Come and Get Your Love...

or, Take good care of the people who take care of you.*

ARLINGTON, Tex. — With 28 seconds left in the national championship game, Ohio State running back Ezekiel Elliott scored his fourth and final touchdown. After celebrating in the end zone, he ran to the sideline, where he slapped hands with one of the most famous athletes in the world, LeBron James, who banged his helmet with pride as Elliott jogged off to be with his teammates.
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Elliott committed to Ohio State not half a year after Meyer became head coach and more than a year before Elliott graduated high school. He helped John Burroughs, a private school west of downtown St. Louis, reach the state championship in his senior year.

Recruiting him was not the easiest task, Meyer said at a news conference Tuesday morning, because his parents, Stacy and Dawn, were athletes at Missouri, Stacy in football and Dawn in track.

“His dad got real involved, and his dad’s issue is that he loves his son so much that he was right in the middle to the point where it drove us nuts,” Meyer said, explaining that Elliott’s father was concerned his son could get crowded out by other running backs on the roster.

Things, you could say, have been patched up: The Elliotts have had Thanksgiving dinner at Meyer’s house the past two years.

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A Big Ten team winning the national title over a Pacific-12 team with a running back carrying the ball 36 times hearkened back to an earlier era of college football.

It was a triumph for Meyer’s system, which combines the spread offense he helped invent more than a decade ago at Utah and which he used to win two national titles at Florida with the ground-and-pound mentality one expects from a traditional Big Ten program.

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On Tuesday morning, Meyer reconciled the two aspects of his offense, which will presumably keep him in the title conversation for the foreseeable future.

“I hear people say we’re a spread offense, but it’s a line‑of‑scrimmage league.  You win on the offensive line and defensive line. When we get on a plane first class, the quarterback doesn’t sit up there.”

He turned to [Quarterback Cardale] Jones, who sat next to him, and said: “Who sits up there?”

Jones was ready with the answer: “The offensive line.”

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 "Come and Get Your Love...Come and Get Your Love...Come and Get Your Love Now..."

~ Redbone

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Never Forget.