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Always good to have more and more kids coming in with a good head on their shoulders. I think that's something Urban is really striving for, and from the interviews we've done with new guys, he's achieving that goal. As Woody said, "You win with people," and that can't be truer than the mindsets of the young people actually playing the game.

Have you talked to Braxton Miller before? This comment is obnoxious. It was ok until you said "It's been awhile."

Do you know Braxton Miller? No you don't so shut up and don't make yourself look stupid.

I understand your point of view, but in fairness to Braxton he had no coaching last year. Check this out --
http://ohiostate.247sports.com/Board/121/The-Best-of-Fall-Camp-2012-11245343/1

Check this piece out in particular: "Miller said he never knew about reading defensive fronts until new OC Tom Herman got here"

That's just really bad. Bollman set those kids up to fail with bad coordinating, bad line coaching, and bad play-calling. There wasn't even a qualified QB coach on staff last year. I think you'll be very pleasantly surprised this year.

I think there are a few things to point out here --

* Why did it take until Game 4 to insert Miller? A: It shouldn't have.

* No matter which QB was in, with the exception of Game 1 against a completely overmatched and hapless Akron squad, our offensive demonstrations against most opponents were pathetic at best. Clearly even 5th year senior Bauserman had no idea what was going on and he'd been in the system for 5 years. That tells me these coaches have no clue what they were doing and clearly weren't coaching kids up. If a kid is STARTING for your squad, no matter how long he's been enrolled, it kinda sorta makes sense to teach him how to figure out where and when to throw the ball based upon defensive alignments and schemes.

* If you consider the offensive "scheme" (using the term loosely considering Bollman is involved), even a veteran QB would have been set up to fail in this offense with these "gameplans". On virtually every first down we run up the gut with far less guys blocking than the other team is bringing. On the vast majority of second downs we ran as well, again with an arithmetic disadvantage. This frequently led to 3rd and long situations. And what did Bollman think was a good idea? Having the receivers run 20+ yard routes with an inexperienced QB, an inadequate and undercoached offensive line which also was dealing with (in many cases) an arithmetic disadvantage in the trenches due to the poor scheming to begin with.

* Consider the QB coach's background. Truly -- go look it up. It's pathetic. My wife is virtually as qualified to be the QB coach at an elite BCS school as Nick Siciliano is / was.

I'm so glad Meyer came in and fired these clowns. It should've been done years ago. Tressel was by no means an offensive genius (far from it -- great read from Chris Brown who did the writeup following the USC disaster in 2009: http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/blog/dr_saturday/post/Deconstructing-The-grisly-demise-of-Tressel-Ba?urn=ncaaf,189322 -- you will need to cut and paste the whole link as the full URL gets cut off by the hyperlink), but he sure was one of the only coaches at Ohio State who could mentor QBs to a degree and at least (most of the time) come up with a competent offensive game plan even if it was from 30-40 years ago. Tressel was the head coach, offensive coordinator, and QB coach while at Ohio State and it clearly showed in 2011.

Have no fears my man -- while there will undoubtedly be growing pains with an entirely new offense, rest assured that things will be significantly improved this year with massive upgrades across the board on the offensive coaching staff.

Also I noticed you were semi-new -- welcome to the boards.

Edit: Spellcheck

I swear. Some of the people on these boards will twist some words up just to start some confrontation. How many times do I have to say I never said Miller wasn't intelligent. Look through the posts. Miller still has yet to prove intelligence on the field though. Does he not? I understand he didn't have much coaching last year but that's the nature of the beast. Your performance is your performance no matter what goes on behind the scenes........ Sorry. I don't see why some are having trouble comprehending this. NOBODY SAID MILLER WAS DUMB PEOPLE SO TRY LOOKING THROUGH THE THREAD FOR SAID STATEMENT INSTEAD OF READING A FRACTION OF THESE POSTS THEN COMMENTING..

THANKS

Miller is not dumb bookwise, however he does need to bring up his football IQ and become a better student of the game, because at this level its more than just your feet and "athletiicsim" that can win games.

Welcome aboard Gunny I'm glad you spoke up! !! Lol dude is a idiot intelligent the guy hasn't stepped on the field yet ..