Ed Warinner
	Position: Co-Offensive Coordinator/Offensive Line Coach Experience: 1st Year Alma Mater: Mount Union, 1984

Hometown: Strasburg, Ohio
High School: Strasburg-Franklin
Alma Mater: Mount Union, 1984
Master's Degree: Akron, 1985
Year in Coaching: 29th (First year at Ohio State)
Wife: Mary Beth
Children: Daughters Madisyn and Merideth, and a son, Edward

Ohio native and coaching veteran Ed Warinner, who has worked with four offenses during his career that have led the nation in rushing, is in his first season as Ohio State's co-offensive coordinator and offensive line coach. Warinner will coordinate the Buckeyes' running game in this position.

Warinner, the offensive line coach the past two years at Notre Dame and who had the added responsibility of run game coordinator this past season, will coach his 29th collegiate season in 2012. He was a finalist this past season for the FootballScoop Offensive Line Coach of the Year. He has nine years of experience in a coordinator position, including three years as offensive coordinator at Kansas when the Jayhawks averaged 445.5 total yards per game and 35.3 points during that three-year period.

"I really wanted to hire a coach with coordinator experience," Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer said. "That was very important to me. Ed has that experience. His offenses at Kansas were not only impressive, but they were some of the top offenses in the country."

Warinner has coached at seven different schools: Akron, Michigan State, Army, Air Force, Kansas, Illinois and Notre Dame. In addition to his nine years in coordinator positions, he has spent 15 of the past 20 seasons coaching the offensive line. Earlier this season Rivals.com named Warinner one of the Top 20 "hottest assistant coaches" in the nation.

"I've always strived to coach in positions where I have a lot of responsibility," Warinner said. "Serving as a coordinator goes beyond just coaching what my guys are doing. It is a thought process of attacking and moving the ball, and strategies and reading plays. There is a big picture as a coordinator that I am into and really enjoy, and it's a position from where I think I can make a significant contribution to the success of a team."

After opening his coaching career in 1984 at Akron (running backs), Warinner was linebackers and secondary coach at Michigan State in 1985-86.

Then came a 13-year run at Army, a period when he coached along the offensive line for seven years and became a coordinator - offensive - for the first time (1998-99). While Warinner was at Army the Cadets led the nation in rushing three times.

He left Army to join Fisher DeBerry's staff at Air Force. He spent three years there as the offensive line coach and the Falcons led the nation in rushing in 2002 (307.8 yards per game).

The first of two terms at Kansas - 2003-04 - ensued for Warinner, working as offensive line coach/run game coordinator, before a two-year run with Illinois in the same capacity. In his second season with the Illini, his rushing attack netted 188.3 yards per game which was the best by an Illinois team since 1973.

Warinner's talents as an offensive coordinator then took center stage from 2007-09 while at Kansas. The Jayhawks posted the three best offenses in terms of total yards and passing yards in those years and also had three of the top seven scoring seasons in school history as well.

His 2007 Jayhawks were the nation's second-highest scoring team (42.8 points per game) and set a school record by averaging 479.8 yards per game, two huge reasons that Kansas went 12-1 that year with a 24-21 FedEx Orange Bowl victory over Virginia Tech.

The 2008 Jayhawks averaged 432.4 yards and 33.4 points per game, respectively, and his final Jayhawk offense averaged 422.4 offensive yards, including a school-record 310.3 passing yards. Warinner was a finalist for the American Football Coaches Association's National Assistant Coach of the Year award following the 2009 campaign.

He then joined Kelly's staff at Notre Dame, where he helped the Irish to consecutive bowl games the past two years; the 2010 Hyundai Sun Bowl and the 2011 Champs Sports Bowl. In 2010 Notre Dame had its best per carry rushing average since 2003 (4.0), a figure that improved to 4.8 in 2011. The Irish offensive line allowed just 17 sacks this past season and only 20 in 2010.

Warinner was a football and baseball letterman at Mount Union from 1979-83. He has a bachelor's degree in physical education from Mount Union (1984) and a master's in education from Akron (1985). He and his wife, Mary Beth, have three children: daughters Madisyn and Merideth, and a son, Edward.

Ed Warinner Coaching Experience