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A dip in enthusiasm from Jerry Emig would have been completely understandable.

The Ohio State sports information director had replied to hundreds of emails. He was double-dipping in a second sport, helping run the operations at the NCAA National Basketball Tournament while also keeping tabs on his responsibilities as the primary contact for a football program with a nonstop, yearlong news cycle. And he was running on almost no sleep thanks to health complications that sent one of his sons to the hospital during that March week that was perhaps his busiest time of the year.

But just like it has for the last 25 years in the profession, Emig kept smiling, kept joking and kept on piling up statistics with the kind of passion that few can match. It’s never waned, and it might actually be stronger than ever as he prepares to be honored for his longevity this summer at the CoSIDA convention in June with a 25-Year Award.

“Personally, I spent 50 hours from Thursday to Tuesday down at intensive care, then it was just texting updates with my wife Jody,” Emig said after a football practice at the Woody Hayes Athletic Center. “And then [professionally], during the week of the NCAA Tournament from Monday morning until halftime of our sixth game, I had sent 420 emails. I guess that speaks to the life balance that you need to have, and that you have to try to have. But I’ll tell you, I’ve been an SID longer than I’ve been a husband and a dad or virtually anything else. It’s something that just makes me really, really proud — because I love being a sports information director.

“I love this job. I love the relationships. Relationships with coaches, relationships with student-athletes, relationships with the media who I work with. And that just keeps this job so special for me.”

Emig laughing? Yet it’s also hard to imagine a day at Ohio State without Emig greeting every media member, rattling off details about every last scholarship player on the football roster or keeping bonus statistics in his notebook about how many questions Urban Meyer or Ryan Day answer during a season.

Thanks to his bottomless support at home, boundless energy and remarkable ability to communicate, Emig was seemingly made to be an SID.

“I love what I do,” he said. “To reach 25 years as being an SID, I’m extremely proud of that.”

And even after one more crazy week in the life of an SID, Jerry Emig clearly isn’t ready to give it up yet, either.

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