“So if your body sees you have a bad rep because the receiver is too slow, he’s not where he’s supposed to be, you need 100 good reps to get your mind and body (right)”.
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“When you lose nine juniors, there is a gap”.
“The spring game was more than wonderful, and to see 100,000 fans and to get so much love was awesome”, defensive back Jashen Wint said.
Meyer has the same expectations for the players who were competing for starting jobs Saturday.
Ohio State may not have made the College Football Playoffs last season, but it clearly hasn’t impacted the team’s fan support for the 2016 season. We already know that Tyquan Lewis and Sam Hubbard can get to the quarterback from the outside.
“Joe Burrow has been coming on”, Meyer said. “We’re changing some things up that I think fundamentally he wasn’t where he needed to be past year for whatever reason”. Meyer said Beck and Warinner are still learning, but, at the same time, they’re helping grow the offense.
“You’ve gotta find out how guys perform in those kind of arenas and those kind of situations”, he said. He played better than starter J.T. Barrett and fellow backup Stephen Collier, which given the current state of Ohio State football, actually seemed like a good thing. Of course, he benefited from his breakaway speed on the edge and the vertical ability to go up and get the ball, but he reminded me of Dane Sanzenbacher during his days as a Buckeye.
Barrett threw two interceptions and didn’t complete a pass longer than 18 yards in one relatively lackluster half of action, and that wasn’t a topic of discussion afterward.
“What I saw today was that the future is bright at Ohio State. Pretty cool”, Meyer said.
Ohio State broke the national record for highest attendance at a spring football game when 100,189 showed up to watch the Buckeyes.
Outside of the barbs exchanged between Harbaugh, Michigan’s envelope-pushing coach, and OSU athletic director Gene Smith, or the flap where a four-star offensive lineman, bound for Kentucky, said he was “treated like crap” by Ohio State (he has since recanted), or the lively debate over whether the NCAA should allow coaches like Meyer and Harbaugh to conduct satellite camps in enemy territory, it’s been a relatively quiet spring.
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Ohio Stadium’s capacity is now 104,944, so a sellout is actually possible too.
