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erIC SeGer Sports editor seger.25@osu.edu Twenty games. Twenty victories. Coach Urban Meyer and the Ohio State football team appear as if they can do no wrong. The Buckeyes (8-0, 4-0) dominated from the outset Saturday, sending Penn State (4-3, 1-2) back to Happy Valley on the wrong side of a 63-14 outcome. Such a lopsided victory on national television might seem like Meyer and company were looking to impress the national media and change the perception of the Big Ten’s inferiority, but the OSU head coach won’t be saying that anytime soon. “That was certainly not our mindset,” Meyer said following the win. “Our mindset is ‘find a way to win this game against a very talented team’ … I’d be disappointed if I said (making an impression is) our focus. That’s not our focus.” OSU has held steady at No. 4 in the AP top 25 poll since week three of the season and is currently in the same spot
“This was definitely a statement win,” in the BCS standings behind unbeaten redshirt-junior cornerback Bradley Roby Alabama, Florida State and Oregon. If said. “That’s the attitude we carried to the Buckeyes have hopes of playing for this game, that we were going to make a national title in January, winning by a statement on prime time when everylarge margins might be the only way to body was watching, and that’s what we do so with the Big Ten currently lacking did.” national respect. OSU kept Penn State freshman Redshirt-senior safety C.J. Barnett quarterback Christian Hackenberg under agreed with his head coach, though, and wraps for most of the game, picking him said the only thing his team can do is off twice and sacking him four times. take care of its own business. Hackenberg left the game in the third “We don’t really worry about (polls). quarter with an We don’t really injured shoulder. focus on that,” One of those Barnett said. sacks came at “All that stuff the hands of will take care junior linebacker of itself … If Ryan Shazier, we win all our Bradley Roby who led OSU games and Redshirt-junior cornerback with 10 tackles. take care of Shazier sided our business, I with Meyer and don’t think it will Barnett, saying that winning games is all be a problem. I think that we can only the team cares about, not the polls. handle what we can handle. That’s all we “We (are) trying to go out there and control, is how we play.” just win every game and try to win them Impressing the voters, though, was handily like we should,” Shazier said. a priority for some players heading into “We’re just trying to go out there trying Saturday.
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Some students desire insight on presidential candidates lIZ yOUnG Campus editor young.1693@osu.edu
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Although even finalists of the Ohio State presidential search are set to be kept a secret until the president is selected, some OSU students contend there should be more of an emphasis placed on gathering input from the community about specific candidates before a selection is made. Some of OSU’s most influential figures, though, insist it is imperative contenders be kept confidential. OSU President Emeritus E. Gordon Gee, who was president of OSU from 1990 to 1998 and again from 2007 until July 1, said it was a private search that brought him to OSU for both of his terms. “My view is very clear on this. I would not be a president of this institution if they would have had a public search, both the first time or the second time,” Gee said in an interview with The Lantern Oct. 21. “The reason is the fact that the very best people you want to get here are very happy where they are, and they don’t want to be put into public jeopardy, and therefore what we have to do is we have to have confidence in our search.” Gee announced he would be retiring from the presidency June 4, days after
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controversial comments he made at a Dec. 5 OSU Athletic Council meeting came under public scrutiny. Remarks about Notre Dame and the Southeastern Conference in particular drew national attention. Presidential Search Committee advisory subcommittee convener Deborah Jones Merritt said there will be public updates from Presidential Search Committee Chair Jeffrey Wadsworth at every Board of Trustees meeting about where the process stands at the time. Undergraduate Student Government President Taylor Stepp, who is a member of the advisory subcommittee, said he could not comment on his thoughts about the candidate confidentiality because all comments are to be referred to Wadsworth or Merritt. Some OSU students said they see both pros and cons to the public not knowing who the candidates are. “I see good things and bad things from it. Bad things where having a more transparent election would be better for the community, not only the students but the faculty and other people who are alumni … They’d like to see who they’re actually possibly going to have as a president,” said Michael Hlatky, a second-year in chemical engineering. “But also the good things as in … it
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to win every game, and at the end of the day, things (are) going to happen how it’s supposed to.” Meyer called the victory “arguably our best team win” of 2013, and said he felt the Buckeyes played well on offense, defense as well as special teams, but particularly the pass rush. “I like where we’re at right now. I like where we’re at as a team,” Meyer said. “We all needed to see some pass rush and pass defense and guys step up and they certainly did. That was the most impressive part of the game to me.” OSU scored on six of its seven first half possessions, taking a 42-7 lead into halftime after Miller threw a dart to senior wide receiver Corey “Philly” Brown from 25 yards out with only seconds left. Freshman running back Dontre Wilson, who scored his first touchdown since the San Diego State game Sept. 7, said the Buckeyes did want to prove something to their doubters. “It’s a pretty big statement because everybody always downgrades us and puts us down,” Wilson said. “So for us
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OSU executive Vice President and Provost Joseph Steinmetz during an interview with The Lantern Oct. 8
kind of keeps those candidates a little more comfortable and they’re not going to be hounded by multiple different people about (their consideration).” Hlatky said overall, he’d prefer the search to be completely public. “It should be more open because I think as a community, we’d love to see who it’s possibly going to be so you can do some background information on them, see what they’ve done in the past, see what they could offer the university,” he said. Aaron Rumbaugh, a third-year in landscape architecture, said he understands that candidates don’t want the public to know they’re trying for the job. “I wouldn’t want to lose my job if I wanted to get a new job, a better job,” he said. “I wouldn’t want them knowing.” Others, though, said that risk shouldn’t matter. “It should still be known by the students,” said Emily Yu, a fourth-year in industrial and systems engineering. “If they are good at what they are doing, they shouldn’t be worried about losing their job.” She added that students should have a say in who is chosen. “The person is supposed to … work for the students or make the organization better for the whole population of the students,” she said. “We should determine who the president is.” OSU Interim President Joseph Alutto, who took the reins the same day Gee retired,
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OSU President emeritus e. Gordon Gee during an interview with The Lantern in his office in Page Hall Oct. 21.
OSU Interim President Joseph alutto during an interview with The Lantern Sept. 23.
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