Certainly appears things have improved as far as OSU's talent harvesting and building "complete" teams lately. A bit of luck almost always plays into a team having good/great success. Last year it seemed to be Jaylen Warren who was our lucky break, probably along with freshman DE Collin Oliver. A rb who most would admit was a pleasant surprise even to those pretty optomistic about him and a frosh defender who was both better and more mature than anyone could have expected (at an end/rush position that was an injury caused need). But what's starting to come about in a very positive way in the last couple/three years it appears, is OSU has less and less dependency on surprise players saving a particular unit of the team, but instead being solid virtually everywhere with some quality depth. If this is due to Todd Bradford, then that's great.....give him a raise/lockdown contract! But I suspect there are several factors at play here as well. Whatever has happened, I hope it keeps up and this '22 team again is starting to look loaded for competitive success! (And as Pat Jones once said....he was suddenly a much better coach when he had Barry Sanders on the field).
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