Welcome to Skull Session.
Your friendly neighborhood Andy filling in while your usual skull session savant, Chase, takes some well-deserved rest and recovery.
Hoping everyone's Monday blues turn into white smiles.
BIA: NOT A SLOGAN. Ohio State's secondary is going to be extraordinarily good in 2024.
Since the days of Kerry Coombs (the elite recruiter and developer of cornerbacks in the mid-2010s, not the later version who put Ohio State's defense in a two-year dark age as coordinator), the Buckeyes' defensive backfield has been known as "BIA," or Best in America.
In 2021, the last year of Coombs' DC tenure, that moniker held less weight than ever as Ohio State finished 97th in passing defense nationally, surrendering 246.