Will These Things Sway RB Cam Akers To Come To Ohio State? by Charlie Lockhart

Ohio State strength and conditioning coach Mickey Marotti really gets to have some fun.

Today is the day coach Urban Meyer released his control over the Ohio State football players and turned it over to his most trusted coach. From this point forward until fall camp begins, strength and conditioning coach Mickey Marotti has the reigns.

Now the “fun” begins for the Buckeyes. Most of the mornings for the next couple of months, the Ohio State wakeup call will be barbells clanging at six o’clock in the morning.

During that time, some of the players will become thinner, some will bulk up but all will be in better shape than they ever imagined they could be. Mickey Marotti is just that good.

It’s not just lifting weights either. Like Urban Meyer has said, everyone lifts weights but not everybody is strong.

Coach Marotti is always incorporating different strength and conditioning tactics that are unconventional, but they work. He had Darron Lee eat a dozen or so peanut butter and jelly sandwiches a day in order to gain weight. That worked pretty well didn’t it.

Supposedly he had linemen push a loaded van around the track when he was at Florida. He also has players throwing around a big truck tire. More from Scarlet and Game Ohio State football’s 2020 schedule revealed

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A prominent newspaper writer in the Columbus area made light of the tire tossing thing when Urban Meyer brought Marotti to Ohio State, He said that John Simon already did that. My first thoughts when I heard that were, yes he does and he is the strongest guy on the team.

The evidence of coach Mick’s tactics being effective were never more evident than in the Sugar Bowl when Ohio state faced Alabama. In the last two and a half quarters, the Buckeyes went on a 39-14 run. Late in the game while the big guys for the Crimson Tide were grasping for air, the Buckeyes appeared to be just fine.

Mickey Marotti is Urban Meyer’s right hand man. All of the players love and respect him and credit coach Mick for much of their success.

But make no mistake about it, the current Buckeyes will be glad when Urban takes back the coaching reigns when fall camp begins. And now that he is in the NFL, I will bet Darron Lee never wants to see another peanut butter and jelly sandwich again in his life.