But I’ll write it off to a young man who was frustrated and emotional after a heartbreaking loss.
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Did you go full Pete Townsend air guitar like MI State kicker Michael Geiger after his game-winning 41-yard field goal?
Head coach Urban Meyer will likely address the comments behind closed doors, so Elliott’s playing time probably won’t be limited.
A very isolated incident, Meyer said. He added that Elliott has been good student and a loyal and selfless member of the team.
“We’ll have some momentum, we’ll call some plays that work, and then we kind of try to get away from it, try to get cute and run some other stuff”, Elliott said. “That kid you’re talking about, he’s one of my favorite of all times”.
“It’s got to go forward and it’s got to go forward fast”, he said.
Supremely talented and completely underused, he carried the ball just twice in the second half of Ohio State’s 17-14 loss to MI State.
When MI State starter Connor Cook couldn’t play in Saturday’s big game against the Buckeyes, Dantonio wound up having to play both his second and third string quarterbacks in Tyler O’Connor and Damion Terry.
You can either choose to believe Elliott’s comments are the first crack in the machine Meyer built in Columbus, a NFL Draft exodus will precede a hit in recruiting and more systemic problems will tear all that down. But he didn’t show any ill effects and said he felt perfectly fine at game time. “But that was not the place for it”. “We’re just not – we’re not operating at maximum capacity, is the key word, and there – we’re still 10-1”.
After the game, the junior running back said the coaching staff didn’t put Ohio State in a position to win the game and that he didn’t know what was going on with the play-calling and that “there’s no chance I’m coming back next year”. That was no surprise, but it was startling that he made that proclamation in that setting.
“How we lost, I just feel like we weren’t put in the right opportunity to win this game, we weren’t put in the right situations to win this game”.
“He came to see me, we had a very long discussion”.
Elliott says he knew a month ago that this was going to be his last season in college. “I don’t know what was going on”, he said.
This Saturday will be the toughest MI team we’ve seen in years and it’s all because of one guy, Coach Harbaugh. Linebacker Raekwon McMillan said Elliott has the support of his teammates.
“He spoke his mind after the game”, he said. We have a three-year bank on Zeke….
Center Jacoby Boren said Ohio State’s best game offensively was Barrett’s first start, a 49-7 win against Rutgers on October 24.
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Quarterback Cardale Jones also suggested on Twitter that he would be leaving, posting a photo of himself on Twitter with the caption, “Last time walking down them steps and into The Shoe, wish the results were different tho”.
