If Ryan Day wanted Ohio State’s next linebackers coach to be as different as possible from Bill Davis, who spent the past two seasons coaching the position group under Urban Meyer, he succeeded.
Al Washington, an high-level recruiter that Day plucked of Jim Harbaugh’s Michigan staff to coach linebackers, has few – if any – similarities to his predecessor.
He’s a Columbus native who attended Bishop Watterson High School and whose dad played for Ohio State. Davis was born in Youngstown and played for Cincinnati, but didn’t have any connections to the Buckeyes before Urban Meyer hired him as a defensive analyst.