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As a Buckeye fan I waited for 2 years hoping to watch Joe start but sadly Urban was (unwisely) devoted to J.T.Barrett. His devotion to players and staff members are sometimes detrimental to the program, as you may have noticed recently.

Are you referring to the JT Barrett below when you say Meyer "unwisely" was devoted to him? And for two years you wanted Joe Burrow to be the starter over him? If so, either you are psychotically biased or Joe Burrow will lead LSU to a minimum 11-2 season and be a Heisman finalist. We'll have to wait and see. In fact, I hope you are right! That would be fantastic for LSU and Burrow would be on the level of Cam Newton as a transfer QB. But I'm sure can understand me being just a little bit skeptical.

Barrett was named Conference Freshman of the Week seven times and received the Big Ten's Thompson–Randle El Freshman of the Year award. He received the Big Ten's Griese–Brees Quarterback of the Year award in 2014, 2016 and 2017. Barrett was named First Team All-Big Ten in 2014, 2016 and 2017 by both conference coaches and media. Barrett earned Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week honors nine times.

Barrett is the first quarterback in Buckeyes history to go 4–0 as a starter against their top rival, Michigan.
Barrett is the only three-time captain in the history of the Buckeyes football team.

School and Conference Records

Barrett accumulated more than 25 Ohio State records including most total yards in a season (3,851) and most touchdowns in a season (47) as well as most career passing yards (9,434) and completions (769). Additionally, he has several Big Ten Conference records including most career passing touchdowns (104) and total touchdowns (147) as well as he passed Drew Brees for most career offensive yards with 12,697.

Barrett was 38-6 in the 44 games he started at OSU. He completed 63.5% of his passes for 104 TDs with 30 Ints. He ran 656 time for 3,263 yards (4.9/carry) for 43 TDs for a total of 147 TDs!

On May 3, 2018, Barrett signed a three-year deal with the Saints as an undrafted free agent.

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Posted by SDP

Member since Aug 2018

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Posted on 8/28/18 at 12:17 pm to justustm2

Without going line for line with your comments I'll say Barrett played great as a freshman. He slowly declined from that point on.
He did not play in any of the championship playoff games including beating Wisconsin the same year.
OSU would have lost to Michigan last year if Haskins had not replaced Barrett.
Dabo Sweeney's comment "we're not worried" was because OSU's offense was one dimensional, he knew Barrett couldn't throw the ball more than 5 yards down the field which is where all his completions came from.
Any decent QB would have had the records and numbers if they played on the same team as Barrett crom their freshman season on.

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Posted by Diogi

Member since Sep 2017

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Posted on 8/28/18 at 12:53 pm to justustm2