Ralph D. Russo | The Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio — The story is one Ohio State coach Urban Meyer has told before, and it is the reason Braxton Miller could not be in better hands. Meyer was an assistant coach at Notre Dame in 2000 when the Fighting Irish lost to Nebraska. After the game, he found receiver David Givens, the team’s most talented offensive player, practically in tears in the locker room. “I said, ‘It’s going to be OK, man. We’ll bounce back.’ He said, ‘You don’t understand, Coach. I didn’t touch the ball.’ He wasn’t saying it like some kids, like I need the damn ball, not like that. Just he didn’t feel he helped the team win,” Meyer said this week. Meyer vowed to never let something like that happen again. So he constructed an offense in which some receivers are not just receivers. The position is called H-back — as in hybrid — and it has been a great way to get a speedy player more touches than a receiver and less pounding than a tailback. Other spread-offense teams use hybrid players to attack the edges and create matchup problems, but few have been as successful as Meyer’s teams…
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