COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Off weeks are a busy time for football recruiting, and Ohio State assistants hit the road Monday to deal with future Buckeyes. But not all of them.

Urban Meyer kept the coordinators in Columbus to work on the problems with this Ohio State team.

"Not to take away from recruiting, but obviously there are some things that have to get corrected," Meyer said Tuesday.

Meyer didn't specify if he meant offensive coordinators Ryan Day and Kevin Wilson and defensive coordinators Greg Schiano and Alex Grinch, or if maybe he just kept Day and Schiano back. Either way, to take anything away from recruiting shows Meyer is serious.

All the quotes you'll read from Meyer right now are from the regular Tuesday Big Ten coaches call, when each of the league's 14 coaches get an eight-minute session with reporters calling in from everywhere. It is by nature rushed and disjointed, so there's little depth to anything you'll read here.

But Meyer did not meet with reporters Monday, as he does during game weeks. That's the usual plan for him, to not meet during a bye week. He also is not expected to meet with reporters on Wednesday.

So to hear from the boss of the 7-1 Buckeyes, this is it for now. Meyer on Tuesday sounded like a man who knows his team has a lot of problems, and he doesn't have a lot of answers yet. He also doesn't want to reveal what they're thinking during the process.

But Meyer did claim the offense and defensive coaches each had 12-hour sessions Monday to find some fixes.

One was on how to get the run game working with Dwayne Haskins, who is not a run threat, at quarterback.

"That is something that's a focus for the next two weeks," Meyer said. "That has to happen. Take advantage of our backs, and our backs have got to run through some tackles a little more aggressively. And that's something that has to happen."

The other was on stopping big plays on defense, and the Buckeyes got to talk about scheme and strategy in a way they can't during a typical game week, when it's all about practice and getting ready for the next opponent.

"We're having those conversations and working through that," Meyer said. "You can't really have any scheme conversations during the season. So this gives us a chance to evaluate and if we want to work on things, work on that this week and next week."

One of those scheme areas on defense is having the linebackers play so close to line. Purdue coach Jeff Brohm, during his turn on the call, said the Boilermakers thought they could work the middle of the field because the OSU linebackers play so far up.

"We are looking into that," Meyer said.

Will anything drastically change, in any area?

"That has not been determined yet," Meyer said. "We'll practice things and we'll know more."

Meyer also addressed a report about friction between Meyer and athletic director Gene Smith.

"There's no tension there," Meyer said. "I work with Gene on a darn near daily basis and there's no tension there."

As for the idea of any tension within the coaching staff, Meyer made it sound like there should be some after a 29-point loss when the head coach is questioning what they're doing wrong in some areas.

"There's things that need to be fixed," Meyer said. "I wouldn't call it tension. I would call it day to day going to work and working on your weaknesses and getting them fixed. So there's no tension. It's urgency, I'd call it."