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Game Thread Game One: #1 Ohio State 35, Northern Illinois 12 (9/2/06)

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Fellow Bucks,

I have to go to Mansfield on Saturday. I'm going to come up through Columbus early to do some tailgating but I will have to watch the game somewhere nearer the edge of town in order to get to Mansfield by 7:30. Which places are best for gameday on the outskirts of town to watch games? Any advice will be greatly appreciated!


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Bestbuck36 said:
Fellow Bucks,

I have to go to Mansfield on Saturday. I'm going to come up through Columbus early to do some tailgating but I will have to watch the game somewhere nearer the edge of town in order to get to Mansfield by 7:30. Which places are best for gameday on the outskirts of town to watch games? Any advice will be greatly appreciated!


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Since you're heading north on I71, I'd say take the Polaris exit, head east to Damon's.
 
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HuskieMobileMan said:
I love how you guys think that we haven't seen anything like OSU in the past. Yes you are the number one team in the nation in both polls, but we have played teams that are just as big and physical as your guys. To think that your defense is going to snap GW in half like a twig is comical. Your offense scares me, but your defense is young and we are going to score our points and get our yards. You guys will be surprised on Saturday.
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Dispatch

8/28/06

OHIO STATE FOOTBALL
Buckeyes excited for start of game week

Monday, August 28, 2006

Tim May and Ken Gordon
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

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With preseason camp now over, the excitement starts to grow for top-ranked Ohio State, receiver Anthony Gonzalez said as serious preparations begin for the opener against Northern Illinois on Saturday.
"That is always an exciting part of every year," Gonzalez said. "We have been going at it pretty hard for a few weeks now. It’s obviously going to be exciting to finally prepare formally for an opponent."
On paper, the opener promises to be an early bellwether game in terms of the relative strength of the Mid-American Conference, where NIU is favored to win the West Division, and the Big Ten, where defending co-champion Ohio State is favored. More than anything, it’s a chance to expand the football curriculum, Gonzalez said.
"During camp, it’s more about finding out who we are (as a team)," Gonzalez said. "When the season starts, it’s more finding out who the other team is, and how we’re going to best exploit their weaknesses or try to, I don’t know, mask some of ours."
The Buckeyes reported back to campus last night after 48 hours of leave, their longest break in three weeks.
Huskies open school

Northern Illinois opens the fall semester today. NIU coach Joe Novak said he has been through enough school openers to learn some lessons, and one of them is not to practice today.
"I’ve never been anywhere for the first day of classes where the practices were worth a darn," Novak said. "They’re on their feet all day, they’re walking around, everything is changing. They come to practice at 3:30 and it’s not worth a darn. So this year we’re going to practice (last night) and Monday will be our day off."
The Buckeyes will play three games before fall quarter classes begin Sept. 20.
Handling the hype

Coach Jim Tressel has to make sure his team doesn’t get wrapped up in its preseason No. 1 rankings. But he also has to pay special attention to Heisman Trophy candidates Troy Smith and Ted Ginn Jr.
They have done numerous preseason interviews and, starting this week, will be available to the national media on a conference call each Wednesday.
Distraction is a real worry.
"They’ve got to handle that hype, and they’ve got to make sure it doesn’t overtake any of their thinking," Tressel said. "Because there’s only one way you become something special, and that’s you produce.
"People are saying they have that potential to produce. That should encourage you, that should fuel your fire to work. It shouldn’t make you relax and start daydreaming about what you might say at the Downtown Athletic Club or wherever they have (the Heisman ceremony) now, so it’s something you have to watch out (for)."

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Dispatch

8/28/06

Oh, brother: Coaches face off
Hausers to be on opposite sidelines for Ohio State-Northern Illinois game

Monday, August 28, 2006
Ken Gordon
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

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When Northern Illinois and Ohio State meet Saturday in Ohio Stadium, the Hauser family will be everywhere. Dozens will sit in the stands as fans. Two will be on the sidelines as coaches.
And one, family members say, will be watching from above.
John and Chris Hauser are brothers, Columbus natives and Hartley graduates who both went into coaching. Through a serendipitous turn of events, John is in his first year as a full-time assistant at Northern Illinois and Chris is a first-year graduate assistant at OSU.
Both got their jobs on the same day earlier this year, and it didn’t take long for them to realize their first game would be against the other in their hometown.
"The way it worked out is scary," Chris said. "When we both interviewed at about the same time, it kind of hit us after that, Wow, that would be such a long shot, what are the chances of us getting these jobs?’ And then to be playing each other in week one, it’s too good to be true."
Their upbringing was storybook, as well. Their father, Chris Sr., was a Columbus police officer, and a successful one at that, winning several honors and awards when he and his wife Susan’s three kids (Colleen is the youngest) were small.
When Chris Jr. and John reached school age and began playing sports, Chris Sr.’s career suddenly took a back seat.
"He dropped everything to see us grow up," Chris Jr. said. "He passed up sergeant tests and promotion tests so that his hours wouldn’t ever conflict with him being able to coach our little league teams or helping us study our spelling words."
Chris Sr. coached his sons in baseball and football until they reached Hartley. Both boys were good athletes who at one time started side by side at linebacker for the Hawks.
Chris Jr., 27, went to Akron to play baseball. He walked onto the football team before a knee injury ended his playing days. He graduated in 2002 and spent the next two seasons as a graduate assistant football coach.
Last year, he was at Fort Hays State in Hays, Kan.
John, 26, was a standout linebacker at Wittenberg University. He graduated in 2003 and went to Northern Illinois as a graduate assistant. Earlier this year, he had just left to take a job at Harvard University before NIU coach Joe Novak hired him back as a full-time assistant. He coaches the secondary.
Susan Hauser said she didn’t think both her sons would end up in coaching.
"I kind of thought Chris would, but John I thought was going to be a multimilliondollar businessman," she said. "I always thought he’d be the high roller; I did not see coaching in his future."
That changed for John when Chris Sr. died of lung cancer at age 47 in 2001.
"I got into (coaching) because of him," John said. "As a police officer, he helped a lot of people. He loved teaching at the academy. That was one of his favorite jobs on the force.
"And coaching is teaching. It’s a chance to touch kids’ lives."
The brothers have faced off as coaches once before, in October 2004 when Akron visited NIU and John’s Huskies prevailed 49-19.
Susan has seven siblings, so there was quite a contingent of relatives in the stands that day. They wore specially made shirts that said, "Akron Hauser vs. NIU Hauser."
Chris Jr.’s Buckeyes will be the heavy favorite Saturday, a source of some good-natured family joking.
"I tell him, ‘Don’t forget, I’m 1-0,’ " John said. "But he’s got a little bit different dog in this fight."
Susan said people are coming out of the woodwork to try and get tickets from her for Saturday. John and Chris Jr. each get four, and Susan figured she will have at least 15 by game time. She’d like 35 if she can find them.
Both John and Chris Jr. said their father won’t be far from their mind Saturday. They talk often about how proud Chris Sr. would be that his sons are coaches.
The two plan to find each other on the field before and after the game. It’s a good bet their father will be mentioned.
"It will be very emotional," Susan said. "I always tell them, ‘I wish your dad could be here to see you guys in your element,’ and they assure me he’s there. He’s at every game."
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