Sevyn Banks and Tyreke Johnson never got to play for the position coach who recruited them to Ohio State.
When Banks and Johnson signed with Ohio State in December and arrived at Ohio State as early enrollees in January, they did so with the expectation that they would be coached by Kerry Coombs, who had been Ohio State’s cornerbacks coach since 2012 and was widely regarded as one of the best cornerbacks coaches in college football, having had four cornerbacks selected in the first round of the NFL draft in the past four years.
Less than three weeks after Ohio State’s newest cornerbacks arrived on campus, however, Coombs left the Buckeyes to become the secondary coach of the Tennessee Titans, leaving both Banks and Johnson without one of the big reasons why they chose to become Buckeyes in the first place.