Bucknuts Instant Reaction: Tony Alford leaves Ohio State for Michigan
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🗓️ 13 March 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Well, this one certainly raised eyebrows. Running backs coach Tony Alford is leaving Ohio State for ... Michigan? Yes, Michigan. Patrick Murphy, Bill Kurelic and Dave Biddle discuss what this means for the Buckeyes and more.
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| 0:00.0 | The And the Well, Dave, today's supposed to be the middle of Ohio State's spring break. We don't have any interviews or anything this week. I was going to sit outside |
| 0:36.5 | and enjoy the nice weather, work on some stuff here in Columbus, Ohio, and then we get news today. |
| 0:41.5 | Tony Alford is leaving the Buckeyes, |
| 0:43.8 | and not just leaving the Buckeyes, |
| 0:45.4 | but he's going north to be the running |
| 0:47.6 | back coach at Michigan. |
| 0:50.4 | I know you were a little bit, |
| 0:52.4 | you weren't caught completely off guard by this so as much as you could say why don't you kind to take the |
| 0:57.1 | The listeners behind the scenes of when you started to hear rumblings of this and and your reaction to the situation |
| 1:03.0 | Yeah, very late last week I had an excellent source tell me, |
| 1:07.0 | you won't believe this, but there's a chance Tony Offord's going to be the next running backs coach at Michigan. |
| 1:12.0 | I'm like, what? |
| 1:13.2 | And this source is like, you have a fantastic source. |
| 1:15.6 | And I'm like, okay, please tell me you're joking. |
| 1:18.0 | Like, not joking, I'm not joking, here's the deal, |
| 1:21.3 | and broke it down. We dumped it it down we put a little item in the |
| 1:25.1 | boarding house earlier this week so it boils down to this after the 2023 |
| 1:30.4 | season certain guys were left go from the coaching staff. Certain guys got extensions and |
| 1:34.8 | Tony offers one of those that was like in the middle. Like he wasn't let go but he also was not given a contract |
| 1:39.1 | extension and my source told me we knew that but my source then told me they reached out to Eddie George |
| 1:45.4 | and offered him the running back job. |
| 1:47.9 | They were gonna, you know, they wanted to get Eddie George |
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