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Scarlet Sunrise: Urban Meyer discusses coaching future at Ohio State

by:borrismart•11/27/18
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Urban Meyer talks about future

Urban Meyer was asked Monday about his health on Monday, and he dealt with it by repeatedly saying “good,” with a wry smile after each such answer.

Q. I get this question all the time. How are you doing?
COACH MEYER: Good.

Q. What are your plans?
COACH MEYER: Good.

Q. And Saturday, you know, the TV cameras seemed to be on you as much as it was the action on the field.
COACH MEYER: Good.

Q. And just what are your plans — (laughter)?
COACH MEYER: Good.

Q. — post whatever?
COACH MEYER: Good.

Q. You’re good. That’s a definitive statement.
COACH MEYER: Good.

But at the end of the press conference, a reporter got in a question that elicited a more genuine answer out of Meyer. When asked about his plans for next season, Meyer said “I plan to coach.” It’s obviously impossible to know what the future holds for Meyer and his health. But his simple, direct answer also came with an honest tone. As long as Meyer feels good enough to coach, that answer had to be an encouraging sign for Buckeyes fans.

Dwayne Haskins sets Big Ten POW mark

Ohio State quarterback Dwayne Haskins was the Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week, setting a Big Ten record with his sixth such award this season.

Offensive Player of the Week
Dwayne Haskins, Ohio State

  • Led Buckeyes to 62-39 victory over Michigan by throwing for 396 yards and six touchdown passes as Ohio State claimed a berth in the Big Ten Championship Game
  • Completed 20 of 31 passes as he directed Ohio State to 567 yards of total offense against the nation’s No. 1 defensive unit
  • Set Big Ten single-season record for passing yards (4,081) topping Curtis Painter’s 2006 record of 3,985
  • Set Big Ten single-season record for touchdown passes with 42, surpassing Drew Brees’ 20-year old mark of 39, set in 1998
  • Moved to within 64 yards of Denard Robinson’s Big Ten record for single-season total offense with 4,208 as Robinson had 4,272 in 2010
  • Claimed his sixth career Offensive Player of the Week award and sixth of the season, setting the Big Ten record for a single-season, breaking a tie with fellow Buckeye quarterback Troy Smith, set in Smith’s Heisman Trophy-winning campaign in 2006
  • Last Ohio State Offensive Player of the Week: Dwayne Haskins (Nov. 19, 2018)

Ohio State impresses 5-star

The Jacksonville (Fla.) Trinity Christian to Ohio State pipeline that started with Shaun Wade could be building toward adding another key piece. Crusaders 5-star cornerback Fred Davis II, the country’s third-ranked cornerback in the Class of 2020, made his first visit to Ohio State over the weekend and left raving about the Buckeyes.

“It was great,” Davis, Florida’s highest-ranked 2020 player, told Lettermen Row. “The atmosphere was crazy. Ohio State coaches and fans showed me so much love. It was just crazy.”

]“It was really important to get up and see Ohio State. My former teammates and I don’t really don’t talk about schools like that with each other, though, we just are enjoying this process and it’s a blessing. It’s definitely a place I see myself. I want to be around the best and nothing other than the best.”

For a full update from  Birm on Ohio State recruiting, check out Monday’s edition of Dotting The ‘Eyes.

Grab our newest shirt

Ohio State has now won seven straight games over Michigan and 14 of the last 15 meetings. While Jim Harbaugh is fond of asking “Who has it better than us?!” it seems there is a clear answer. If you’re looking to keep celebrating Ohio State’s dominance over Michigan, hit up the Lettermen Row Equipment Room and check out our newest shirt.

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Tom Brady laments loss to Ohio State

Watching Michigan lose to Ohio State again was surely bad enough for Tom Brady, but having Nate Ebner as a teammate for the entirety of the Buckeyes’ current seven-game win streak has only made things worse.

“Unfortunately, I lost a bet to Nate Ebner and already paid him his money,” Brady said Monday. “I have to wear some ridiculous outfit, but man, freakin’ Wolverines. They can’t win a big game, man. That was pretty crappy to watch.”

“We’ve lost to them so much, I feel like I never win any of these bets. That’s all right. I’ll keep trying. It should be [the only game that matters]. Yeah, that is the big one. They haven’t been close. Maybe last year we were a little closer, but still 60-something points, that was tough to swallow.”

OSU hoops No. 1?

The NCAA debuted the metric it will use to replace RPI in NCAA Tournament resumes, and the No. 1 team in the first rankings is… Ohio State. This of course comes via an extremely small sample size, but it should be encouraging nonetheless that the Buckeyes are checking off a lot of boxes at the start of the season.

Counting down

  • Big Ten championship: 4 days
  • Early signing period: 22 days

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