{"id":427785,"date":"2026-01-24T21:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T21:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/427785\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T21:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T21:43:08","slug":"former-ohio-state-linebacker-anthony-schlegel-rejoins-staff-as-strength-and-conditioning-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/427785\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Ohio State Linebacker Anthony Schlegel Rejoins Staff As Strength and Conditioning Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                   Anthony Schlegel is back on Ohio State\u2019s strength and conditioning staff.                <\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe former Ohio State linebacker is now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.osu.edu\/search\/?query=schlegel.27&amp;view=people&amp;expanded=true\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">listed in Ohio State\u2019s faculty database<\/a> as a strength and conditioning coach for the football program, as initially reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/tSilverBulletin\/status\/2015092566736166992\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Silver Bulletin<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tSchlegel, who played for the Buckeyes from 2003-05,\u00a0was previously an assistant strength and conditioning staff for Ohio State from 2011-15. He left the Buckeyes in 2015 to focus on running his football equipment company, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elevenwarriors.com\/ohio-state-football\/2019\/07\/105242\/anthony-schlegel-pursuing-continued-growth-for-football-equipment-company-the-difference-usa-after-receiving-patent\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Difference USA<\/a>, which sells The Difference Striking Machine, a\u00a0portable hand placement\/striking machine that he invented during his first tenure at Ohio State and is now used by football teams all over the country.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tSchlegel, who was also the Jacksonville Jaguars\u2019 head strength and conditioning coach under Urban Meyer in 2021,\u00a0previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elevenwarriors.com\/ohio-state-football\/2024\/01\/145148\/former-ohio-state-linebacker-anthony-schlegel-temporarily-back-with-buckeyes-strength-and-conditioning-staff\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">returned to Ohio State<\/a> on an interim basis in 2024, when he temporarily replaced a strength and conditioning coach who was away from the team due to surgery. Schlegel is now\u00a0rejoining the Buckeyes full-time.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tOhio State had a vacancy on its strength and conditioning staff with the departure of associate director of strength and conditioning AT Turner, who left Ohio State to become Brian Hartline\u2019s head strength and conditioning coach at USF.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tSchlegel joins a group of former Ohio State players on the Buckeyes\u2019 staff that includes linebackers coach\u00a0James Laurinaitis, co-defensive coordinator and secondary coach Tim Walton, assistant wide receivers coach Devin Jordan, special teams quality control coach Nate Ebner and director of player development C.J. Barnett.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anthony Schlegel is back on Ohio State\u2019s strength and conditioning staff. The former Ohio State linebacker is now&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-427785","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}