Corey Dennis named Ohio State quarterbacks coach
Five-year member of the offensive staff has been senior quality control coach the past two seasons
Corey Dennis, a senior quality control coach with The Ohio State University football team for the past two seasons, has been named the team’s quarterbacks coach by Buckeye head coach Ryan Day. Dennis has been on Ohio State’s staff the past five seasons, including working the past two seasons with Day, wide receivers coach Brian Hartline and the Buckeyes’ quarterbacks and receivers.
“Corey is a talented young coach and someone I’ve worked closely alongside for three seasons,” Day said in making the announcement. “He knows our system and he knows how we teach. I think he is going to allow us to develop some continuity in the quarterback room, and that’s important. I also believe that he is going to be an excellent recruiter for us.”
Dennis was elevated to a senior quality control coach position with the football program in July 2018. In this new position, Dennis had increased off-field coaching responsibility in the areas of game planning, practice planning and daily organization with both the wide receiver and quarterback units.
These past two seasons have been two of the most celebrated offensive campaigns in recent school history, with two Ohio State quarterbacks – Dwayne Haskins in 2018 and Justin Fields in 2019 – becoming Heisman Trophy finalists as well as Big Ten Quarterback and Player of the Year. The duo combined for 91 touchdown passes. Ohio State has also produced back-to-back seasons with four receivers reaching at least 1,000 career receiving yards, including Parris Campbell, who set the single-season receptions record of 90 in 2018, and K.J. Hill, who broke the 21-year-old career receptions record this year with 203 career catches.
Dennis previously worked as a graduate assistant coach on offense for the 2016 and 2017 seasons, working primarily with the Buckeye receivers, and as an intern in 2015. He has been a part of three consecutive Big Ten Conference championship teams at Ohio State and also victories in the 2019 Rose Bowl, the 2018 Cotton Bowl and the 2016 Fiesta Bowl.
A high school team captain while at Charles Henderson High, Dennis was recruited to Georgia Tech as a wide receiver but ultimately ended up doing much more for coach Paul Johnson’s Yellow Jackets. He played receiver, played in the defensive secondary and was a key special teams performer between 2011 and 2014. He finished his career by playing in all 54 games for Tech teams that won two ACC Coastal Division titles and also played in four bowl games.
Dennis graduated from Georgia Tech in December 2014 with his degree in business administration. He joined the Ohio State staff as an intern in time for the 2015 spring season. He has since earned his master’s degree in sports management from Ohio State, graduating in 2017.
Dennis and his wife, Nicki, also a Georgia Tech graduate and who was a four-year student-athlete with the school’s volleyball team, reside in Dublin with their young sons, Troy and Gray.
