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Buckskin86
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Buckeyes still relish remarkable 2002 run
Luck or talent? To players, it?s a championship just same
BY DAVID BRIGGS
BLADE SPORTS WRITER
Coach Jim Tressel and Ohio State celebrated a BCS championship with a 31-24 double-overtime victory against Miami in January, 2003. That team will be honored Nov. 24 in Columbus. ASSOCIATED PRESS Enlarge
COLUMBUS ? The old teammates who will reassemble at Ohio Stadium later this month seemed guided by a once-in-a-generation cosmic streak.
Maybe they were, too.
Ohio State?s run to the 2002 national championship suspended wonder. The 15 losses during the previous three seasons. The recurring heart-trembling drama that summoned the divine for explanation (Holy Buckeye!). The double-overtime takedown of a Miami team favored to win the championship game by double digits.
?I?m not afraid to say it,? said Maurice Hall, a running back on that team. ?I think it was destiny.?
But time has proven there was something more to the success of a team that renewed the romance between a school and its state.
?People say it was just one of those years where it was meant to be,? former coach Jim Tressel told The Blade in a phone interview. ?I?m thinking, ?Oh boy, there was a bunch of work put into that.? It wasn?t like they lined up at the beginning of 14 games and knew that something was meant to be. They made it to be.?
Ten years later, they continue to do so. The homespun narrative of a team that performed high over its head no longer holds the same weight.
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http://www.toledoblade.com/Ohio-Sta...To-players-it-s-a-championship-just-same.html
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hdcolumbus
Climb to Glory
A Decade Ago...Tribute to the 2002 National Championship Season...[Vid]
I can't believe I made this 10 years ago...What took me weeks then, would now take a couple of hours today.
Enjoy...
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iN_D-gXAJ8"]Ohio State Buckeyes Football - 2002 - National Championship Year - YouTube[/ame]
M* Still sucks.
I can't believe I made this 10 years ago...What took me weeks then, would now take a couple of hours today.
Enjoy...
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iN_D-gXAJ8"]Ohio State Buckeyes Football - 2002 - National Championship Year - YouTube[/ame]
M* Still sucks.
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darbypitcher22
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That was awesome! Go Bucks! Just seems fitting that this team is getting honored this weekend with all that's at stake
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Buckskin86
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Doug Lesmerises Skull Session
November 25, 2012
Former Ohio State coach Jim Tressel is lifted onto the shoulders of his former players as the 2002 Ohio State team was recognized at Ohio Stadium on Saturday. (Photo by Marvin Fong, The Plain Dealer)
COLUMBUS, Ohio ? Excited by their perfect season, the Ohio State players lifted their coach onto their shoulders and paraded him around the field at Ohio Stadium to cheers from the crowd.
This was not Urban Meyer and the 2012 Buckeyes after beating Michigan, 26-21, on Saturday ? Meyer stayed on the ground.
It was Jim Tressel and the 2002 Buckeyes, when that team was honored in the north end zone between the first and second quarters.
About 65 members of the national title team were on hand for the 10-year anniversary, with Tressel front and center in an OSU letterman?s jacket. Captain Mike Doss, who organized the reunion, led the way in hoisting Tressel into the air. And Tressel?s moment earned one of the loudest ovations on a Senior Day against Michigan as the Buckeyes finished 12-0.
This year?s team is living with NCAA sanctions created by Tressel?s violations. But a lot of OSU fans made it clear where they stand. The reaction, from the current Buckeyes on the sideline as well, proved that most were far more appreciative of Tressel?s actions that led to a national title than those that prevented this Ohio State team from possibly having a chance to play for one.
?All the guys who knew him, we stood up and clapped for him,? said senior right tackle Reid Fragel. ?That sent chills down my spine. It was a special moment, for sure, to be able to see him out there on the field.?
?That was awesome,? said senior receiver Jake Stoneburner. ?I kind of teared up a little bit because that?s who I came here to play for. He?s a legend.?
A year ago, with Luke Fickell running the show, Tressel spoke to the team before the players headed to Michigan to end the regular season. This time, the players said Tressel had no interaction with the team during the week. Tressel will have more time with his ?02 team at Tuesday night?s banquet put on by the OSU Alumni Club of Greater Cleveland.
But even Fickell, typically a locked-in-the-moment kind of guy, said he noticed when his former boss rose above the players in the end zone and waved to the crowd.
?I thought that was really special,? Fickell said. ?I couldn?t help but have some really good feelings for that. But then, it was right back at it.?
http://www.cleveland.com/osu/index.ssf/2012/11/doug_lesmerises_skull_session.html#incart_river
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Buckskin86
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Salute to OSU's 2002 champions includes emotional embrace for Jim Tressel: Bill Livingston
Published: Tuesday, November 27, 2012
By Bill Livingston, The Plain Dealer
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- For Jim Tressel, the former Ohio State coach who brought both great joy and great pain to the school and the state, his workplace was also, in a way, his home.
"I got a letter from a guy the other day who apparently had lived in the same house I lived in when I was an assistant coach at Ohio State," said Tressel, referring to his time as an aide to Earle Bruce in 1983-85. "Back in 1970, when they went from grass to turf, his family had replanted some of the old grass from the stadium in that lawn. So all the time I lived there, I had some of the stadium grass in my lawn."
The saying "Once a Buckeye, always a Buckeye" is certainly not true for everyone. Ohio State is too big, too rich, too arrogant for many. But it is true for Tressel and many others.
"Ohio State is bigger than any one team or any one [coach's] tenure," said Tressel. "Ohio State is such a part of our culture. It's not just about the people who went to Ohio State. It's everyone in the state. No matter where you went to college, part of you is a Buckeye."
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http://www.cleveland.com/livingston/index.ssf/2012/11/salute_to_osus_2002_champions.html
2002 National Champs Celebrate 10th Anniversary Of Title At Alumni Banquet
By DARYL RUITER, 92.3 The Fan
November 27, 2012
Members of the 2002 National Championship team pose for a picture prior to the OSU Alumni Club of Greater Cleveland Football Banquet / (Photo by Daryl Ruiter CBS Cleveland)
CLEVELAND (92.3 The Fan) – They accomplished the improbable – beating the top ranked Miami Hurricanes, who had won 24 straight games under coach Larry Coker, to secure Ohio State’s first football national championship in 34 years.
10 years later, nearly a dozen members of the 2002 National Champions gathered at the 60th Annual OSU Alumni Club of Greater Cleveland Football Banquet Tuesday evening at Windows on the River in the flats to remember a season for the ages.
Starting cornerback and current afternoon co-host on 92.3 The Fan, Dustin Fox emceed the event which was attended by former coach Jim Tressel, who now works at the University of Akron as the Vice President for Strategic Engagement.
The past few days have felt like a homecoming for Tressel.
His failure to report violations prior to the 2010 season and playing ineligible players involved in the tattoo and memorabilia scandal led to his forced resignation and a bowl ban for this year’s team.
Tressel admitted Tuesday night, he has plenty of regrets.
“Obviously, you feel terrible about that,” Tressel said. “Of course you feel regrets for anything that didn’t go the way you would want it to go, especially when you were a part of it.
“What makes you proud is that they knew that [there was a bowl ban] going into the season and yet what was most important was being undefeated for Ohio State and I thought that was pretty special.”
Former players love Tressel like a father and it showed Saturday at the ‘Shoe when they hoisted their former coach onto their shoulders while the 2002 team was honored in front of 106,000.
“It was special to be there with those guys, to be there with those fans,” Tressel said of the tribute. “There’s no place like OSU. It was one of those once in a lifetime moments.”
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http://cleveland.cbslocal.com/2012/...-10th-anniversary-of-title-at-alumni-banquet/
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ScriptOhio
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The Flag Seen Around the World
Let’s remember the most important game in Buckeye history, 15 years later
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The 2003 Fiesta Bowl started, as seemingly every national title game had for as long as national titles had been played, with a hearty “Hello again, Keith Jackson here along with Dan Fouts,” from the voice of ultimate authority in college football. The 13-0 Buckeyes were set to take on the defending champion 12-0 Miami Hurricanes. The pair of blue-bloods would spend the next four hours battling for the “Circuit City National Championship Trophy” (a very funny sentence in 2018), but little did they know this would turn out to be not just a championship game, but rather, the most important game in the history of either school.
Most Buckeye fans know what happened in the 2002 season, even if they weren’t old enough to truly follow it. Ohio State, led by Youngstown legends Jim Tressel and Maurice Clarett, underwent one of the most chaotic seasons in the history of the program, and rode the chaos to a title berth, after close victories over Cincinnati, Wisconsin, Penn State, Purdue, Illinois, and Michigan.
The regular season isn’t the story here. That isn’t what we need to remember, or learn from, or honor. No, the most important part of that season happened exactly 15 years ago today.
“And here are the Ohio State Buckeyes”. Read that is Keith Jackson’s voice. Remember where you were during this game. Remember how you felt, how excited you were, how nervous you were. The Buckeyes had the chance to win a national title for the first time since 1970, and the only thing standing in their way was one of the greatest college football teams of all time.
“Miami in winning the toss, defers, they will give the Ohio State Buckeyes the ball first”. The game started as so many had for Ohio State in 2002: slowly. The teams traded punts, before Miami struck first, with a touchdown pass to Roscoe Parrish, who had blown past Mike Doss. It’s fun to look back at wins, because you forget how mad you were during the game. Mike Doss had no business covering Parrish, but Dustin Fox was on the wrong side of the field, away from his assignment.
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It doesn’t really matter if the call was right, at this point. That game has been finished for 15 years, and nothing anyone can say or do will change that. The call, much like everything else that wasn’t positive for Ohio State, has mostly left the minds of Buckeyes fans around the nation. Ohio State won, and because of that, we remember the Fox and Doss interceptions, the Krenzel touchdown, Maurice Clarett chasing down and stripping Sean Taylor after an interception, the game winning touchdown, and the fourth down incompletion that sealed the game in double overtime.
We don’t remember the bad, because there’s no reason to. That’s what fandom is all about. The specifics don’t matter when you win the game, and in winning this game, Ohio State may have saved themselves from the kind of obscurity that major schools like Tennessee, Nebraska, Florida and Michigan are currently finding themselves in.
It’s impossible to say for sure that Ohio State wouldn’t have still been great under Jim Tressel if they lose this game. Hell, they probably would’ve been fine, because Tressel was a very talented coach, but this win did more for Ohio State’s reputation, relevance, and respect in the college football world than any one game has or will, in the history of the program.
If Ohio State loses the 2003 Fiesta Bowl, does that incredible 2002 team fade from our collective memory, just like the bad plays did? Does the Jim Tressel era do the same, without a title to boast?
Entire article: https://www.landgrantholyland.com/2...nal-championship-miami-2003-pass-interference
Summer's heat or winter's cold
The seasons pass the years will roll
It sure doesn't seem like it has been 15 years now...........
Let’s remember the most important game in Buckeye history, 15 years later
The 2003 Fiesta Bowl started, as seemingly every national title game had for as long as national titles had been played, with a hearty “Hello again, Keith Jackson here along with Dan Fouts,” from the voice of ultimate authority in college football. The 13-0 Buckeyes were set to take on the defending champion 12-0 Miami Hurricanes. The pair of blue-bloods would spend the next four hours battling for the “Circuit City National Championship Trophy” (a very funny sentence in 2018), but little did they know this would turn out to be not just a championship game, but rather, the most important game in the history of either school.
Most Buckeye fans know what happened in the 2002 season, even if they weren’t old enough to truly follow it. Ohio State, led by Youngstown legends Jim Tressel and Maurice Clarett, underwent one of the most chaotic seasons in the history of the program, and rode the chaos to a title berth, after close victories over Cincinnati, Wisconsin, Penn State, Purdue, Illinois, and Michigan.
The regular season isn’t the story here. That isn’t what we need to remember, or learn from, or honor. No, the most important part of that season happened exactly 15 years ago today.
“And here are the Ohio State Buckeyes”. Read that is Keith Jackson’s voice. Remember where you were during this game. Remember how you felt, how excited you were, how nervous you were. The Buckeyes had the chance to win a national title for the first time since 1970, and the only thing standing in their way was one of the greatest college football teams of all time.
“Miami in winning the toss, defers, they will give the Ohio State Buckeyes the ball first”. The game started as so many had for Ohio State in 2002: slowly. The teams traded punts, before Miami struck first, with a touchdown pass to Roscoe Parrish, who had blown past Mike Doss. It’s fun to look back at wins, because you forget how mad you were during the game. Mike Doss had no business covering Parrish, but Dustin Fox was on the wrong side of the field, away from his assignment.
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continued
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It doesn’t really matter if the call was right, at this point. That game has been finished for 15 years, and nothing anyone can say or do will change that. The call, much like everything else that wasn’t positive for Ohio State, has mostly left the minds of Buckeyes fans around the nation. Ohio State won, and because of that, we remember the Fox and Doss interceptions, the Krenzel touchdown, Maurice Clarett chasing down and stripping Sean Taylor after an interception, the game winning touchdown, and the fourth down incompletion that sealed the game in double overtime.
We don’t remember the bad, because there’s no reason to. That’s what fandom is all about. The specifics don’t matter when you win the game, and in winning this game, Ohio State may have saved themselves from the kind of obscurity that major schools like Tennessee, Nebraska, Florida and Michigan are currently finding themselves in.
It’s impossible to say for sure that Ohio State wouldn’t have still been great under Jim Tressel if they lose this game. Hell, they probably would’ve been fine, because Tressel was a very talented coach, but this win did more for Ohio State’s reputation, relevance, and respect in the college football world than any one game has or will, in the history of the program.
If Ohio State loses the 2003 Fiesta Bowl, does that incredible 2002 team fade from our collective memory, just like the bad plays did? Does the Jim Tressel era do the same, without a title to boast?
Entire article: https://www.landgrantholyland.com/2...nal-championship-miami-2003-pass-interference
Summer's heat or winter's cold
The seasons pass the years will roll
It sure doesn't seem like it has been 15 years now.......
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I was watching a 15 year anniversary highlight thing, and I saw something for the first time. Was Krenzel's pass tipped before they interfered with Gamble?
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
2002 Football National Championship (10 20th Anniversary)
The 2002 national champions will also be honored during Saturday night’s game against Notre Dame at Ohio Stadium, where members of that team will be recognized on the field at the end of the first quarter.
The 2002 national champions will also be honored during Saturday night’s game against Notre Dame at Ohio Stadium, where members of that team will be recognized on the field at the end of the first quarter.
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
The players hoisting Tressel up on their shoulders during the halftime recognition was cool.
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