Oh, brother: Coaches face off
Hausers to be on opposite sidelines for Ohio State-Northern Illinois game
Monday, August 28, 2006
Ken Gordon
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH


When Northern Illinois and Ohio State meet Saturday in Ohio Stadium, the Hauser family will be everywhere. Dozens will sit in the stands as fans. Two will be on the sidelines as coaches.

And one, family members say, will be watching from above.

John and Chris Hauser are brothers, Columbus natives and Hartley graduates who both went into coaching. Through a serendipitous turn of events, John is in his first year as a full-time assistant at Northern Illinois and Chris is a first-year graduate assistant at OSU.

Both got their jobs on the same day earlier this year, and it didn