Staff Directory
- Positon:
- Associate AD, Communications - Football
- Alma Mater:
- MURRAY STATE, 1983
- Email:
- Phone:
- 688-0343
Jerry Emig has worked in communications and media relations roles for 40 years, including 33 years in sports information at three schools: Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Temple University and for 23 years with the Ohio State Department of Athletics. He is a 1983 graduate of Murray State University with a degree in communications, and he has a master’s degree in sports administration from Ohio State (1986).
Emig’s career highlights include media relations responsibilities for Ohio State’s run to the first College Football Playoff national championship in 2014, a repeat run and CFP championship in 2025, 19 total CFP and/or bowl games, 16 Ohio State vs. Michigan football games, seven Big Ten football championship games, five Rose Bowls (all Ohio State wins!), five Sugar Bowls, two BCS national championship games, four Fiesta Bowls and one Orange Bowl. He has also worked dozens of NCAA and conference tournament games, traveled with basketball teams to Japan and South Africa and attended hundreds of collegiate sporting events, including working 401 football games.
The Ohio State football sports information staff received a Super 11 Award from the Football Writers Association of America in 2017 for SID excellence.
Emig, who likes a “good sports information day,” and his wife, Jody, reside in Dublin and have three grown children. Emig will retire from the Ohio State Department of Athletics at the end of February. This June in Las Vegas he will be inducted into the College Sports Communicators (formerly the College Sports Information Directors of America) Hall of Fame and receive a Lifetime Achievement Award.
