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NOTREDAMECHIEF;618815; said:
You know what is getting tiresome? Your stupid observation of how Buckeye fans would react to situations concerning other programs.
We don't give a rat's ass...this is a tOSU site infested with tOSU fans. We don't give a shit about what is right, what is proper, or how we should act or would act...
Drop the bullshit or go away. I'm sick of the same damn broken record.
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CleveBucks
Serenity now
JT always has a couple great lines in the pressers. Guy cracks me up.
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Parties with Pete Johnson's Beard
In other words, pink locker rooms don't faze usMililaniBuckeye;618525; said:
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Iowa's depth chart remains in question
Long list of injuries leaves Hawkeye lineup open likely until kickoff
By: Marc Morehouse - The Gazette All the Hawkeyes who crawled off the Memorial Stadium field are listed on the depth chart. But reality is it's too soon to know who'll be ready or close to ready for Saturday's game against No. 1 Ohio State.
Defensive end Kenny Iwebema (shoulder), center Rafael Eubanks (knee), offensive tackle Dace Richardson (knee), receiver Andy Brodell (shoulder), defensive tackle Mitch King (leg), safety Marcus Paschal (hamstring) and safety Devan Moylan (hamstring) are all on the depth chart released Monday by UI sports information.
Defensive end Alex Kanellis (appendectomy) wants to play this week, but is probably out after Saturday's surgery. Sophomore tackle Ryan Bain is listed in his spot; sophomore Ettore Ewen is the backup at both tackles.
Iowa Coach Kirk Ferentz said Saturday that outside of Moylan, the injuries didn't have him "alarmed or concerned."
"We're not good enough to play anybody shorthanded," Ferentz said. "Hopefully, that's not going to be the case big picture-wise."
Moylan, the No. 2 free safety behind Paschal, didn't look good. Eubanks' right knee endured an ugly rollover. Iwebema indicated Saturday walking off the field that he was OK.
Ferentz said he'd know more today. His stated policy is if a player isn't able to practice by Thursday, he sits for the next game. So, expect the situation to remain open up to Saturday night's kickoff.
Quick slants
Iowa's depth chart remains in question
Long list of injuries leaves Hawkeye lineup open likely until kickoff
By: Marc Morehouse - The Gazette All the Hawkeyes who crawled off the Memorial Stadium field are listed on the depth chart. But reality is it's too soon to know who'll be ready or close to ready for Saturday's game against No. 1 Ohio State.
Defensive end Kenny Iwebema (shoulder), center Rafael Eubanks (knee), offensive tackle Dace Richardson (knee), receiver Andy Brodell (shoulder), defensive tackle Mitch King (leg), safety Marcus Paschal (hamstring) and safety Devan Moylan (hamstring) are all on the depth chart released Monday by UI sports information.
Defensive end Alex Kanellis (appendectomy) wants to play this week, but is probably out after Saturday's surgery. Sophomore tackle Ryan Bain is listed in his spot; sophomore Ettore Ewen is the backup at both tackles.
Iowa Coach Kirk Ferentz said Saturday that outside of Moylan, the injuries didn't have him "alarmed or concerned."
"We're not good enough to play anybody shorthanded," Ferentz said. "Hopefully, that's not going to be the case big picture-wise."
Moylan, the No. 2 free safety behind Paschal, didn't look good. Eubanks' right knee endured an ugly rollover. Iwebema indicated Saturday walking off the field that he was OK.
Ferentz said he'd know more today. His stated policy is if a player isn't able to practice by Thursday, he sits for the next game. So, expect the situation to remain open up to Saturday night's kickoff.
Quick slants
- Iowa has played eight games against top-ranked opponents in its history and is 0-7-1, according to Iowa's game notes. Saturday's game will be Iowa's first against a No. 1 since Sept. 23, 2000, a 42-13 loss at Nebraska. The last time a No. 1 visited Kinnick was Miami (Fla.) on Sept. 5, 1992, a 24-7 loss. That also is Iowa's last true night game at Kinnick. Iowa managed a 14-14 tie against Notre Dame in 1953.
- Saturday will be the fifth night game in Kinnick Stadium's history, with Iowa holding a 2-2 record in past night contests.
- Iowa (4-0) is looking for its first 5-0 start under Ferentz and its first since 1995.
- The highest-ranked opponent that Iowa has beaten is No. 2 Michigan in 1985, when the Hawkeyes were ranked No. 1.
- Saturday will be the last time Iowa and Ohio State meet until Nov. 14, 2009, in Columbus, Ohio. Also, the Oct. 21 game at Michigan will be the last time the Hawkeyes play the Wolverines until Oct. 10, 2009.
- Ohio State has yielded seven points or fewer in its last three games (7 at Texas; 7 vs. Cincinnati; 6 vs. Penn State).
- Ohio State will be Iowa's first game against a ranked opponent this season. Ohio State already has played two ranked teams (No. 2 Texas and No. 24 Penn State).
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Washington State flag's next stop: Iowa City
Cougar fans' creation a staple of ESPN's `GameDay' show
By: Marc Morehouse - The Gazette Everything that is cool about college football is wrapped in a Washington State flag.
The plan is in place for the Washington State Cougars colors to fly behind ESPN's "College GameDay" set before Saturday's Iowa-Ohio State game.
Tom Pounds, a WSU alumnus from Albuquerque, N.M., has four Chicago-area "Cougs" (the WSU nickname is Cougars) available. Two Cougs already have pledged to make the four-hour drive at their own expense to wave the WSU flag in the background of Saturday's GameDay telecast. The guy who did it last week in Columbus, Ohio, might also be in the mix.
"When I got into work this morning, I had an e-mail from a woman who is a Chicago Coug," Pounds said. "We've at least three, so we're ready."
What started as a simple show of school spirit in Austin, Texas, in 2003, has become a campaign to get GameDay to make a stop in Pullman, Wash., where Washington State is located.
But it's more than that. It's a cult phenomenon that says a lot of what college football fans are all about.
It began on Oct. 4, 2003. Pounds was in Austin visiting family. ESPN's College GameDay crew was in town, so Pounds, a huge college football fan, went with a whim.
His wife was making a wedding dress, so with the help of his mom, he whipped up a WSU flag. He made it over to the Texas tailgate and got the flag on GameDay.
"I was a crimson-colored T-shirt with a red flag in the middle of a sea of burnt-orange students and getting catcalls," said Pounds, 48, an electrical engineer. "I'm a big guy, so nobody really wanted to approach me to get rid of the flag."
A couple of weeks later, GameDay made a stop in Madison, Wis. A St. Paul, Minn., seminary student and big Coug fan called Pounds and asked him to ship the flag.
"I thought, 'oh, sure, OK, I'll do it,' " Pounds said. "I wasn't out to start anything big. I thought, oh sure, and paid for the shipping."
The next week, WSU alumnus John Bley volunteered his daughter, a scholarship softball player at Detroit University, to take the same flag and wave it at the next broadcast at Bowling Green, Ohio.
Last weekend in Columbus, the WSU flag flew on its 40th GameDay show.
Pounds has carried it four times. Andrew Pannek, of Spokane, Wash., is the all-time leader at seven.
"There's just something that seems extremely unique about the experience at Washington State and Cougar football," Bley told Washington State Magazine. "Maybe it has something to do with the location (of the school), or a team that continues to confound. The fans get attracted to that, and they do extraordinary things."
Pounds will Fed-Ex a kit to Chicago this week that now contains three WSU flags (gray, white and one from the campus bookstore).
The Ol' Crimson Booster Club, a non-profit corporation, has been formed to collect donations, pay for shipping, gas and whatever other expenses that come up with getting the flags on TV.
Pounds has spent more time than he's wanted to with the flag in the past.
Now, he's got a list of 80 to 90 Cougs around the country. He also has the WSU alumni association offering a ready-made list of wavers, but he hasn't had to use them much.
He estimated that he spends two hours a week on it. It's a little more during the summer because they make a new flag for every season. Each flag waver signs it. Pounds keeps the copies.
As you can probably imagine, the WSU flag bearers have had their run ins with rowdy fans who just don't get it.
At Bowling Green, a student grabbed the flag from Bley's daughter and snapped the pole. (It still made GameDay, though.) Another woman flag bearer was grabbed at Florida, but a group of eight WSU fans broke it up.
They were worried at Columbus last week, but had no problems. Pounds is counting on Iowa's gentle nature this week.
There are imitators.
A Louisiana State flag has mugged for the GameDay camera the last four weeks, Pounds said. He's also seen an Auburn flag making the rounds.
"But we've got a three-year headstart on them," Pounds said.
ESPN also favors WSU, Pounds said. At least twice last season, WSU flag wavers were out of position for the camera. Producers sent the ground crew out to tell the wavers where to stand.
"ESPN loves us," Pounds said.
GameDay almost came to Pullman in 2004. ESPN had Pullman on the list for a matchup with undefeated Oregon, but Oregon lost the week before.
If GameDay comes to Pullman, will this incredible show of school spirit dry up?
"If you were to ask me this last year when it was taking up a lot of time, I probably would've said, yeah," Pounds said. "But people are coming to me now, saying `I'll take the flag, ship it to me.'
"It's taking a lot less time. It's a lot nicer to do it. I don't see why we wouldn't continue to do it."
It's college football wrapped in a flag.
Washington State flag's next stop: Iowa City
Cougar fans' creation a staple of ESPN's `GameDay' show
By: Marc Morehouse - The Gazette Everything that is cool about college football is wrapped in a Washington State flag.
The plan is in place for the Washington State Cougars colors to fly behind ESPN's "College GameDay" set before Saturday's Iowa-Ohio State game.
Tom Pounds, a WSU alumnus from Albuquerque, N.M., has four Chicago-area "Cougs" (the WSU nickname is Cougars) available. Two Cougs already have pledged to make the four-hour drive at their own expense to wave the WSU flag in the background of Saturday's GameDay telecast. The guy who did it last week in Columbus, Ohio, might also be in the mix.
"When I got into work this morning, I had an e-mail from a woman who is a Chicago Coug," Pounds said. "We've at least three, so we're ready."
What started as a simple show of school spirit in Austin, Texas, in 2003, has become a campaign to get GameDay to make a stop in Pullman, Wash., where Washington State is located.
But it's more than that. It's a cult phenomenon that says a lot of what college football fans are all about.
It began on Oct. 4, 2003. Pounds was in Austin visiting family. ESPN's College GameDay crew was in town, so Pounds, a huge college football fan, went with a whim.
His wife was making a wedding dress, so with the help of his mom, he whipped up a WSU flag. He made it over to the Texas tailgate and got the flag on GameDay.
"I was a crimson-colored T-shirt with a red flag in the middle of a sea of burnt-orange students and getting catcalls," said Pounds, 48, an electrical engineer. "I'm a big guy, so nobody really wanted to approach me to get rid of the flag."
A couple of weeks later, GameDay made a stop in Madison, Wis. A St. Paul, Minn., seminary student and big Coug fan called Pounds and asked him to ship the flag.
"I thought, 'oh, sure, OK, I'll do it,' " Pounds said. "I wasn't out to start anything big. I thought, oh sure, and paid for the shipping."
The next week, WSU alumnus John Bley volunteered his daughter, a scholarship softball player at Detroit University, to take the same flag and wave it at the next broadcast at Bowling Green, Ohio.
Last weekend in Columbus, the WSU flag flew on its 40th GameDay show.
Pounds has carried it four times. Andrew Pannek, of Spokane, Wash., is the all-time leader at seven.
"There's just something that seems extremely unique about the experience at Washington State and Cougar football," Bley told Washington State Magazine. "Maybe it has something to do with the location (of the school), or a team that continues to confound. The fans get attracted to that, and they do extraordinary things."
Pounds will Fed-Ex a kit to Chicago this week that now contains three WSU flags (gray, white and one from the campus bookstore).
The Ol' Crimson Booster Club, a non-profit corporation, has been formed to collect donations, pay for shipping, gas and whatever other expenses that come up with getting the flags on TV.
Pounds has spent more time than he's wanted to with the flag in the past.
Now, he's got a list of 80 to 90 Cougs around the country. He also has the WSU alumni association offering a ready-made list of wavers, but he hasn't had to use them much.
He estimated that he spends two hours a week on it. It's a little more during the summer because they make a new flag for every season. Each flag waver signs it. Pounds keeps the copies.
As you can probably imagine, the WSU flag bearers have had their run ins with rowdy fans who just don't get it.
At Bowling Green, a student grabbed the flag from Bley's daughter and snapped the pole. (It still made GameDay, though.) Another woman flag bearer was grabbed at Florida, but a group of eight WSU fans broke it up.
They were worried at Columbus last week, but had no problems. Pounds is counting on Iowa's gentle nature this week.
There are imitators.
A Louisiana State flag has mugged for the GameDay camera the last four weeks, Pounds said. He's also seen an Auburn flag making the rounds.
"But we've got a three-year headstart on them," Pounds said.
ESPN also favors WSU, Pounds said. At least twice last season, WSU flag wavers were out of position for the camera. Producers sent the ground crew out to tell the wavers where to stand.
"ESPN loves us," Pounds said.
GameDay almost came to Pullman in 2004. ESPN had Pullman on the list for a matchup with undefeated Oregon, but Oregon lost the week before.
If GameDay comes to Pullman, will this incredible show of school spirit dry up?
"If you were to ask me this last year when it was taking up a lot of time, I probably would've said, yeah," Pounds said. "But people are coming to me now, saying `I'll take the flag, ship it to me.'
"It's taking a lot less time. It's a lot nicer to do it. I don't see why we wouldn't continue to do it."
It's college football wrapped in a flag.
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Iowa-OSU tickets a hot item
Fans throwing down several hundred dollars for seats
Published: 09/26/2006 2:49 PM Updated: 09/26/2006 3:29 PM
By: John Riehl - The Gazette IOWA CITY, IA - According to TicketsNow.com, the Iowa-Ohio State game at Kinnick Stadium is the hottest ticket in college football this weekend.
TicketsNow.com, a Crystal Lake, Ill., company that provides an online inventory of secondary market tickets from professional licensed retailers, considers Ohio State at Iowa, Michigan at Minnesota, Auburn at South Carolina and USC at Washington State to be the week's top four games.
Based on demand, the Saturday night matchup between top-ranked Ohio State and No. 13 Iowa is the runaway winner as the biggest game.
According to Marketing Communications Director Jennifer Swanson, TicketsNow.com has twice as many tickets for the Iowa-Ohio State game as the Michigan-Minnesota contest. The discrepancy grows to three times as many as Auburn-South Carolina and five times as many as USC-Washington State.
On TicketsNow.com, the most expensive tickets for the Iowa-Ohio State game cost $545, with the cheapest running $200. The tickets have a $60 face value.
The most expensive/cheapest tickets for the other three games are: Michigan-Minnesota ($255/$50), Auburn-South Carolina ($360/$85) and USC-Washington State ($140 average/$50).
"Just to get into the stadium, you're paying four times as much," Swanson said. "The market tells you how hot the game is. The market is pretty high right now.
"You have No. 1 Ohio State going into Iowa's backyard. Ohio State is a good road team, so you probably will have a lot of travelers. We'll see what they do in Iowa."
TicketsNow.com claims to have the world's largest on-line inventory of secondary market tickets -- nearly six times more than eBay. The company also says that nine out of 10 professional companies in North America that sell tickets online list their tickets at TicketsNow.com.
Tickets on StubHub, which provides fans the choice to buy or sell their tickets online, range from $142.50 (two tickets together) to $850 apiece (four tickets together). Outdoor club seats are running $1,198 to $1,298.
On eBay, current bids for two tickets ranged from $207.50 to $490 as of Monday afternoon. Two club seats had a starting bid of $3,000.
The game, obviously, is sold out.
Iowa-OSU tickets a hot item
Fans throwing down several hundred dollars for seats
Published: 09/26/2006 2:49 PM Updated: 09/26/2006 3:29 PM
By: John Riehl - The Gazette IOWA CITY, IA - According to TicketsNow.com, the Iowa-Ohio State game at Kinnick Stadium is the hottest ticket in college football this weekend.
TicketsNow.com, a Crystal Lake, Ill., company that provides an online inventory of secondary market tickets from professional licensed retailers, considers Ohio State at Iowa, Michigan at Minnesota, Auburn at South Carolina and USC at Washington State to be the week's top four games.
Based on demand, the Saturday night matchup between top-ranked Ohio State and No. 13 Iowa is the runaway winner as the biggest game.
According to Marketing Communications Director Jennifer Swanson, TicketsNow.com has twice as many tickets for the Iowa-Ohio State game as the Michigan-Minnesota contest. The discrepancy grows to three times as many as Auburn-South Carolina and five times as many as USC-Washington State.
On TicketsNow.com, the most expensive tickets for the Iowa-Ohio State game cost $545, with the cheapest running $200. The tickets have a $60 face value.
The most expensive/cheapest tickets for the other three games are: Michigan-Minnesota ($255/$50), Auburn-South Carolina ($360/$85) and USC-Washington State ($140 average/$50).
"Just to get into the stadium, you're paying four times as much," Swanson said. "The market tells you how hot the game is. The market is pretty high right now.
"You have No. 1 Ohio State going into Iowa's backyard. Ohio State is a good road team, so you probably will have a lot of travelers. We'll see what they do in Iowa."
TicketsNow.com claims to have the world's largest on-line inventory of secondary market tickets -- nearly six times more than eBay. The company also says that nine out of 10 professional companies in North America that sell tickets online list their tickets at TicketsNow.com.
Tickets on StubHub, which provides fans the choice to buy or sell their tickets online, range from $142.50 (two tickets together) to $850 apiece (four tickets together). Outdoor club seats are running $1,198 to $1,298.
On eBay, current bids for two tickets ranged from $207.50 to $490 as of Monday afternoon. Two club seats had a starting bid of $3,000.
The game, obviously, is sold out.
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I agree. Most people were ready to write off Penn State before the game I wasn't. Its still Penn State and their very similiar to us at least defensively. Iowa concerns me more. Obviously, the bookies agree with you. I think its a 5ish or 6ish line for Ohio State. I've been thinking of this game since season started.
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