Looking for a copy of Ohio State's defensive playbook

Well, I don't want to sound like an a-hole either, but Rich Rodriguez put on a zone-read-option clinic for high school coaches in the Michigan area this summer, and several OSU assistants were in attendance.

Seems like a lot of big-time coaches' playbooks are out there and I was just wondering if anyone had Tressell's. Sorry.

Tressel calls the offense, not the defense. The defense has not been the same since Mark D'Antonio left. Back then, they DID win some big games (2003 title game, 2004 at Texas etc)

Really?? Tressel's an offensive guy. I did not know that. Maybe D'Antonio really was the brains behind that operation. Word around Ann Arbor this winter was had D'Antonio not taken the State job, he would've been 1st in line for the UofM job.

OSU is ranked highly because they beat up on the big10 every year.

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Originally posted by: blueadams
OSU is ranked highly because they beat up on the big10 every year.

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Hardly. The Inter-Conference games in the Big 10 are normally close games regardless of who is playing . If you look at Ohio St's schedule you will find 3-4 Ohio teams that they play. Go ahead and look back a decade if you want you'll find generally the same amount of Ohio teams in OSU's schedule. Now if you're killing 3-4 teams by 30-40 points each game, aside from whatever else you do, that's going to inflate your team's prestige regardless of who they played. Take USF (Uni. of South Florida) they had a weak schedule early on and made it all the way to #2 or #3 I think it was. But when they're big hitters came into their house they dropped all the way down to the high teens. The BCS rankings are based on Scores and the Rank of the Opponent. That's why you rarely see two SEC teams in the BCS because they're all good but cause they're all so good a lot of good teams take big hits that affect their rankings. The BCS takes into account how badly Ohio State killed Chattanooga or w/e other scrub team they played and still will rank them fairly high regardless of how S***ty Chattanooga is. Ohio State becomes ranked #1 each year because they play enough ranked teams about 2-3 to push themselves to the top. Though you rarely find them playing anyone in the top 10 aside from inter-conference rivals since those are scheduled yearly. When OSU does play a team in the top 10 you get the results of the USC v. OSU game. A blood bath. Plain and simple.

They've won the big10 championship what, 4, 5 yrs in a row? That's why they're highly ranked. Not because they beat 4 teams from Ohio every year.