Jerry Rudzinski graduated with two degrees from Ohio State, and he has put both to good use. The first was in finance, which helped launch his 23-year (and counting) career at Stryker Corporation where he has worked in sales and sales management. The second? “I got a Ph.D. in defense under guys like Fred Pagac, Jon Tenuta and John Cooper and Lovie Smith,” the former Buckeye linebacker joked. “We had a wonderful staff, and I just learned so much about football.” Ohio State linebacker Jerry Rudzinski pressures Arizona quarterback Keith Smith in a 1997 game. Rudzinski parlayed that into a broadcasting gig at WBNS Radio, where he shared the lessons he learned from his graduate-level education on the gridiron. “I’m either going to go to the neighborhood barbecue, or I’m going to sit behind a microphone, but either way, you’re going to find me talking about sports. It’s in my…
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