Brian Voltolini & Mark Pantoni Join Meyer's Staff
Named Director of Football Operations and Director of Player Personnel, respectively
Dec. 12, 2011
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Ohio State head football coach Urban Meyer announced the hiring of two individuals to his administrative staff today: Brian Voltolini will be the team's director of football operations and Mark Pantoni is the team's director of player personnel. Both worked for Meyer at the University of Florida.
Voltolini will be responsible for the operation of the football program's budget, scholarships, team travel, housing, camps and clinics. Pantoni will supervise all aspects of the program's administrative duties for recruiting, including on-campus official and unofficial visits, budgeting, travel and database management.
"I am really pleased that Brian Voltolini and Mark Pantoni wanted to be a part of the football program at The Ohio State University," Meyer said. "I have spent considerable time working with each and I certainly appreciate the passion and the effort that both bring to their positions every day."
Voltolini has worked on a Meyer staff for nine seasons, starting with Meyer's first head coaching position in 2001 at Bowling Green State University. He spent two years there, working as video coordinator with additional responsibilities in the area of operations, before moving on to the University of Utah with Meyer.
Voltolini spent three seasons at Utah, from spring 2003 through the spring of 2006, finishing his tenure as director of video while also handling administrative operations duties in
the areas of recruiting budgets, billing and youth camps.
Meyer recruited Voltolini to Florida in 2006, and for the next five years he directed the football video/software operations, including managing Meyer's coaching web site. He took over football operations for the 2010 season - Meyer's last at Florida - before spending the 2011 campaign on Will Muschamp's Florida staff.
"Brian not only has a sharp awareness of what needs to be done for an efficient, fluid operation of a football program," Meyer said, "but he also has that keen sense of knowing what the program needs from an operations perspective. And I appreciate that greatly."
Voltolini grew up in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, and has a degree in psychology with a minor in sociology from the University of Idaho (1999). He and his wife, the former Lindsey Wilde, have three children: a son, Deacon, and daughters Scarlett and Lucia.
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