Buckeye Football Notebook: 'If you can’t do that, it’s hard to lead'


When Ohio State receivers Austin Mack and Terry McLaurin were in high school, they were rated as two of the top prospects in the state of Indiana in their respective recruiting classes. Mack was the No. 2 prospect in-state in 2016 and McLaurin was the No. 3 prospect in 2014. Given their location, then-Hoosier head coach and now-OSU offensive coordinator Kevin Wilson recruited both of them. Now that Wilson is coaching them at Ohio State, is there anything awkward about it all? “It’s funny. I don’t get involved,” receivers coach Zach Smith said. “I just let Coach Wilson and Terry, and Coach Wilson and Austin go back and forth. It’s humorous.” That past relationship is nice for Wilson in terms of familiarity, but don’t expect it to help much in terms of production for the Hoosier State receivers. “No, I don’t think it really matters,” Smith said. “Once he got…

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