COLUMBUS – Ohio State football doesn’t currently have any former Ohio State players on its full-time coaching staff, but there is one former Buckeye helping the team prepare for the season.
Former Ohio State wide receiver Brian Hartline, who played for the Buckeyes from 2005-08 and went on to play seven seasons in the NFL, has been back on campus since spring and working with the Buckeyes this season as a quality control coach.
Hartline’s path to joining the Buckeyes staff began last December. His younger brother Mike, who interned with Ohio State for the last two seasons as an assistant quarterbacks coach, asked Brian to come to bowl practices and work as a scout-team wide receiver.