COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio State football reached the end of the season still looking for answers in its secondary. We may someday look back and surmise the Buckeyes had the personnel to fix some of those lingering problems. Thanks to the coronavirus pandemic wiping out spring practice, complicating the offseason and depriving OSU of half its games, talent development and evaluation were both compromised. As a result, the Buckeyes trusted struggling veterans over promising yet unproven young players at multiple positions. Under the circumstances, that was a defensible decision. In a normal season, a team might have been able to make lineup changes eight games in, based on evaluating the collective body of work to that point. In 2020, Ohio State’s eighth game was the national championship. As Stephen Means and I discussed on Thursday’s episode of Buckeye Talk, multiple positions call for OSU to choose between trusted veterans and…
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