As it’s been noted repeatedly since the end of last season, Ohio State’s passing game was not good in 2011. Corey Brown, Devin Smith, and Jake Stoneburner all led the team in catches…with 14. 14 on the year.
Urban Meyer vowed to change that for the spring game, and change it he did; Ohio State threw 55 passes to only 36 rushes, and with 16 of the rushes coming from quarterbacks, the pass-run play-call ratio was likely close to the 3-to-1 that Meyer predicted before the spring game.
Now, don’t expect that ratio to hold up through the fall. Meyer said specifically that he’d call that many passes because he already knows that Miller and the team can run the ball, and he wanted to see the passing game more instead. So while the entertainment value of slinging the ball around 55 times is not to be ignored, that’s not likely to continue very far into the season itself.
That said, quarterback Braxton Miller and receiver Mike Thomas had an absolute field day. Thomas, a freshman early…
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