Ohio State football: Assistant leaving for Texas

Credit: DaytonDailyNews

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Dec 29, 2019
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Ryan Day has a second assistant coach to replace following his first season as head coach of Ohio State.

The University of Texas announced Sunday Mike Yurcich joined the program as quarterbacks coach and offensive coordinator for the Longhorns.

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He spent one season at Ohio State after six seasons at Oklahoma State, where he was offensive coordinator.

In Austin he joins former Ohio State offensive coordinator Tom Herman, who is 24-15 in three seasons as the coach of the Longhorns after a successful short stint at Houston.

Yurcich, a native of Euclid, Ohio, was third in command at Ohio State behind head coach Ryan Day and offensive coordinator Kevin Wilson.

Day said he brought in Yurcich to add some “Big 12 influence” to his offense, and quarterback Justin Fields ended up being named Big Ten Offensive Player of the Year and Quarterback of the Year in his first season as a starter.

Previously Ohio State lost co-defensive coordinator Jeff Hafley, who was credited with engineering a drastic improvement in the Buckeye stop unit in his one season in Columbus. He was named head coach at Boston College earlier this month.

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