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Pete Thamel of Sports Illustrated is reporting that Ohio State offensive coordinator Ed Warinner will be hired by P.J. Fleck as Minnesota’s offensive line coach.
Source: Ed Warinner is the new offense line coach at Minnesota.
— Pete Thamel (@SIPeteThamel) January 10, 2017
This follows reports yesterday that Warinner would be hired as Minnesota’s offensive coordinator and then reports this morning that the OC hire wasn’t happening. In other words, take it all with a grain of salt.
HOWEVER...
If true this represents a coup by Coach Fleck. While there were reasonable questions about Ed Warinner’s performance as an offensive coordinator, his work as an offensive line coach at Ohio State is generally regarded as excellent.
Warinner was @FootballScoop's OL coach of the year in 2012 and 2014, plus a finalist in 2011.
— Ryan Burns (@RyanBurnsMN) January 10, 2017
Yeah, I'll take him as the #Gophers OL coach.
Want a reason to assume this is true? Thamel was given HUGE behind the scenes access by Fleck earlier this year for a piece for SI and the two seem to have a relationship.
Then again, “sources” are notoriously unreliable. Here’s hoping however!
UPDATE 3:30 PM CT: IT IS PROBABLY HAPPENING!
#Gophers source confirms that P.J. Fleck has picked Ohio State's Ed Warinner to be team's O-line coach. First reported by @SIPeteThamel
— JoeChristensen (@JoeCStrib) January 10, 2017