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Ohio State is expected to hire Oregon assistant Carlos Locklyn as its next running backs coach, The Dispatch has learned.
Locklyn will replace Tony Alford, a longtime assistant who left for the same role at Michigan last month.
As the running backs coach at Oregon for the last two seasons, Locklyn was involved with some of the most efficient rushing offenses in the nation.
With Carlos Locklyn as their running backs coach, the Oregon Ducks ranked third in the FBS last season with an average of 5.9 yards per carry.
Among the 133 teams in the Football Bowl Subdivision, the Ducks ranked third last season with an average of 5.9 yards per carry. Their average of 5.5 yards per attempt in 2022 ranked sixth.
Locklyn coached Bucky Irving, a running back who was among the top rushers in the Pac-12 after posting consecutive 1,000-yard seasons.
A 46-year-old assistant who was a running back at Chattanooga in the late 1990s, Locklyn began coaching in the high school ranks in 2009. He served as the offensive coordinator for four different high schools in Tennessee.
In 2017, he joined the strength and conditioning staff at Memphis as a weight room assistant, the first among three years in off-field roles with the Tigers.
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After he spent 2020 as the director of high school relations at Florida State, he was hired as the running backs coach at Western Kentucky and landed on Dan Lanning’s initial coaching staff at Oregon a year later.
Though Ohio State had not yet finalized a deal with Locklyn as of Monday afternoon, the search for a replacement for Alford appeared to in the final stretch.
After the eighth spring practice on Saturday, coach Ryan Day said…
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Author : The Columbus Dispatch
Publish date : 2024-04-01 15:22:53
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