Once upon a time, Eleven Warriors dot com was... well, let's be generous and say that what we didn't have in readership, we made up for in moxie. Some of that moxie came from me, professional idiot, as I volunteered for basically every random football-related duty that was available to a marginally successful Ohio State sports media outlet.
In August of 2011, that included heading out to Media Day and taking a bunch of pictures with our intern. In the wake of the firing of Jim Tressel, everything surrounding Ohio State football was imbued with a kind of nervous energy that fans and the media alike had mistaken for "confidence," but would find out later was really "flop sweat.