Mission accomplished. Ohio State fixed its defense.
Everybody in Columbus just hoped the guy who Ryan Day brought in to accomplish the mission would be around longer.
Instead, Jeff Hafley will move on after spending one year reuniting with Ryan Day in Columbus to spark a defensive renovation as the team’s co-defensive coordinator and secondary coach. Martin Jarmond, Boston College’s athletic director and a former deputy director of athletics at Ohio State, is reportedly finalizing a deal to hire him as the head coach of his university’s scuffling football program this weekend.
In Hafley, Boston College will gain – and Ohio State will lose – an energetic, forward-thinking 40-year-old riser in the coaching ranks who, along with co-defensive coordinator Greg Mattison, spearheaded the Buckeyes’ defensive renaissance.