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2008 Football Rumblings

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MD Buckeye;1236447; said:
Buckeyes back to win ... or claim Horrible Hat Trick - NCAA Football - CBSSports.com Live Scores, Standings, Stats
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Over the last few years, Dodd's wordsmithing, writing skills and college football analysis should qaulify him as a columist for TMZ, not CBS.Sports.
He's yet to prove he can compete with the better sports writers in the game.

Perhaps he should cover women's syncronized swimming. I think his level of sports saavy best suits him for this exciting, cutting edge sport. College football analysis seems beyond his mental capacity, time and time again.
 
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Wow, a total lack of respect from the entire Rivals crew. I expected Dienhart to crap out some ridiculous nonsense, but I thought the rest of those guys had at least seen a football game before. The Missouri love baffles me - I'm not even sure they make it to 1-0.
 
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Canton

OHIO STATE OBSERVATIONS

With so many returning players back on special teams, it was disappointing to watch Ohio State's kickers struggle during their kicking scrimmage last week. Head Coach Jim Tressel didn't seem all that concerned.

"I've been pleased with how they've worked at it," Tressel said. "They're tired like the other guys. They've been kicking all day long since Aug. 3."

? Before the kicking scrimmage, the Buckeyes had a regular practice, and the quarterbacks spent a pretty fair amount of time in option drills.

? Our spies tell us the best hit put on Terrelle Pryor during a period in which the freshman quarterback was live was delivered by Canton South graduate Devon Torrence. The Buckeyes are working Torrence out at wide receiver and cornerback. Torrence is a backup return specialist as well.

? Don't be surprised if Brian Hartline has a big year in his junior season. The former GlenOak star looks fluid and confident on the field, and he's one of Boeckman's favorite targets.

? By the middle of the season, redshirt freshman Boom Herron will be getting snaps with the second rotation on offense. Herron is too good to keep off the field.

? How's this for things going OSU's way? USC starting quarterback Mark Sanchez dislocated his knee cap, and reports are as many as a quarter of the Trojans are infected with jock itch.
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OHIO STATE FOOTBALL
Buckeyes banding together

Monday, August 25, 2008 Doug Lesmerises
Plain Dealer Reporter

Columbus- The gray wristbands were everywhere this preseason, worn by nearly every Ohio State player you'd come across. "Thank You God, I Am Grateful" was inscribed in black on the gray bands, and you figured they were Jim Tressel's idea.
Right there, on page 43 of his new book, "The Winner's Manual," Tressel wrote about what he calls the attitude of gratitude - "I want our players to be continually reminded of how fortunate they are and what they have to be grateful for."
But Tressel was not the creator of the bands, just an eventual recipient. Instead, they came courtesy of Euclid High grad Brandon Smith, who must have been paying attention to Tressel. Smith got one from his mom, Elzoria, who got it from co-worker Toni Garbo, who had started a Web site to distribute the wristbands then ignored it.

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Dispatch
Buckeyes prepared for rule change
Forty-second clock allows faster play
Monday, August 25, 2008 3:11 AM
By Ken Gordon


THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
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Renee Sauer | Dispatch
Jim Tressel dropped a hint of his no-huddle plans when he remarked that he was giving quarterback Todd Boeckman "a lot of responsibility at the line of scrimmage."


Ohio State's wealth of experience -- a veteran offensive line and a quarterback born during Ronald Reagan's first term -- might have led the Buckeyes to use a lot of no-huddle this season, anyway. Now, an NCAA rule change is going to make it easier to do so.
College football has gone to a 40-second play clock, in which the clock starts as soon as the previous play is blown dead, rather than starting a 25-second clock once officials spot the ball ready for play.
The goal was to standardize the time between plays.
"It will consistently give us a pace, so we no longer have to worry about, 'Is this referee quick (to spot the ball), is this referee slow?' " said Dave Parry, national coordinator of officials.
The result, though, is that offenses can run plays even faster. Some believe it will further help teams that run the spread, many of whom already call plays at the line of scrimmage.
Georgia coach Mark Richt recently lamented that the change wasn't made earlier. When he arrived with a fat playbook from Florida State in 2001, he grew frustrated at Southeastern Conference officials he thought were standing over the ball, waiting until the defense was set before starting the play clock.
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Whats stopping the NCAA from just using the NFL clock rules? First down stops the clock, and no two minute warning. Those are the only differences now?

Just don't mess with the overtime rules. College football overtime is the greatest thing ever. WAY better than the pros.
 
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rocketman;1237654; said:
Just don't mess with the overtime rules. College football overtime is the greatest thing ever. WAY better than the pros.
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I love college overtime rules, but I really think they should move the ball to start the possession at the 40. You should have to get a first down to be in solid field goal range.
 
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rocketman;1237654; said:
Whats stopping the NCAA from just using the NFL clock rules? First down stops the clock, and no two minute warning. Those are the only differences now?
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I'm interested to see how college offenses adjust, because adopting the NFL's clock rules while eschewing the other things that make the NFL's clock workable would seem to make coordinating the college offense more challenging than doing it in the NFL. They did not narrow the hashes, so there is more than twice the ground for those slow, plodding linemen to cover to get back to the spot of the ball if the play goes from one hash over to the other (40' vs 18'-6"). This is also more ground for players to run during substitutions without any additional time to get there. Added to that, there are no radio receivers in the helmet, so QBs will still have to read the signals from the sideline, which would presumably be more time consuming than having the play broadcast right into the QB's ear.

Minor differences, but both combined arguably add a few seconds to the time required to get lined up over the ball and run the next play.
 
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