Miles’ opening statement: Well, unfortunately, I thought that we beat ourselves. I know you have to credit Ohio State with their pressure late. The last 13 minutes they really did an excellent job of getting us rattled. Their physical defense out front I thought really got to us, too. But really at the end of the day, when you have a lead like that, you should be able to hold it and keep it and find a way to win, but unfortunately we weren’t able to.
Credit them, but at the end of the day, I’m going to put this one on us and me and not finding a better way to attack their pressure.
I thought we had practiced it relatively well during the week, had plenty of reps, but it’s hard to simulate, and you never know how physical the game gets. Craft and Scott were so physical the last six minutes of the game that it just gets you out of your rhythm. There’s no doubt about that.