From: AP via Cleveland.com — COLUMBUS, Ohio - What’s brewing today with the 2009 Ohio State Buckeyes …

BUCKEYES BUZZ: Purdue coach Joe Tiller helped popularize the spread offense. He called his version, “Basketball On Grass”-because it wasn’t unlike a fastbreak attack.

Now Tiller has retired and has been replaced by Danny Hope.

Coach Jim Tressel analyzes the Boilermakers’ offense under the new regime: “Purdue used to be 95 percent spread. Now they’re in two backs and running that good tailback (Ralph Bolden) more often than they were at one point in time. … One of the things that Danny said when he came in was that he was going to do more than just (the spread). He was going to do that, because that’s Purdue history. If you ask who’s done well with that over the years, Purdue. But they were going to do more than that.”

And Tressel also spoke of the future of the spread attack: “I watched the Iowa-Michigan game when I got home from our game (against Wisconsin last week) and Michigan, which is supposedly just a spread team, was in the I (formation) pounding it down the field on one of their scoring drives. I think we all do a little bit of everything. So is the spread sustainable? Yeah, it’s going to be here. We’re all going to be involved in the spread. Is the spread going to be the only thing? I don’t think so.”

TRAVELOGUE: The Buckeyes left from campus early Friday afternoon by bus to Rickenbacker International Airport, south of Columbus. They then flew to West Lafayette, Ind., to their hotel. Unlike a week ago, when they stayed in Indianapolis for the game at Indiana in Bloomington, the Buckeyes are actually staying in the same city where they’re playing. They will depart immediately after Saturday’s game at Purdue.

Team spokeswoman Shelly Poe smiled and said, “We hope to be home by 6 p.m.”

QUOTE OF THE DAY: Tressel, asked the most entertaining suggestion that he’s recently gotten from a fan: “Resign.”

NOT SO HIGH IN THE MIDDLE: Purdue has outscored opponents 59-16 in the first quarter, a startling differential for a team that has won just one of its first six games. The Boilermakers have a 47-32 upper hand in the fourth quarter.

Obviously, it’s the two middle quarters where they have fallen on hard times. They’ve been outscored 83-37 in the second quarter and 52-28 in the third-a margin of almost two touchdowns per game.

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