Ohio State football | Davis brings no-nonsense approach to coaching

Bill Rabinowitz The Columbus Dispatch @brdispatch Bill Davis was a between-jobs NFL assistant coach when he came to visit an old friend during Ohio State’s training camp last summer. That old friend happened to be Urban Meyer. The visit turned into a volunteer assistant gig with the Buckeyes in 2016, which Davis said he turned down NFL offers to keep. Now he is Ohio State’s new linebackers coach, succeeding Luke Fickell, who became the University of Cincinnati head coach. From the first day, Ohio State outside linebacker Jerome Baker understood that things would be different. Davis ran his meeting room like an NFL one. In other words, it wouldn’t be Linebackers 101. “His style is geared toward pro athletes,” Baker said. “You could tell he’d been in the NFL for a few years. “There are a lot of things he’ll say and you have to really study it and really…

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