John Bluem retired from coaching at Ohio State in March 2018. It was time to relax after 21 seasons in Columbus. When Bluem exited the pitch for his final time with the Buckeyes, he did so as the winningest head coach in OSU men’s soccer history with 206 victories. He spent his first year of retirement as a volunteer assistant at Wittenberg because he wanted to coach, but without all of the demands of being a head coach. At the time, it was good for Bluem, but it didn’t last long. Bluem entered full retirement in 2020. He stayed connected to the sport by flipping through the pages of Soccer America Magazine. Then this August, Bluem scanned the jobs column when something caught his attention. “I saw that Muskingum was looking for a head coach, and I thought ‘Well, that can’t be right. Not at this point in time,’ ” Bluem said. Muskingum was…
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