“J.T. Barrett sat inside the locker room at Michigan Stadium on the final Saturday of November and let his fellow Ohio State quarterbacks know it wasn’t going to happen again. Barrett decided he wasn’t going to let another leg injury keep him out of another championship run in his final season of college football.” – Dan Murphy, ESPN.com There are two distinctly defined camps of Buckeye fandom when it comes to the play and legacy of J.T. Barrett. One camp believes that he is the best quarterback in Ohio State and Big Ten history (statistically at least), and he deserves to be revered as such. The other is that, despite his successes, he has underperformed and been a crutch for an oddly conservative group of play-callers unable to maximize the potential of the weapons around him. These two divergent points of view came to a head in the Big Ten…
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