When the word was muttered to Urban Meyer as he sat at a podium in the illustrious Hyatt Regency McCormick Place hotel in Chicago, Ohio State's head coach wasted no time putting to bed an idea that could affect his team.
"We don't use the word defend," Meyer said at Big Ten Media Days. "We have 20 new players that weren't a part of that, we have young guys."
Actually, Meyer and the Buckeyes welcomed 25 new players to campus — after the departures of Jamel Dean and Mirko Jurkovic Jr. — either in January as early enrollees or this summer.