Ohio State reportedly promoting advisor Keenan Bailey to tight ends coach

Ohio State has a new tight ends coach. According to ESPN’s Pete Thamel, Ryan Day is hiring from within the program, having picked Keenan Bailey to coach the TE group going forward. Bailey most recently served as the Senior Advisor to the head coach and has been a member of the Buckeye staff for more than half a decade.

Here was the report from Thamel, who announced the news on Twitter:

“Sources: Ohio State expected to promote Keenan Bailey to tight ends coach. Bailey been at OSU for seven seasons and his latest title is senior advisor to the head coach.”

So Day goes with a guy who’s been around the block in Columbus. A safe pick. Of course, OSU was left in need of a new tight ends coach after Wilson took the head coaching gig down at Tulsa.

More on Keenan Bailey

The Ohio State Athletics website fortunately has all the information on the new Buckeye tight ends coach that you’ll ever need. Including this nice summary of his career so far with OSU:

“In 2021 Bailey was named to 247Sports’ 30 Under 30 list, and he earned his Master’s degree in 2018 from Ohio State in sports management. He has been a part of four consecutive Big Ten Conference championship teams at Ohio State (2017, 2018, 2019, 2020) and also victories in the 2022 and 2019 Rose Bowls, the 2020 College Football Playoff Semifinal at the Sugar Bowl and the 2018 Fiesta Bowl. Ohio State was a College Football Playoff semifinalist in 2016, 2019 and 2020.

“Bailey first joined the Ohio State coaching staff in July of 2016 after spending two seasons at his alma mater, Notre Dame, working as a recruiting analyst for the Irish football program. He spent his first season with Ohio State as an offensive intern coaching the running backs before moving over to the wide receivers in 2017 and to the quarterbacks in 2019.

“Now in his seventh season on the football staff, he was promoted to the position of Senior Advisor to the Head Coach in February, 2022. Bailey had been a quality control coach on offense for the past three seasons, during which time he worked with Ohio State’s record-setting wide receiver and quarterback units.”