This is a question that some Buckeye fans have been asking of late. Justin Fields is a 5-star quarterback out of Georgia who is now rated the No. 1 dual-threat quarterback in the 2018 class. Fields was the star of The Opening, and saw a jump in the rankings following his performance. In fact, he is now the No. 1 player…
When Justin Hilliard came to Ohio State in 2015, he arrived as a 5-star prospect and arguably the top linebacker recruit in the nation. Now two years later and he has just three games played to his credit. A knee injury cost him his freshman season. A right biceps injury took away his 2016 spring camp, and then a…
Kevin Wilson has been around. He played his college football at North Carolina, which is also where he began his coaching career as a graduate assistant in 1984. From there he spent a few years enhancing his resume at smaller schools around the state. Then came a job as the offensive line coach for Miami (OH)…
“I think Dre’Mont Jones has gone from a good player to a very good player and bordering on a great player.” Those were the words of Urban Meyer back in the spring. Dre’Mont Jones started 12 games for the Buckeyes last season at a position he had only been playing for a matter of months. He finished sixth on the team with 52 tackles. His 44 tackles in Big Ten play were…
There isn’t much that Urban Meyer has yet to accomplish as the head coach of the Ohio State football program. The trophy case contains a Big Ten Championship and a National Championship. It technically even contains five Division Championship trophies. Meyer is 61-6 as the head coach at Ohio State.
During Ohio State’s three 1-day camps for high schoolers, Urban Meyer spoke to the players about having ownership of their teams and actions. There is also a need to have ownership of your name, and what it can become. Ohio State’s Twitter account released a pretty amazing video package about this topic that you will want to check out.
To look at Sam Hubbard’s numbers, you might not come away as impressed as you should be. Last year, he tied for third on the team with 3.5 sacks and finished fourth on the team with 8.5 tackles for loss. Those aren’t exactly staggering numbers for a guy who is supposed to spend his time in the backfield. But when…
As the Scottish poet Robert Burns and the American author John Steinbeck might tell Coach Meyer, the best laid plans often result in something completely different and unpredicted. Urban Meyer has made no secret of wanting true freshmen to contribute on the field, but the realities of the Ohio State depth chart has…
Urban Meyer is one of the premier figures in college football. As such, assistant coaches around the country would do just about anything to be part of his program. When there is an opening on his staff, the résumés come rushing in like bingo balls. To expedite matters, Meyer keeps a running list of potential assistant coaches going…
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…
The first of three 1-day camps is now in the books at Ohio State, and the Friday afternoon session saw some new offers handed out. The most notable of these offers went to Murfreesboro, Tennessee running back Master Teague, who is rated the No. 8 running back in the nation per 247Sports. Teague worked out in the morning…
