Emergency Pod: Ohio State hires Jim Knowles as its new defensive coordinator

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🗓️ 8 December 2021

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Ryan Day announced on Tuesday that Ohio State had hired Oklahoma State defensive coordinator Jim Knowles as the Buckeyes' new defensive coordinator. What do we think of the process that led to Knowles? What's his background? What's his fit? What's his scheme? How do fans feel about it? How big of a hire was this for Day? And, by the way, what's up with the offensive lineman in the transfer portal that Greg Studrawa just visited? It's a big emergency Buckeye Talk with Doug Lesmerises, Nathan Baird and Stephen Means and another round of Ohio State news and analysis. Thanks for listening. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, hey, where you been? But got talk is about to begin. Hey, hey, hey, come on in.
0:26.0	Welcome back to an emergency pod, new defensive coordinator. We're borderline on it. But some
0:31.0	emergency enough, Doug Lamarys, Nathan Barrett, Steven, means dropping this in your
0:34.6	feed on Tuesday evening. Wednesday morning, look for a recruiting pod from Nathan and Steven
0:40.6	that will look ahead to signing day, which will be a week away. So we're just kind of squeezing
0:44.2	them together here. But this is a big hire, guys. This is a big hire. We have some texture,
0:50.4	thoughts on that. I would say in my 17, yes, so it's Jim Knowles better say the facts first.
1:01.4	Good podcasting. Let's go straight to the opinion without saying what it's about. Jim Knowles,
1:06.0	defensive coordinator from Oklahoma State, Oklahoma State, one of the very best defenses of the
1:09.6	country this year. Behind the Georgia defense that dominated sort of the college for public
1:14.5	discussion this year, probably Wisconsin and Oklahoma State were the two defenses that played
1:18.8	at the highest level most consistently. Oklahoma State nearly made the playoff because of its
1:23.9	defense that had been an offensive program. He was hired from Duke a couple years ago. He had a
1:30.0	seems like a lot of defensive autonomy under Mike Gundy. And he was responsible for this.
1:36.7	Oklahoma State was good because of Jim Knowles side of the ball. Now there's a lot to discuss with
1:43.1	that, including the fact that the 11 starters for Oklahoma State on defense were like nine seniors
1:47.0	and two juniors. So they were really old and really veteran. Also, I think there were people
1:51.8	said there's nobody more than a three star among those recruit. So, you know, you want a bunch
1:56.5	old guys? You want Jack Sawyer. You want JT2 Maloa. Like, you know, like that's so that happens a
2:03.5	lot with Ohio State. Hey, this guy was good out of place where he didn't have a bunch of five stars.
2:08.8	I wonder what he'll do with Jordan Hancock, right? That's how this works most of the time.
2:15.0	I think in my 17 years, I think I would say this is the second most important
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