Eleven Warriors · Jun 18, 2019
Ohio State’s Wide Receivers Aren’t Defined By Their Speed Anymore
Even Urban Meyer couldn’t coach speed, so he recruited it – lots of it.
At Florida, he coached Chris Rainey and Louis Murphy, and he recruited Jeff Demps and Percy Harvin to join the Gators. Once he arrived in Columbus, he wasted no time increasing the speed on the team’s collective treadmill, adding Dontre Wilson, James Clark and Curtis Samuel to the mix.
One season into his Ohio State stint, he said the team wasn’t “Alabama fast.” By the spring of 2014, Meyer began to see the results of his emphasis on speed coming to fruition in Columbus.
“We’re getting close,” Meyer said at the time. “We need a couple more. But from where it was two years ago to where it is now is much different.”
