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S/C Coach Mickey Marotti (Official Thread)

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I absolutely love the way this guy handles his business. Everything is matter-of-fact. He doesnt hedge on his principles or leave any doubts as to how things should be done. A lot of people are gushing about the football future here but I dont even think we realize how good we have it and probably won't until its gone. I hope thats never but anyway.... :osu:



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Bestbuck36;2089797; said:
I absolutely love the way this guy handles his business. Everything is matter-of-fact. He doesnt hedge on his principles or leave any doubts as to how things should be done. A lot of people are gushing about the football future here but I dont even think we realize how good we have it and probably won't until its gone. I hope thats never but anyway.... :osu:



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Agreed. Seems to me Marotti was a great hire, and he will be spending even more time with the players than the coaching staff will. I hope the improvements (in strength, endurance, and speed) are noticeable this Fall.
 
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Rob Oller commentary: Meyer relies on Marotti for tougher Buckeyes
By Rob Oller
The Columbus Dispatch Tuesday January 17, 2012

Coach Urban Meyer saved the best for last. Standing on the wooden floor of Value City Arena at halftime of Ohio State?s men?s basketball game against Indiana, he introduced ? not a veiled guarantee of victory over Michigan in 312 days ? but the second-most necessary person in the football program.

?And finally, the most important hire I made on this coaching staff?? Meyer began.

With that, Mickey Marotti walked toward the most necessary person ? Meyer ? shook his hand and took his place in the lineup of assistant coaches on the court.

One might conclude that the value of Marotti, the newly named assistant athletic director for sports performance, would rank below offensive coordinator Tom Herman. The Buckeyes were noticeably weak this past season in play-calling, not strength training.

That conclusion would be correct if Marotti concerned himself only with monitoring the Buckeyes? weight-lifting sessions. But more than building muscle, Marotti?s mission is to build minds.

Beginning last week, and intensifying through the summer, Ohio State players will be wrung like a wet towel and tossed over a chair to dry. For several hours each day, they will wish they never had been born. The physical pain will be incredible. The mental strain will match it.

Coaches have their pet words. Meyer?s is ?toughness.? Known mostly as an offensive innovator, Meyer makes it clear that his core is cobalt first, creativity second. Toughness is the attribute he came to most appreciate while working under Earle Bruce at Ohio State (1986-87) and Colorado State (1990-92). And it remains central to his thinking that toughness begins with the brain, not the brawn.

Enter Marotti, whose methods of molding athletes into the shape of a fist mesh perfectly with Meyer?s. That meeting of the minds makes Marotti, who first worked with Meyer as an Ohio State graduate assistant in 1987, then again at Notre Dame and Florida, most integral to Meyer?s plans to reshape the Buckeyes before September.

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MuckFighigan;2107531; said:
This guy is going to play a huge role in our success man I can't wait he is going to bring in that element that these young guys need

Has anyone heard anything recent on him or what the players think???
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I've only heard he's intense and as advertised. Then Urban made comments about how they were out in 10 degree weather doing bear crawls which led to one of the transfers, but that was still during the indoctrination period...
 
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bassplayer7770;2107931; said:
I've only heard he's intense and as advertised. Then Urban made comments about how they were out in 10 degree weather doing bear crawls which led to one of the transfers, but that was still during the indoctrination period...
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Bear crawls in the cold causes a transfer?! :shake: Somewhere, Woody is furious.
 
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GomerBucks;2088590; said:
If only you could have seen behind the scenes.

I am so glad he is gone. If you weren't one of the guys with a solid shot in the NFL, he didn't have time for you.
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I don't know any insiders in the program, but I've met Lichter a few times and he struck me as that kind of guy. Nothing against him, but it seemed like he was completely focused on taking the star athletes and making them a little stronger or faster, not overall team improvement.


I like Marotti a lot so far. He seems like he gets it
 
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TooTallMenardo;2107933; said:
Bear crawls in the cold causes a transfer?! :shake: Somewhere, Woody is furious.
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I don't think it was the bear crawls in-and-of-themselves. Assuming it was Jeremy Cash, the kid had a 4.0 gpa and he must have figured it would have been very difficult to maintain it and his superb academic standing with the increased focus on s&c. I personally have no problem with that.
 
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GomerBucks;2088590; said:
If only you could have seen behind the scenes.

I am so glad he is gone. If you weren't one of the guys with a solid shot in the NFL, he didn't have time for you.
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So that's it! To tell the truth, I was never all that impressed with Lichter, not that that matters one way or the other. However, it seems, with him, we were promised all these great things, some of which never materializes.

With Meyer, Mickey & Co., given their philosophy of being "teachers, not presenters"....well, it's a new day. :wink2:

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pianobuck46;2108554; said:
So that's it! To tell the truth, I was never all that impressed with Lichter, not that that matters one way or the other. However, it seems, with him, we were promised all these great things, some of which never materializes.

With Meyer, Mickey & Co., given their philosophy of being "teachers, not presenters"....well, it's a new day. :wink2:

:gobucks3::osu2::gobucks4:
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I can't wait what he does to Hankins and Simon those guys are going to be monsters with this guy pushing their ass

Can't wait till next fall...
 
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