Ohio State hired former Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Rutgers coach Greg Schiano as co-defensive coordinator on Friday. Schiano, 49, has been out of coaching the past two seasons since being fired by Tampa Bay. He spent two seasons with the Bucs, going 11-21. Before that he led a massive rebuild at Rutgers, taking one of the worst programs in major college football and turning it into a consistent winner. From 2001-11, the Scarlet Knights went 68-67 under Schiano, going to bowl games in six of their last seven seasons. Ohio State said Schiano’s hiring is pending approval from the school’s board of trustees. Schiano will replace Chris Ash, who left Ohio State to become head coach at Rutgers. Ash spent two years in Columbus working as co-coordinator with Luke Fickell and helping the Buckeyes win the national title in 2014. It took Ohio State coach Urban Meyer less than a week to fill Ash’s job with Schiano. ”He is someone I have known for quite some time now and someone who is going to align with our staff extremely well,” Meyer said in a statement. Schiano was in the mix for recent head coaching vacancies filled at Miami, Southern California and South Carolina. Before taking over at Rutgers in his home state of New Jersey, Schiano was defensive coordinator at Miami under Butch Davis. …
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