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Talking Stuff: Effects of wild coaching carousel on Ohio State recruiting

Zack Carpenterby: Zack Carpenter11/30/21Zack_Carp
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Ohio State recruiting is almost certain to see some major effects coming out of this season's wild coaching carousel. (Birm/Lettermen Row)

COLUMBUS – It’s not even December yet, but this has already been one of the most wild coaching carousels in recent memory. And Ohio State is going to be effected in ways both positive and negative as the fallout and chaos continues to rain down.

The college football landscape is shifting as we speak. That change is headlined by Lincoln Riley leaving Oklahoma for USC and Brian Kelly picking up stakes in South Bend for a home in Baton Rouge.

Columbus is not going to be averse to coaching moves as well. The Buckeyes are likely going to see major changes made to the staff over the next several weeks.

It is difficult to speculate on what specific moves are made. But there are the annual rumblings of a retirement of defensive line coach Larry Johnson, a potential for assistants such as Kevin Wilson and Tony Alford to leave for a head coaching job, and a departure from Kerry Coombs

Those are just a handful of the names that have come up as candidates to have seen their days at Ohio State waning.

It all makes for a hell of a wild ride that we can expect to take throughout the month of December and likely January, and that’s where the folks at Lettermen Row come in to break it all down – even if right now, it’s mostly in a hypothetical sense.

Lettermen Row’s Jeremy Birmingham and Zack Carpenter take a deep dive into the effects that the head-coaching moves made around the country have on Buckeyes recruiting and what a potentially revamped Ohio State coaching staff could entail for the prospects whom the Buckeyes have prioritized for more than a year.

They are back in the latest episode of Talking Stuff: The Ohio State Recruiting Podcast, presented by Byers Auto, to give a sense of what it all means. You won’t want to miss that analysis in the video below.

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