COLUMBUS, Ohio — 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. …
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