Chris Holtmann looked down at the black cloth-covered table and began to run his hands through the microphone cord in front of him. Sitting in the same room in the bowels of the Schottenstein Center in which he always gives his press conferences, a knowing smirk slowly came across his face as he began to answer a question.
As he and his Ohio State team prepared for an exhibition with Cedarville, which they won 95-52, Holtmann understood he had almost made it to the beginning of the season without one of the main internal motivators for his team becoming public.