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Former NFL star Tyrone Wheatley named assistant football coach at Ohio Northern
By Tim Glon
ADA — Former NFL and University of Michigan standout Tyrone Wheatley will serve as an assistant football coach at Ohio Northern for the 2008 season.
Wheatley will coach the Polar Bear running backs this fall as part of the NFL’s Minority Coaching Fellowship program.
No. 16 ONU picked second, third at OAC Football Media Day
INDEPENDENCE — No. 16-ranked Ohio Northern was picked to finish second by the coaches and third by the media at the 2008 Ohio Athletic Conference Football Media Day Tuesday afternoon at the Holiday Inn.
The Polar Bears received 68 votes from the coaches to finish second and 217 from the 27 media members in attendance to finish third.
Top-ranked Mount Union was a unanimous choice by both the media and coaches to repeat as OAC champions this year.
Ohio Northern ranked No. 16 by D3Football.com, No. 18 by Sporting News, No. 19 in USA Today Sports Weekly preseason polls
ADA — Ohio Northern is ranked No. 19 in Division III in the USA Today Sports Weekly magazine preseason football poll.
This marks the eighth time in the last 10 seasons that Ohio Northern has been ranked in the preseason.
ONU was ranked No. 17 in 2007, No. 14 in 2006, No. 8 in 2005, No. 25 in 2003, No. 8 in 2002, No. 18 in 2001 and No. 6 in 2000.
“Being ranked by the preseason publications is a nice sign of the respect our program has generated nationally,” ONU’s fifth-year head coach Dean Paul said. “We are very optimistic about the upcoming season, but our players are smart enough to know that being ranked does not win games. You have to get it done on the field.”
