Things I know, and things I think I know: Ohio State’s resounding success in football with Urban Meyer as head coach can be attributed to a variety of factors. He cites a couple in particular: a unique culture and lack of roster attrition. They go hand-in-hand. Yes, Ohio State loses players to the NFL. A lot of them. But you seldom see a rash of transfers or players booted from the team. “You can’t lose players,” Meyer said last week during Big Ten Media Days in Chicago. “When that starts happening, then you start having problems. You wake up one day with an offensive line with zero depth or a defensive line with zero depth. “So I watch that very closely.” If I seem fixated on Ohio State of late, it’s because the Buckeyes are 50-4 in four seasons under Meyer, including 31-1 in regular-season conference play. His program has approached a level of dominance that Nebraska experienced during Tom Osborne’s last five seasons as head coach, when the Huskers went 60-3 and won three national championships. Nebraska’s program had a culture that was defined by much more than winning. Osborne played the lead role in creating that culture, helped…
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