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2007 tOSU Football Season Discussion (merged)

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Lessons learned as Big Ten play starts


Thursday, September 20, 2007Doug Lesmerises
Plain Dealer Reporter
Columbus ? Saturday is the start of the Big Ten season, which means no conference team can lose to Appalachian State or Florida Atlantic.
The first three weeks didn?t go as expected for either Ohio State (a slow first 10 quarters and an impressive last two), or the league. With Jeff Sagarin?s computer ratings ranking the Big Ten fifth (behind the Pac-10, SEC, Big East and Big 12) and the Associated Press poll putting the Buckeyes at No. 8 ? as the top Big Ten team ? here?s what we?ve learned so far about OSU and its conference rivals:




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New leaders emerge for OSU
Jim Naveau | [email protected] - 09.21.2007
 [FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif]COLUMBUS ? The exceptional physical talents of players like Troy Smith, Anthony Gonzalez, Ted Ginn Jr. and Quinn Pitcock weren?t the only things Ohio State had to replace this football season.
The less tangible, less measurable leadership qualities those players and others provided had to be supplied by players who in many cases weren?t in those roles in 2006.
?I think one of the things we talked about (before the season) was that not only were we going to have to replace some great athletes, we were going to have to replace some great leaders,? tight end Rory Nicol said.
?I think there?s a handful of guys who have stepped up into those roles, guys who have taken this pretty seriously. There are going to be times where we face adversity, like every season, and we?re going to need leadership when those situations arise,? he said.

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Canton

Ohio State Notebook
Monday, September 24, 2007


THE MAN First-year starting QB Todd Boeckman looks at ease at the head of the Ohio State offense. "To be a leader out there is kind of nice, to have that confidence and have the guys behind you, knowing they're looking to you to make plays," said Boeckman, who replaced Heisman Trophy winner Troy Smith. "You're the leader out there, so you have to look like it and act like it."

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Morning Journal

Buckeyes looking like Big Ten's best
JASON LLOYD, Morning Journal Writer
09/24/2007

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COLUMBUS -- They were picked to finish no better than third in the conference, but as everyone else in the Big Ten continues to stumble through September, the Buckeyes are elbowing their way to the top of the Big Ten.


Michigan's win over Penn State Saturday, combined with Wisconsin's unimpressive 17-13 win at home against Iowa make the Buckeyes as good a bet as any to emerge from a weakened conference.

''I think we should be the Big Ten favorites,'' tailback Beanie Wells said, ''since we are the defending Big Ten champions.''


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Dispatch

Ohio State football
Bob Hunter commentary: Game-day suggestion would have ripple effect

Monday, September 24, 2007 2:45 AM
By Bob Hunter


THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH



All those empty rows of seats in Ohio Stadium in the second half of Ohio State's 58-7 win over Northwestern on Saturday make a compel-ling case for school officials to try to enhance the game-day experience for fans. With the shabby state of the Big Ten and an Ohio State nonconference schedule that would be a tough $63 sell to ticket buyers anywhere but Columbus, it wouldn't hurt to have incoming president E. Gordon Gee and athletic director Gene Smith do a little brainstorming, maybe even ask for suggestions.



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ripped this from the MoW thread...

we ran a couple variation of that new formation we saw last week. actually, i guess it's really just different variations within the silver package (2 WRS, 2 TEs, 1 RB). anyway, this week it looked like this:

WR........LT LG C RG RT TE
....................QB............TE....WR

....................RB


we also lined up like this a couple times:

WR........LT LG C RG RT TE
....................QB......TE....WR

....................RB


on the counter draw, Jake Ballard pulled from the 2nd TE spot that was off the line. i guess you could call that an H-back. last week it looked like this:

............LT LG C RG RT TE....WR
WR............... QB............TE

.....................RB


and we saw some more of the shot-Ginn. :biggrin:

also, i noted that we ran the base-iso play from the I very well... i don't really recall us running it much at all against Washington, perhaps because we didn't have much success at it, in addition to the fact that i was concentrating on the silver sets... but anyway, Tank absolutely blew the MLB up on Beanie's long TD...
 
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DDN Buckeyes leaning on juniors for leadership

Marcus Freeman and Vernon Gholston lead a defense among the best in the nation.

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By Doug Harris
Staff Writer

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

COLUMBUS ? Jim Heacock was getting acceptable performances from fourth-year juniors Vernon Gholston and Marcus Freeman, but the Ohio State defensive coordinator has been waiting to be wowed.
The Buckeyes have just one senior starter on defense, and Heacock issued a challenge to those two veterans before Saturday's Northwestern game, telling them, as Chef Emeril might say, to kick it up a notch.



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DDN

Buckeyes leaning on juniors for leadership

Marcus Freeman and Vernon Gholston lead a defense among the best in the nation.

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By Doug Harris
Staff Writer

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

COLUMBUS ? Jim Heacock was getting acceptable performances from fourth-year juniors Vernon Gholston and Marcus Freeman, but the Ohio State defensive coordinator has been waiting to be wowed.
The Buckeyes have just one senior starter on defense, and Heacock issued a challenge to those two veterans before Saturday's Northwestern game, telling them, as Chef Emeril might say, to kick it up a notch.



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Morning Journal

Tressel may kick himself over decision
By Jason Lloyd, Morning Journal Writer
09/25/2007

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THE problem with Saturday's 58-7 win over Northwestern is that Ohio State didn't take full advantage of its opportunity.


Seriously.

Northwestern coach Pat Fitzgerald's flippant remark over the summer regarding his excitement to get to the Horseshoe incensed everyone from the video coordinator to Kirk Barton and, so it seems, Jim Tressel.

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A completely different perspective is provided by Fiu at CFN.

2. Ohio State might just be the real deal
Completely tossed aside after that game, it?s easy to forget that Ohio State has won 23 of its last 24 games. Helped by the play of emerging superstar WR Brian Robiskie, the offense has been explosive and efficient. The O line is giving new QB Todd Boeckman 19 days to throw, while the defensive line is playing like it?s trying to make up for the Glendale debacle on every play. The defense is currently ranked second in America, but it hasn't exactly faced a juggernaut of offenses yet, If you really believe the Big Ten stinks, then road trips to Purdue, Penn State and Michigan shouldn?t be that big a deal. Wisconsin has to come to Columbus.
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Another staffer at CFN chimes in:

Jumping On The Buckeye
By Richard Cirminiello[FONT=verdana, arial, sans serif][SIZE=-2]
2[/SIZE][/FONT]. It's taken a few weeks, but I'd like to officially get my ticket punched for the Buckeye bandwagon. With one-third of the season gone, Ohio State has improbably established itself as the Big Ten favorite, and a potentially a deep, deep sleeper to run the table and represent the league in New Orleans. It's not as if Jim Tressel hasn't taken a less-than-perfect team well beyond expectations in the past. Am I putting too much stock in recent wins over Washington and Northwestern? Possibly, but I don't think so. Beating the Huskies in Seattle created confidence for a young team that had just struggled with Akron. Crushing Northwestern on Saturday afternoon brought a little swagger, and sent a message to the rest of the league. A serious work-in-progress just a month ago, the Buckeyes are beginning to gel into a solid top 10 squad. Todd Boeckman has embraced the role of starting quarterback, throwing six touchdown passes to just one pick in the last two games, and finding a go-to guy in Brian Robiskie. The defense has allowed only two touchdowns all year, and ranks behind just LSU in total defense. And the special teams has been up to Tressel's high standards. Although Ohio State is not in the same league as this year's Big 4, USC, LSU, Oklahoma, and Florida, it is in the next tier of schools, which is still an achievement for this team. Get on board now before the Big Ten schedule really gets cranking. In a few weeks, there may be no empty seats remaining.
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Dispatch

Commentary
Bob Hunter commentary: Ohio State players can never elude spotlight's glare

Wednesday, September 26, 2007 3:42 AM
By bob hunter



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Doral Chenoweth III | DISPATCH
Antonio Henton appears in Franklin County Municipal Court. At left is attorney Tasha Ruth.

It's not all that hard to figure out. More than 100,000 fans at every home game. Probably 200 reporters at every postgame news conference. Autograph lines that wind from here to Circleville. A relentless courtship by the TV cameras. Web sites that chronicle the team's every move.

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Bob Hunter said:
Yes, this is embarrassing to the football program, but it also doesn't make sense to turn this into something it isn't. What it is: A college kid whose first mistake was not understanding that everything he does -- everything -- is a news story. A guy about to find out how his stupid mistake unfairly reflects on everyone in the program.
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OSU is proving that speed kills
By JON SPENCER
For The Advocate

COLUMBUS -- You thought Ted Ginn Jr. was fast?
Ten of Ohio State's last 12 scoring drives have taken less than two minutes and six have taken less than a minute, so don't be surprised if coach Jim Tressel starts holding a stopwatch instead of a play chart.
Funny thing, though. When Northwestern wide receiver Eric Peterman praised the Buckeyes' speed Saturday, he wasn't talking about the offense.
"They have a very fast defense," Peterman said after the Wildcats absorbed a 58-7 thrashing. "You can't simulate that speed on film or in practice, especially to play out on game day. They just confused our offense, and that speed really helped that."

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