Tuesday, August 2, 2016
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1. Ohio State needs Ed Warinner upstairs calling plays: Once Warinner was moved upstairs for the Michigan game, it was clear the Buckeyes needed to stick with that plan. It also wasn't hard to tell Warinner was agreeable to this.
As much as the offensive line thrived under Warinner's tutelage, he's into the new part of his job. After the performance of the offense against Michigan and Notre Dame, Warinner also deserved to stick as the play caller.iphone 5c replacement screen In fact, it was clear Urban Meyer probably waited too long to make the change to get Warinner off the sideline. If that was the case, making some change made the most sense.
Yes, he could have remained the offensive line coach, with other assistants tutoring the line face to face on the sideline during games. If nothing else could have been worked out, the Buckeyes would have stuck with that. Making quarterbacks coach Tim Beck the primary play caller was not an option.
2. Urban Meyer needed a line coach he could trust, though: Early in the 2015 season, when it looked like Warinner wearing two hats could be an issue, Meyer didn't hesitate about what mattered more, calling plays or coaching the offensive line.
In the four years of the Meyer era at Ohio State, Warinner has clearly coached his unit better than any group on the offense. The line has been a strength for four years. The linemen love Warinner, and they established a culture that stemmed from him.
To change that, Meyer needed to feel as secure with a new line coach as he did with Warinner.
New offensive line coach Greg Studrawa may be the only guy out there that could make Meyer feel that way. He was Meyer's first hire as an offensive line coach when Meyer took his first head coaching job at Bowling Green in 2001 and 2002. What would Meyer have done if he wasn't available, losing his job at Maryland when the Terps brought in a new head coach for this season?
It's worth asking Meyer that. But like many things with the Buckeyes in the Meyer era, this worked out rather well.
3. So Tim Beck stays: The only other reasonable change to the staff, if this hadn't been the choice?iphone 5c replacement screen Bringing in a new quarterbacks coach who could also calls plays, or moving Warinner to quarterbacks coach and hiring a new line coach that way.
For this offense, it probably makes the most sense for the quarterbacks coach to call plays, but Beck showed he isn't that guy.
Taking play calling away from Warinner wouldn't have been fair. He has coached quarterbacks before, so moving him there would have worked. But this was easier.
4. It's not impossible to calls plays on the sideline, though: I don't know how many teams call plays from the sideline, but one that stands out is Alabama. Lane Kiffin is shown on the sideline calling plays all the time. But it didn't work here.
5. Tim Hinton is a funny guy and loyal Buckeye: Switching roles in this equation is former tight ends coach Tim Hinton, who is sliding to an internal non coaching role.
A former high school coach with deep Ohio roots, Hinton came to Ohio State after coaching at Cincinnati and Notre Dame. He's an incredibly upbeat, self deprecating, enthusiastic and funny guy, and the tight ends certainly appreciated that.
This video tells you what kind of person Hinton is. This video wasn't his idea, but he went along with it because he knew how funny it could be.
Ohio State released the news about the changes on Friday morning. Here is a section of that news release.
Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer has realigned his coaching staff to reflect the following: coach Ed Warinner will continue to coach during games from the press box and will also coach the team's tight ends; Tim Hinton will transition into the senior level executive director for football relations/special assistant to coach Meyer position; and highly regarded Greg Studrawa has been hired to coach the team's offensive linemen.
The goal was to enable Warinner to remain upstairs in the coaching booth after impressive offensive displays with Warinner and quarterbacks coach Tim Beck there in wins over Michigan and Notre Dame.
"Our offense was as good as it was all year with coach Warinner and coach Beck together in the box," Meyer said. "So keeping those two in place during games is something I think our offense will benefit from as we move forward."
Warinner, the first coach to be named FootballScoop's offensive line coach of the year twice, was asked to move to the box late in the season and able to only because of the veteran status of this year's offensive line. That will be much more difficult to pull off this coming season with only two of five starters returning on the line.
Enter Studrawa. He has been offensive line coach the past two seasons at Maryland and he spent the prior seven years on Les Miles' LSU staff, winning a national championship and two Southeastern Conference titles while tutoring 10 all conference performers along offensive lines that paved the way for four 1,000 yard rushers. He was offensive coordinator for two years at LSU, a position he also held for a total of nine years at Bowling Green and Wilmington (Ohio) College.
"I've known Greg for a long time, starting with my time at Bowling Green when he was my offensive line coach," Meyer said. "I know how good of a coach he is. There aren't many people I'd entrust our offensive line to after the job coach Warinner has done, but Greg is one of them and I'm pleased to have him join our staff."
The staff adjustments and the addition of Studrawa, who has coached the offensive line for 24 of his 27 years in the business, became possible with Hinton's transition from an on field coach into this new senior position on the staff.
"Tim is an excellent coach and an outstanding person who I have a tremendous amount of respect for," Meyer said. "I am grateful for everything he has done for us, and I see his value to this program even increasing as he becomes more of a resource and mentor for our current and future student athletes. Plus, he'll provide a needed strategy and analysis roll with the offensive coaches."
Hinton's work has been impressive: he coached Jeff Heuerman into the NFL and Nick Vannett to the Senior Bowl and on his way into the NFL, and he's got Marcus Baugh prepped and ready to take over as the team's top tight end. Now he'll utilize his 34 years coaching in a position that will accentuate his relationship building skills yet retain his football knowledge and presence in the offensive staff room.
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