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2007 tOSU Football Season Discussion (merged)

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Toledo Blade

Young Running backs. A nice little article.
Buckeyes backfield young, talented
COLUMBUS - When Antonio Pittman dashed out the door a year early headed for the NFL, creating a void at tailback for Ohio State, nobody stood around fretting over a lack of capable, talented ball carriers.

The Buckeyes are loaded at running back, as usual, and the official line has been that they would replace Pittman with a committee of players - some big, some small, some fast, some powerful.

Well, there are enough high-caliber tailbacks in the Ohio State camp to cover every facet of the game, but if a committee approach is employed, it is clear on the eve of the season opener against Youngstown State just who the chairman of that committee is.

It is sophomore Chris "Beanie" Wells, who served an apprenticeship last season behind Pittman, a fellow native of Akron. Wells is the clear No. 1 in the backfield after rushing for almost 600 yards and seven touchdowns as a true freshman, and then just getting bigger and better in the months since then.
 
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ozone.football.2007.attitude

It's Not Measurable, but It's There
By John Porentas

We're not going to talk to any OSU football players, assistant coaches or the Head Coach between now and the opener with Youngstown State. Any impression we have of this team prior to the opener is now set.

Plenty has been written, some of it right here, about who is in the two-deep, who is bigger, who is faster, who is standing out in practice. Despite the veritable avalanche of information, until they take the field nobody can be sure just what this team really is about. That's a fact. What's also a fact is that you're just aching to know and wish somebody would tell you.
OK. Here goes.

We've covered the Buckeyes for eleven seasons now, and every preseason has been different. Some teams are brash and cocky in the preseason with high expectations. Others are quiet and maybe a bit reserved. Some are mature, others are something less-than mature.

The Buckeyes are light on seniors this year, and that usually does not bode well for a football team. It usually means a team that isn't quite grounded in the realities of college football. Yet after one month of talking to players, assistant coaches and the Head Coach, the one somewhat vague, nebulous but nearly palpable impression we have is that this is a football team with a great, great attitude, a team that has a very good chance of realizing its full potential, whatever that potential may be.

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Compiled from a few emails...

Been busy as hell, heres some stuff...

---->Miller got moved to T because he simply is not athletic enough to play TE and had potential to put on weight to become an olineman. Larson was even ahead of him on depth chart.

--->Not too many people are going to be redshirting this year. Hines and Rolle are both on starting kickoff, Torrence is our 5th WR right now. Pentello, Scott or Evege probably, Blankenship, Herron?, and maybe a couple others will redshirt.

---->Small is fine, I think they are holding him out because we play YSU and Akron to start, and want his sprain to be 100% before it comes back. (I think its gotta be in the 90%s)

--->Heyward is a stud...Torrence is starting to catch on and is now showing his speed with him being comfortable...Dukes hurt his finger and cant catch a football right now...

---->Mission Viejo, CA was in yesterday to see the WHAC. Herbstreit Classic is turning into a recruiting tool...they have a QB who looks to be a stud only a junior, we might have an in there...
 
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Morning Journal

Buckeyes' issues are all lined up
JASON LLOYD, Morning Journal Writer
09/05/2007




COLUMBUS -- Despite the uncertainty surrounding the defensive line and changes on the offensive line, one position of strength entering the season seemed to be the left side of the offensive line.


Whenever Ohio State needed to convert a short third down last year, the solution was to run left behind behemoths Steve Rehring and Alex Boone.

Faced with a similar scenario on Saturday, Todd Boeckman was forced to fling a short touchdown pass on third down to Dane Sanzenbacher on the opening drive, because Ohio State failed to run in a touchdown despite Beanie Wells getting four cracks from inside the 6-yard line, mostly running left.

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The 2007 Football season just got a lot better. I just got a promotion which will give me Saturdays off, A raise big enough for me to go to the games at the Shoe. I will be in the single ticket line if I can't get tickets other wise.
LOOK OUT COLUMBUS THE DEVIL IS LOOSE IN YOUR TOWN! WOOOOHOOOO
 
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Canton

Ohio State: Buckeyes look for a quick fix
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
By Todd Porter
REPOSITORY SPORTS WRITER

COLUMBUS No one in Ohio State?s huddle could put his finger on the team?s slow starts. Head Coach Jim Tressel could. In fact, his prints are all over the problem.

The Buckeyes have scored 64 second-half points and rallied from close games against Washington and Akron to pull away after halftime. OSU?s offense has scored just 27 points in the first half.

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Blade

Familiar Big Ten foes await Buckeyes


By MATT MARKEY
BLADE SPORTS WRITER

COLUMBUS - After working through the first three games of the season unscathed, the Ohio State Buckeyes move into the heart of their schedule, where eight of the last nine games come against Big Ten Conference competition. Unlike Washington, Akron and Youngstown State, the Big Ten opponents offer a case of dealing with an opponent you know a lot more about, Ohio State coach Jim Tressel said as he readies the Buckeyes to face Northwestern on Saturday.

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OZone


Buckeyes Winning Back Trust of the Fans with Obvious Improvment
By John Porentas
There is some optimism creeping into the Buckeye Nation.
Actually, it's more like a swelling tide than a creep.
Buckeye fans were just a little bit gun shy about investing emotionally in their football team this season. To begin, most of them were still sporting swollen lips after taking one in the chops last January when they thought their Buckeyes were going to waltz their way to a big win in the BCS national championship game, only to watch their team get embarrassed by Florida. A slap in the mouth like that makes an impression, and Buckeye fans are no fools. They were not about to get sucked in this season by a young football team with a new quarterback.



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DDN

Buckeyes content to play old-school football

Tressel's team adjusts its scheme to fit the talent; with star receivers and QB gone, it's time to run the ball.

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By Doug Harris
Staff Writer

Thursday, September 20, 2007

COLUMBUS ? Ohio State's Dionte Johnson knows that a fullback in a spread offense is about as useless as an appendix, which is why he wasn't exactly grieving over the departures of quarterback Troy Smith and receivers Ted Ginn Jr. and Anthony Gonzalez last year.
With those stars having dashed off to the pros, the Buckeyes trimmed their playbook, putting their spread attack in layaway and reverting to a power rushing game.



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Lima

MAC alums play big roles at OSU
Jim Naveau | [email protected] - 09.20.2007

 [FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif]COLUMBUS ? A thing of the past. That?s what those old Midwest Athletic Conference high school rivalries are now that St. Henry?s Todd Boeckman and Coldwater?s Ross Homan are at Ohio State.
?We don?t talk about that anymore,? Homan said earlier this week.
But this one was too good to pass up. When someone pointed out that Boeckman?s family had once moved from Coldwater to St. Henry, Homan got a big smile on his face and said, ?That was a mistake.?
Three games into the season, there is no mistaking the fact the two former all-state players from the MAC have established themselves at Ohio State.
Boeckman, a junior, clearly has solidified his position as the No. 1 quarterback after a strong second-half effort in a 33-14 win at Washington last Saturday in his first start outside the comfortable surroundings of Ohio Stadium.
Homan, a sophomore linebacker, has alternated series and played half the time the last two games.

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OZone

FootballRole of Tight Ends Not What Was Predicted, but Still Important
By John Porentas
It doesn't take a whole lot of analysis of the numbers to see that things aren't the way we thought they would be.
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All the talk this fall was of the new, expanded role for the tight ends this season. Offensive coordinator Jim Bollman talked about it, tight ends coach John Peterson talked about it, Rory Nicol talked about it, and Jake Ballard talked about it. So three games into the season the duo of Nicol and Ballard have combined for a total of five catches for 33 total yards. Backup Brandon Smith also has a catch for nine yards. That's not exactly what we expected, and apparently not what the people we talked to this fall expected either, but Peterson is anything but worried. .




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