Key Highlights
- The receivers coach demanded perfection and refused to allow success to slide.“I would say mostly what drew me there is because we’re like-minded,” Egbuka said of Hartline, who was hired as the head football coach at USF on Wednesday. AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisement“I think that’s the same for a lot of the wide receivers — actually, pretty much every wide receiver that goes there.
- We’re all perfectionists.
- So when we’re in that film room and we’re perfecting our craft, ‘good job’ isn’t really the thing we want to hear come out of his mouth and he’s kind of the same way."Egbuka finished his college career as Ohio State’s all-time leader in receptions with 205 and had 2,868 yards and 24 touchdowns over four seasons. Not to get too excited USF landed Brian Hartline, but holy smoke!He is considered to be in a class with other top Buckeye receivers such as Marvin Harrison Jr., Garrett Wilson and Chris Olave. AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementBut in the Buckeyes receivers room, perfection wasn’t the goal.
- It was the expectation. In fact, because Hartline played receiver in the NFL for seven seasons with Miami and the Browns, at 39 he still teaches some of his players by actually running the routes for them.“He won’t put on cleats, so sometimes we have to tell him to slow down because he’s just wearing tennis shoes,” said Egbuka, smiling.
- “We don’t want him to pop his knee out or something.
