Ohio State Football: Reasonable Goals for Buckeyes' 2013 Season Setting reasonable goals can be difficult for an Ohio State team that went undefeated last season. Expectations have reached new levels, and the media is hyping things up like nobody's business. Ohio State is going to play the SEC Champion in the BCS National Championship Game! Let's pump the breaks and let the games play out before that talk begins surfacing. The Buckeyes still have to iron out ...
Ohio State Basketball: 5 Lessons Learned About Buckeyes This Offseason The issues that will determine whether Ohio State has a successful 2013-14 season are fairly well-established at this point. The Buckeyes will have to replace the scoring of Deshaun Thomas, continue to play excellent half-court defense and hope Amir Williams develops into the player he is supposed to be. However, we have learned some things about Thad Matta’s program during this offseason ...
Kings notes: Familiar face at workout a bit odd for ex-Buckeye Ohio State forward Deshaun Thomas hadn't seen Chris Jent since the end of the Buckeyes' season.
Ohio State Football: Underclassmen Who Can Save the Buckeyes' Offensive Line The Ohio State Buckeyes will likely be a preseason top-five team heading into the 2013 season. They return their top playmakers on both sides of the ball. Braxton Miller, Carlos Hyde, Ryan Shazier and Bradley Roby are all back to lead the Buckeyes. But the success of Urban Meyer 's second Ohio State team will be up to the offensive line—a line that returns four starters, three of which earned ...
What 5-Star LB Raekwon McMillan's Visit to Florida Means for Ohio State Raekwon McMillan has appeared to be quite the Ohio State lean heading into the summer of the 2014 recruiting cycle, but one major SEC program could give the Buckeyes some issues moving forward. McMillan, a 5-star linebacker, has visited Ohio State multiple times , and the Buckeyes are the top team on his 247Sports interest list . A recent visit to Florida seems to have really caught his ...
Ohio State Basketball: 5 Biggest Red Flags on Buckeyes' Roster The college basketball offseason is a time of optimism, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t red flags on just about every roster. Ohio State certainly has some issues of concern as it enters its first season without either Deshaun Thomas or Jared Sullinger on the roster in three years. The Buckeyes have the talent to make a run at their second Final Four in three tries, but there are some ...
Urban Meyer on National Title Expectations: 'We're Not There Yet' It's hard to find a ranking for the upcoming college football season that doesn't have Ohio State as one of the top five teams in the country. The Buckeyes return 13 starters to a team that went undefeated last year, including Heisman Trophy candidate Braxton Miller, making Ohio State one of just a handful of teams expected to contend for a national championship. Just don't tell that to Urban ...
Ohio State Football: How OSU's 2009 Recruiting Class Failed to Meet Expectations Ohio State's 2009 recruiting class was ranked No. 1 by Scout.com, and only one player from that group—John Simon—was drafted by an NFL team. While the much less-heralded 2010 recruiting class was a huge success , despite low expectations, 2009 was the opposite: lots of hype but little payoff. The "Brew Crew" in 2008 received a tremendous amount of hype, and the class that followed it was ...
Ohio State Football: 4-Star Wide Receiver Derek Kief Chooses Alabama over OSU Urban Meyer and Ohio State's 2014 recruiting class suffered a blow Sunday night when Derek Kief , a 4-star wide receiver and one of the Buckeyes' top targets, verbally committed to Nick Saban and the Alabama Crimson Tide. Kief tweeted a link to his website , which had this video of his commitment: Kief , a tall, speedy receiver out of Cincinnati, has piled up over 20 scholarship offers from ...
Ohio State Football: Athlon, Phil Steele Give Buckeyes Preseason Love College football guru Phil Steele and the good folks at Athlon Sports have come out with predictions for the 2013 college football season, and unsurprisingly , they feel good about the Ohio State Buckeyes. Ohio State is riding nation's longest winning streak (12), and Urban Meyer is set to infuse the No. 2 ranked recruiting class with a talented team which returns 13 starters, according to ...
