in charge.

?The guy comes in and starts screaming at you, and you don?t know what he?s all about,? said left tackle Jack Mewhort, now a senior. ?But over the last couple of years ? I?ve never met anybody like coach Mick, how much he cares and loves us. He?s an unbelievable mentor, he has been since he got here, not only training wise, but leadership and everything else.?
It explains Marotti?s fancy title.

?He?s not (just) a strength coach,? Meyer said. ?He does it all.?
Known to be a taskmaster with the rest of his staff, Meyer has afforded Marotti the freedom to run the strength and conditioning program ? with input at times ? because he knows it yields results.

?Anybody who has their hands on our players, they don?t necessarily report to him, but they meet. I am talking about our trainers, our doctors, our nutritionist, our equipment guy,? Meyer said. ?I think one of the issues when you are 18 and 19 years old, and you have mixed messages ? that?s the beauty of (having Marotti). It?s all right there.?

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An inside look at an early morning with Mickey Marotti, Ohio State's strength coach, motivator and therapist
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Mickey Marotti, left, oversees a workout in the Ohio State weight room on Monday. (Doug Lesmerises)

By Doug Lesmerises, Northeast Ohio Media Group
August 29, 2013

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COLUMBUS, Ohio – The couch is black leather, with two cushions, both bearing Ohio State logos. It rests next to a mini fridge that holds bottles of water, three bottles of raspberry vinaigrette salad dressing (the strength coach eats a salad for lunch every day) and a single can of Diet Coke.

On the wall above is a spoof of a Dr. Seuss book cover, explaining how Mickey Marotti will put his foot where you don't want him to put his foot. Around the room are 19 photos of Marotti's family.

On this couch is where Urban Meyer clears his head – describing it, Meyer holds his hands about six inches apart to indicate that this is not a couch on which he can stretch out. It sits in office 185A of the Woody Hayes Athletic Center, the one with the glass wall in the corner of the weight room. This is Marotti's office, and it's the unofficial headquarters of the Ohio State football program.

This is the room where Meyer said he stopped by in the off-season for sessions with the man he may as well call Dr. Mick, his friend and right-hand man and Ohio State's assistant athletic director for football sports performance. Meyer calls it “The Bob Newhart” couch, the 49-year-old coach referencing the '70s comedy about a psychologist.

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Mickey Marotti's office, 185A, in the corner of the Ohio State football weight room, with the piece of furniture that Urban Meyer calls "The Bob Newhart couch."
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“We sit right there and we talk about not, 'Should we run the ball 26 times instead of 24 times, or should we play cover-2?' or all this,” Meyer said.

They talk about more. Much more. They talk about the team and their players and where they want to go.

“Where ARE we?” Meyer said.

They can be long conversations. Or short. Marotti said Meyer typically swings by in late morning or early afternoon. Sometimes he asks one question, or tells Marotti about a plan for the day, and leaves. Sometimes he stays. The talk can have nothing to do with football.

“We talk about the big picture with these guys, we talk about our stuff, our family stuff, we talk about buddies out there coaching,” Marotti said. “It's good, because sometimes you're so busy in coaching, you really don't have many friends outside of coaching. You just don't. I don’t have time to have buddies in my neighborhood. In my neighborhood, my buddy is Luke Fickell.”

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Marotti rattling off some names of winter workout standouts:

“The ringleader of what we want in terms of work ethic and such is (senior tight end) Jeff Heuerman,” Marotti said. “If I had to pick one guy right now, he’d be the guy.

“The cool thing about seeing guys develop over the years is someone like (junior tackle) Taylor Decker, who two years ago wasn’t a ringleader. He was scared, and soft and didn’t know how to work. … It’s the damnedest thing, a great example of why I do this, to see those kids blossom.”
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Jacoby Boren, Pat Elflein, Decker, Joel Hale and Billy Price are players from the offensive line who have made that perfect list all winter, he said.

“J.T. Barrett: perfect,” Marotti said of the redshirt freshman quarterback. He added running back Ezekiel Elliott, Heuerman, tight end Nick Vannett, safeties Vonn Bell and Tyvis Powell and cornerbacks Armani Reeves and Doran Grant are perfect, too.
Then he named walk-ons Joe Burger and Craig Fada. “Based on their effort, they’re in my fox hole — the first two,” Marotti said. “And another guy people haven’t heard much of, Chris Worley. Perfect.”
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