2012- 2013 Ohio State Football Discussion - Page 19 - ScarletBuckeye

OSUBasketballJunkie · 01-24-2012, 12:51 PM

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Tom Herman's 'To Do' List for the Buckeye Quarterbacks

By Tony Gerdeman

Players can't technically be coached during the offseason, but that doesn't mean they sit idly by in some type of hibernative stasis.

They are working out, and if they aren't looking for ways to get better, then they will be passed up by those who are.

With a mostly new staff in place, progressing players through the offseason with an eye towards improvement is even more difficult because the coaches' frame of reference for those players is basically nil.

So with that in mind, we've gathered a 'To Do' list of items that offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Tom Herman might have compiled for his quarterbacks to follow in hopes of starting Spring football ahead of schedule.

1. Make sure that Braxton Miller knows what is expected of him as the starting quarterback at The Ohio State University.

It's time that the quarterback at Ohio State use his position for good, instead of evil. With great power comes great responsibility, and as corny as it sounds, this is a very necessary lesson for Miller to learn.

There is more to a starting quarterback than simply leading a team on the field. The quarterback is the face of your entire football program. It's a reflection, blemishes and all.

"I think he's a great kid," Herman said of his rising sophomore signal caller.

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OSUBasketballJunkie · 01-24-2012, 12:52 PM

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Warinner Part of Ohio State’s Culture Change on Offense

By Brandon Castel

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Even when he was coaching at Notre Dame, Ed Warinner would flick on the television each Saturday to see if Ohio State was playing.

That is something the Strasburg, Ohio, native also did as a player at the University of Mount Union, where he led the Purple Raiders in rushing yards, receptions and scoring as a senior in 1983.

Nearly 30 years later, Warinner is back in Ohio, this time coaching at the place he always dreamt he would one day be.

“Because Ohio State is a dream job, and I've always wanted to coach here, and this is home, I was excited about it,” Warinner said of his decision to leave Notre Dame.

“But I had a really good job, and I worked with good people and great players at Notre Dame. I have a family and any time you move a family and relocate and change jobs, there's a transition that is stressful.”

The 50-year old Warinner was the offensive line coach and run game coordinator in South Bend under Brian Kelly, but both he and Tim Hinton couldn’t resist the call to come home, especially when it came from a coach with a pair of BCS National Titles on his resume.

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OSUBasketballJunkie · 01-26-2012, 12:00 PM

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Marotti Pushing Buckeyes to Reshape Bodies and Minds

By Brandon Castel

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Urban Meyer may have wished he set up trash cans for Ohio State’s first day of winter conditioning, if not for the players, than at least for himself.

The Buckeyes’ first-year head coach was so excited to get going in his return to coaching after a one-year hiatus, that he moved off-season conditioning up an entire week just to get an early head-start.

He found himself regretting that decision almost immediately after getting a look at the players he was going to be working with.

“The first day, you kind of had a sick feeling in your stomach like, ‘What was that I just watched,’ ” Meyer said earlier this month.

By day three, Meyer was already feeling better about the conditioning level of his team, but he had another “run for the trash cans” moment when the players removed their shirts so Meyer and his staff could get a look at their builds.

“After I saw some of our physiques, the way I’d say it is that we need to get in that weight room rather quickly and get some guys going,” Meyer said with a grimace.

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Bucknut502 · 01-28-2012, 04:20 PM

Just a thought on what I have noticed over the past few months.

I honestly expect Ohio State, under Urban Meyer to become even more dominant than it was during the 10 years with Coach Tressel. Not only from a recruiting standpoint, but in every aspect of football (speed, strength, quickness, ect.)

IMO, Michigan's teams, under Hoke, will be about as good as what Ohio State's was, under Tressel. Michigan is doing a good job of keeping kids from the state of Michigan at home and coming into Ohio to get good players. Hoke is also doing a very good job of recruiting nationally.

With Urban and Brady Hoke recruiting nationally, that leaves some very good players from states such as Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, that Tressel used to have first dibs on, but Urban may not even recruit. A lot of those players now will be going to places such as Michigan, MSU, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Penn State. and Illinois.

So in essence, the addition of Brady Hoke at Michigan and especially Urban Meyer at Ohio State has made the Big Ten, as a whole, much stronger...

Guys like Ifaedi Odenigbo, Demetrious Cox, Monty Madaris, Greg McMullen, and Greg Garmon used to be "locks" to Ohio State. Now they are at other Big Ten schools, making them better. We will really see it more starting with next year's class. The state of Ohio is deep with talent but Urban knows the importance of getting kids from the south. I would say that 8-10 Big Ten region players that Tressel used to get, will now be playing for other schools in the conference.

louts8wings · 01-29-2012, 09:07 AM

i agree i think the big ten is going to start to step their game up. recruiting is the big one. everyone knows that meyer can recruit but now with hoke this conferences as a whole needs to pick it up or be left behind. i think in the end the big 10 will be the one that ends the BCS streaks for the SEC.

OSUBasketballJunkie · 02-07-2012, 10:05 PM

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Bob Hunter commentary: Meyer shows Big Ten how to compete with SEC

By Bob Hunter
The Columbus Dispatch
Tuesday February 7, 2012 5:21 AM

Almost a week after Wisconsin coach Bret Bielema bristled over Ohio State coach Urban Meyer’s “illegal” recruiting tactics and Michigan State coach Mark Dantonio called the recruitment of committed players “unethical,” it’s interesting to see where things stand.

After a Friday discussion of these stink bombs by the Big Ten football coaches, they publicly acknowledged that there is no unwritten “gentleman’s agreement” regarding the continued recruitment of orally committed players. They admitted that Meyer has done nothing wrong. They say they are all on the “same page” on recruiting tactics, and that they are striving for improved respect for one another during this process.

What they didn’t say is more important, but it is so obvious that maybe they didn’t have to: The bar has been raised. The recruiting business has always been Keith Richards-ugly, but Meyer has upped the ante in the supposedly genteel Big Ten. He has given the league’s coaches a taste of the cut-throat, take-no-prisoners style of the Southeastern Conference. Now his coaching peers must either step up their game or fall behind.

Never has a coach who has yet to even set foot on a practice field had the impact on an entire league the way Meyer has. In two months, he has managed not only to restore the momentum the OSU program had lost during its recent scandal, but maybe even increase it. At a program that had won six consecutive Big Ten titles before a 6-7 season, that’s not easy to do.

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OSUBasketballJunkie · 02-08-2012, 11:57 AM

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Buckeyes Putting Together Their Own “NASCAR Package”

By Brandon Castel

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Wherever he was Sunday night, Urban Meyer likely had a big smile on his face.

Not because of the outcome.

Meyer was undoubtedly pulling for his friend, Bill Belichick, and former star player, Aaron Hernandez—both of whom came up on the losing end of Super Bowl XLVI.

The Giants won, 21-17, over the Patriots, and quarterback Eli Manning was named Super Bowl MVP. He should have shared it with at least three of his teammates.

While it was Manning who led New York on a 76-yard touchdown drive to win the game in the final minutes of the fourth quarter, it was the Giants defensive line that controlled Tom Brady and a deadly New England offense in a league that has somehow become short on defense.

Manning and his receivers will get much of the credit for another title run in New York, but it was the trio of Osi Umenyiora, Justin Tuck and Jason Pierre-Paul that helped the Giants run through the Jets, Falcons, Packers and Patriots on their way to another championship.

That should have Meyer smiling after Ohio State landed three of the top defensive end prospects in the country on National Signing Day last week.

“I call them thе prize οf thе recruiting class,” said Meyer, who won his first BCS National Title at Florida behind a swarming defensive front.

While they are not exactly as proven as New York’s trio of Umenyiora, Tuck and Pierre-Paul, Meyer believes Adolphus Washington, Noah Spence and Se’Von Pittman could all have a future playing at the professional level some day.

“We try to evaluate that group of defensive ends, are those guys going to make a living (playing) pro football,” Meyer asked rhetorically on Signing Day.

“If they are, that's a pretty good indication that they're going to play very well here.”

Both Scout.com and Rivals.com ranked Washington, Spence and Pittman among the top-10 defensive ends in the country, with Spence and Washington ranking among the top players in the class at any position.

Meyer loves the versatility in this group, but the one common denominator among all three of his new ends is speed.

“They're all different in their own right. Noah Spence is probably little bit more of a linebacker size, 230, 240 pounds, probably a guy that is a true speed guy,” said Luke Fickell, Ohio State’s former interim head coach, now defensive coordinator under Meyer.

“The thing you see with Se'Von and Adolphus is the versatility. Everybody wants to be an end, wants to be a rush guy. I think that's one of the things we had to focus on, is finding guys with speed. They do have that. Who knows in a year or two exactly what they'll do.”

Meyer compared Spence, who will likely play the weakside LEO spot on OSU’s defensive line, to a guy he coached at Florida. One that Ohio State fans will remember all-to-well.

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OSUBasketballJunkie · 02-08-2012, 11:58 AM

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Hinton, Fickell Impressed with Meyer

By Brandon Castel

COLUMBUS, Ohio — It is not just the rest of the world.

Even Urban Meyer’s own staff was in awe of the job Ohio State’s new head coach did putting together one of the top recruiting classes in the country. He was able to accomplish in what must have felt like a matter of days what is typically a year-and-a-half to two-year grind on the recruiting trail.

“There was a lot on coach's plate,” said Luke Fickell, who helped to hold Ohio State’s 2012 recruiting class together before Meyer took command in November.

“He has to come in here. Not only do you have 12 commitments, he did a great job of trying to build relationships with those guys so they were comfortable where they were, then trying to jump in and build a relationship in two months on something that could have been done for the last year and a half.”

Fickell spent nearly a decade working under Jim Tressel. He has been with Meyer for less than three months now, but already Ohio State’s defensive coordinator, and former interim head coach, likes what he has seen.

“The philosophies are not much different,” Fickell said.

“It's still about people. It's still about building relationships. How you go about those things sometimes is different. When you're put down into a two‑month period, you have more work to do at patching up those things, building those relationships to get them to know you.”

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OSUBasketballJunkie · 02-10-2012, 01:11 PM

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Trustees approve Ohio State compliance office

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Ohio State University trustees have approved the creation of a new office responsible for monitoring compliance with rules and regulations in the wake of its football program's NCAA infractions scandal.

The office is a response to the scandal, which led to the resignation of coach Jim Tressel, but its oversight would apply to numerous departments, including athletics.

The university will begin creating the office over the next six to 12 months.

University Chief Financial Officer Geoff Chatas says a university-wide compliance office would help provide consistency among the university's department-level compliance teams that make sure various regulations are followed.

University-wide compliance offices are a growing trend across the country.

McKraut · 02-10-2012, 02:39 PM

We now know the full schedule for the next 3 seasons... me likey!

2012

09-01 __ Miami OH
09-08 __ UCF
09-15 __ California
09-22 __ UAB
09-29 __ @ Sparty
10-06 __ Nebraska
10-13 __ @ Indiana
10-20 __ Purdue
10-27 __ @ Penn State
11-03 __ Illinois
11-17 __ @ Wisconsin
11-24 __ TTUN

2013

08-31 __ Vanderbilt
09-07 __ Florida A&M
09-14 __ @ California
09-21 __ Buffalo*
09-28 __ Wisconsin
10-05 __ @ Northwestern
10-19 __ Iowa
10-26 __ Penn State
11-02 __ @ Purdue
11-16 __ @ Illinois
11-23 __ Indiana
11-30 __ @ TTUN

2014

08-30 __ @ Navy
09-13 __ Kent State
09-20 __ Virginia Tech
09-27 __ Cincinnati
10-04 __ Purdue
10-18 __ @ Iowa
10-25 __ Northwestern
11-01 __ @ Wisconsin
11-08 __ Illinois
11-15 __ @ Penn State
11-22 __ @ Indiana
11-29 __ TTUN

*Just announced in the last 24 hours apparently... But my original expectation was spot on... a mid major creampuff... which I have no issue with, I mean hell, in college football settling a schedule date with 18-19 months of the game date is last minute... you're not going to get an AQ conference team on the schedule this late, but I'll take a mid-major pushover over a 1AA teams like a certain couple other conferences are well known for...