After quiet off-season, could Ohio State ride next wave of young talent to replicate 2014 success?


Like Campus Rush on Facebook COLUMBUS, Ohio — Urban Meyer sat at his desk in his windowless office on Monday afternoon, subdued after an aggressive morning practice and sweaty afternoon workout. Meyer faces one of the most unique seasons of his coaching career, as he has a roster with 42 true and redshirt scholarship freshmen and just four recruited scholarship seniors and must prepare 16 new starters for the season opener against Bowling Green on Sept. 3. With all that uncertainty ahead of him, he sounded decidedly zen heading into 2016, at peace with an off-season of serenity and pleased with how his program has progressed since losing 12 players in the 2016 NFL draft. For a program whose quarterback controversy drove the college football news cycle for nearly the entire calendar year in 2015, the defining sound coming out of Columbus this off-season has been silence. Other than reserve tailback Bri’onte Dunn’s dismissal from the team in July, there’s been no drama, little controversy and really no significant news out of Columbus since National Signing Day. This, of course, comes in stark contrast to Ohio State’s rival, Michigan, where Jim Harbaugh’s trolling tweets, rap video and satellite camp extravaganza…

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