Written by Duane Long
| 15 July 2009
I am not satisfied with 9 wins or 10 wins a year and the occasional run at the championship. Being one of the top programs in the country is not good enough. I want greatness for this program, and we are so close. That is what you are seeing right now with my inability to stay away from the offensive line topic. I see one thing that has been so key to keeping us from winning another championship. Put us in that class where we are automatically a national championship contender just because we are that good every year. USC is the one school that has climbed into that class and not left for about a decade. Florida and LSU are there right now. Texas might be in there right now. Oklahoma was there. Jury is still out on whether they still are. The definition of crazy is to keep doing the same thing over and over again but expecting a different result. I have lost faith, and I am frustrated. Really, it has been going on for a while. I can't shake Gerald Cadogan from my mind. Where are we last year of Boone can play right tackle and we can line up Cadogan on the left side? We had room and he would have said yes. We decided to pass because of the numbers that we are determined to keep low. I don't know if you can recruit the position so well, project these big kids so well at such an early stage, that you can keep the success rate up high enough to offset the advantage you have with more big athletic bodies to develop on the roster. I don't know if anyone can. I am sure that we aren't.
We are doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result. We need to do something different and we need to do it as soon as possible. That is where my frustration comes to a head. Jim Tressel will not fire Jim Bollman. If Bollman will not retire we will continue to come up short.
