Doug LaMaurice

They're just unusually long football players, and they're not linemen, so they've got some quickness and speed to them, too.

Is there anything you can tap into there to get some more blocks?

I don't know.

Maybe I should have asked it, so I didn't.

His answer was not like, we're aggressive all the time, we should be, but I do think

I think he views special teams as something that should be a weapon, which would be a drastic change for Ohio State over the last, I don't know, since Urban left.

So I think it's not ultimately his call.

It's Ryan Day's call, to your point.

So that's sort of the thing that was left unsaid.

But my vibe from him is that he wants to scheme it up a little bit on special teams in a way that I think will help Ohio State.

Crystal Lave blocked a couple.

Crystal Lave blocked one against Michigan famously, but then I also think he blocked one against Indiana the next year.

be a threat to block punts i'd be curious about that yeah me too i think i mean they have a lot of speed they do you and i have sort of been talking about like and we haven't asked about it yet maybe we'll write about it someday but it seems like they have more team speed than yeah for a place that usually has good team speed they might like have like even more of it this year with some of the guys they brought in so yeah um especially in the corner and receiver room so

Yeah, and I don't know.

I guess it wouldn't be unorthodox as we're talking about Chris Olave, but it just felt like, for instance, when Chris Olave was here, it wasn't 100% bankable because it wasn't like he had 10 block kicks, but it did sort of feel like he was good for one every year, and they were going to find a way to spring him loose to try to get one.

And I'm thinking maybe they have some of that in the room this year that they can tap into, and they have a special teams coordinator who I think is...

he's not going to be also coaching the defensive backs or doing anything else.

He's going to be totally dialed in on drawing stuff off like that on special teams.

Well, he didn't say any specific players.

He was asked.