Buckeyes Periscope

COLUMBUS (AP) — What’s brew­ing with the 2012 Ohio State Buckeyes …

BUCKEYES BUZZ: Three of Ohio State’s coaches were asked about the per­fect records their for­mer employ­ers are also posting.

Florida, where Buck­eyes head coach Urban Meyer was in charge 2005-10, is 5–0 and ranked fourth. Notre Dame, where tight ends/fullbacks assis­tant Tim Hin­ton used to coach, is 5–0 and No. 7. Cincin­nati, which used to have CBs coach Kerry Coombs on its staff, is 4–0 and No. 21.

All three wish noth­ing but the best to their old schools.

Meyer had been blasted by some for allegedly leav­ing the cup­board bare for his suc­ces­sor with the Gators, Will Muschamp.

“I don’t want to get into all that cup­board is bare (stuff), because that’s one man’s opin­ion, and we’ve got to move on,” Meyer said. “I’m very proud of those guys. Love those guys.”

Of the Gators’ 14–6 win over No. 4 LSU in The Swamp, Meyer added, “Always be a Gator. I keep in touch with some of those play­ers. Great win. Great, tough win against a tough oppo­nent, absolutely.”

Hin­ton said he still fol­lows the Fight­ing Irish — or at least he checks their scores when he has time.

“I’m real excited for them,” he said. “But to be hon­est with you, other than scores and an occa­sional text here and there from a for­mer player or one of the coaches, it’s all Ohio State. There just isn’t time.”

Laugh­ing, Hin­ton said, “I don’t talk to my wife, let alone them.”

Coombs has lots of rea­sons to root for the Bearcats. He coached there, he’s a life­long res­i­dent of Cincin­nati where he was a leg­endary high school coach (Col­erain) — and his son Dylan is a fresh­man DB for the Bearcats.

“I’m extremely proud of those kids at Cincin­nati. Those coaches are my friends. That’s my town, that’s where I was born and raised,” Coombs said. “For them to be in the Top 25 again is fan­tas­tic. They’re going to com­pete for the Big East cham­pi­onship and they may get a chance to be in a BCS bowl game. And more power to them. You know, I recruited about 60 per­cent of that team. I love those kids and I love those coaches. I want noth­ing but the best for them.”

Coombs did say there was no com­par­i­son between his old job and his cur­rent one.

“You ask what it feels like to coach a Top 10 team, it’s an extra­or­di­nary feel­ing,” he said. “Sat­ur­day night for me, with that crowd and with the energy level, you know I’ve had the good for­tune to coach in a Sugar Bowl and an Orange Bowl when I was with Cincin­nati. Nei­ther of those expe­ri­ences com­pared to the game on Sat­ur­day night, frankly.”

The excitable Coombs, his raspy voice ris­ing and ges­tur­ing for empha­sis, added, “I’ve been a lucky man. I’ve coached on a lot of really good teams in high school and in col­lege. But this expe­ri­ence right now is sec­ond to none. And, I told my (CBs) after the game, ‘Let’s just plan on not los­ing any­more. You know, I mean, this is pretty good stuff.’”

Posted by Jon Kleinknecht on Oct 11 2012. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS Feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.