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'YOU CARRY OUR MESSAGE': OHIO STATE'S MODEL FOR SUCCESS CENTERS ON LEADERSHIP TRAINING
COLUMBUS, Ohio—At 5:59 a.m. on a Tuesday in mid-May, Urban Meyer briskly enters the staff meeting room at Ohio State. There's no greeting. No salutation. No small talk. Meyer begins speaking before he even sits down. He squints with an intense focus, like he does in the seconds prior to a fourth-down play. "I've been at a place before where I've seen things slip," Meyer says. "I promise you one thing, things aren't going to slip around here."
Meyer eventually takes his seat at the head of an oversized staff table in the windowless room. In front of his nine bleary-eyed assistant coaches sit steaming, plastic-foam cups of coffee. Meyer is concerned this morning because two players arrived late to a team meeting the day before. To him, the incident represents a symptom of the off-season's most ominous opponents—complacency and entitlement.
Ohio State begins the 2015 campaign as the defending national champion and the unanimous preseason No. 1. The Buckeyes return 14 starters, including seven potential first-round NFL draft picks and three quarterbacks talented enough to start for almost any team in the country. But they also begin the season with four players suspended for the opener at Virginia Tech on Sept. 7 for off-field transgressions, tangible signs of players forgetting the discipline that led to the title. "We've thrown out enough first pitches," Meyer tells his staff. "We need to think about why we won. We're not going to let that slip."
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