I’m sitting here one day away from Ohio State’s kickoff and I just realized that I haven’t made any season predictions for the Buckeyes, or if I have, I have no recollection of it. I don’t want to start a dangerous precedent of not making season predictions because how else are you going to know how brilliant or stupid I am?
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…
If you’re a consumer of Ohio State media coverage, you’ve no doubt read or heard about freshman running back J.K. Dobbins. You can’t walk 20 feet inside of OSU Twitter without stepping on somebody’s excitement about Dobbins. His name keeps popping up everywhere, even on a radio show in Nashville. While we…
Everybody who watches college football in a semi-serious manner has some kind of idea of the impact that Kevin Wilson is going to make on the Ohio State offense. Like a quarterback, however, a coach is only as good as the players around him. Fortunately for Wilson, he is surrounded by talent, and right now that…
The position battle to be Ohio State’s starting strong safety may not be entirely in the spotlight yet, but there is no doubting that it is a crucial position that must be filled by at least one capable candidate. And if that candidate can be more than capable, then so much the better. Malik Hooker was the big star last year…
A year ago at this time, Damon Webb was Ohio State’s starting free safety without ever having played a game at safety before. He began spring camp of 2016 as a cornerback, but after about three practices they moved him to free safety. He quickly took over the No. 1 spot and never looked back. That doesn’t mean…
When it comes to annually anticipating things, nothing beats the college football season. NFL fans will tell you that nothing beats the NFL, but these are the same people who can’t watch it sober or without gambling on it. NFL fans basically do the same thing that dudes in the Old West did when they got shot and had to have…
There were several reasons why Urban Meyer chose to move the Ohio State offense in a new direction with two new offensive coordinator hires. One of those reasons was because Ed Warinner and Tim Beck decided to leave “of their own volition”, but another reason was the lack of development at the quarterback position.
Heading into the 2016 season, there was some thought that this might be J.T. Barrett’s last year as an Ohio State quarterback. He would be graduating following the season, and he was expected to have a very productive redshirt junior year. Both of those happened…
It has been several weeks or maybe just two weeks or maybe even a month since I last completed a mailbag. I don’t know how long it’s been, I just know that it’s been long enough that I don’t feel guilty at all about asking for submissions. Generally, sportswriters request submissions because they have nothing to write about.
