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Big10 Elite BTN 10PM

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kippy1040

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Tonight on the BTN network a program called BIG10 Elite will air a one hour program, beginning at 10pm about the 2002 Buckeyes and Jim Tressel and thier great season.
It goes into a little more depth of what they had to deal with, even telling
of how they felt about the hiring of and unknown guy named Jim Tressel.

I saw it on BTN last night and i found it very interesting as to the story they presented how the Buckeyes and Jim Tressel came to accomplish what they
did, and how they did it, to get thier N/C in over 34 years. It was very enlightening to me and i thought i would pass this on if any of you were interested. "Go Buckeyes".
 
Coqui;2236408; said:
I loved the way they talked about Holy Buckeye.

And AJ Hawk getting reamed for spiking the ball after scoring a TD
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The small inside stories like this made it really interesting and things like that were never told to anyone. Just like when Dustin Fox was undecided where to play until Jim Tressel called him on the phone right after Tressel made that
great statement about "310 days in ann arbor". Dustin thought that was great.
 
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I took away 5 things from watching that:

1. I miss JT.
2.I miss JT.
3. Are the Buckeye leaves smaller now? They looked huge on Mike Doss's helmet.
4. Chris Gamble was faster than I remember. He almost looked faster than Ginn.
5. That Miami team may have been one of the most stacked teams ever.
 
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I miss the JTof 2001 and 2002...something happened either after the Florida loss or the entrance of TP. The end of the JT era seemed so out of character..I feel GS didn't provide any leadership or counsel to JT and a program spiraled down,
 
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MaxBuck;2236992; said:
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Given the sustained excellence of Ohio State football under Jim Tressel, I can only hope other fans have more accurate memories.
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Absolutely.

I do have to say that Tressel's press conferences and media appearances wore me out. It was like B Joe said: "If you asked him what time it was, he would tell you how a watch is made." I stopped listening to his radio call in show about year 4 because he spoke a lot without saying anything. I heard blah, blah, blah, blah, blah ad nauseum. Occasionally he would mix a little something in between the blah, blah, blah but Translating Tress was not a course I wanted to take.

Urban is such a breath of fresh air in that respect. He seems totally unguarded and unfiltered - just says what he thinks. It does make me wonder when that is going to come back and bite him on the butt.

But Tress' style bit him on the butt too. When it came time for an open and honest mea culpa, he was talking in the 3rd person and generalities, like "Anytime someone doesn't meet the expectations others have for them, and they have for themselves, it's disappointing." Ugh.

But back to the main point, these few shortcomings and mistakes can't erase the mountain of good he did for Ohio State. I will always love and respect him - I just don't want to hear him give a press conference. :)
 
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After watching this and seeing the fans storm the field against scUM, I looked on scout.com to see who were on their official visits for that game and it was a small list of only 8, but had great talent. Donte Whitner, Turk McBride, David Patterson, Mario Williams, Darius Hiley, Joel Holler (4* OL), Ashton Youboty, and Todd Boeckman. Half of them are in the NFL and 2 were top 10 picks, including the #1. Pretty cool.
 
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MaxBuck;2236992; said:
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Given the sustained excellence of Ohio State football under Jim Tressel, I can only hope other fans have more accurate memories.
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Started out great spiraled down to probation and I give JT 100% credit for both. You have to take the bad with the good. You can rationalize or make excuses,,but the truth is the truth. See PSU for a fan base that denies the truth.
 
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Onebuckfan;2237362; said:
Started out great spiraled down to probation and I give JT 100% credit for both. You have to take the bad with the good. You can rationalize or make excuses,,but the truth is the truth. See PSU for a fan base that denies the truth.
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:lol: Spiraled down? That denotes a certain degradation. JT's teams were pretty much elite until the end. I mean, in the years you're claiming a downward spiral, tOSU played for two NC's, and won a few BCS bowls, including beating Oregon and Ark there at the end. It was more a slight rise, followed by eight out of nine years of sustained excellence, then probation.
 
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Surprised there aren't more posts on this.

Just watched it, and wow. So many memories. That entire season was just too surreal, words cannot describe it.

A friend asked me the other day who my favorite Buckeye ever was (in my watching days, born in 92) and I wasn't completely sure (too young to remember Eddie George), but I told him Chris Gamble.

After watching this, and seeing most of the big plays again from that unreal season, I can say for sure now that it is Chris Gamble. Shutdown Corner, stud WR, and amazing returner. Dude did everything.

That championship is the only championship from one of "my teams" so far in my lifetime. And I was in the stadium for it. For that, I will be forever grateful.
 
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BUCKYLE;2237604; said:
:lol: Spiraled down? That denotes a certain degradation. JT's teams were pretty much elite until the end. I mean, in the years you're claiming a downward spiral, tOSU played for two NC's, and won a few BCS bowls, including beating Oregon and Ark there at the end. It was more a slight rise, followed by eight out of nine years of sustained excellence, then probation.
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Clearly you don't remember those seven straight wins over Michigan. Dark times indeed...
 
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