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COLUMBUS, Ohio – There will be plenty of focus on the 11 players on the field at any given time for the Buckeyes as the season kicks off in less than a month but one of the places that Urban Meyer hopes that team can make big improvement is in the coaching ranks.

That is nothing against a staff that went 12-1 last season and saw the Buckeyes defeat Notre Dame in the Fiesta Bowl. But rather aspirations to reach loftier goals in 2016 after failing to reach the Big Ten Championship Game last season and coming up just short of earning a spot to defend their 2014 National Championship.

Big steps were taken before the season finale against Michigan when Ed Warinner was moved upstairs to call plays from the booth rather than being on the field with his offensive line. It was a big departure from how the Buckeyes had been getting plays in for the first 11 games of the season and Ohio State saw an increase in offensive output immediately.

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"You can process all the information without it being relayed to you," Warinner said on Tuesday morning. "Someone does not have to see it and tell it to you and you don't have to listen to it, process it and then make a decision. You can do all of that on your own. So that transition time is 1-2 seconds instead of 7-8 seconds and you can go faster. Or you have more time to think if you don't want to go faster, you have a little more time to decide."

The offseason saw Warinner move to tight ends coach and the addition of Greg Studrawa to take over the offensive line while Tim Hinton was kicked upstairs into an administrative role.

While it may have been tough for Warinner to give up daily coaching duties of 'The Slobs' the veteran coach knows this was the right move for the biggest picture of team success.

"With a guy like Greg Studrawa here, that allows him to have eyes on five and I can have eyes now instead of on those five, more on the (offensive skill positions)," Warinner said. "We have great coaches at the skill but it allows me to have eyes on that a little bit more and just see things and be more involved in the whole package. Now it is just a better fit in terms of doing the whole thing."

The loss of Tom Herman from the 2014 team, while not unexpected, did force the Buckeyes to reshuffle the deck. The November shake-up and subsequent shake-up beyond that may have given the Buckeyes the hand that they need to win a lot of games in 2016.

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"You also see all the nuances," Warinner said. "You don’t have to have someone tell you that the corner is playing heavy inside to the field and the boundary Will linebacker is always doing this, because if you are on the field you don't see any of that. You have to have all the pieces relayed to you. Up there you see all the pieces if you have a good broad vision of what is going on. So it is easier to do that and less chaotic."