It's interesting to hear the various comments on this thread.First on Edwards,as an OSU fan and Browns fan,he reminds me of Leon in the commercials.He a walking, talking, marketing machine.When you spend that kind of money on a car and wear an excessive amount of jewelry BEFORE the draft,what does that say about your image.Not exactly a blue collar image is it.The thing that scares me about Edwards,in a football sense,is the word Quincy Morgan.He looks a lot like him,in a physical way,and had the same problems in college,dropping a lot of easy passes.In regards to Winslow,I hated the fact that they drafted him,HOWEVER,I was wrong.The guy was a hard worker and had zero attitude,in regards to football.In fact,the guy not only played on special teams,he was very good at it and took pride in how he played.And no off field issues with him,nothing,zero,nada.
In regards to the Cincy thing,a lot of it has to do with "perception" over reality.OSU didn't recruit well in that area,why I don't know,so it "appeared" that there was some problem,when it was just poor recruiting,IMO.I think there is some definite "friction" concerning the basketball programs.I think it started way back in the final four days between the schools.It was then kept alive by Huggins(which I can't stand)and "do-rag" university,the thug image that he projects.
The media in Cleveland is sad.I can't think of any beat writers that are quality writers,not one.I don't know what happened to Hooley when he was a student at OSU,but I suspect some football player must have either stolen his girl friend or beaten him to a pulp,for him to have such negative slant on OSU.The part that makes me mad is that after he bashes OSU,he writes books on OSU and people buy them,a true mystery that anyone would want to spend money to support him.