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Yep. They're a little heavier than gameday pants so they practice in them.
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Yep. They're a little heavier than gameday pants so they practice in them.
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Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
Texas QB McCoy gets rematch with Ohio State
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) -Colt McCoy was sitting at an awards banquet when he felt a breeze on the back of his neck.
The Texas quarterback knew exactly what was going on.
Ohio State linebacker James Laurinaitis was sitting behind him, blowing on his neck and whispering that he'd better get used to it because the All-American planned to be dogging McCoy all night when the 10th-ranked Buckeyes and No. 3 Longhorns meet in the Fiesta Bowl on Jan. 5.
"I had a few comebacks for him,'' McCoy said. "I told him he needed to thank me for starting him out on his All-American campaign the last three years. ... It was fun.''
The two had met before, in the second game of the 2006 season when No. 1 Ohio State beat No. 2 Texas 24-7 a game that introduced McCoy to big-time college football and Laurinaitis to the rest of the country as Ohio State's next great linebacker.
McCoy was runner-up for the Heisman Trophy this season. Back then, he was a wide-eyed freshman trying to take command of the huddle that Vince Young led to a national championship in 2005.
"This is his team now,'' Texas coach Mack Brown said. "That was still Vince's team (in 2006).''
McCoy's only experience going into the game against the Buckeyes was a 56-7 season-opening win over North Texas. Against Ohio State, he was on prime-time national television in the first regular-season matchup of No. 1 vs. No. 2 in a decade. Not only were the eyes of Texas on McCoy, the whole country was watching.
What they saw was a talented young QB who still had plenty of growing up to do.
For McCoy, it was all a blur.
"I really don't remember the game,'' he said, "other than we lost.''
McCoy passed for 154 yards and a touchdown but also got hit hard several times and threw his first college interception on the first possession of the third quarter - to Laurinaitis.
McCoy jokes that it was "definitely the easiest pick of his career.''
Texas offensive coordinator Greg Davis kept the offense simple that night because McCoy was so inexperienced.
"We were asking him to do very little,'' Davis said. "He's so much more in control now.''
McCoy's big mistake - the interception on a short pass across the middle - set up a Buckeyes field goal. It was just one of several big plays on the night by Laurinaitis, who had a team-high 13 tackles in a breakout performance in just his second career start.
Laurinaitis went on to win the Nagurski Award as the national defensive player of the year. The Buckeyes went undefeated in the regular season before losing to Florida in the BCS national title game.
In 2007, he won the Butkus Award as the nation's best linebacker and this season won the Lott Trophy for top defensive player. His 121 tackles and four sacks lead the Buckeyes (10-2) this season.
He's now the first Buckeyes linebacker to be named an AP All-American three times, surpassing other Ohio State greats such as A.J. Hawk and Chris Spielman, who were both two-time All-Americans.
"He's a tremendous player,'' McCoy said.
McCoy has had a record-setting career since that loss in 2006. His 9,318 yards and 83 touchdowns are Texas career records and he passed Young with 31 wins as a starter when the Longhorns beat Texas A&M 49-9 on Thanksgiving.
McCoy also led Texas (11-1) in rushing this season with 572 yards - 200 more than anyone else on the team - and 10 touchdowns. And his pass completion rate of nearly 78 percent is on pace to smash the NCAA record.
McCoy was second to Oklahoma quarterback Sam Bradford for the Heisman Trophy, but won the Walter Camp Football Foundation Player of the Year.
"The thing that's impressive to me is that he came in after a guy who's a legend, not only for the Longhorns but for all of college football,'' Laurinaitis said.
"I'm not going to say people are going to say people have forgotten about Vince Young, because no one will forget about Vince Young, " he said. "But people are talking so much about Colt McCoy now. He started a tradition of great quarterbacks that's going to be hard to follow.''
Laurinaitis and McCoy had a good time teasing each other on the banquet circuit about that 2006 game and who would win in the next one.
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Entire article: Texas QB McCoy gets rematch with Ohio State - ncaa - SI.com
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) -Colt McCoy was sitting at an awards banquet when he felt a breeze on the back of his neck.
The Texas quarterback knew exactly what was going on.
Ohio State linebacker James Laurinaitis was sitting behind him, blowing on his neck and whispering that he'd better get used to it because the All-American planned to be dogging McCoy all night when the 10th-ranked Buckeyes and No. 3 Longhorns meet in the Fiesta Bowl on Jan. 5.
"I had a few comebacks for him,'' McCoy said. "I told him he needed to thank me for starting him out on his All-American campaign the last three years. ... It was fun.''
The two had met before, in the second game of the 2006 season when No. 1 Ohio State beat No. 2 Texas 24-7 a game that introduced McCoy to big-time college football and Laurinaitis to the rest of the country as Ohio State's next great linebacker.
McCoy was runner-up for the Heisman Trophy this season. Back then, he was a wide-eyed freshman trying to take command of the huddle that Vince Young led to a national championship in 2005.
"This is his team now,'' Texas coach Mack Brown said. "That was still Vince's team (in 2006).''
McCoy's only experience going into the game against the Buckeyes was a 56-7 season-opening win over North Texas. Against Ohio State, he was on prime-time national television in the first regular-season matchup of No. 1 vs. No. 2 in a decade. Not only were the eyes of Texas on McCoy, the whole country was watching.
What they saw was a talented young QB who still had plenty of growing up to do.
For McCoy, it was all a blur.
"I really don't remember the game,'' he said, "other than we lost.''
McCoy passed for 154 yards and a touchdown but also got hit hard several times and threw his first college interception on the first possession of the third quarter - to Laurinaitis.
McCoy jokes that it was "definitely the easiest pick of his career.''
Texas offensive coordinator Greg Davis kept the offense simple that night because McCoy was so inexperienced.
"We were asking him to do very little,'' Davis said. "He's so much more in control now.''
McCoy's big mistake - the interception on a short pass across the middle - set up a Buckeyes field goal. It was just one of several big plays on the night by Laurinaitis, who had a team-high 13 tackles in a breakout performance in just his second career start.
Laurinaitis went on to win the Nagurski Award as the national defensive player of the year. The Buckeyes went undefeated in the regular season before losing to Florida in the BCS national title game.
In 2007, he won the Butkus Award as the nation's best linebacker and this season won the Lott Trophy for top defensive player. His 121 tackles and four sacks lead the Buckeyes (10-2) this season.
He's now the first Buckeyes linebacker to be named an AP All-American three times, surpassing other Ohio State greats such as A.J. Hawk and Chris Spielman, who were both two-time All-Americans.
"He's a tremendous player,'' McCoy said.
McCoy has had a record-setting career since that loss in 2006. His 9,318 yards and 83 touchdowns are Texas career records and he passed Young with 31 wins as a starter when the Longhorns beat Texas A&M 49-9 on Thanksgiving.
McCoy also led Texas (11-1) in rushing this season with 572 yards - 200 more than anyone else on the team - and 10 touchdowns. And his pass completion rate of nearly 78 percent is on pace to smash the NCAA record.
McCoy was second to Oklahoma quarterback Sam Bradford for the Heisman Trophy, but won the Walter Camp Football Foundation Player of the Year.
"The thing that's impressive to me is that he came in after a guy who's a legend, not only for the Longhorns but for all of college football,'' Laurinaitis said.
"I'm not going to say people are going to say people have forgotten about Vince Young, because no one will forget about Vince Young, " he said. "But people are talking so much about Colt McCoy now. He started a tradition of great quarterbacks that's going to be hard to follow.''
Laurinaitis and McCoy had a good time teasing each other on the banquet circuit about that 2006 game and who would win in the next one.
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Entire article: Texas QB McCoy gets rematch with Ohio State - ncaa - SI.com
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Tressel sympathetic to Browns, but not interested; and other Fiesta observations
by Doug Lesmerises/Plain Dealer Reporter Tuesday December 30, 2008, 11:51 PM
Aaron J. Latham/Associated PressOSU head coach Jim Tressel faces the media prior to the Buckeyes' Fiesta Bowl workout Tuesday in Scottsdale, Ariz.
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Thoughts from the desert, where a chipper Jim Tressel prepared for Ohio State's practice at Pinnacle High School on Tuesday by pretending to duck behind bushes to hide from reporters. 1. Tressel looked like a man not longing for the NFL: He popped out in sunglasses and shorts and gave a little civics lesson on the development of the greater Phoenix area, the desert oasis that has become his bowl getaway.
Two years ago, Tressel answered numerous questions about his coaching future after a Plain Dealer story suggested he'd have interest in coaching the Browns. With the job actually available, Tressel said no in a way that seems even more believable than in 2006.
He's now a man who before the season had his Ohio State contract reworked so that it pays him $3.5 million per year and includes a teaching position reserved for when he hangs up his whistle.
Sure, he might want to be tested by football at its highest level, especially for the team he grew up rooting for. But as he pointed toward the Arizona mountains and sipped coffee on the same day the Denver Broncos became the fourth NFL team to fire its coach since the end of the season, he looked like a guy happy in college.
"No, I'm not an NFL guy," Tressel said. "I don't know that much about their world and all the nuances that you have to do there, so I wouldn't be a good fit."
Sorry for Romeo Crennel, he'll watch the Browns' next moves only as a fan, though an admittedly interested one.
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Colt takes the reins
McCoy is no longer the wide-eyed freshman quarterback who was rattled by Ohio State in Texas' 24-7 loss in 2006
Wednesday, December 31, 2008 3:20 AM
By Bill Rabinowitz
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
Donna McWilliam | Associated Press
Colt McCoy has completed a mind-boggling 77.6 percent of his passes this season.
When Ohio State played Texas early in the 2006 season, the Longhorns quarterback lived down to his name: Colt. Not yet fully formed, Colt McCoy played like the redshirt freshman he was in the Buckeyes' 24-7 victory in Austin, Texas. He threw for only 154 yards in his second game after succeeding Vince Young.
Unfortunately for the Buckeyes, the quarterback's name remains an apt one, but this time the surname is what's applicable. He has transformed himself into the real McCoy.
The McCoy who will be the focal point of Ohio State's defense in the Fiesta Bowl on Monday
bares little resemblance to the one it saw two years ago. He came to Austin weighing 179 pounds. He's now a buff 210-pounder. That's only the most obvious change since the last time the Buckeyes saw him.
"I think I'm a lot more mature all-around," McCoy said. "You gain more experience the more you play. Being able to have started for three years, I feel I'm a different player, for sure."
McCoy progressed rapidly after the Ohio State game.
"It was only the second game I had started in my career," he said. "I was pretty nervous. They were the No. 1 team. That's about as much as I can remember.
"You learn a lot from that loss. Being able to bounce back from that and to play well the rest of the year was a blessing."
McCoy finished the 2006 season with 29 touchdown passes and only seven interceptions. But the next season he seemed to regress. His touchdown passes dropped to 22 and his interceptions rose to 18.
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EngineerHorn
No todo alli
Thank goodness for the articles. Don't know how much more uniform discussion I can stomach. :bicker:
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keeponrisin
"You show me a good loser & I'll show you a loser"
What color jerseys are the Buckeyes wearing?
I have been too busy at work lately to keep up on much info.
Any insight is appreciated!
I have been too busy at work lately to keep up on much info.
Any insight is appreciated!
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East Texas Horn
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EngineerHorn;1367117; said:
I was thinking the same thing. Was kinda hoping X-RayRandy would pop on and give some kind of statistical comparisons of the diffrent " Range of Motion " exercises the Texas DL verses tOSU OL, use in pregame warmups to get that certain edge.
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