Urban Meyer grinned the grin of a coach who successfully executed a magician’s sleight of hand without having anything up his sleeve.
Just when the media and fans thought Meyer would pull Braxton Miller out of a hat to play quarterback, including having the former QB-turned-hybrid run and throw against Minnesota on Saturday, the Ohio State coach went with the same old trick: getting us to pay attention to a move that was never going to happen in the first place.
It’s called gamesmanship. Meyer devised a diversionary tactic — a smokescreen — and coaxed it along with the help of an audience that wanted to believe it.