Skull Session: Urban Meyer thinks the 2012 team saved Ohio State Football, Big Ten Coaches determined we’ll have basketball, and Damon Arnette was Mic’d Up by Practice

08/21/2020 Sports


If you missed this video from yesterday, it is non-optional viewing.

I can not decide if this video wants me to sit in self-reflection for 30 minutes or walk through a wall. The answer is probably both.

Word of the day: Listen.

DER GEAR MY HERO. What if I told you that the most important Ohio State football team in my life won nothing?

They also lost, at no point.

(Urban) Meyer, who was recently named Big Ten Coach of the Decade by the Big Ten Network, said there are two murals in the Ohio State football building dedicated to the 2012 team and that “you need me move to tear them down. ”

“That’s how strong I feel about that team,” Meyer said. ‘That team and that staff. Those kids could play for nothing. In this day and age, everyone would transmit. They stick it out. ”

This goes back to the most important speech, Meyer’s to the seniors the day the bowling ban was announced. He asked them if they wanted to go out on a 6-7 season or if they wanted an experience that would make them proud to return to Ohio State later in life. He told her he would change her life in one year. It worked. All 21 decided to stay.

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“It would hurt,” Meyer suggested. “The script was written. Ohio State would be irrelevant for 10 years. And I believe that team saved the day. ”

He has a point.

As I look back on the most beautiful moments of Meyer’s term, my brain will go to Cardale Jones to hook deep balls to Devin Smith, Ezekiel Elliott who runs through and around everyone, and the Silver Bullets who are the three finalists. of Heisman Trophy in subsequent games.

But really, the best Buckeye season under Meyer was 2012, when a team that honestly wasn’t very good won every damn game, even when they were told the season was not going to end.

In fact, if you’re a subscriber to The Athletic, this is a fantastic read. There are basically 4,700 words of blunt and upright anecdotes and stories about the 2012 season. 10/10, highly recommended.

NFL READY. It’s not fun to think about, but there are plenty of Buckeyes who have no other snap to play to prove they’re NFL-ready, and PFFs have the numbers to prove it.

Justin Fields of Ohio State was in his first year as a starter at last, leading all passable quarterbacks in passing class from a clean pants pocket, on standard dropbacks and on throws on or above the sticks. The concern for Fields is ranking in the 45th percentile in preventing negative graded throws compared to recent NFL prospects.

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Ohio State’s Chris Olave was open on 81.6% of his singles coverage last season, the best among FBS wide receivers.

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In just his first year as a starter, Ohio State’s Wyatt Davis ranked 64th percentile in positive grade run blocks compared to recent NFL prospects. On real pass sets, he was just below average with a 43rd percentile rank.

Without knowing what an average number is for comparison, my broken blogger’s brain thinks that being open on 81.6 percent of single-coverage goals is absolutely absurd.

In principle, he beats the man who awaits him eight times out of 10.. I’m not sure I can do eight times out of 10. A lot of everything can be done correctly. Hell, I can not deliver you a typeless article eight times out of 10. But Chris Olave is out here beating Division I, Big Ten cornerbacks more than 80 percent of the time.

And my very unscientific estimate tells me that number is probably much closer to 95 percent against Michigan.

Touchdown.

Even that ball could not be better handed to him. And now I’m depressed that we’ll probably never see one of them in a Buckeye uniform again.

“NO DOUBT.” We are sorry for a fortune in an autumn football season and we have no idea what a spring season itself will look like.

But if all goes to hell, we can always fall back on basketball, because the Big Ten coaches are pretty damn sure we’ll at least play this sport when 2021 rounds out.

The league’s basketball coaches are positively Bullish, and predict that by 2021. you can fill a bracket. Of that they are (almost) sure.

“I believe there is no doubt,” said Illinois Undertrainer Brad Underwood, “that we will play out somehow, shape or form.”

Said Tom Izzo of Michigan State said: “I do not think there is any question we are going to play. We learned a lot from football. ”

One more from Izzo: “There’s no way we are not playing an NCAA tournament.”

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Izzo and Underwood were fine with quotes. Two other Big Ten coaches spoke in the background with the Tribune. All four were signed off with the start of the season around Thanksgiving and their players living in the same on- and off-campus complex.

Underwood calls it a ‘natural bubble’ and coaches know it works from the look of the NBA, which relocated its entire operations to the Walt Disney Resort in Orlando, Fla.

I’m very glad these colleagues are so confident, but I’ve heard that kind of confidence before, and those predictions are not good parents! That I will do the self-preserving thing and withhold all hope that all will be well someday.

Can never be disappointed if you always expect everything to suck!

Yup

ABSOLUTE LEGEND. I’m glad to inform you that the Las Vegas Raiders did the Lord’s job of processing Damon Arnette for his first professional practice, and we are all the prize winners.

And it wasn’t all talk, he was also pretty damn good on the field.

And he deserves a remarkable fan himself.

It becomes clear to me that Damon Arnette is my favorite Ohio State player of all time outside of Chic Harley, which simply means that my jersey collection is about to become a hell of a lot of crispier.

THE OTHER FOOTBALL. With no college football being played in Columbus this year, might I interest you in other football?

Hey, at least one Columbus team carries the banner.

SONG OF THE DAY. “Like a Rolling Stone” by Bob Dylan.

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