A few weeks into his first spring camp at Ohio State, Tanner McCalister experienced some mild apprehension. Not with the new program, for which he left Oklahoma State alongside Jim Knowles to play his final year of college football in 2022, but with the rate at which his longtime defensive coordinator was dumping information on the Buckeyes’ defensive personnel. A liaison between his new Ohio State teammates and their new coach, McCalister raised the concern with Knowles more than once. “It’s definitely been accelerated. I want to say the first two or three weeks of spring, I mean he was putting in a lot of plays,” McCalister said in an interview session after practice last week. “I kind of told him a few times, I was like, ‘Hey Coach, you’re putting in a lot.’ He was like, ‘Nah, I want to get it in, I know they’re gonna mess up but…
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