Story from maybe 30 years ago: LL coach blew up at a teenage umpire for a call that went against his own son, swearing and berating the kid ump. For years this coach and the ump's father, former friends, couldn't even be in the same room when a mutual friend tried to patch things up by getting them together, thing went reasonably well, until the erstwhile coach had to say "but it was a bad call." At least no one got punched.

How do we know that he would have wanted to come back (rather than pursue the NFL dream as UFA), or that Ohio State would still have a scholarship available after their 2016 incoming class? (I suppose we could assume they would MAKE a scholly available, or that he would stay on the team without a scholarship).

Especially if he can shoot.

Something like that always seemed to happen to Matta's better teams in the tourney - like Buford's poor shooting against KY in 2011. But then again, maybe something similar can be said any time ANY good team loses in the tourney - " but for [x] we would have won."

In the current style of basketball played today, there's always a place for a guy who can hit the "3."

He worth it.

Oo... I hadn't thought of it that way. (So many people simply IGNORE me)

You mean besides me? Ok, ok, so I made I typo as I do in virtually every one of my posts

While most of the key players in 2014 were his own, Meyer also had the benefit of contributions from a significant number of holdovers from his predecessor(s) - team MVP Evan Spencer, both TEs, renowned deep threat Devin Smith, under-appreciated Darryl Baldwin, defensive leader Michael Bennett, Doran Grant, Steve Miller, and Curtis Grant, plus others who (like Cardale) were recruited by and committed to Tressel/Fickell although their Buckeye careers didn't start until Meyer arrived - Boren, Powell and (maybe) Elflein and Perry. "Predominantly" may be a better description than "almost exclusively" when about half the starters were the holdovers.

I would think that, especially with experienced specialists, most of the focus for special teams nerds to be with everyone else who plays on special teams.

To be honest, that didn't seem to be what Toutant was saying, merely that Ohio State's was better in his intended field (not overall). I know a recent PSU grad who got an excellent engineering education there.

But look at how they dominate in the non-revenue sports... or not.

I don't understand the need to rank a coach who really hasn't been a head coach. It's like doing an employee performance evaluation before the employee has done the job. What's next - giving merit pay raises based on predicted performance? Yeah, I get it - it derives from the same impulse that gives us pre-season team rankings, pre-season all-americans, etc. It's ridiculous. Play the games first, and then rank whatever you want. Now get off my lawn.

If you blink, you'll totally miss that root canal, which is a very good thing.

We could use a defensive commit about now - CB, 4*.

... and who Luke was not allowed to replace. Luke was a defense guy, while JT had effectively been both the QB coach and OC. Luke got stuck with the walrus and a film guy when he desperately needed some creative offense-minded thinking to handle the decimated offense and especially the QB situation.

Well, except that the game wasn't put away until Evan Spencer recovered the onside kick... and even then the game wasn't put away until the Tyvis Powell interception... but I get your point.

He's not a 5 star. /s

I guess he's not getting fired.

When you pay for your ticket, you're paying for the entertainment, for watching the game on the field - win, lose or draw. Everyone there got everything they paid for.. Changing the "outcome" after the fact doesn't change the experience they contracted for in buying a ticket.

Exactly. In Phillip Roth's "The Great American Novel" there was a baseball player who was so obsessed with acquiring a nickname that his teammates nicknamed him "Nickname." Just let it come naturally.

I thought we were ready to write him off in lieu of the new toys because of how little he produced his first 3-4 years. What makes us think he can make it in the NFL? /s

Smart coin that he flipped! RIP

I'm good with 15 or so carries per game over those games by JK, provided that it's at a 7 ypc clip.  Throw in a healthy dose of McCall and Teague as backups and change of pace, a few (just a few) QB runs, and then some decent passing, and we'll have ourselves an offense. Save his body for games when it's really needed.

... although I'll be more than happy with repeating the outcome from the last time this happened.