Coaching search: Ohio State co-offensive coordinator/offensive line coach Ed Warinner

By Staff     Nov 20, 2014

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Kansas University Football Offensive Coordinator Ed Warinner, left, presents quarterback Todd Reesing with the 2007 John Hadl Offensive MVP Award on Saturday at Allen Fieldhouse. KU celebrated their Orange Bowl victory and 12-1 record with fans at the Football Awards Banquet.

Ohio State lost four starting offensive linemen, including three NFL rookies, from last season’s team. It showed in a 35-21 loss to Virginia Tech in the season opener for both teams.

That seemed like a distant memory when the Buckeyes went into East Lansing and buried then-No. 8 Michigan State, 49-37, nine weeks later.

Clearly, Ohio State offensive line coach and co-offensive coordinator Ed Warinner knows how to develop linemen. He knows offense, period. As he showed in three years at Kansas with Todd Reesing at quarterback, he also knows how to coordinator a pass-happy offense.

Everywhere else he has been, the lines he has coached produced big rushing numbers. The Buckeyes rank 14th in the nation with 263.1 rushing yards per game.

Warinner coached on offenses that led the nation in rushing at Army (three times) and at Air Force. He worked twice for Mark Mangino, first as offensive line coach and then after returning from Illinois he was offensive coordinator. With Reesing standing short and playing tall and Warinner coordinating the spread offense and calling the plays, KU had its three best offenses in history in terms of yards per game and passing yards per game.

He spent two years at Notre Dame and has been at Ohio State the past three seasons.
Warinner has worked under head coaches Brian Kelley and Urban Meyer, considered two of the best in the business. At Michigan State, he worked as a graduate assistant for defensive coordinator Nick Saban, who stands at the top of his profession.

Starting with 2007 at Kansas, the teams for which Warinner has worked the past eight seasons have posted a .740 winning percentage.

Can he recruit? Rivals.com thinks so and named Warinner a 2014 Rivals Top 25 recruiter.
Warinner’s daughters, Madisyn and Merideth, worked at the KU football complex.

Warinner has proven all can as an assistant coach and is primed for his first head-coaching job. His chances would be better of that happening at KU if not for Bowen making such a good impression thus far. Sometimes, possession is nine-tenths of the law.

[1]: http://www2.kusports.com/news/2013/jan/06/former-ku-football-assistant-ed-warinner-rise-ohio/

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