Tae-Gyun Kim/Associated Press CHICAGO — Given all that he has on his plate at the moment, one wouldn’t have blamed Urban Meyer had his appearance at this year’s Big Ten media days luncheon been his shakiest at the annual summer gathering yet. The loss of 16 starters, 12 draft picks and five first-rounders, as well as the recent dismissal of the player pegged by many to be Ohio State’s new starting running back—all of it should seemingly cloud the outlook of a season where 44 of the Buckeyes’ 85 scholarship players have yet to make their college debuts. Factor in a Week 3 trip to Oklahoma to take on last year’s playoff participant Sooners, and optimism for OSU ought to be harder to find. Yet there Meyer stood at the podium of Chicago’s McCormick Place Convention Center, as calmly as he ever has at one of these events. Meyer didn’t avoid his issues, either, but instead faced them head on, confident the momentum he has found in his first four years as the Buckeyes head coach isn’t in any danger of slowing down. “The issue would be if it was a non-talented young team,” Meyer said of his 2016 outlook. “And…
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