With the start of high school football just six weeks away, the focus is on those key players that portend success and failure, even for average teams. Regardless of what they've won and who they've lost, quarterbacks will dictate the conversation and headlines in 2025 area football (Tipp's Larkin Thomas, above).
Senior point guards' return for his senior season gives Jake Diebler’s second season as head coach a much better shot at success in the Big Ten and the opportunity to earn the program’s first NCAA Tournament bid since 2022. Part 4 of a summer series on the building of the 2025-2026 basketball Buckeyes.





