Buckeyes Open 2022 Training Camp Thursday Morning

New Faces in New Locations
4 new assistant coaches took half of their first Ohio State fall camp apply on Thursday. Three of them are on the defensive aspect of the ball: defensive coordinator/linebackers coach Jim Knowles, cornerbacks coach Tim Walton and safeties coach Perry Eliano. On offense, Justin Frye is the Buckeyes’ new offensive line coach.

Knowles coordinated one of many nation’s prime defensive items at Oklahoma State final season. Eliano mentored and developed Coby Bryant and Ahmad “Sauce” Gardner at Cincinnati whereas Walton has each faculty and NFL expertise in his earlier stops with the Jacksonville Jaguars, New York Giants and Miami (Fla.), amongst others.

Frye most not too long ago served because the offensive line coach and offensive coordinator at UCLA the place the Bruins ranked 14th nationally with a median of 215.1 speeding yards per sport in 2021.

There have been a number of new faces introduced in on each the teaching workers and help workers, too, along with workers promotions. They’re:

• Keenan Bailey now holds the title of Senior Advisor to the Head Coach
• Matt Guerrieri is Senior Advisor and Analyst
• Koy McFarland, Cam Spence, Michael Sollenne and Keegan O’Hara shall be this season’s graduate assistants
• High quality management coaches, along with Bailey and Guerrieri, shall be Todd Fitch, Brent Zdebski, Miguel Patrick and Rob Keys
• Program assistants for 2022 are Reilly Jeffers (offense), Devin Jordan (offense), Sam McGrath (protection), Joe Lyberger (protection), and Owen Fankhauser (kicking)
• Zach Woodke and Kellyn Gerenstein will function recruiting assistants and Nick Murphy is the brand new director of recruiting technique and Zach Grant is the director of participant personnel.
• Carey Hoyt is the brand new sport administrator for soccer. Previous to becoming a member of athletic administration in 2016, she served as head coach of the Ohio State ladies’s gymnastics program for 13 years.
• Ohio State’s social media workforce, led by Addison Skaggs, not too long ago added Ethan Miller (assistant director of inventive video), David Saunders (assistant director of inventive media) and Ethan Hunt (assistant director of inventive media).

Acquainted Faces in Acquainted Locations
Whereas there are many recent faces on the apply discipline, the Buckeyes additionally boast a number of assistant coaches who’ve grow to be veterans on Ryan Day’s workers. Essentially the most tenured assistant coach is Larry Johnson, who enters his ninth season with the Buckeyes and twenty sixth on the collegiate degree.

The offensive aspect of the ball consists of Tony Alford, who enters his eighth season, and Kevin Wilson, who begins his sixth because the workforce’s offensive coordinator and tight ends coach. In January, Alford was given the added accountability of run sport coordinator along with serving as assistant head coach for offense and working backs coach.

Brian Hartline, the workforce’s passing sport coordinator and huge receivers coach, enters his sixth season on the teaching workers and fifth mentoring the workforce’s huge receivers. Corey Dennis is in his third yr because the quarterbacks coach whereas Parker Fleming enters his second yr because the workforce’s full-time particular workforce’s coordinator.

Tickets
Single sport tickets, together with a Decide Three mini-plan choice, for a terrific slate of 2022 Ohio State residence soccer video games are at present on sale. Followers can study extra and buy tickets on-line at http://go.osu.edu/fbtix.

The 2022 residence schedule, which options eight video games, consists of contests towards Notre Dame, Wisconsin, Iowa and Michigan. This fall may even mark the 100 yr celebration of Ohio Stadium, one of the crucial iconic faculty soccer venues in historical past and in addition the house to many different main moments, together with concert events and graduations.