WEST CHESTER TOWNSHIP, Ohio — The resume Perry Eliano had been while working for other college football programs suggested that he had the potential to be a homerun hire as Ohio State football’s new safeties coach. He’d always done more with less and that concept was taken to a new extreme in 2021 when he developed Coby Bryant into the Jim Thorpe Award winner and Ahmad Gardner into a potential top 10 pick at Cincinnati. In theory, bringing him to Columbus where he’d have unlimited resources to go get the best talent and make 2021 a more common occurrence. On Wednesday afternoon he got his first win in the form of four-star safety Malik Hartford of Lakota West High School. He’s the nation’s No. 146 player and No. 11 safety. Those are the caliber of players Eliano couldn’t get as his previous stops. Now that’s he can. “For me being…
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