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Ohio State football: Spring updates from Jim Tressel
by Doug Lesmerises, Plain Dealer Reporter
Wednesday April 01, 2009

Some highlights:
* The coaches this offseason visited Duke, North Carolina (and former Browns boss Butch Davis), Wake Forest and North Carolina State. The idea was to get some different ideas on new schemes more than anything, but Tressel said one of the main thoughts the staff got from its visits was this.

"We got it pretty good," Tressel said. "If we have two or three or four or five little things we just learned that we never have done or considered, maybe we can get even better. "

But overall, the visit made the staff appreciate home.

"The first thing we talked about is we have great facilities here," Tressel said. "And the second thing is we have great kids. And the third thing is a lot of the things we saw others doing well, we were doing them very similarly. And maybe even some things we felt as if maybe we were a touch ahead in that category. Certainly we're not woe is me. And sometimes you need to go look around and recognize that maybe we're doing things OK."

* Players expected to sit out spring practice while recovering from offseason surgeries include offensive lineman J.B. Shugarts, defensive lineman Keith Wells and freshman linebacker Zach Boren. Junior defensive end Lawrence Wilson, coming back from a torn ACL, won't participate in contact drills during the spring.

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