Each year there are stories written about college football players being excited about the new offensive or defensive systems being installed. There are also stories written about players being excited about the long-time offensive or defensive systems in which they are currently playing. By their nature, college athletes are an optimistic group…
Summer 1998 | The 1998 Ohio State football team has been a topic of late on both the forum and the Buckeye Weekly podcast. More specifically, the ’98 loss to Michigan State has been brought up, but there’s no need to open that wound on a weekend. The Buckeyes were regarded as the best team in the nation well before the ’98 season, and…
We’re back for our May offseason edition of the Silver Bullets Podcast and, because we know nobody can get enough of it, we have lots more quarterback talk for your listening enjoyment. Chip and I discuss Ryan Day’s transfer haul and how Ohio State made out about as well as it could in the QB department, all things considered.
When quarterback Justin Fields arrived at Ohio State, he knew it would take some time for him to learn the offense. A couple of weeks before he arrived, the current (and now former) Buckeye quarterbacks said that head coach Ryan Day’s offense takes at least a year to grasp. Fields has been on campus for about five months now and been through…
Johnson (6-6 240) is the No. 3 tight end in the 2020 recruiting class per the 247Sports Composite. He is the No. 232 player in the class overall and the No. 1 prospect in Canada. Johnson visited Ohio State back in the spring, which came a couple of days after competing at The Opening regional in Ohio where he ran a 4.67 40-yard dash and posted a 35.2″ vertical leap.
In this episode of the Buckeye Weekly podcast, Tony Gerdeman and Tom Orr discuss Ohio State’s latest quarterback addition and what it means for Ohio State. They also spend some time on high school quarterbacks throwing verbal daggers at the Buckeyes, including Michigan commit JJ McCarthy. The fellas also discuss the most painful loss to Michigan State…
Way back in Urban Meyer’s day, the former Buckeye head coach would like to have as much of the two-deep set by the end of spring as possible. He wanted his quarterbacks to be set. He wanted to know who his starting middle linebacker was. Overall, his assistant coaches needed to have a very good idea of what their respective depth charts…
July 12, 2011 | This story comes from Brandon Castel and details the reasoning why 5-star Cleveland offensive lineman Kyle Kalis decommitted from Ohio State in the summer of 2011 and instead decided to commit — and eventually sign — with the University of Michigan. Long story short, Kalis didn’t want to jump onto a sinking ship. — TG
Good help can be hard to find. If you are Ohio State offensive line coach Greg Studrawa, however, you don’t have to look very hard. When it comes to making the Buckeye offensive line better, sure, Studrawa does quite a bit of coaching, but he also an entire defensive line on the other side of the line of scrimmage putting his players through a test on every snap.
Ohio State football is going to have a different look this fall, but the results might not change. Are the Buckeyes headed for the Rose Bowl or the Playoff?
