During the Urban Meyer era and most of the Jim Tressel era at Ohio State, cornerbacks and safeties were coached by separate position coaches.
On the new Ohio State coaching staff led by Ryan Day, however, the Buckeyes’ cornerbacks and safeties have been brought together into the same meeting room, with new Ohio State secondary coach and co-defensive coordinator Jeff Hafley coaching all of them.
Assistant secondary coach Matt Barnes is also working regularly with both the cornerbacks and safeties, so Ohio State’s defensive backs now have two shared position coaches instead of having separate coaches by position.