Spring Game

As many of you college football nuts are aware, spring games across the nation have been played recently or will be played soon. Like many things in life, each spring brings hope of new things. That is no different from our beloved football teams. As the old saying goes "hope springs eternal". Yesterday was the annual spring game for my favorite time: The Ohio State Buckeyes. Yes, our players and coaches have been getting a lot of flack in recent years (some deserved, some not) for not being able to pull out a big game win. While I would like the Bucks to go out and win every game every year in convincing fashion, it is entirely impossible to do that. But don't tell our fans that :)

So what we do have is the ability to believe in what we have. Sure we lost a few top players who were great to the program and will prove to be great NFL players. But losing the old and bringing in new blood allows for more heroes (and villains) to be made. I think that is what this team needed desperately. The old guard was proving to be ineffective and often time lacked a certain emotion in games. Mental lapses and inter-squad turmoil pervaded this past season, and we still almost beat a darn good Texas squad in the Fiesta Bowl. Now we have new players, new breath, new life. These players are pieces of highly recruited classes of which many of the others were not. Generally speaking, the talent is more potent now than it was then and it has already shown via the spring game. Will OSU go on to win a national title this year? Maybe. This team is young and loose which is a refreshing departure from the uptight squads of recent days gone by. In any case, my hopes are certainly high for this team, but I've learned one very valuable thing over the years: One game at a time. Go Bucks!