Some September football, which recaps Urban Meyer's debut in Columbus, a night game (in an eventual downpour) between Vanderbilt and Northwestern, a rout for Michigan and Denard Robinson (including a 5-year-old's Wolverine dream to visit the Big House & a preseason interview with John Beilein & Tim Hardaway Jr.), to finally back at Ohio State, where Braxton Miller was given more offensive freedoms vs UAB. Lisa Byington shares with you …
"Here's an interesting storyline from a TV perspective," Urban Meyer told our crew during a Friday afternoon production meeting.
It showed his TV savvy.
It also showed the need for his quarterback to take that next step.
Braxton Miller told me after the game he probably audibled 20 times against UAB. Saturday was the first time the OSU coaching staff had given him the liberty to change the play at the line of …
Urban Meyer pulled something out of his pocket during my interview with him on the field, about two hours from his Buckeye debut.
I looked down in his hand.
Fittingly, it was a buckeye. The same one he showed our TV production crew Friday afternoon. "For good luck," he said with a smile.
He didn't need much luck against Miami University, but he needed an anchor. It was an emotional high of a …
From Urban Meyer's debut in Columbus, to an all-access look in East Lansing with Mark Dantonio's Spartans, to the Big House and a smiling Denard Robinson in Ann Arbor. Enjoy three of the biggest spring games in B1G country. Lisa Byington takes you through it all.
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Urban Renewal, though not exactly a new literary creation, is the
catchiest phrase in Columbus these days. The reported 81,000 showing
up for his spring game in cold, drizzly weather seems to be a good
litmus test of the excitement in town.
Our broadcast crew of Tom Hart, Derek Rackley, and myself got 30
minutes of time with Coach Meyer in his office on Friday ... between
his speaking engagement at a coaching clinic, visiting with …