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Buckeyebred97
Legend
That’s because all Buckeye fans will be filling AT&T stadium as if it were a home game.
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Army Frog Fan
Sophmore
If you are planning on going to the game in Arlington, I would highly recommend heading to FW (to attend gameday or not). Loads of great restaurants in the W. 7th area (about 2 miles from campus) and in the Stockyards. If you have kids with you there is a daily cattle drive in the stockyards at 11:30 https://www.fortworth.com/the-herd/ Plus there is a lot of history, good dining options in the Stockyards (recommend Joe T Garcias for Mexican and Risky's for decent BBQ). You can easily be back in Arlington in time to tailgate.
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
What Urban Meyer built means Urban Meyer's absence isn't apparent: Doug Lesmerises
With Ryan Day as Ohio State's acting head coach, things have felt completely normal with the Buckeyes.
At some point Monday, listening to Ohio State acting head coach Ryan Day at his third straight news conference to kick off a game week, I forgot briefly that he wasn't really Ohio State's head coach.
That made it feel like something should be written about Urban Meyer.
It's just not clear what.
Before the start of this season, I figured Meyer wouldn't be missed on Saturdays, and after two OSU wins by 46 and 49 points, it's clear so far that he's not. Suspended for three game-day Saturdays, Meyer will miss one more game when No. 4 Ohio State plays No. 15 Texas Christian in Arlington, Texas, on Saturday. And while this opponent is exponentially more difficult than the first two, I can't for the life of me think of how Meyer's absence will change anything.
Ohio State can't be run by just anyone. But in six years Meyer has built a program that can be smoothly steered by an array of capable assistants steeped in his philosophies. Day has been great. But Greg Schiano, Kevin Wilson, Larry Johnson, Tony Alford ... several other OSU assistants could have pulled this off as well.
As veteran Columbus radio reporter Lori Schmidt suggested to Day on Monday, things are going well without Meyer because of Meyer.
"The training that's happened over the last year and obviously what Coach has done here for the six years leading up to this, there's been a foundation set here," Day said. "So when you go through something tough, if you have a good, strong foundation, then you can make it through the other side and that's what's happened."
What Ohio State is making it through is, of course, the mishandling of fired assistant coach Zach Smith by Meyer and athletic director Gene Smith, who continues to serve his suspension as well. Their failures with Zach Smith came to light along with a swirling cloud of domestic violence allegations against Smith, and accusations in some quarters that Meyer and Gene Smith failed to respond to those allegations seriously enough, a school of thought Meyer has strongly disputed.
Remember all that?
Haven't had to think about it for a bit, right?
Well, it was a serious situation. It might be mostly over. Maybe. But not quite.
Because Meyer is coming back.
After TCU, Ohio State's game week leading up to game four vs. Tulanewon't be all about football, because the first time Meyer speaks to reporters, he'll be asked questions about Ohio State's investigation into his actions, questions he couldn't answer the night his suspension was announced because the report hadn't been revealed yet.
So you think the Buckeyes are missing Meyer right now? Actually, this is the easy part.
It's all going to kick up again as soon as he's back, in some form of another.
Captain Parris Campbell said after Saturday's win that Meyer, who coached all week at practice before Rutgers and will coach at practice again this week, got on the team after a substandard practice last Tuesday.
"He challenged us Wednesday to come out and have a great practice," Campbell said, "to have an Ohio State practice, and we did that."
Entire article: https://www.cleveland.com/osu/2018/09/what_urban_meyer_built_means_u.html
With Ryan Day as Ohio State's acting head coach, things have felt completely normal with the Buckeyes.
At some point Monday, listening to Ohio State acting head coach Ryan Day at his third straight news conference to kick off a game week, I forgot briefly that he wasn't really Ohio State's head coach.
That made it feel like something should be written about Urban Meyer.
It's just not clear what.
Before the start of this season, I figured Meyer wouldn't be missed on Saturdays, and after two OSU wins by 46 and 49 points, it's clear so far that he's not. Suspended for three game-day Saturdays, Meyer will miss one more game when No. 4 Ohio State plays No. 15 Texas Christian in Arlington, Texas, on Saturday. And while this opponent is exponentially more difficult than the first two, I can't for the life of me think of how Meyer's absence will change anything.
Ohio State can't be run by just anyone. But in six years Meyer has built a program that can be smoothly steered by an array of capable assistants steeped in his philosophies. Day has been great. But Greg Schiano, Kevin Wilson, Larry Johnson, Tony Alford ... several other OSU assistants could have pulled this off as well.
As veteran Columbus radio reporter Lori Schmidt suggested to Day on Monday, things are going well without Meyer because of Meyer.
"The training that's happened over the last year and obviously what Coach has done here for the six years leading up to this, there's been a foundation set here," Day said. "So when you go through something tough, if you have a good, strong foundation, then you can make it through the other side and that's what's happened."
What Ohio State is making it through is, of course, the mishandling of fired assistant coach Zach Smith by Meyer and athletic director Gene Smith, who continues to serve his suspension as well. Their failures with Zach Smith came to light along with a swirling cloud of domestic violence allegations against Smith, and accusations in some quarters that Meyer and Gene Smith failed to respond to those allegations seriously enough, a school of thought Meyer has strongly disputed.
Remember all that?
Haven't had to think about it for a bit, right?
Well, it was a serious situation. It might be mostly over. Maybe. But not quite.
Because Meyer is coming back.
After TCU, Ohio State's game week leading up to game four vs. Tulanewon't be all about football, because the first time Meyer speaks to reporters, he'll be asked questions about Ohio State's investigation into his actions, questions he couldn't answer the night his suspension was announced because the report hadn't been revealed yet.
So you think the Buckeyes are missing Meyer right now? Actually, this is the easy part.
It's all going to kick up again as soon as he's back, in some form of another.
Captain Parris Campbell said after Saturday's win that Meyer, who coached all week at practice before Rutgers and will coach at practice again this week, got on the team after a substandard practice last Tuesday.
"He challenged us Wednesday to come out and have a great practice," Campbell said, "to have an Ohio State practice, and we did that."
Entire article: https://www.cleveland.com/osu/2018/09/what_urban_meyer_built_means_u.html
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OhioState001
Tressel Loyalist
Fire Drake, Move Gene up, then move Urban up :)Can we just fire Gene, promote Urban, and hand the keys off to Day, Wilson, Schiano?
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pianobuck46
pianobuck46
Since it's past midnight....if the team is flying back tonight, I hope Urban & Shelley meet their plane. How damn cool would that be!?!Monday morning, Urban be like...
Edit- damnit, beat me to it.
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pianobuck46
pianobuck46
Or fire Drake and Smith, and replace them with Tressel & Archie respectively.Can we just fire Gene, promote Urban, and hand the keys off to Day, Wilson, Schiano?
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