Buckeyes aiming high // Kacherski brings fire back to OSU Series: BIG TEN PREVIEW // Ohio State

"We could have had Woody Hayes on the sidelines against Air Force(in the Liberty Bowl), and we still wouldn't have won. Everyone ispointing fingers (at coach John Cooper). It's wrong. It's ashame." - Ohio State linebacker John Kacherski

Perhaps no player in an Ohio State uniform is as brutally honestas linebacker John Kacherski.

At 24, Kacherski is a fifth-year senior and the Buckeyes' elderstatesman, a player who's attempting a comeback after sitting out thelast two years because of injuries to his right knee. His ordealincluded surgery to repair his anterior cruciate ligament.

Like the rest of the world, Kacherski is aware that unlessCooper, whose …