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YOUTH ON OFFENSIVE LINE WORKING THROUGH GROWING PAINS DURING OHIO STATE SPRING PRACTICE

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Urban Meyer knows the offensive line he wants to see at Ohio State come this fall. It must be tough, have depth and be on par with what the Buckeyes enjoyed the last four seasons.

"Whoever plays that position, we can't drop off," Meyer said Tuesday. "Went from (Andrew) Norwell, Marcus Hall to Billy Price and Pat Elflein. We're not going to drop off."

As things stand at the midway point of spring drills, however, the big guys in the trenches lag behind what Meyer, new offensive line coach Greg Studrawa and their teammates expect.

"There's a lot of work to be done," fifth-year senior center and team captain Pat Elflein said Saturday. "I think guys need to be comfortable with each other."

Elflein is one of two returning starters on the unit along with junior Billy Price. Neither played much during Saturday's student appreciation practice, which isn't much of a surprise. They're established veterans who don't need as many reps as the young guys behind them fighting for a job.

So without two starters working in much and a constant onslaught from the other side of the ball Saturday, quarterbacks J.T. Barrett, Stephen Collier and Joe Burrow were under siege most of the morning.

"The thing about it is right now is when you want those type of things so you'll be able to adjust to them right now so it's not something that's new later," Barrett said. "It's good for our offensive line for sure, but good for our defense too because then I think it gets them comfortable in order to apply that pressure when it comes to the season."

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OHIO STATE'S "LAND OF THE WOLVES" IS BIG DUMB MOTIVATIONAL FUN

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Have you seen Sicario? Because if you haven't seen Sicario, I recommend that you go see Sicario. It's a good movie about the drug war in Mexico, and at some point the tough mean cop says to the young naive cop

You should move to a small town, somewhere the rule of law still exists. You will not survive here. You are not a wolf, and this is a land of wolves now.

Whoa that's a nice little quip you got there, Benicio del Toro! It's a tremendous shame that Sicariocame out in 2015, because I know several hundred thousand college freshman who would've killed for a line like that to use as their AIM away message in 2003. Nothing says "I'm mysterious and cool as heck" to a dorm full of co-eds like a quote from a movie where a lot of actors pretend to die violently.

Instead they made do with some the more conventional Boondock Saints quotes (occasionally usurped by a Donnie Darko line or two) punctuated by blasting Flogging Molly at 2 AM every Friday night.

It's important to point out that for that guy, any movie quote about vengeance or survival or showing to the world that you don't take no guff would've worked. As long as it gave him the confidence to overcome some deep seated social anxiety long enough to make out with someone on a gross couch in someone's lawn on Chittenden, then it accomplished what it was intended to accomplish!
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