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Buckeyes from your hometown/HS

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jimotis4heisman said:
wasnt one of the rauhs the kicker then? both of those guys could kill the ball.
also one of the wwe wrestlers is from dublin (a fritz one of kennys kids)
joe wilkins was the qb there too he played some pro baseball after starting 4 years at osu
they also have a ton of lacrosse kids

its nearly pathetic i can do this for atleast two dozen schools
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That could be a brother of his. I know there was a Bruce Ruhl that played in I think 1976. It's in the 70's I know. I betcha that is Kyle Ruhl's Father.
 
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To: SATxBuck - played against Jim Cleamons the year he and Terry Guice beat East High with Ed Ratliff (Long Beach State - Houston Rockets - La Lakers) and Bo Lemarr (sp?) (SW Louisiana - Lakers) and Nick Conner (Illinois - Washington Bullets) in the State bball finals. East beat us 104-52 that year at E Hi. Picture in Whetstone "Legend" (yearbook) of Cleamons fouling me on a jump shot from the corner. They waxed us also.

Now in education as an administrator, and bussing does NOT help raise grades/test scores of students (let alone the one hour trips). And CPS found out about that after ten years of futile effort ( and bunches of money). In California, 'school of choice' means that if you want to go there, you need to get yourself there. Everyone out here are clamoring for more 'neighborhood schools' so neighborhood kids can go to school with neighborhood kids (and moms can carpool). Can't imagine parents being real involved with a kid's school if they have to drive 45 minutes to Parent/Teacher night.

Good to hear from fellow Braves (or have they changed to a more politically correct name?). It almost seemed (when I visited) that the 'transfers' into Whetstone were not the high caliber athletes (those seemed to congregate at Linden or West).
 
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calibuck said:
Now in education as an administrator, and bussing does NOT help raise grades/test scores of students (let alone the one hour trips). And CPS found out about that after ten years of futile effort ( and bunches of money). In California, 'school of choice' means that if you want to go there, you need to get yourself there. Everyone out here are clamoring for more 'neighborhood schools' so neighborhood kids can go to school with neighborhood kids (and moms can carpool). Can't imagine parents being real involved with a kid's school if they have to drive 45 minutes to Parent/Teacher night.

Good to hear from fellow Braves (or have they changed to a more politically correct name?). It almost seemed (when I visited) that the 'transfers' into Whetstone were not the high caliber athletes (those seemed to congregate at Linden or West).
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Well I sit and eat lunch with my math teacher everyday. He is also the baseball coach and a football coach.

He was saying reason CPS allowed open enrollment and busing anywhere was because of a problem with a couple of schools that were getting real bad. So instead of fixing the problem at those schools, they allowed parents to send their kids anywhere. That resulted in the problem "spreading" and all schools have pretty much the same "problem".

As for school involvement, your right, there is not very much invovlement. Last week we had two nights for parent-teacher conferences. After the first night my teacher said he had one parent show up. He said most parents don't want to go 45 minutes across town.

With all of this busing, this caused a serious unbalance in sports. And it is still happening. Brookhaven and Beechcroft in the North Division of the City League, Marion Franklin and Eastmoor in the South are the powers in football every year. The rest of the teams get no almost no good talent because the best players usually want to go to a good team.

Transfers further this, especially in Brookhaven's case. Brookhaven was recieving transfers from other schools of good football players that were playing on bad teams. They were simply "reloading" every year. If they needed a RB, they went to another school and persuaded that player to transfer.

So the City League created a new rule were if you transfer, you must sit out of sports for the rest of the year and the rest of the next year.

Beechcroft has recieved two transfers to the football team in the last 4 years. One was a QB from East who started as a freshman. Another was a O-Lineman who came to us mid-way thru the season from Walnut Ridge.

I believe once they get rid of this busing to out-of-home school areas, that we even and balance the city out once again.


BTW, Whetstone is still called the Braves.
 
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My locker was right next to Michael Kee, a linebacker who had a pick 6 in the 87? cotton bowl.

Another linebacker for the same team was Byron Lee. Also a Buckeye (and a Philadelphia Eagle).

A linebacker one class ahead of those two was Michael Borne, who went to play for Scumbuckler up north (his son just signed an LOI with them too).

One good legacy from my high-school... I think I remember hearing that Pepper Johnson's son Dionte went there (Pepper was originally from Michigan).

Then there was Everett Ross, a wide-receiver for the Bucks back in the 80s.

Before that there was Ray Griffin, a defensive back in the 70s. I think his brother Duncan played for the Buckeyes too.

Then there was their older brother. I think his name was Archie or something like that. :biggrin:

Most of the guys on that list played for Bob Stewart, who coached at Eastmoor for 25 years or so before doing a short stint as the Buckeye's special teams coach.

Not exactly Glenville, but not bad at all. My one true regret in life was that I was not part of that lineage.
 
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Terwilliger's dad is a teacher at the HS. I did mean Randy Walker.

Muck:

This was Buckskin86 two two years ago:

However, the poster child of fan favorites has to be Ryan Brewer, a running back for the Troy Trojans who was Mr. Football in the state of Ohio in 1998. Even though Ryan rushed for over 2800 yards as a senior, and over 7600 yards for his career, Ohio State, under the direction and control of head football coach John Cooper, refused to tender him an offer (neither did Notre Dame, by the way). All Buckeye fans were offended and outraged; many went into fits of apoplexy or paroxysms of fear; some even whispered that this would be the end of Ohio State football as we once knew it.

Well, it turned out that the fans were right, sort of. On January 1, 2001, the Ohio State Buckeyes played in the Outback Bowl against the South Carolina Gamecocks, coached by former OSU assistant Lou Holtz, who had possessed the wisdom and foresight to sign none other than ... Ryan Brewer. Then a sophomore, Ryan was the star of the show that day, gaining 219 all-purposes yards and scoring three touchdowns while spearheading the Gamecocks' rout of the listless Buckeyes, 24-7. Ryan had vengeance. Cooper was fired the very next day. The fans were vindicated!
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I think whenever the top player in your state, that you didn't recruit, pastes you the way he did that day your job might lose some solidity.
 
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kn1f3party said:
I think whenever the top player in your state, that you didn't recruit, pastes you the way he did that day your job might lose some solidity.
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No offense but Ryan Brewer was hardly the top player in the State. He was a good HS running back that put up big numbers and parlayed that into a Mr. Football.

If you honestly think he was the best player in the State then maybe you can explain why none of the major midwestern powers offered him a scholarship?

Not only did Ohio State pass on Ryan but so did Penn State, Notre Dame & TSUN (not to mention the likes of Wisconsion, Iowa, Purdue & Illinois). South Carolina was by far his biggest offer. The same South Carolina that is barely mid pack in the SEC at the best of times.

But of course 'ole foxy Lou showed em all. He stole the multi-talented Ryan Brewer away from the idiots up north. Ryan of course went on to set school & confernce records for both receiving & rushing and went on to be a first round pick in the NFL.

Oh wait...actually he had less than a thousand yards total offense over his entire career at a mid major school.

Hardly the accomplishments one would expect from the best player in the State of Ohio.

Tressel would have passed on him as well (Tyrell Sutton is 10x the RB Brewer was and never sniffed an offer), and Troy fans would have to find new delusional justifications.
 
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