What flavor(s) of Gatorade are the players drinking?

All joking aside count me as someone who would be interested in hearing about any good surprises coming from spring ball - about emerging players who maybe were not in the mix last season-transfers, new players etc.

Definitely curious to see if Big Ten transfers Krizancic and Hilliard will make strong additions next fall.

I'm sure that with the Basketball season over, Arkley will now have some reports on Spring practice. He's only able to be in one place at one time, oddly enough. There will certainly be some developments in Spring came that will be of interest, but those weren't going to play out in the first few practices anyway. Some of the developments I expect he'll report on:
1. New arrivals - who are they, and where do they fit in?
2. Rebuilding of the left side of the offensive line
3. Rebuilding of secondary - with so many players gone, some new names will no doubt rise to the top, but whom?
4. Running back - How will the rotation go between Brown, Irons, and OUellette?
5. The QB position - How is Maxwell coming along? How about Krizancic and Duckworth? Will any of the QBs transfer to another position? Is Windham continuing to improve, and threatening to take the top spot? Has Sprague recovered from a long season, and is he ready to show what he can do in 2016?

Realistically it will be at least a couple scrimmages before any of these questions are answered, and some may not be answered until the fall anyway. We haven't missed anything by not having any reports yet from Spring camp.

I missed the CBI invitation. I haven't had time to check in here much. My apology for the error.

From The Post: 'A lot of work to be done' before first spring game

Some interesting tidbits in this.

I like the two-back sets that will be added (as I'm sure Monroe will)

Ouellette and White leading charge in backfield....possibly seeing AJ as more of a FB at times in 2016? Doesn't seem far fetched....

Krizanzic splitting majority of reps with Windham as Sprague heals up.

Wonder if Sprague will have to battle in August for job? I'm really hopeful either of these two guys in spring starts to excel this final month to give them a leg up on the job come August. I'm just not hopeful Sprague can lead this team next season.

Another thing I take away from that article is to notice that Sprague had surgery after the season, to help with an injury. His collarbone/shoulder injury was early in the year, against Marshall, I believe. It follows that he must not have been 100% down the stretch, and he may have re-injured it against NIU.

I'm pretty sure he was not 100% against App State, and that's why I thought it was a bit unfair of some of the fans on here to call him out for his performance in that game. I think that if he recovers from his surgery, and doesn't have a lingering injury, he'll be fine as the QB in the fall. If he doesn't recover, apparently Windham or Krizancic may be the guy.

They used two-back sets this year.

I saw no true two-back sets last year, by which I mean sets in which either running back could have gotten a hand-off such that the D could not have known who was going to get the ball if it we ran it.

Irons apparently third after AJ and Papi.


True two backs sets after all this time. Pathetic that it took so long...Yet it seems that here that is greeted as a mark of truly splendid coaching. Horrible.


Irons is really our third best back? Could be but I find it difficult to believe.

If there is no favoritism, how is AJ and White number 1 and 2 when they have not started hitting yet. If Adrian Peterson walked into camp, he would be number 3.

you are right

To make many of you happy and to show that I'm an equal opportunity misanthrope, I hereby wholeheartedly and with vigor and venom disagree with myself.

Evolution. Your two-back set, with both backs used as running options is easier to defend than most other sets Ohio uses. When I hear them referring to two-back sets I expect them to be sets including "White" that begin looking two-back and through motion create mismatches to Ohio's advantage. I reject the Monroe Doctrine that two "running" backs creates significant advantages in this age

While it is true that conventional 2 back sets are largely a thing of the past for that exact reason (games have become much more wide open and higher scoring, and less oriented to two-back power), as I said in a prior post, App St did some innovative things to run the ball while preserving passing options, so I hope Albin and Izzy can find a few things they can steal.

I find it ironic that we continue to have this retro argument. The argument I would have expected is not "why can't we go back to the offense of 2005-2010", but why can't the offense become more wide open, like the Bayor-BG offenses.

Myself, I think that if they can rebuild the left side of the offensive line, and I think they can, this is going to be a very good offense.