At the Personnel and Recruiting Symposium on Tuesday held in Nashville, Tenn., Ohio State general manager Mark Pantoni was named the Executive of the Year.
This comes months after Pantoni was given a new contract by Ohio State in April that reportedly made him one of the highest paid general managers in college football.
Pantoni is in his 14th season on Ohio State’s staff as general manager, hired by Urban Meyer in December of 2011. Pantoni has now helped recruit two national championship rosters and adapted to the transfer portal era well, helping add transfers who had a major part in the national championship win last season.
Since Pantoni joined the Buckeyes, he has helped recruit 11 top-five classes of the 13 he has been a major part of. The only two that weren’t were ranked seventh in 2015 and 14th in 2019.
