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Exile on Pain Street

The last time Urban Meyer's football team got shut out, he fired both offensive coordinators.

Wholesale, immediate changes. That's how the man always handled unacceptable performances - with a couple of notable, nepotism-tainted exceptions. Incremental transformation was never part of his vocabulary, even while leading and shaping college kids.

Meyer is notoriously impatient, and seethes at the hint of mediocrity. He inherited Jim Tressel's roster in 2012 and spent his first fall camp in Columbus ingratiating himself to the players who had survived 2011 by informing them they had to earn the right to be coached.