Ben Gilbert: belief

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…Yeah, again, now that I'm a parent, I'm like, oh, my gosh, how does she not burst into tears? I'd be mortified just for my kid. The next week was Ohio State, it's the same thing. There were these things called junior days. This was before recruiting got crazy. I went to Ohio State and it could not have been more different. We walked in, Coach Tressel grabbed us the second we got in, pulled us into his office. We had a private meeting. He kind of went through—this is only a second year on staff—his priorities for the program, how he saw it, how he could see me fitting into it, all those sorts of things, exactly what you would do if you're trying to sell somebody. I walked out and I said, that felt a little bit better. I was an impressionable 16 year old. We'll consider it. I know this is a tech and business podcast, but you got to make it about the glory of Ohio State football for a minute here. I think what you're explaining is a microcosm that really outlines why the next decade-plus went the way that it did. I think that's probably right. Tressel lost, I think, once to Michigan in his second year and then never again. They haven't won much until last year. If we want to look at causes, I think Coach Tressel is definitely on the short list of reasons why the tide turned on that rivalry. I got home from that junior day and my dad, I wasn't sure how to tell him because he went to Michigan. I just kind of played it cool. I was like okay, it was nice. It was fun, but they hadn't offered me a scholarship yet. A couple of weeks later, there was this banquet in Massillon, Ohio, a big football town.…

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