As passing game coordinator and quarterbacks coach, Joe Daniels has been a very busy man during No. 1 Ohio State's march to the BCS National Championship Game and a second consecutive Big Ten title. Add in the personal stress he has dealt with while having a heart attack, battling cancer and losing his mother, and you have one of the most amazing stories of the 2006 season.
Daniels, in his sixth season at Ohio State and 37th as a coach, suffered a heart attack in June, and while in the hospital having stints put in, he was diagnosed with cancer near a kidney. He immediately began experimental cancer treatments that he still receives. Yet, when the Buckeyes' fall camp started about six weeks after his diagnosis, Daniels was there. And almost every day since, he has been there, putting together one of the country's top passing offenses. Since his diagnosis, the only practices or meetings he missed came when he attended the funeral of his mother in Pittsburgh.
Buckeye Assistant Joe Daniels selected as a Broyles Award Finalist
11-29-2006, 12:20 PM
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