Arthur Smith, Cortez Hankton and Ohio State's 2026 coaching staff

Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

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4.5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2026

⏱️ 65 minutes

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On this episode of Buckeye Talk, Stephen Means, Stefan Krajisnik and Andrew Gillis discuss Ohio State's coaching staff. They center the conversation around its third newest members in offensive coordinator Arthur Smith, wide receiver Cortez Hankton and special teams coordinator Robby Discher. Thanks for listening to Buckeye Talk and sign up to get text messages from experts Stephen Means, Stefan Krajisnik and Andrew Gillis at 614-350-3315. Get the insider analysis, have your voice heard on the Buckeye Talk podcast and connect with the best Buckeye community out there. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:02.4	Welcome back to Buckkeye Talk. I'm Stephen Means. That's Stefan Kreisnick, and that is
1:05.8	Andrew Gillis. This is your Wednesday pod. Ohio State's coaching staff is, I don't want to say official,
1:13.9	because the NFL coaching carousel is still open and so anything can happen, right? But assuming
1:19.9	nothing crazy happens, Ohio State's 2026 coaching staff gave Ryan Day a chance to maybe think
1:26.3	a little bit outside of the box.
1:27.6	They made three new hires, one on offense, two on offense and then one on the special teams unit.
1:32.8	Here's a look at the entire staff.
1:34.9	Head coach, offensive staff, offensive coordinator, Arthur Smith, long time NFL coach.
1:40.2	We'll talk about him on this podcast.
1:41.7	Quarterbacks coach, Billy Fessler, running backs coach Carlos Lachlan, wide receiver coach Cortez-Hankton. We'll talk about him on this podcast. Quarterbacks coach, Billy Fessler, running backs coach Carlos Lachlan, wide receiver coach Cortez Hankton. We'll talk about him on this pod.
1:48.9	Titans coach, Kenan Bailey, an offensive line coach, Tyler Bowen, while on the defensive side.
1:54.5	Matt Patricia, as a defensive coordinator, Larry Johnson at defensive line, James Oronitis with the
2:00.1	linebackers, Tim Walden with the cornerbacks,
2:02.0	Matt Guerrary with the safeties. And then you added Robbie Disher as your new special teams
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