2021 Spring Practices, Game, and Tidbits

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This spring, it’s the Ohio State offense which needs a full slate of 15 practices. That’s because with Fields gone, the competition between second-year players C.J. Stroud and Jack Miller plus another highly-touted signee with incoming freshman Kyle McCord is about to ensue.

Ohio State coach Ryan Day has promised an open-mind approach to what he’s about to see. Indeed, like a race car engineer, he indicated recently that he wants to see as much full-speed running as possible to determine who best can drive the machine.

“We’re going to have to find ways this spring, between C.J., Jack and Kyle, to give them as many game-like situations to figure out exactly what we’ve got,” Day said. “We can’t go into that first game without knowing, or at least having an idea.”

 

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LOVE seeing the creation of this thread, following spring updates is one of my favorite things of the year. Of course it'll be extra interesting with the 3 way battle at QB.

 

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During last football season, Ohio State became the winningest program by win percentage in college football history with a .730 win percentage. That’s the most all time among programs with a minimum of 800 games played.

Ohio State has the best all-time win percentage in the last 100 years, 50 years and 25 years.

Just sayin': That's a great tidbit!!!

 

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FIGURING OUT A STARTING QUARTERBACK

WHAT THE DEFENSE WILL LOOK LIKE IN 2021

GETTING MORE PRESSURE ON THE QUARTERBACK

HOW DEEP THE WIDE RECEIVER ROTATION GOES

HOW GOOD THIS OFFENSIVE LINE CAN BE

 

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I'm not real optimistic; but, hopefully they will allow fans in the stadium by then.

 

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Summary of comments from Wilson and Coombs too.

 

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RB Marcus Crowley

LB Tommy Eichenberg

TE Cade Stover

DB Ronnie Hickman

 

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The annual spring game still hasn’t been officially scheduled, although the goal for the program was to play it on April 17. If the spring game does happen, it won’t be a ticketed event for fans. Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith does have an idea on how the Buckeyes could bring some fans into the Horseshoe for the first time since 2019.

“My hope is we would have an opportunity to develop a strategy to recognize our front line people, our nurses, our doctors, our custodians, our bus drivers and all of those people who made so many sacrifices for us for a long time now,” Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith said on a media call. “That would be my hope that we could come up with a strategy to recognize them and invite them to the spring game.”