Tennessee State football coach Eddie George wants to play Ohio State

Two weeks after scheduling a recreation at Notre Dame, Tennessee State soccer coach Eddie George is now zeroing in on his alma mater Ohio State.

TSU will open the 2023 season at Notre Dame.

George, who’s headed into his second season with the Tigers, frolicked this week at Ohio State and stated Friday he had spoken with Buckeyes athletics director Gene Smith about getting TSU on the schedule.

“I’d love that,” George stated. “That will be an exquisite factor: if I may come again within the stadium the place I performed, to educate (there) now. To grace the sidelines at Ohio Stadium as a coach can be phenomenal. I believe will probably be a terrific factor for the followers to see.”

George, a former Heisman Trophy profitable operating again at Ohio State, was a speaker on the Ohio State Coaches Clinic on the Woody Hayes Athletic Heart. He frolicked attending some Buckeyes spring practices whereas he was in Columbus.

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TSU would be the first Traditionally Black School and College for Notre Dame to play. Ohio State performed Florida A&M, an HBCU, in 2013. The Buckeyes gained that recreation 76-0.

Smith was Ohio State’s AD on the time and City Meyer was the coach. 

George and TSU AD Mikki Allen have stated they want to maneuver TSU from the FCS to the FBS. George stated taking part in conventional powerhouse packages like Notre Dame and Ohio State is a step in that course.

“It means rather a lot, as a result of if we wish to be one of the best we have to play one of the best,” George stated. “We now have to be skilled to get beat by one of the best. I am not saying we will lose; I am saying what we will do is compete. And that is on all ranges.”

Enjoying conventional powers offers TSU the chance to see how enterprise is carried out on the next stage.

“We get to see how issues are executed right here at Ohio State and at Notre Dame,” he stated. “It is executed with element; it is first-class personified. We are able to undoubtedly do this at Tennessee State inside our price range. My motto is we’ll play anyone wherever. That is what I dwell by and that is what we will do.”

A number of members of George’s workers, together with operating backs coach and former Buckeye operating again Pepe Pearson, acquired to see Ohio State’s program up shut after accompanying George on the journey to Columbus. 

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