While it is always important for new stars to emerge for college football teams, it is also imperative for established players to take a step forward and become better than they were the year before. As the saying goes, if you’re not getting better, you’re getting worse. For the Buckeyes, there are a number of players…
Having already gone over one thing I’d like to see from each position group on the Ohio State offense this season, it’s time to give the same treatment to the Buckeye defense. Ohio State is replacing three starters on the defensive line, two starters at linebacker, and two starters in the secondary. There are concerns…
On Wednesday, Sports Illustrated released their Preseason All-American teams and Buckeye defensive end Nick Bosa was named to the First Team and cornerback Damon Arnette was named to the Second Team. Bosa was a First-Team All-American last season as a sophomore per most outlets, while Arnette was an…
Kerry Coombs was hoping that Damon Arnette would be able to work his way into the rotation in 2016 with Denzel Ward, Marshon Lattimore, and Gareon Conley. He didn’t make it, but according to Coombs, he was close. And, as Coombs often said when people questioned Ward’s appearance in the rotation, he’s not going…
Cornerback Damon Arnette played in every game last season for the Buckeyes, starting a dozen times. As a redshirt sophomore, he finished sixth on the team with 44 tackles. He led the Ohio State cornerbacks with two interceptions, three tackles for loss, and a forced fumble. And yet nobody is claiming that he is a finished product.
Buckeyes Denzel Ward and Billy Price were selected in the first round of the 2018 NFL Draft on Thursday, which has me wondering how many Ohio State football players could hear their names called in the first round of next year’s draft. The Buckeyes have had a first-round draft pick in each of the last three drafts…
Every year people get excited for Ohio State’s spring game. It’s the first opportunity to see the latest edition of the Buckeyes, after all. The anticipation builds and builds, until finally the game begins. And that’s when people remember that there is no tackling for most of the game. Then comes the grumbling…
Ohio State returns two starting cornerbacks from last season in Kendall Sheffield and Damon Arnette, which is (technically) as many or more than anybody else in the nation. The Buckeyes were without one of their top three cornerbacks this spring in sophomore Jeff Okudah, which allowed fellow second-year players…
Robert Lawrence Stine, better known in literary circles as R.L. Stine, is a native Ohioan from Columbus, and a proud graduate of The Ohio State University. While Stine is a novelist with a focus on children’s literature, one might apply the quote above as we move onto the next position group to review, the 2018 Ohio State defensive backs.
The Ohio State cornerback rotation and its development over the years has been written about countless times here, so there should be no need to delve into the history of it. What began as a pipe dream by Kerry Coombs has turned into a new standard for the Buckeyes. A year ago, Urban Meyer said that things went…
New Ohio State cornerbacks coach Taver Johnson is back with the Buckeyes after a six-year hiatus, and while OSU is not new to him, plenty has changed since he’s been gone. Names, faces, defensive coordinators, they have all changed since Johnson left for Arkansas in January of 2012. What has continued, however, is…
