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FB/LB Curtis Terry (Official Thread)

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JohnnyCockfight;1255990; said:
Did anyone else notice that last week Curtis Terry was our fullback for the 2 short-yardage rushing touchdowns? Seems like he might be our best man to lead the way in short yardage situations.
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I haven't had a chance to rewatch the game, but I remember a few plays where Terry and Brandon Smith were both in to block. Kinda reminds me of the "jumbo" package used in 2002, although it didn't appear that they were overloading one side of the line as much. I'd like to see more of it with Beanie at TB. With a RB who has a chance to break loose anytime he gets past the LOS, it makes sense to overload the line blocking and let him hit the second level with a head of steam.
 
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generaladm;1256008; said:
I haven't had a chance to rewatch the game, but I remember a few plays where Terry and Brandon Smith were both in to block. Kinda reminds me of the "jumbo" package used in 2002, although it didn't appear that they were overloading one side of the line as much. I'd like to see more of it with Beanie at TB. With a RB who has a chance to break loose anytime he gets past the LOS, it makes sense to overload the line blocking and let him hit the second level with a head of steam.
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My recollection is that both Terry and Brandon Smith were in the game on the Boom touchdown run (but Boom directly followed Terry). I think that Terry was the lone blocker on the Saine touchdown run, but I could be wrong.

These runs obviously were improvements over the failed 4th and 1 effort earlier in the game.
 
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JohnnyCockfight;1255990; said:
Did anyone else notice that last week Curtis Terry was our fullback for the 2 short-yardage rushing touchdowns? Seems like he might be our best man to lead the way in short yardage situations.
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Was noted by me. Thought it a bit odd, but seemed to play it well. Like him back there. Was good to see. Perhaps he's just going to play both sides and contribute whenever he can. Love it.

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Dispatch

The true meaning of success
Curtis Terry held himself together during turbulent teenage years and has made a life for himself at Ohio State
Saturday, September 27, 2008 3:02 AM
By Tim May


THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
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ERIC ALBRECHT Dispatch



Jim Tressel and Curtis Terry had never met until January 2004.
"I will never forget walking in the back door of Glenville High School, late afternoon on a day in the middle of the winter in Cleveland," Tressel said. "We'd told coach (Ted) Ginn we were coming, that we'd watched film of Curtis and done our homework.
"Curtis was standing in the vestibule of the entrance, and he had a jersey on. I didn't know who he was and he introduced himself."
The Ohio State coach did not remember the exact dialogue of that moment, so he paraphrased: " 'Coach Ginn has made a huge difference in my life, and I am looking for someplace that will give me a chance.' "
Or as Ginn remembered it, "All I did was believe in Curtis Terry. He did the work on his own."

Continued.......
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Departing seniors were asked about their experience at tOSU.

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Curtis Terry

Defensive end

Cleveland | Age: 24

Parting thought: "Besides the friends -- and I look at everyone as family here -- I would say that talent is never enough. You're not going to get by just on talent. You have to do all the little things -- the things that don't take talent, like studying, resting your body. I just think it's all those little things that don't take talent that really make the person and help you become successful."
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Fiesta Insider: Healing at last, OSU's Terry reflects on a fractured Buckeyes career
by Doug Lesmerises/Plain Dealer Reporter
Wednesday December 31, 2008

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Thoughts from the desert, where I chose Wednesday to watch in person as Minnesota lost to Kansas in the Insight Bowl and dropped the Big Ten to 0-3 in bowl games. A New Year's Eve to remember.

1. Curtis Terry is just glad to be walking comfortably: The Cleveland native played linebacker, defensive end and fullback during his five-year career in Columbus and did it all on two fractured legs.

Unbelievably, unbearable late-season pain in Terry's lower leg finally led to a diagnosis that Terry had fractures in both of his tibias, or shin bones. That necessitated surgery Nov. 18 that kept Terry from walking out for his final home game against Michigan with the rest of the seniors. But he was around that week -- using a walker.

"I broke out of the hospital to go to Senior Tackle," Terry said Wednesday.

For several seasons, Terry dealt with what he believed to be shin splints, grinding through practice each week, figuring if he could get to Thursday, and that day off before Saturday's game, he'd be fine.

"I took a lot of aspirin," Terry said. "I felt like I could play through it and I just wanted to be there for my teammates. The coaches would always tell me, 'if you can't go, sit out.' I just never liked sitting out."


Then before the Penn State game, he knew something was seriously wrong.

"It got to the point where I couldn't run or jump or do anything," Terry said. "They thought it was shin splints but it was way too excruciating."

As Terry described it, he was told he had a condition where his bones were never fully healing. He'd start to feel better, but then under pressure the bones would start to break again. He was told it was an injury of overuse, and blamed himself for his days in high school when he'd go from football practice to playing basketball in the park to basketball practice.

"The more miles I put on it, the worse it got," Terry said.

If the injury kept him from fulfilling his potential at Ohio State, he believes he'll be a new player as he chases the NFL. Now back jogging, he expects to be at full health by the NFL combine, and believes he fits best as a linebacker in the pros.

"I'm disappointed about what could have been if I knew about this in the beginning," Terry said, "but I was also kind of relieved. I felt my athletic ability slipping away and I didn't know what the cause of it was. So to find out there was something I could do about it was a huge relief."
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Fiesta Insider: Healing at last, OSU's Terry reflects on a fractured Buckeyes career - Ohio State Buckeyes Football & Basketball Blog (OSU) - cleveland.com
 
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STUDENT-ATHLETES TO RECEIVE DEGREES SUNDAY

The 29 summer graduates join 238 current and former student-athletes who earned their Ohio State degree at fall and spring commencement ceremonies in 2017-18. A record 692 Buckeyes were recognized at the annual Scholar-Athlete Dinner in April, while Ohio State had a record 489 Academic All-Big Ten selections and 129 Big Ten Distinguished Scholars. In all, 34 sports ended the year with a grade-point average of 3.0 or better.

Curtis Terry.....African-American and African Studies

Entire article: http://ohiostatebuckeyes.com/student-athletes-to-receive-degrees-sunday-2
 
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