Sources: Perry Eliano has accepted the safeties coaching job at Ohio State. He’s the Cincinnati corners coach, where he tutored Thorpe winner Coby Bryant and first-team All-American Sauce Gardner. He’s the former DC at Bowling Green and has worked at New Mexico and UTSA.
— Pete Thamel (@PeteThamel) January 13, 2022
Yahoo! Sports was the first too report he will be moving north up I-71, where he coached one of the best cornerback duos in college football this past season at Cincinnati.
Ahmad Gardner was named a first-team All-American for the second season in a row while Coby Bryant collected the Thorpe Award as the best defensive back in the country.
Eliano, 43, spent two seasons working for Luke Fickell at UC after two at New Mexico, where he was special teams coordinator and cornerbacks coach and also served as interim head coach for a period of time.
The Killeen, Texas, native has also worked at Stephen F. Austin, Central Arkansas, Sam Houston State, UTSA and Bowling Green in a coaching career that began in 2001.
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