Urban Meyer once said Cardale Jones had a “one-way bus ticket back to Cleveland" if he didn't get his head on straight.
Now, Ohio State's head coach isn't shy about shining praise toward the player who quarterbacked the Buckeyes to Big Ten, Sugar Bowl and national championships to cap the 2014 season.
"On a 1-10 (scale), 10. I did not see that in him and that's not a shot, that's on his eval," Meyer said in Chicago at Big Ten Media Days. "But his preparation for the Alabama game has just changed my whole (perspective), and really it's continued all the way through.