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You kids stay off my lawn!
Piss and moan day at Buckeye Planet so here I go. My first year was the infamous 1961 National Championship season with no Rose Bowl, but a big parade from Fifteenth and High to Capitol Square and back. That year also saw the basketball Bucks lose the final game of the NCAA tournament to Cincinnati. My final pre-army season was 66, Woody's second, and last, losing season. It should have been even worse for Indiana outplayed them all day and got screwed with some home cooking on three consecutive plays from the OSU one. Even the local fans booed when the final dive was called short. In 1969 I came back from Vietnam to finish up and had to endure the 24 - 12 upset of this or any other century.
I slept through most of the Earl years. What I do remember is that Earl and the basketball coach managed to turn the entire city of Cincinnati against Ohio State. I was teaching and coaching at Moeller at the time and watched their best talent head off to Ann Arbor and South Bend. The first week Cooper was coach he made a sweep of Elder, St. X, Moeller, Colerain and Princeton and within two seasons he had turned the attitude towards the Buckeyes around. I endured the Michigan losses, but on the other hand I sure as hell enjoyed the two ass-kickings of the Irish.
Tressel's NC season, which included an appearance at Paul Brown Stadium, caught the city's attention. Suddenly you saw OSU gear where it had been ND, UC or Kentucky. Urban's rise has blotted out ND recruiting and you don't see top prospects choosing Ann Arbor over Columbus. May it continue to be so.
BTW, BB73 was a toddler when I wsa rockin' the racoon coat, sis boom bah, rah, rah, rah, and hey Bucks, come on down.
I slept through most of the Earl years. What I do remember is that Earl and the basketball coach managed to turn the entire city of Cincinnati against Ohio State. I was teaching and coaching at Moeller at the time and watched their best talent head off to Ann Arbor and South Bend. The first week Cooper was coach he made a sweep of Elder, St. X, Moeller, Colerain and Princeton and within two seasons he had turned the attitude towards the Buckeyes around. I endured the Michigan losses, but on the other hand I sure as hell enjoyed the two ass-kickings of the Irish.
Tressel's NC season, which included an appearance at Paul Brown Stadium, caught the city's attention. Suddenly you saw OSU gear where it had been ND, UC or Kentucky. Urban's rise has blotted out ND recruiting and you don't see top prospects choosing Ann Arbor over Columbus. May it continue to be so.
BTW, BB73 was a toddler when I wsa rockin' the racoon coat, sis boom bah, rah, rah, rah, and hey Bucks, come on down.
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