Buckeye Rebirth: Urban Meyer, an Inspired Team, and a New Era at Ohio State

Buckeye Rebirth: Urban Meyer, an Inspired Team, and a New Era at Ohio State

Buckeye Rebirth: Urban Meyer, an Inspired Team, and a New Era at Ohio State

Buckeye Rebirth: Urban Meyer, an Inspired Team, and a New Era at Ohio State

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Overview

Ohio State University's remarkable 2012 season—and the beginning of a new era at the Big Ten school—are recalled in this fascinating account. It tells the story of Urban Meyer, who accepted the job as head coach at Ohio State just before the NCAA banned the Buckeyes from postseason play in 2012, rendering them ineligible for the Big Ten Championship and bowl games. Meyer ultimately rose to the challenge of motivating a group of players to commit to the program despite the ban, and the book recounts what turned out to be one of the most remarkable seasons in Ohio State's 123-year history. Filled with never-before-revealed details about Meyer and the 2012 season, this surprising and entertaining record provides a complete picture of the new age at Ohio State.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781600789052
Publisher: Triumph Books
Publication date: 10/01/2013
Pages: 272
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Bill Rabinowitz has covered the Ohio State Buckeyes football team for the Columbus Dispatch since 2011. He is the author of Buckeye Rebirth about the undefeated 2012 Ohio State team and the forthcoming The Chase, the inside story of Ohio State's 2014 national championship season. Rabinowitz is a native of Dayton, Ohio, and graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with a history degree and from the Medill School of Journalism's master’s program at Northwestern University. He has been a sportswriter since 1988 and has been with the Dispatch since 1999 after 10 years with the York Daily Record in Pennsylvania. Rabinowitz has won numerous state and national awards, including Best Sports Writer in the 2014 Ohio Associated Press Media Editors' contest and the same honor in 2011 by the Ohio Society of Professional Journalists. Earle Bruce was the head football coach at Ohio State from 1979 to 1987, notching up a record of 86-26-1. Bruce was also a Buckeyes assistant coach under Woody Hayes from 1966 to 1971. In the mid-1990s, Bruce joined the broadcast team at WTVN radio in Columbus. His annual Earle Bruce’s Beat Michigan Tailgate has raised thousands of dollars for various charities. Bruce lives in Dublin, Ohio.

Table of Contents

Foreword Earle Bruce vii

Prologue ix

1 The Hiring 1

2 Ashtabula 11

3 Climbing the Coaching Ladder 19

4 Rise and Fall 30

5 Building a Staff 44

6 Divine Intervention 58

7 The Work Begins 66

8 Spring Questions 77

9 Not a Lazy Summer 91

10 Camp Meyer 102

11 Miami: The Meyer Era Begins 111

12 Central Florida: Riding Braxton 120

13 California: Bad Game, Big Speeches 129

14 UAB: Warning Signs 139

15 Michigan State: Rip Your Chest Open 147

16 Nebraska: Prime-Time Fireworks 159

17 Indiana: Boren's Move 170

18 Purdue: Guiton's Moment 185

19 Penn State: For Gary 199

20 Illinois: Master Psychologist 210

21 Wisconsin: Narrow Escape 220

22 Michigan: The Golden Door 230

23 What It Meant 246

Acknowledgments 257

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