BY MATT MARKEY (Toledo Blade) -- COLUMBUS -- For most of the last couple months, they have been tucked away in the bunker, sequestered and protected from the expected barrage of prickly questions as a scandal rampaged and the Ohio State football program teetered toward implosion. They continued to meet, to work out, and make preparations for the 2011 season, but they operated cloaked in secrecy, as much like a cloistered convent as an elite college team. A few ... Read More

By: Jon Spencer (MansfieldNewsJournal.com) -- Someday, college athletes throughout America, at least at the well-off schools, may be thanking disgraced Ohio State quarterback Terrelle Pryor. Even at Ohio State. It's no coincidence that talk of extra compensation for athletes or giving actual "cost of attendance" scholarships has intensified in the wake of the tattoos and cash-for-memorabilia scandal involving Pryor and five other Buckeyes. The ongoing turmoil has already cost coach Jim Tressel his job, hastened Pryor's departure ... Read More

By Doug Lesmerises (Cleveland Plain Dealer) -- COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio State lost more than two regular-season games just twice in Jim Tressel's 10 seasons in Columbus -- during his first season in 2001 and in the transition year of 2004 that helped lead to the undefeated regular season of 2006. In the final part of a three-part series of 12 questions about Ohio State football, the big picture is examined, and the guess is that it will include ... Read More

By: David P Funk (BTPowerhouse.com) -- During Thad Matta's tenure at Ohio State, the Buckeyes have been no stranger to the national recruiting rankings. Unfortunately for the rest of the Big Ten, 2011 won't be any different. Rivals ranks OSU's five-player class no. 10 in the country. ESPN has the Bucks no. 6 and Scout has them at no. 8. "Matta and his coaching staff have done a tremendous job when it comes to recruiting," Matt Barker from Buckeye Banter said. "They ... Read More

From: ESPN.com -- The NCAA returned to Columbus last week to investigate allegations that former Ohio State player Terrelle Pryor and other Buckeyes received improper benefits at a private golf course. Regan Koivisto, former general manager of the Scioto Reserve country club, says he met with NCAA investigators late last week. In June, Koivisto told ESPN an employee made him aware that Pryor and several other Buckeyes were spotted at a private golf course with memorabilia salesman Dennis Talbott. ... Read More

By: Matt Loede (NFLGridironGab.com) -- To help former Ohio State quarterback Terrelle Pryor prepare for the 2011 Supplemental draft, Drew Rosenhaus, Pryor’s agent, has hired former NFL quarterback and quarterbacks coach Ken Anderson, Joe Reedy of the Cincinnati Enquirer confirmed. Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk.com initially reported the hiring on Wednesday. The Canton Repository had previously reported that George Whitfield, who tutored first overall pick Cam Newton before the entry draft, would work with Pryor, but Anderson ultimately ... Read More

By: Zac Jackson (FoxSportsOhio.com) -- COLUMBUS, Ohio – We've known since December that Ohio State was going to need a new quarterback for the start of the 2011 season. Perhaps you've heard that things have changed a bit in and around one of the nation's winningest programs since then. And now, a little more than two months out from the start of the '11 season, the Buckeyes not only need a quarterback for the whole year, but they officially ... Read More

From BTPowerhouse.com -- Three is more than two. So why waste time shooting anything but three-pointers? That seems to be the philosophy of Jon Diebler, and it has worked out very well for him. Over the course of his four-year career at Ohio State, Diebler shot 1109 field goals, a whopping 900 of which were from beyond the arc. Four out of every five shots that he took at OSU were three-pointers. Out of those 900 attempts, 3bler (rhymes with Diebler) ... Read More

By: Ben Axelrod (TheLantern.com) -- After securing what Thad Matta called the biggest recruit he's ever gone after, the Ohio State basketball program introduced former Buckeye player and NBA coach Chris Jent as the latest addition to the OSU's coaching staff on Wednesday. A native of Sparta, N.J., Jent scored 1,007 career points and was a part of two Big Ten championship teams at OSU from 1988-92. He will fill the opening on Matta's staff that was created ... Read More

By: Angelo Di Carlo (WNDU.com) -- Archie Griffin knows Ohio State pretty much better than anyone. He was born at Ohio State Hospital, became the only 2-time winner of the Heisman while playing for the Buckeyes, then returned to his alma mater and now serves as the President of its Alumni Association. And he believes Ohio State will bounce back from its recent scandal involving its football program that resulted in quarterback Terrelle Pryor and coach Jim Tressel leaving the ... Read More

By: Bob Fortuna (Cleveland Plain Dealer) -- CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Ohio State offered Devan Bogard a football scholarship last fall but the Glenville linebacker felt, at the time, he needed to weigh all his options. However, the senior-to-be couldn't let his longtime dream slip away, so the 6-0, 183-pounder gave the Buckeyes his oral commitment Saturday afternoon. "It's where I've always wanted to play and it's where I want to be," said Bogard, who picked OSU over Illinois, ... Read More

By: Josh Sanches (NFLSpinZone.com) -- Jon Gruden is a former NFL coach who has found a new home on ESPN as a NFL analyst. Recently, Gruden has begun working with college quarterbacks leading up to the NFL Draft. Gruden’s sessions with the young quarterbacks have been aired on ESPN and he has a new episode coming up soon with former Ohio State signal-caller Terrelle Pryor. Pryor has received a lot of criticism as of late for his immaturity and bad ... Read More