Mickey Marotti

Game day was there back in 2003 in Ann Arbor.

And Mickey Marotti, one of the best strength coaches in the country, now at Ohio State, he made us do 38 reps of whatever it was that next offseason.

So the spring, summer, you'd be doing a leg press of 600 pounds.

And he'd say, give me 38 reps.

And we could say, well, that, that can be the reality moving forward.

If Ohio State decides that it wants to go through that process every year and push Mickey Marotti and the coaching staff to the brink, and you have Matt Patricia last week talking about being behind on personnel and figuring out what guys do.

Like, Ohio State could do that.

They have the resources, and they have now a system in place to accommodate that.

He is as good at his job in college football as anyone.

Same as like Mickey M- I, I had a tweet earlier this season actually that Phil Parker and Mickey Marotti are two guys that are as good at what they do in college football as anybody at any job in any role from head coach all the way down.

And, uh, so it, uh, I'm excited to watch this game.

I mean, I, I'm picking Ohio State to beat Iowa on the road.

I think Epi Satonale is building to a level where he might – I mean, he was getting more – run than Kyrie Wilder.

So, and he's also got a full year of experience and knowledge of the system and working out in the weight room with Mickey Marotti and all the rest of those things.

I think That was a positive performance from him.

Jameer Perez, I think, has to be more of a specialized role.

Game day was there back in 2003 in Ann Arbor.

And Mickey Marotti, one of the best strength coaches in the country, now at Ohio State, he made us do 38 reps of whatever it was that next offseason.

So the spring, summer, you'd be doing a leg press of 600 pounds.

And he'd say, give me 38 reps.

And now he's back and it's like we had a whole year and it's like, doesn't have to burst, doesn't have to burst, doesn't have to burst.

Okay, we all like to say that Mickey Marotti is the best in the country.

We all like to prop up guys 40 times when they get here versus when they leave here.

What would make it any different for Bo Jackson, who really, out of every true freshman that I've seen play at Ohio State in the last 10 years, had the least amount of high-level strength and conditioning when he got to the program?