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Steven M. Sipple: Say what you want about Meyer, he evidently cared deeply for players

Good luck managing the beast that is the Buckeye football program and all its demands, and doing it the exact right way as determined by the national media and fans across the world.

Not even Tom Osborne could pull off that trick at Nebraska during the 1990s.

Say what you want about Meyer as a human being, he operated at an extraordinarily high level at a university that demands elite on-field success as well as elite academic performance. There's little question in my mind Meyer cared deeply about his student-athletes because there's no way a head coach builds a seven-year record of 82-9 overall (.