Ohio State and Urban Meyer recruit the best football talent in the country into their program with every intention to send it to the NFL. There must be a plan for life after football, however, whether you turn pro or not.
That's why Meyer and the Buckeyes held their fourth annual job fair at the Huntington Club in Ohio Stadium on a sweltering Wednesday in Columbus. Athletes from the football, swimming, women's volleyball, women's basketball and other Buckeye athletic programs participated, but Meyer's group led the charge.
"We're taking it a step further, we're teaching you how to be able to provide, have a nice life, have something so when the football stops, the cheering stops, you can handle yourself," Meyer told his team moments before it mingled with close to 60 businesses and corporations.
In conjunction with Meyer's Real Life Wednesdays program, the job fair is an opportunity for football players to network and develop the groundwork for relationships for the future.
Via Twitter and Instagram, here are a collection of photos and videos from the event Wednesday.
Urban Meyer leads his 2016 football team into the Ohio State job fair pic.twitter.com/D3lanQ1rwp
— Eric Seger (@EricSeger33) June 15, 2016
Great Buckeye Job Fair tonight to teach our guys how to build relationships & be professional men! pic.twitter.com/O2XwMxPQqw
— Urban Meyer (@OSUCoachMeyer) June 15, 2016
Great looking group of Buckeye DBs at tonight's Job Fair! Thanks to the 100 businesses that came to meet our guys! pic.twitter.com/rVpxw5OOBz
— Kerry Coombs (@OsuCoachCoombs) June 15, 2016
@JT_theQB4th @S13Collier @Joe_Burrow10 @mhartline59 QBs showing out at the 2016 Job Fair #reallife #sharpdressmen pic.twitter.com/9StfUcYnVn
— Tim Beck (@Coachtimbeck) June 15, 2016
Dontre Wilson with a fun shoe choice at the Ohio State job fair pic.twitter.com/5kt7Pgg0Sw
— Eric Seger (@EricSeger33) June 15, 2016
OSU freshmen Dwayne Haskins, Binjimen Victor, Jonathon Cooper and Austin Mack here at the OSU job fair pic.twitter.com/sPtXp1BJ7m
— James Grega Jr. (@JGrega11) June 15, 2016
Corey Smith, Nick Bosa and Zach Smith trying to get a turtle Premier Ponds brought to come out of its shell pic.twitter.com/93sQ9zanuI
— Eric Seger (@EricSeger33) June 15, 2016
Eric Glover-Williams, Damon Webb, Damon Arnette and Demario McCall pic.twitter.com/btzfwscFt0
— Eric Seger (@EricSeger33) June 15, 2016
Dwayne Haskins and Tim Beck talk to Buckeye great Mike Doss, who is here on behalf of Biomet pic.twitter.com/1MbM1k3fR8
— Eric Seger (@EricSeger33) June 15, 2016
Some Ohio State defenders even learned Wednesday was the birthday of an employee of Cameron Mitchell restaurants and did what was appropriate.
Some of the Ohio State defensive linemen sang happy birthday to Lindsey from Cameron Mitchell restaurants pic.twitter.com/54B2BDLPWG
— Eric Seger (@EricSeger33) June 15, 2016
OSU freshmen Dwayne Haskins, Binjimen Victor, Jonathon Cooper and Austin Mack here at the OSU job fair pic.twitter.com/sPtXp1BJ7m
— James Grega Jr. (@JGrega11) June 15, 2016
Cam Burrows and Sean Nuernberger talking with the Ohio Investigative Unit pic.twitter.com/WkxvhruwsW
— Eric Seger (@EricSeger33) June 15, 2016
National champion and former NFL player Mike Doss even shared some words of wisdom, via the Ohio State football Twitter account.
Look who we found at the #Buckeye Job Fair tonight...Former national champ @Mike2Doss with some words of wisdom! https://t.co/hBDueOX8Ag
— Ohio State Football (@OhioStateFB) June 15, 2016
Below is a tweet/link from the team's Periscope account of roughly an hour long video from the event.
LIVE on #Periscope https://t.co/Gfpo64Bzo6
— Ohio State Football (@OhioStateFB) June 15, 2016
Meyer also told 10TV's Dom Tiberi he is and his wife, Shelley, are set to be grandparents this December. Daughter Nicki and son-in-law Corey Dennis, who is a graduate assistant on Meyer's staff, are set to welcome their first child.
Senior center and captain Pat Elflein also told Eleven Warriors he gets rid of the sling on his left arm "in a few days." Elflein had surgery to remove a cyst in his shoulder earlier this summer.
