A former college football coach phoned me out of the blue this week, fired up to discuss Ohio State’s loss to Penn State last Saturday.
“The best thing that could have happened to them,” he said of the Buckeyes’ 24-21 setback in Happy Valley.
Huh?
“Not that you ever want to have to lose to learn a lesson, but they will get better because of this,” the coach continued. “Sometimes you need adversity to make you actually work on the things you only say you’re working on.”
Such as?
“Take special teams play, for example,” he said.