Big Ten Media Days/Kickoff Luncheon (August 2nd & 3rd, 2010)

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Browning, Heyward and Sanzenbacher to Represent Ohio State at Kickoff Luncheon
Courtesy: OhioStateBuckeyes.com
Release: 07/19/2010

Park Ridge, Ill. - The Big Ten Conference announced on Monday the 33 student-athletes scheduled to attend the 2010 Big Ten Kickoff Luncheon, held Tuesday, August 3, at the Hyatt Regency McCormick Place in Chicago. The 39th annual event, which also features all 11 conference head coaches, begins at 10 a.m. CT with the players and coaches autograph and photo session for fans attending the luncheon. The luncheon is scheduled to begin at 11:30 a.m. CT, with comments from all 11 coaches and returning All-Big Ten wide receiver Keith Smith of Purdue, who will speak on behalf of the players in attendance.

The list of student-athletes scheduled to attend includes 19 former All-Big Ten selections, including seven first-team honorees from last season. The list also includes the 2009 Big Ten Offensive and Defensive Players of the Year and two standouts who were recognized as their respective teams' Most Valuable Players.

Browning, Heyward and Sanzenbacher to Represent Ohio State at Kickoff Luncheon - The Ohio State Buckeyes Official Athletics Site - OhioStateBuckeyes.com

Heyward, Browning, Sanzenbacher, but no Terrelle Pryor, for Buckeyes at Big Ten Kickoff Luncheon
Published: Monday, July 19, 2010
Doug Lesmerises, The Plain Dealer

Ohio State junior quarterback Terrelle Pryor will not represent the Buckeyes at the Big Ten Kickoff Luncheon in early August.

Three seniors - defensive lineman Cameron Heyward, receiver Dane Sanzenbacher and offensive lineman Bryant Browning - will speak for Ohio State during two days of interviews.

Each team is bringing three players to the event, in Chicago on Aug. 2 and Aug. 3, and seven of the 11 Big Ten quarterbacks will be there, including Iowa's Ricky Stanzi of Lake Catholic, Wisconsin's Scott Tolzein and new Purdue quarterback Robert Marve, a transfer from Miami.

According to the Big Ten release, since 1970 every Big Ten Heisman winner - Archie Griffin, Desmond Howard, Eddie George, Charles Woodson, Ron Dayne and Troy Smith - has attended the Kickoff Luncheon. Pryor is the most talked-about Heisman candidate in the Big Ten this year, as a third-year starter for the conference favorite.

Pryor's accessibility to reporters has been an issue during his time in Columbus, as his interviews were very limited during his freshman year. That included Ohio State not bringing Pryor to a mandatory bowl interview at the 2009 Fiesta Bowl.

Pryor gradually did more interviews last season, and he was made available for two lengthy interview sessions before the Rose Bowl and handled himself well.

However, Jim Tressel has a history of sending seniors to speak for the Buckeyes at this event. Dating back to 2004, including this year, 20 Ohio State players have been selected to go to Chicago, and only two of them were juniors. They were Marcus Freeman and Vernon Gholston in 2007, when the Buckeyes were short of senior leadership.

Neither linebacker James Laurinaitis nor running back Beanie Wells were chosen to attend by Tressel when they were already stars as juniors.

Still, this exclusion, for a junior quarterback and third-year starter, is a bit of a surprise, even though the Buckeyes have an impressive senior class returning. Pryor is clearly the biggest story in the conference, and Tressel spoke a lot around bowl time about how Pryor and his teammates from the Class of 2008 weren't young guys any longer.

While Heyward is an All-American candidate worthy of plenty of coverage, and Browning and Sanzenbacher are long-time starters and leaders who have always handled themselves with maturity, they're all going to come to Chicago and get a lot of questions about Terrelle Pryor.

Heyward, Browning, Sanzenbacher, but no Terrelle Pryor, for Buckeyes at Big Ten Kickoff Luncheon | cleveland.com

 

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Big-10 preseason meetings in Chicago.

Tom Osborne will be attending even though he and Nebraska won't have any vote on anything.
For us Nebraska fans, we're curious to see how the Tomfathers comments from this conference contrast to his uneasy comments during the formation stages of the Big-12 and the power shift south to Texas.

Osborne to attend Big Ten meetings

 

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New questions for Big Ten
Expansion likely to dominate discussions in Chicago
August 01, 2010|By Teddy Greenstein | ON COLLEGES, ON GOLF

Last year's prevailing question for coaches at Big Ten media days: Will the league ever win a BCS bowl game?

This year's? (This could take a while ?)

Do you foresee more expansion? Should the conference slate be nine games? How should divisions be drawn up? Are you down with a conference championship game at Soldier Field? Does NU stand for Nebraska or Northwestern?

The coaches and Commissioner Jim Delany will hit the podium beginning at 10 a.m. Monday, with the Big Ten Network providing four hours of live coverage from the Hyatt Regency McCormick Place.

New questions for Big Ten - Chicago Tribune

Lucas at Large: Who's going to challenge the Buckeyes?

Ohio State's football season gets rolling in Chicago today | cleveland.com

Football, expansion to share Big Ten stage at Media Days

Big Ten football in spotlight :: John Mutka :: Post-Tribune

The State News : Media event will have plenty of stories to follow

Big Ten media days — And so it begins | GazetteOnline.com

Big Ten media days: A look at the key issues | desmoinesregister.com | The Des Moines Register

Live Blog & Video
2010 Media Days:
The Big Ten Network and BigTenNetwork.com covers the Big Ten media days in Chicago on Monday and Tuesday. On Monday morning join our live blog and watch live video from each press conference.

11:00a: Bret Bielema 12:45p.: Danny Hope
11:15a: Pat Fitzgerald 1:15p: Joe Paterno
11:30a: Ron Zook 1:30p: Tim Brewster
11:45a: Rich Rodriguez 2:45p: Kirk Ferentz
12:15p.: Mark Dantonio 2:00p.: Jim Tressel
12:30p.: Bill Lynch

http://www.bigtennetwork.com/sports/football/2010-Football-Media-Day.asp

 

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Ozone

Nuggets From Big Ten Media Day

By The-Ozone Staff

CHICAGO ? All 11 Big Ten football coaches took the podium today in Chicago to talk out the state of their respective programs. Here are a few nuggets from each in the order in which they took the microphone.

Cont'd ...

The BTN site has videos of approximately 15 minutes each for each coach at the podium.

BTN.videos

 

[BB73]

I was at the luncheon today, and each coach talked for a few minutes.

Bret Bielema went last, but something he said stood out for me. He said that after his bowl win over Miami, he was able to attend the Rose Bowl as a fan, since his boss, Barry Alvarez, was being inducted into the Rose Bowl Hall of Fame.

Bielema (I'm praphrasing from memory) said that he was quite surprised that at halftime, in the middle of coaching the Buckeyes in a closely contested, very important game, Tressel walked over to congratulate him on his bowl win. Bielema stated that JT taking the time to do that in those circumstances said a lot about the way things are in the Big Ten.

RichRod talked briefly, probably the shortest stint of anybody, and said what would be expected - ending with him, the players, and the fans all being "all in". He didn't say what they were all in, but in his case I was assuming he meant deep shit. I shouldn't rip on him too badly today; he did personalize a get well poster for my bro-in-law, a TSUN fan who a few days ago got out of the hospital after heart surgery.

After RichRod talked, Rece Davis introduced Danny Hope of Purdue. Hope (again paraphrasing) said it was great to have football starting soon, and that he saw "a bunch of his players in classes this summer; and at Purdue, we don't have a General Studies major, so they were all taking real courses."

Most people knew that was a shot at TSUN - Rece Davis made a comment about it after Hope was done, introducing Pat Fitzgerald, who also said something about there not being any General Studies program at Northwestern.

Tim Brewster had his own wife stand up, and said that she was glad to meet Paterno last year, but that JoePa later said that he had met Bret Bielema's wife (Bielema is single).

JT said that when the coaches were introduced, there was a roar for the local guy (Fitzgerald), and then mild, polite applause as JT was introduced, and then another roar because JoePa followed Tressel. When JoePa got up there, he said that they were waiting to roar for a "young, good-looking guy" when JT was introduced, and saved the roar for when the young, good-looking guy showed up right after JT. (Note, it's normal for these guys to zing each other at this event, in the past JoePa has exchanged barbs with Lloyd Carr and Joe Tiller).

How about this for the seating arrangement? AD Gene Smith was at table #29, Archie Griffin was at table #42, and BB73 was at table #1.
In past years I've been way in the back, I have no idea why I was up front this time.

 

[OHSportsFan]

RichRod talked briefly, probably the shortest stint of anybody, and said what would be expected - ending with him, the players, and the fans all being "all in". He didn't say what they were all in, but in his case I was assuming he meant deep shit. I shouldn't rip on him too badly today; he did personalize a get well poster for my bro-in-law, a TSUN fan who a few days ago got out of the hospital after heart surgery.

[NFBuck]Still an ass.[/NFBuck]

 

[NightmaresDad]

How about this for the seating arrangement? AD Gene Smith was at table #29, Archie Griffin was at table #42, and BB73 was at table #1.
In past years I've been way in the back, I have no idea why I was up front this time.

Obviously the Big Ten has instituted an "age before beauty" policy. :tongue2:

Hell, if you have to get in line for anything, the only you'll ever be behind is Joe Pa!

 

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Tim Brewster had his own wife stand up, and said that she was glad to meet Paterno last year, but that JoePa later said that he had met Bret Bielema's wife (Bielema is single).

That's a shock. He's such a handsome fella.

 

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That's a shock. He's such a handsome fella.

ahem..........FUCK BUCKY!!!