“You have to win the locker room. What he’s recruited to the defensive line, how those guys feel about it. More than that, he’s a father figure to everybody on the team.” Ohio State head coach Ryan Day on associate head coach & defensive line coach Larry Johnson via Collin Gay, The Lantern There are plenty of new faces on the Ohio State coaching staff heading into the 2019 season, but the one constant of late for the Buckeyes has been defensive line coach Larry Johnson. After 18 years as an assistant at Penn State, Johnson joined Urban Meyer’s coaching staff in 2014. Johnson has already worked with defensive linemen like Joey Bosa, Nick Bosa, Dre’Mont Jones, and numerous others while in Columbus, and now will be turning his attention to new recruits like Zach Harrison and Noah Potter. The decision by Day to name Larry Johnson as associate head…
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