Revived!

It's funny to look back when you first begin something. I had the best intentions to write a sports blog concerning my favorite sports teams, mainly the Ohio State Buckeyes. Well, life happens and unless you write for a living, it is harder to do than you think. As OSU has moved on from "Tressel Ball"- I leave my "Tressel Blog" days behind as well and start a fresh, in the Urban Era. This is the Ohio State team that I have longed to see for years. We have always had the talent but it was such that outside of the early 2000's we always under achieved in the big games. I don't need to go in to the details of that as it is well documented. Not only the failings of Ohio State but the Big Ten in general. Besides the exciting offense, the one thing that I am looking forward to the most is seeing Urban and the coaching staff get the MOST out of the talent on this roster. It's clear that Tressel was able to win a lot of games, most of them not pretty. He put a lot of guys in the NFL and was very successful. With that said, watching games in the Tressel era would always leave me wanting a bit more. Outside of the Michigan wins- many of the victories would leave us with the question- 'are we a good team or did we just play a bad team.?' Tress could recruit but Urban looks to take this program national again. Recruiting track stars to play football, ala Jeff Demps will get OSU back on the national radar again. Our ability to compete with the SEC will not be answered for another year but by the looks of things, we are on the right track. Though our defense will need to improve, Braxton Miller and the offense are making strides. Urban is my "Woody Hayes". My dad and uncle would quote Woody and have his comments hanging on the walls of the basement, as if they were speaking to them today. I feel the same way about Urban. He is a motivator and simply watching the spring ESPN All Access program was enough to get me off the couch. "Why be average?" So I am revived- let's see where this thing can go. I'm hungry for another 2002- hopefully that will happen sooner than later.