Two other quick things before we move on to the USC game. I don't know, I'm not sure if you know, but the football guide for the diehard fan has hit the newsstands. This is a must read, just so you know. It's good though, seriously.

And the other housekeeping thing here, we were able because of the hard work of a lot of our older players, a few of which have graduated already and many of which are graduating in autumn quarter to be able to award some scholarships to some kids as we begin school next week. And Marcus Williams, in particular, is a neat story. He's in our physical therapy school and has been given a fellowship and it's a three-year program and he was given a one-year fellowship to handle the expense of one year and our physical therapy school is allowing him to postpone that for a year to take an athletic scholarship to handle it for his first year and his second year will be handled with the fellowship, And that's' a neat thing for Marcus Williams.

Jonathan Thoma and Andrew Moses will begin being on scholarship this fall and then in the winter, because some guys are, again, graduating this fall, we're allowed to replace and they don't count in your numbers formula and all that stuff, Ryan Schuck, Joe Gantz and Tom Ingham are going to be able to be added to scholarship and it's a pretty neat thing and you can see how appreciative the team was of them when yesterday we made that announcement and it was a pretty neat deal to see the respect that they have for those kids that have been here for a long time getting banged around and getting the team prepared and not many people knowing their names and so forth, but they've been willing to do anything. So that was a neat thing.

Moving backwards now to the weekend, the first thing that pops into my mind is the spectacular effort by so many. Whether it was those 106,000 people who were -- I mean, they were going, I don't know if anyone could say they've seen an environment quite like that one. It was extraordinary. And to be able to put all that together, whoever puts on those games, I mean, incredible work done there.

I thought the effort by our football team was tremendous. They prepared extremely hard for many, many months and the effort throughout the course of the game all the way to the final whistle was a tremendous effort. Our coaches worked extremely hard and prepared hard and coached hard and Southern Cal played hard. They played a physical football game, 60 minutes of it, and obviously they're to be congratulated as well.

It was a tremendous effort. And many times when you have an effort like that and it ends up in disappointment, it's interesting to watch the response to it and so forth and as we were around the guys on Sunday a little bit as they came in the training room, you could kind of gauge just what was going through guys' minds. And one thing I thought was interesting, regardless of which unit you were talking to, special teams guy, a defensive guy, an offensive guy, a coach, whoever you were around, it was interesting to just see how they were feeling and feel how they were feeling and if you think about our special teams, they did a good job.

Our punt unit did a great job. Six punts ended up at the 20 or back. Four of them well inside the 20. And to give that kind of field position in a knockdown dragout game like that, Jonathan Thoma's hang times were fabulous. They were in the four sevens and four eights. I mean, they were outstanding. But you heard the special teams guys talking a little bit about, you know what, 'if we'd have just blocked that punt, we could have made the difference.' And it wasn't about, well, 'if this group should have done that or that group should have done that.' You could hear them talking a little bit, if we could have just done one more thing for the good of the cause.

And then defensively, shoot, we played relentless. Our guys played and played and played. As I heard them talking a little bit around the course of things, I heard them talking about things like, you know what, yeah, we got five three and outs and I don't know how many teams are going to have Southern Cal go three and out five times in a game, which is outstanding, that's our goal to get a team to be out. Our guys were talking about, you know what, if we had one more stop, if we just had one more stop, we could have contributed to a big win.

And then when you see the offense and you hear them talking a little bit about the fact that they were able to make a play here or make a play there and they knew very well that they were playing against a very good defense, but you heard them talking about the fact that, you know what, we had good field position and we didn't take opportunities to get sevens, we got a couple threes, and if we'd have just held the football a little bit longer, if we would have been able to cash in and so forth and really had nothing to do with "he" it had to do with "we."

And as I listened to the coaches and so forth and you guys know how hard those coaches work and you could just hear them talking about the fact that, 'oh, man, if we'd just have made this call or made that call or, I don't know, we were thinking about this one or that one and maybe we should have gone with that one,' you could see that they were taking things very, very personally as to what they could have done to help their guys and make them have a chance to be at the long end of the score rather than the short end. But what really kind of brought it full circle to me was on Monday, we were having a full coaches' meeting with the whole athletic department, all the coaches, and at the end of it, Gene Smith said, 'hey, would you mind if I stop by and said hello to team today in the team meeting?' I said, 'sure, that'd be great.'.

So he stopped in and he said, I just wanted to share with you guys my perspective and the perspective as I talked with people. And he used the phrase, he said, you know, you guys really brought it. He said, you guys really brought it. And then to me what he added to that really is the key to down the road, he said, and if you'll bring it like that the rest of the season, you're going to have a good football team. And that's the truth. If we'll bring it like that, we're going to have a good football team.

Now, the thing that we need to understand is we need to bring it like that every day in our film preparation and our practice and everything that we do in the weight room and getting the proper rest and everything that's a part of becoming good. But that really made a lot of sense to me, you know, that if you'll bring it like you brought it, you're going to end up with a good football team. And you learn sometimes from good times. You learn sometimes from tough times. What's critical for us right now is that we learn and, again, I use the "we." We as coaches, we as offensive players, we as defensive players, we as special teams players, we have to learn how we can just get a little bit better each and every day and go out and attack the University of Toledo.

Toledo blasted Colorado, what, 30-3 at one point. All you have to do, there's one little graphic in their media guide which if it doesn't catch your attention and you play for Ohio State, then you're not paying attention, but if you just look at their games against BCS folks in the 2000s, they start the 2000s out with a 24-6 win over Penn State at Penn State, of course. And just a year ago a victory up in the Big House against Michigan, and if that doesn't give you a little bit of reality.

Tim Beckman's going to do a good job there. Toledo is a great place. I think it's a great football job. You get tough kids. He's got his kids flying around. He's got a senior quarterback, which is, I think, critical in the transition. They've got a veteran guy who's been there, done that and they've done a good job of moving the ball. He threw it like 69 times against Purdue and they were playing Purdue pretty back and forth there and made a couple mistakes, and then bounced right back six days later, had to play on a Friday night, and thrashed Colorado pretty well.

So our guys know, meaning our coaches and our players know, that what's most important is that we analyze where we need to get better and then go to work on getting better and know that we're going to have a heck of an opportunity as we go to Cleveland Stadium, which in my mind will be a thrill for our guys. They sit there their whole lives watching those NFL stadiums and now you have a chance to go play in one of them. It will be a heck of an opportunity for them to go up and compete up there on the lake and against a very good team who's going to be flying around. Coach Beck starts blitzing as soon as they step off the bus, here comes a safety. I mean, they bring them.

So it's going to be a tremendous opportunity. They'll have our defense spread out all over the field and Coach Beck himself coordinates the special units and he was always a creative guy. He was our punt block guy, punt return guy and we did pretty good, a guy named Ginn and we had a few guys that blocked some punts. So it's going to be a heck of an opportunity for us and a heck of a challenge. Every day we need to grow.

REPORTER: Jim, amongst all the --

COACH TRESSEL: How did you know I was done? You could just tell?

REPORTER: Oh, I'm sorry. It was a good pause, I didn't mean to jump in there.

COACH TRESSEL: The point was you heard enough of my baloney. Okay, go ahead. I'm okay with that.

REPORTER: No, sir. Amongst second-guessing that's natural that goes on after a tough loss like that, is there any personal decision now or play call that you regret after thinking about it for a couple days?

COACH TRESSEL: There's a lot of them. There was 150 some plays in that game and if you ask anyone on the offensive side, anytime it was third down and it didn't go or it was fourth and -- third and one and it didn't go, you'd say, well, man, what if we'd have done this? And someone brought up over at the Quarterback Club, well, we probably should have run a quarterback sneak down in there and, shoot, that's very valid. It was the same guy that said that last year against Penn State we shouldn't have run a quarterback sneak, but, yeah, you know, you always question things.

You look at them and you say, was that the best thing based on what they were doing and was that the best thing based upon what we thought we could do well and when it works, you were right. When it doesn't, you weren't. But that's the most difficult thing about playing or coaching is that if you're really competitive, you think about the things you didn't do and you forget all about the things that you did do, but absolutely.

Someone brought to my attention that we had the discussion about should we have kicked a field goal or shouldn't we have and that's a very valid discussion. We were furiously discussing that for 22 seconds or however long we had, and we did what we did and the result was what it was. Someone reminded me that when we played Texas in '05, we did just the opposite. Now, they didn't remind me in those 22 seconds, but on Sunday, they were saying, you know, that was just the opposite of what we did against Texas.

We decided against Texas, we were up by whatever we were and it would have put us up by eight and we went for it and we had a pretty good guy, Josh Huston, I mean, shoot, he was a pretty good kicker and we didn't make it. And Vince Young had 68 yards to work with and worked with it and we came up short there. But you have to make decisions based upon what you think is the best thing for the team. I was very confident that for about the last 50 minutes of the game, defensively we'd done a pretty darn good job and if we kicked them down inside the 10, I was kind of hoping it would get inside the 10, but to the 14 was fine with me, that was good work, you know, that we'd be able to take care of business and you've got to give them credit.

I was talking with Coach Bruce yesterday, that Number 4 for USC is a player. He had a couple runs in there where we were in position and we didn't make the play and he executed on a little route on third and nine that he made the play and 22-yard gain or whatever it was. But, yeah, you go through that again -- because we've got a kicker that can make a 54, but we've also got a kicker that can miss a 54, but, yeah, of course you go through that a million times.

REPORTER: Last week the guys didn't seem to have a shortage of motivation that you probably didn't need to say too much to get them ready to play, but this week, how much of the game preparation is psychological and maybe some of the guys, as much as they practice hard and everything still are thinking about last week and what could have been or what should have been?

COACH TRESSEL: Well, that's human and that's real. How good we're going to be is really going to be determined of how well we can stay in whatever needs to be focused on right now. If we're thinking about last week, we're going to be in trouble. If we're thinking about the Big Ten opening a week from now, we're going to be in trouble. If we're thinking about Toledo and we execute, we've got a chance, And that's' what we have to try to do, but that's not to say that we're not human.

REPORTER: Jim, you talk about molding your offense around the strengths of your quarterback primarily. After two games, how do you feel about how Terrelle's doing and also what would you say you could hang your hat on right now in terms of offensive identity?

COACH TRESSEL: Well, the thing I mentioned to Terrelle when we were talking on Sunday, and obviously Terrelle's highly competitive, and he wanted to be a big reason that we won that game, you know, that's the way he is, that's the way he'll always be, and I'd mentioned to him on Sunday, I said, you know, not that it has any relevance, but keep in mind that at this stage Troy Smith was a kickoff returner and at this stage, Vince Young was getting spot duty going in when things were pretty good with a couple little things to do. At this stage you were lined up against a very good defense with a very young offense and it was tough sledding out there, but we have to grow from it.

And is he human? Absolutely, because no one wants to be a part of great things more than he does, but he's got to keep his focus on now and working on all the little things you have to do. He did some very good things. There was a couple of those throws he put in there that people weren't doing that against USC on the films I watched and he conceptually knew why we were doing it and so forth. There were some other times where maybe things broke down a little bit and it didn't look as good or it wasn't as good and that's part of playing that position especially in those highly competitive games. But if you can grow from that, you know, you have a chance to become good.

REPORTER: Jim, you guys did not select an offensive player of the week or an offensive lineman of the week, is that a reflection of no one grading a winning performance or what goes into that?

COACH TRESSEL: We didn't have enough consistency, we felt, really anywhere to say that that was -- there were -- I thought we hit some plays as opposed to having any things as Ken asked the question which you didn't let me answer of what we have to hang our hat on, I don't know that we got anything to hang our hat on. We hit some plays. We did some things, but we didn't -- now, neither did they. I mean, you can't say that they had a whole bunch of -- so it was one of those kinds of games.

It was a battle, and it was hard to be consistent. So when you have that type of result, it's hard to say that someone was the offensive player of the game because that's typically based on consistency of what we do, and that's not to say everyone played terrible, I don't mean that, but we just, as we kept thinking, what about this guy, what about this guy, well, what about this guy, we just didn't have the consistency that we felt that you have to have.

REPORTER: How significant is this game Saturday for your high school and your connection?

COACH TRESSEL: My high school? Well, it's historic. I think it's the first time Berea High School has ever had two Division I coaches squaring off against one another, to my knowledge, and I don't know that for sure, but I would assume everyone from Berea, Ohio, will show up, but I can't make that promise. They've all called and I don't have enough tickets. It's kind of exciting.

And our families go way back. Tim Beckman's dad was with my dad in 1958 at Baldwin-Wallace and they were in the coaching profession together forever and as fate would have it, 45 years later his son is working with me and did a great job for us, did what he had to do. He went and took a coordinator job and he loved being in Ohio and he loved being in Ohio State and he had goals are being a midwestern head coach but felt like he needed to go and do that and do it well, and so he went to Oklahoma State and did it well and got his opportunity at Toledo and he will do a great job at Toledo.

He's a good football coach. He's an energetic guy, great family. He'll have those guys -- he'll have those guys skidding on their heals. He's a good football coach. And I'm not sure that everything is buzzing around Berea because of this match-up, but maybe.

REPORTER: Is there a comparison, Coach, comparing him to Terrelle Pryor, compared to maybe some of the other freshmen quarterbacks, do we forget it was Terrelle Pryor -- is it a fair comparison to compare Terrelle Pryor with the whole season behind him with the freshmen quarterbacks?

COACH TRESSEL: Situations are so different. For people that don't have anything to do but do that, that's fine. Facts, figures, what about this, what about that. Well, things are so independent of one another and situations are so different, you have to evaluate someone within their situation. I thought Matt Barkley did a good job. I thought he did a good job. They did a good job of not asking too much out of him and he did a good job of not making errors that cost the game. He gave us one add mid-field which we didn't capitalize on.

Now, had we capitalized on that one and gone up significantly and so forth, we might be talking a little different. But I think you have to evaluate it within what's going on around it. And statistics and whatnot are so independent. I guess if you're evaluating homerun hitters, what would be fun is, you know, how many homeruns did they hit against Bob Gibson compared to Tim May, that type of thing, throwing 80 miles an hour. But it's fun to do. We've never complained about people having interest in football. Part of the interest in football is the scrutinization. That's okay. Shoot, look, that's why we write books. Another plug. This is a good book. But we like being a part of something that's scrutinized. So when you say is it fair? I don't know what's unfair about it, it's just someone's opinion.

REPORTER: You said in the teleconference when you look back on the game film you always start with how the coaches' game man plan and how you designed the game, when you look back, do you feel you put your guys in enough positions to win the game?

COACH TRESSEL: No, it was 18-15, obviously we didn't. That's what you start with. I've never left a game saying, you know what, I did my part and they didn't. In fact, I've probably left more games saying, whew, thank goodness they covered me on that one.

I thought Southern Cal did a good job of saying, okay, here's what we can't let happen. They said, we're not going to let Terrelle outside and we've got to see if we can handle him inside with what we'll have there, but we're not going to let him outside. They left themselves a little vulnerable to some things and a couple times we nailed it, a couple times we had it and we didn't nail it. But did we put them in enough situations to be successful? No. If we did, they would have tried to be successful and perhaps we would have.

REPORTER: Did you guys not take advantage of the formation with Ray Small out with the bubble screen? It looked like USC had to make a determination whether or not they were going to take away the bubble screen or take away Dane.

COACH TRESSEL: Right, the one time we hit the one to Dane in that particular situation, they didn't play it the same way all the time. They did -- again, they're allowed to watch the film and stuff too. The thing that hurt them a year ago was the bubble, so they weren't going to let you throw the bubble and they left themselves a little vulnerable in some of their coverages against the seam, not in all of them, but in some of them, and we hit it once. If you hit it twice, maybe you have a -- there's a difference in the game and so forth, but we only hit it once, that vulnerability.

REPORTER: Jim, basically, if you hang your hat on anything, it looks like that Power O or the Dane play where you pull the guard, have you gotten out of that what you thought you would to this point? Do you feel like teams are sort of loading up and catching up to that a certain extent? Obviously the fourth and two play against Navy. You had a touchdown Saturday from it.

COACH TRESSEL: Yeah, if you don't block them, they catch up to all the plays and if you do block them you've got a chance because we've got guys that can break a tackle and there's one thing they can't defend and that's if they've got an extra guy. Boom's a hard hitter, just ask 2. But if you asked about hang-your-hat runs, we just have two basic ones like most people, we have a zone blocking run and we have an off-tackle blocking one, and your isolation/draw things are blocked similar and then you have your short -- your counter-type thing, which again is the Power O, if you will, but I thought we hit a couple zones in there pretty good and we hit one or two of the off-tackles pretty good, but we weren't going to just blast through them.

REPORTER: That said, a little bit the same thing, is Mike Adams now in your good graces or will he figure in?

COACH TRESSEL: He's getting there. We'll see how today goes and the next, but he worked pretty good yesterday.

REPORTER: Just your offensive line in general, as you looked at it, obviously nobody got the Jim Parker award. How did you like the way they played?

COACH TRESSEL: Inconsistently, so I guess I'm not saying I didn't like the way they played and make any inference that someone could snip it out and say, well, here's the problem, but we weren't consistent all the time. There were a couple moments where there was one where they were bringing the blitz and we did a great job of adjusting and, bang, hit it up in there for five or six. But are we rolling on all cylinders? No. Is it hard to roll on all cylinders? Yes. But that's where we've got to gain.

REPORTER: Just in retrospect, there before the half you went for it a little bit, ended up punting, they ended up going down and tying the score, is that one of the things you're second-guessing right now?

COACH TRESSEL: Now I am.

REPORTER: But you understand, what was your thinking there, hey, try to get something here? Obviously what were you thinking?

COACH TRESSEL: Well, we were thinking that whatever the score was, 10-7, 10-7 is not going to be enough and we weren't in horrible field position, I can't remember where we were, 30 or thereabouts, and that there were some things that we did want to go after. So we went after one of them and completed and then we came back and ran it for about five or six and then went to a base thing that we had done before and really had a chance with it, didn't have a great route, so, therefore, we didn't execute it, and then punted them down to wherever with -- I think there was 48 seconds left or something in the half and would I rather have had the half have ended? Sure.

Did I think that it was being dare-devil to punt it back to them with 48 seconds? No, but they hit a run and we got outleveraged and all of a sudden now, someone brought up the fact that when you give a good team a little bit of momentum, a little confidence, a little field position, that's why the special teams were so extraordinary. We laid them back in there all game long, when they got out a little bit is when they became more dangerous. So do I second-guess it now? Of course. I should have taken three knees and enjoyed the reception on the way to the locker room.

REPORTER: What do you say to your defense now --

COACH TRESSEL: Does anyone know Tim May? Just one more?

REPORTER: Second and 19 from the five-yard line and then they go for the winning touchdown.

COACH TRESSEL: Oh, I know.

REPORTER: What do you say to your defense now? Obviously you would liked to have scored more points.

COACH TRESSEL: Sure.

REPORTER: But that seemed like almost an ideal situation to drop the hammer.

COACH TRESSEL: Well, and they got, I think, 10 yards on that play so it's still third and nine and then they hit a play and they executed and made 22 and then got to rolling a little bit and what do you say to your defense? Gosh, if you watch the defensive film, you say you guys played like a son of a gun and, yeah, we do need more points. Now, that's outside of your world, but no one's embarrassed about the way our defense played. And like I heard some of the defensive kids I said at the outset, their mindset was, we needed one more stop and that's the way they evaluate themselves.

REPORTER: How are your emails running? I'm just curious because it's very difficult to quantify fan unrest, and these people, they squawk for a couple days and then they go away and they'll be cheering you if you go 11-1, but I've never heard people kind of take you on like I've heard the last couple of days. Have you heard any of that and does it matter?

COACH TRESSEL: I probably haven't gotten as many as you have, but we get lots of emails every week, even when we win, so those don't affect you any more than the effect you put on yourself when you're watching the film. Those people had nothing to do with you deciding to do this or that.

So, you know, honestly, the thing when I read some of them is I feel terrible for them because there's no way they're happy. They've got to be some of the most unhappy people in the world, and I feel bad because we just made them less happy, and I hate to be a part of making someone less happy. I mean, they're already miserable and some make them less happy I'd feel bad.

REPORTER: It seems like you've been on a nine-year honeymoon, though, it's the only time I've seen people really, "he's got to go."

COACH TRESSEL: You felt like it's been a nine-year honeymoon? You must not have liked your honeymoon.

REPORTER: No, for you.

REPORTER: You like being a part of the offense and having your role in the offense, could you ever foresee a time when you are not an integral part of making play calls and being a part of the offense?

COACH TRESSEL: I've always told you guys never say never, but I've also always told you that I'm probably not going to sit in my office or read the USA Today or watch talk radio and get a headache, so I try to be helpful in every phase, whether it's the punt team or the defense or the offense. I spend more time with the offense. I enjoy working with quarterbacks, but I don't work with them on a daily basis in their meeting rooms and all that type of thing, but, no, I think I would have a hard time being at this press conference and you saying, you know, something about the offense or whatever and I had no clue. That, to me, I might as well send somebody else.

REPORTER: We ask you about defense.

COACH TRESSEL: But I tell you I have no clue. I have no part. And you guys remind me, you know what, defense has been pretty good on this nine-year honeymoon, but I think you've got to try to be a part of things.

REPORTER: Jim, the end of the 2006 season you guys put 42 on Michigan in a one versus two game with a senior quarterback and a bunch of senior guys, but the results against top teams, three against USC last year, six against Penn State, 21 against Texas and now 15 against USC, I know the game plan wasn't exactly the same in all those games, but your overall offensive philosophy, do you question that at all? Is that still enough to get it done against the top teams?

COACH TRESSEL: Do we go in thinking that 15 is? No.

REPORTER: No, I know you know that's not enough. You said after the game that's not enough points to score.

COACH TRESSEL: Right.

REPORTER: But how do you go about with your offensive game plan, what you hope to accomplish as an offense, what you run?

COACH TRESSEL: Oh, constantly questioning it. There's no question.

REPORTER: Do you think you're ever close to changing that, I mean, wholesale change to sort of how you go about things?

COACH TRESSEL: I'm not sure exactly what a wholesale change would entail. I mean, are we going to go to the Navy triple option? Probably not. Don't know anything about it. Will we go conceptually to this or that, we think can add to the -- if you look at our teams from 2001 on, they haven't been exactly the same because, you know, you don't have the same people. But I don't know that we would make a wholesale, you know what, this isn't a good idea, this wouldn't work even if we did execute it, because that's the only reason you do it.

REPORTER: Just the general idea maybe of we know you feel it's important to win the field position battle and that kind of thing.

COACH TRESSEL: That won't change.

REPORTER: Just open if up more and maybe not play to that theory as much.

COACH TRESSEL: No, I'll always believe that you win tough ball games by making sure that you're the group that makes less mistakes, wins that field position battle, wins the battle in the trenches statistically, and you guys love statistics, that is true. So, no, I philosophically wouldn't go against that, and I think the people that maybe line up differently than we do or might be perceived differently than we do, the games that that happens for them are the ones they win, just because it might look a little bit different.

REPORTER: Jim, I want to go back to something Ken brought up earlier. I think a lot of people assumed that Terrelle would be the identity of this offense. Is that realistic and what do you perceive to be the identity of this offense?

COACH TRESSEL: Well, your quarterback really always is. Even when you have Beanie Wells and they're loading up the box, Todd Boeckman had to be a good deep thrower and you had to do this or that because if you only have one phase, you're in trouble. Will Terrelle end up being a tremendous part of this offense? Absolutely. At the end of the day, he's, I believe, going to be an outstanding quarterback, but was he the identity of the offense Saturday night? Well, the things that we hit, he was, but things that we didn't, we weren't, so -- yes, sir?

REPORTER: You mentioned earlier about keeping the eye on Toledo and if you're thinking back to last week or thinking ahead, it's bad. After a game like last Saturday where there's so much emotion, is that a message you hit harder this week than maybe other weeks with the team or are these guys flipping on the film and they can figure out, we've got to move on?

COACH TRESSEL: Probably only if you sense that that's not going on, if all of a sudden you sense your guys walking around in outerspace and not glued into what the defensive staff is preparing or the offensive staff or the special teams meeting. If you sense that there's not a focus there, I'm sure you would. Haven't gotten to that point yet. Yesterday, there didn't seem like any need for that.

Now, it's a long week and today's another workday, but, no, it's not anything you stand on your head -- because my experience has been every time I stand on my head and try to convince them of something, it doesn't work. We have to hopefully have grown to understand that and if we have, we'll compete. If we haven't, we'll learn another tough lesson, but there's a growth process. What we say to them on a given -- they're a great bunch of guys and they listen closely, but if someone's thinking something, even our coaching staff can't say to them, whatever, and they change their thinking at that moment, that's just not the way -- Coach Bruce always had a saying that I listened to closely, he said, "A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still."

So whatever they've grown to have as their opinion, how they think about things, you're probably not going to change that by just saying, oh, by the way -- Lori, we better get one more here. I've got those troops out there. Oh, my gosh, we've gone forever. Thank you for bringing up Toledo, by the way.

REPORTER: How much freedom at this point does Terrelle Pryor have to pull out of plays and is he making good adjustments more often than not when he needs to?

COACH TRESSEL: In our run game, we have a significant amount of checks, simply for looks and he has to do it well, and does, hasn't erred this year, that I can think of. In the pass game, a lot of the decisions are made up front and he has to know what they're doing so he knows who's free. Just wait till this week, as you watch Toledo, they're bringing more than you can block. That's just the way it is. Your line better figure out where they're bringing them from, and he better figure out who's free, and that's part of the fun of coaching that position and it's a lot of the fun of playing that position if you know where the free guy is, because if you don't, you get hit in the back of the head. Ask the guy from Colorado. I mean, he got hit in the back of the head a number of times. So is he all the way there? No. Are we all the way there? No. Are we working like crazy to try to get there? Yeah. And so is he.