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LOL seems like the coaching staff didn't like getting the death threats from the couch burners after the Michigan game and so after winning the title are like fuck you bitches I'm out!

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Under investigation.

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Ohio State football staffer under investigation, placed on administrative leave in December, per reports

Joe Lyberger, who assists with the team's linebackers, has not yet been informed of specific accusations

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Jan 29, 2025 at 4:46 pm ET1 min read
 
 
 
 
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An Ohio State football support staffer was placed on administrative leave in December after becoming the subject of an unidentified university investigation, according to multiple reports. Quality control coach Joe Lyberger, who assisted with the linebackers, has been away from the program since Dec. 27. 

The investigation is being done by Ohio State's Office of Institutional Equity, which is responsible for protecting against harassment, discrimination and sexual misconduct. Lyberger's attorney Sam Shamansky told ESPN there have been no specific accusations at this point. An HR letter to Lyberger instructed him to return all university property and not to delete anything created while working for the program. 

"My client and I take any allegation of wrongdoing very seriously," Shamansky told the Columbus Dispatch. "We respect the process whereby those who are accused have the opportunity to defend themselves, and we look forward to the opportunity."

The suspension came days before Ohio State played Oregon in the Rose Bowl in the second leg of its College Football Playoff journey that ended with a national championship. The Buckeyes defeated Notre Dame 34-23 to capture the program's first national title since 2014. 

 
 
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Lyberger has spent four seasons at Ohio State, primarily working under former defensive coordinator Jim Knowles. A former player at Slippery Rock, Lyberger also coached at Bucknell and Ohio Dominican University. 

 
 

 

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17 hours ago, Pimphand said:

LOL seems like the coaching staff didn't like getting the death threats from the couch burners after the Michigan game and so after winning the title are like fuck you bitches I'm out!

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Thank God. 

Fat fucker was getting too comfy there

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1 hour ago, Frank Drebin said:

I looked around and could not find much.  Anyone know how many underclassmen for Ohio State entered the draft?  Anyone expected to leave that stayed?

Carnell Tate stayed and many thought he'd transfer. 

Ohio State is kind of like Texas and Georgia in that they lose a lot, but they also return a lot of talent. Georgia got really hammered and loses 18 of 22 starters. Texas lost 13/14 and OSU lost like 16. They return Downs and Styles on defense, losing the other 9 starters. They return Smith, Tate, and 3 OL but they lost the other 6 on offense, including weapons Judkins, Henderson, and Egbuka, and both OTs and the injured OTs before them. 

They brought in quality transfers at TE, RB, and 2 OT. They'll be playing with an inexperienced freshman at QB unless they buy one in the spring window. The defense is a complete rebuild with a new coordinator. 

I think Ohio State will be a top 20 next year, with potential to go top 10 if the transfers fit, the OC and DC hires are great, and the QB is worthy of the hype. They've basically not been out of the top 25 in over a decade, so I'm not going to bother considering a real downside for those shitheads. 

Of course, it's almost impossible to really think through any team's 2025 outlook until the spring portal closes. 

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1 hour ago, Frank Drebin said:

I looked around and could not find much.  Anyone know how many underclassmen for Ohio State entered the draft?  Anyone expected to leave that stayed?

RB Judkins and OT Simmons (who was injured in October).

CB Igbinosun could’ve gone, he’ll be good for two flags v. Wingo or Ffffffrench in August. OSU fans clown him because he’s grabby grabby.

Kanu is the only transfer (out of a dozen) that would’ve been in the two-deep in ‘25. The killer for them is 15 departing seniors.

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News flash, Horns win at OSU this fall is assured--the Buckeyes just hired Matt Patricia as the new DC.   This guy singlehandedly drove the Detroit Lions into the ground, and led the talented Philadelphia Eagles D to an epic collapse last year.  

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2 hours ago, Minute Bull said:

News flash, Horns win at OSU this fall is assured--the Buckeyes just hired Matt Patricia as the new DC.   This guy singlehandedly drove the Detroit Lions into the ground, and led the talented Philadelphia Eagles D to an epic collapse last year.  

He's a raging prick, so hopefully there is so defensive talent exodus after the spring.  Couple months having this asshole yell at you? 

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On 6/7/2025 at 10:07 AM, Jive Turkey said:

 

This was well done. Like the Larry Nassar story, it's shocking and infuriating how many victims piled up over so many years. Really courageous of the many athletes who sat down for painful interviews. The recent OSU administrations have continued to fight legal claims even as the school soars into the stratosphere of athletic and financial success. Jim Jordan is as awful as we already knew.

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On 2/12/2025 at 1:04 PM, Minute Bull said:

News flash, Horns win at OSU this fall is assured--the Buckeyes just hired Matt Patricia as the new DC.   This guy singlehandedly drove the Detroit Lions into the ground, and led the talented Philadelphia Eagles D to an epic collapse last year.  

 Good, Let's give him the hat trick when we travel to Columbus for game 1.

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Intriguing New Coordinators: Matt Patricia and his pencil are at Ohio State to color within the lines

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By Zach Barnett           Aug 1, 2025 

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The pencil is back. 

After a run as the New England Patriots defensive coordinator, the Detroit Lions head coach, and then the Patriots offensive coordinator and offensive line coach, Matt Patricia is back in the college game for the first time since he was a GA at Syracuse in 2003. He spent 2023 as a senior defensive assistant for the Philadelphia Eagles, and 2024 out of football. In other words, it's been a while since we've seen Patricia place his hand in the proverbial dirt, and back is the trademark pencil tucked into his baseball cap, like he might just have to measure a new cabinet in between series. 

The 50-year-old who turned down an opportunity to work on nuclear submarines and aircraft carriers to coach at his Division III alma mater has lived a life he never could've imagined 25 years ago, and the latest chapter has him assisting in the national championship defense of a program he had no prior connection to six months ago. It's not clear who reached out to who, but the interest between Ryan Day and Patricia was (obviously) mutual. Patricia may be the one coach in college or professional football who's witnessed the recent changes to the college game and found it more attractive to work in.

“One of the most exciting things in college football was the playoffs,” Patricia said. “That’s what I loved about the NFL. Just give me a chance. Get us in the playoffs, give us a chance to make a run and get going. I thought that was so cool in college football this past year. I was excited to see it. Obviously, it was great for Ohio State," Patricia said back in March. "That, along with some of the things they’re doing with NIL and some of the other changes that are coming. It just made me feel like (it was) kind of what I’ve been doing. Studying that in the offseason, college football made me feel like that’s where I want to be. It’s going to be very familiar in certain areas. It kind of just called to me.”

What Day wanted in his new defensive coordinator was someone who was: A) has enough skins on the wall to win a firefight with some of the best offensive minds in college football in high-leverage moments in November, December and January, and B) was humble enough to lead from the back. 

The juice of the Jim Knowles hire was worth the squeeze -- it cannot be understated how much that 4-game CFP run changed everything in Columbus -- but the three years were marked by tension between what the defensive coordinator wanted to run and what the defensive staff was willing to do. Knowles left for Penn State and no one from the defensive staff room followed, which meant Ohio State was looking for a certain type of coordinator, one willing to fall in line with the established culture. 

"When you look at Tim and Larry and James and Matt Guerrieri, these guys had a huge part of what we did last year on defense," Day said. "We wanted to keep that continuity. We want to run the Ohio State defense. Matt was willing to embrace that."

“I’m going to show him the lay of the land, a little bit of the college perspective because it’s changed a little bit since he’s been there," co-defensive coordinator and secondary coach Tim Walton said in the spring. Up front, Larry Johnson is the head coach of the defensive line as he heads into his 12th year running that room. It might be easier to get a bear to surrender her young than it would be to convince Johnson to play less than four down linemen. 

"I've got to listen, I've got to learn. I've got to understand where are all the great coaches that are here (are coming from), what they're doing fundamentally, and the things that we did last year structurally that are really good and implement all that as we go forward," Patricia said this offseason. "Right now I feel like I'm the student, just learning and trying to take in as much as I can."

And so Patricia will look to find the most creative ways to color within the lines on a defense that led the nation in yards per play and scoring... in theory. The 2024 Ohio State defense put up those numbers. The 2025 defense returns only three starters, and has to replace its entire front.

How much Patricia chooses to blitz will be an interesting tell early. Ohio State blitzed only 14 percent of the time on its CFP run, and Patricia's Lions teams were in the bottom quarter of blitzers during his three years as head coach, per The Athletic. How much will Patricia feel comfortable bringing extra rushers, particularly against Steve Sarkisian and Arch Manning in Week 1? How much will the staff let him?

“He’s been multiple in what he’s done. When you look at his defenses, they’ve always utilized their players and we’ve talked about that a lot," Day said, which I'm taking as code for Let's figure out ways to get Sonny Styles and Caleb Downs near the football as often as possible. 

After the Texas opener, Ohio State should be a double-digit favorite in every game until Penn State on Nov. 1, which is also at home. Then there's Nov. 29 at Michigan. The national championship grace period will be other and done with if the Buckeyes drop that game. 

The job until then will be to not lose any games Ohio State shouldn't and to figure out what colors mix best within the lines Patricia is allowed to color so the defense can click into place in November and beyond. 

 

 

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