When coach Urban Meyer promised change for the Ohio State offense after the shutout loss to Clemson in the Fiesta Bowl, Kevin Wilson was an obvious option.Meyer long had lavished praise on Wilson, Indiana’s football coach the past six years. The Hoosiers aren’t typically loaded with blue-chip recruits, but they consistently gave Ohio State and other top programs fits with their offensive scheme. Wilson’s body of work as an offensive coordinator at Miami University, Northwestern and Oklahoma is unquestionably gaudy. “His resume speaks for itself in that area,” Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith said in an email interview with The Dispatch. But the final entry on Wilson’s resume is cloudy. Indiana unexpectedly decided it had to “separate” — that was IU athletic director Fred Glass’s word — from Wilson at the end of the 2016 regular season. “There is no smoking gun or single precipitating event that led to…
Continue Reading: Ohio State football | Tough call on coach: Wilson an offensive mastermind, but Indiana exit casts cloud
