When it comes to coaches and discretion, the two rarely mix well. For instance, Michigan still hasn’t released an official football roster despite being less than two weeks from playing their first game. A New Jersey newspaper has filed a FOIA request just for a glimpse. So you can imagine how begrudgingly coaches give out…
Ohio State’s fall camp 2017 is officially in the books now and the Buckeyes will move forward into game preparation as they get ready for Indiana in 11 days. OSU football’s Twitter account released a few highlights of how the last week went for the Buckeyes. You’ll want to check it out.
Saturday was the final scrimmage of fall camp for the Ohio State football team. In fact, camp is now considered over for the Buckeyes and game preparation is in full bloom. Following the wrap of camp, three more Ohio State freshmen had their black stripes removed. Safety Brendon White, offensive guard Wyatt Davis…
When a person is part of something special, they don’t ever really leave. Even when they move on, their legacy remains in place, providing a time-release reinforcement of what they helped to build. The legacy of cornerbacks at Ohio State goes back a long way, but it really picked up in the mid-1990s. In 1996, the Buckeyes…
Look, we all knew this was a possibility. I planned my annual list of Ohio State playmakers on offense, and that went fine. I then decided to do the same thing once again on defense, but things haven’t gone so well. I thought I would have time to get it done, but I’m running out of time, and I still have other commitments that…
There is no such thing as a timid cornerback. At least not for long. They’re like albino animals born in the wild. They don’t blend in very well to their surroundings and are soon exposed to predators who would mean them harm. At Ohio State, a Buckeye cornerback must possess supreme confidence. They have to know…
With Mike Weber spending most of the Ohio State fall camp sidelined with a hamstring injury, true freshman J.K. Dobbins was given an opportunity to carry the load, and he has responded. Weber is expected to be back and full-go by the time the Buckeyes head to Bloomington to open the season, but even when he returns…
Dante Booker ran out of the Ohio State tunnel for the first time last season as a starter. It was the 2016 opener against Bowling Green. After being an understudy to Joshua Perry for two years, it was finally time for Booker to show what he could do. He saw about nine plays of action before spraining ligaments in his knee…
In football, two-a-days come with a few different purposes. One, it allows you to cram a lot of practice into just one day. And two, it shows you during your second practice which players can step up when they are completely beat and tired. There are some diminishing returns when it comes to two-a-days, however, because…
One of the topics discussed in this week’s Accost the Field concerned J.T. Barrett the ball carrier. Namely, would we see him carrying the ball as much as he has in the past. Barrett carried the ball 205 times last season, which was 23 more times than leading rusher Mike Weber. He had four games of at least 20 carries, compared…
Once something is established, it’s hard to go away from it. That’s why Urban Meyer is so adamant about building the culture at Ohio State and relying on it to replenish itself year after year. One such recent establishment for the Buckeyes is the three-man rotation at cornerback. Finally born a year ago, cornerbacks…
In this episode of Accost the Field with Tony Gerdeman, the show begins with a discussion of Paul Finebaum claiming that people should have expected more from Urban Meyer in his first five seasons at Ohio State. We then move into reality after that and talk about things that actually exist. The Rundown + Updates from the quarterbacks…
Last year was not a banner season for the Ohio State punt return game. As a team, the Buckeyes returned 27 punts for 139 yards, which equates to a paltry 5.2 yards per return. Illinois was the only team in the Big Ten with a worse average in 2016. Ohio State managed just one punt return of over 20 yards, which was the lowest…
Junior linebacker Jerome Baker has spoken openly about the issues he had last season as a brand new starter on the Ohio State defense. He did the best he could, but he could have done so much better. Fortunately for both him and the Buckeye defense, Baker is an elite athlete, so he could make up for his mistakes with…
