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This Northern Illinois senior wears trendy suits, but Wolfe's work ethic never goes out of style
Wednesday, August 30, 2006Elton Alexander
Plain Dealer Reporter
Garrett Wolfe doesn't mind being seen. That was obvious in 2004 after the Northern Illinois tailback rushed for 202 yards and three touchdowns on national TV against Bowling Green.
"After the game, we went down to the locker room," said Joe DiCanio, his former coach at Holy Cross High School in suburban Chicago. "Garrett said, 'Coach, can you wait for me? I'll be out after I shower.' It took him two hours to get back out because of all the press. Then he came out in some funky yel low suit. I said, 'I waited two hours for this yellow suit?' I don't believe this."
Northern Illinois coach Joe Novak, once the coach at Mentor High, said his tailback is indeed, "a very clean dresser."
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"I've seen that one," he said of the yellow suit. "The yellow tennis shoes he wears, too."
Being seen is not a problem for Wolfe. But on the football field, at 5-7, 177 pounds, he wants to be an illusionist. Wolfe wants to see, and be seen, but not get hit. It is something he has perfected as he enters his senior season and Saturday's opener at Ohio State.
"His vision and anticipation [are] just instinctively gifted," DiCanio said. "That's why he can carry the ball 35 times in a college football game and 35 times when he was in high school. . . . He knows who he has to avoid.
"If [graduated OSU linebacker] A.J. Hawk was playing against him - and I'm sure Garrett is happy he's not - he'd know how to avoid A.J. Hawk, how to anticipate him coming, situations where he'd know where Hawk is going to be and avoid taking the big shot."
Wolfe wants the football as much as possible, because once it looked as if playing college football would be a long shot. Wolfe redshirted as a freshman, primarily because he was hurt. Academic issues sidelined him the next season.
"He did everything that was asked of him, had the grades and the GPA [grade-point average]," Novak said. "But one week before the season, they said he was a [credit] hour short.
"I was concerned the kid would get discouraged and go home. But to his credit, he didn't. He handled it very well. He was the one who had to deal with it. I'm not sure I would have handled it as well as he did, to be honest with you."
It wasn't until Wolfe's third year on campus that he finally got a chance, and the opposition has been paying for it since.
Now a senior, Wolfe is the top returning rusher in NCAA Division I ranks, coming off a 1,580-yard rushing season. He was second in the nation last season in rushing. The others in the top five - Memphis' DeAngelo Williams, Washington State's Jerome Harrison, Southern California's Reggie Bush and Minnesota's Laurence Maroney - are all in the NFL.
"We feel like he's maybe going to be the best back we face," said Ohio State defensive tackle Quinn Pitcock. "Maybe there will be teams with better offensive lines, but he does a lot of work himself."
Before Wolfe's emergence, he was a third-string, change-of-pace back. He had rushed for 24, 45 and 33 yards in the three games he had played. But when Northern's top two backs were sidelined during the BG game, Wolfe took over.
"I was there," DiCanio said. "I was amazed, but I wasn't shocked. He had 2 yards rushing, I think, in the first half. In the second half he had 200."
Then after the long wait, Wolfe emerged in the canary yellow suit. DiCanio said he left Wolfe instructions later that night.
"I told him to get rid of it," DiCanio said. "Especially if he goes to New York as one of the Heisman guys, he'd better not wear that suit and say he came from Holy Cross."
No problem, Wolfe said.
"I got a mocha one now, with a nice yellow shirt and tie to go with it."
To reach this Plain Dealer reporter:
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This Northern Illinois senior wears trendy suits, but Wolfe's work ethic never goes out of style
Wednesday, August 30, 2006Elton Alexander
Plain Dealer Reporter
Garrett Wolfe doesn't mind being seen. That was obvious in 2004 after the Northern Illinois tailback rushed for 202 yards and three touchdowns on national TV against Bowling Green.
"After the game, we went down to the locker room," said Joe DiCanio, his former coach at Holy Cross High School in suburban Chicago. "Garrett said, 'Coach, can you wait for me? I'll be out after I shower.' It took him two hours to get back out because of all the press. Then he came out in some funky yel low suit. I said, 'I waited two hours for this yellow suit?' I don't believe this."
Northern Illinois coach Joe Novak, once the coach at Mentor High, said his tailback is indeed, "a very clean dresser."
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Being seen is not a problem for Wolfe. But on the football field, at 5-7, 177 pounds, he wants to be an illusionist. Wolfe wants to see, and be seen, but not get hit. It is something he has perfected as he enters his senior season and Saturday's opener at Ohio State.
"His vision and anticipation [are] just instinctively gifted," DiCanio said. "That's why he can carry the ball 35 times in a college football game and 35 times when he was in high school. . . . He knows who he has to avoid.
"If [graduated OSU linebacker] A.J. Hawk was playing against him - and I'm sure Garrett is happy he's not - he'd know how to avoid A.J. Hawk, how to anticipate him coming, situations where he'd know where Hawk is going to be and avoid taking the big shot."
Wolfe wants the football as much as possible, because once it looked as if playing college football would be a long shot. Wolfe redshirted as a freshman, primarily because he was hurt. Academic issues sidelined him the next season.
"He did everything that was asked of him, had the grades and the GPA [grade-point average]," Novak said. "But one week before the season, they said he was a [credit] hour short.
"I was concerned the kid would get discouraged and go home. But to his credit, he didn't. He handled it very well. He was the one who had to deal with it. I'm not sure I would have handled it as well as he did, to be honest with you."
It wasn't until Wolfe's third year on campus that he finally got a chance, and the opposition has been paying for it since.
Now a senior, Wolfe is the top returning rusher in NCAA Division I ranks, coming off a 1,580-yard rushing season. He was second in the nation last season in rushing. The others in the top five - Memphis' DeAngelo Williams, Washington State's Jerome Harrison, Southern California's Reggie Bush and Minnesota's Laurence Maroney - are all in the NFL.
"We feel like he's maybe going to be the best back we face," said Ohio State defensive tackle Quinn Pitcock. "Maybe there will be teams with better offensive lines, but he does a lot of work himself."
Before Wolfe's emergence, he was a third-string, change-of-pace back. He had rushed for 24, 45 and 33 yards in the three games he had played. But when Northern's top two backs were sidelined during the BG game, Wolfe took over.
"I was there," DiCanio said. "I was amazed, but I wasn't shocked. He had 2 yards rushing, I think, in the first half. In the second half he had 200."
Then after the long wait, Wolfe emerged in the canary yellow suit. DiCanio said he left Wolfe instructions later that night.
"I told him to get rid of it," DiCanio said. "Especially if he goes to New York as one of the Heisman guys, he'd better not wear that suit and say he came from Holy Cross."
No problem, Wolfe said.
"I got a mocha one now, with a nice yellow shirt and tie to go with it."
To reach this Plain Dealer reporter:
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DEPTH CHART The official two-deep depth chart is out. A mild surprise is DE Vernon Gholston edging Lawrence Wilson for a starting position opposite Jay Richardson. The top three linebackers — Marcus Freeman, James Laurinaitis and John Kerr — are the same, but all three are in different positions. Freeman went from strong side to weak side, Laurinaitis from strong side to middle and Kerr from middle to weak side. Brandon Mitchell beat out Jamario O’Neal to start at strong safet. Head Coach Jim Tressel said not to read to much into the two-deep just yet. “You may see a little more substitution when it comes to the back seven,” he said. “We think we have a decent number of guys that are capable.”
BACKUPS WR Brian Hartline (GlenOak) has earned the second spot behind Anthony Gonzalez. Hartline is a redshirt freshman who is expected to see plenty of action. Jon Thoma (St. Thomas Aquinas) is the second-team punter behind A.J. Trapasso.
HONORARY CAPTAIN Former Buckeye defensive back Ahmed Plummer will be the team’s honorary captain Saturday. Plummer recently ended his NFL career and is a volunteer strength coach.
GETTING WET True freshmen RB Chris Wells, WR Ray Small and LB Ross Homan are listed on the two-deep as backups at their respective positions. Tressel said Wells will play in the opener. “ You know, he wants to know exactly what the score is. Just watching him yesterday, he looked even quicker than I’ve seen him in the spring and fall, and I thought he looked awfully quick then,” Tressel said.
BUCKEYES Saturday’s game will be televised by ABC to 47 percent of the country ... Seven Big Ten teams open against Mid-American Conference opponents. ... Northern Illinois gained national attention in the 2003 opener with an overtime win over No. 15 Maryland. The last time NIU played the country’s top-ranked team was 1986. The Huskies lost, 34-0, to Miami (Fla.) that year.
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Wolfe in Huskies' clothing not kid stuff to Buckeyes
By MATT MARKEY
BLADE SPORTS WRITER
COLUMBUS - Ohio State wants everyone to know that its No. 1 ranking and its long and illustrious tradition probably do more to motivate the opposition than anything else, so they say beware of everyone.
And with Mid-American Conference favorite Northern Illinois coming to Ohio Stadium on Saturday, the Buckeyes are crying Wolfe - Garrett Wolfe that is, the top returning rusher in all of Division I-A college football. "He's a small, quick back, running behind a big, strong offensive line, so that's our primary concern right now," Ohio State senior defensive tackle Quinn Pitcock said of the 5-foot-7, 175-pound Wolfe. "First you have to find him, and then you have to stop him."
The Buckeyes have won their last 27 home openers, and will be prohibitive favorites against the Huskies, who have claimed at least a share of the MAC West title in four of the last five years. But Ohio State coach Jim Tressel contends there is nothing automatic about this one. He sees the big and bad part of this deal in those folks in front of Wolfe.
"They'll give you perhaps one of the finest running backs in the country, Garrett Wolfe, and it doesn't matter who he's playing against, he's 200-yard rush guy," Tressel said. "They have a huge offensive line and sometimes you lose sight of those guys behind mammoth folks like that. If you watch them on film, they are fundamentally sound. They're very physical, tough kids." Tressel said that although Wolfe is comparable in stature to Michigan running back Mike Hart, Ohio State has not really seen a ballcarrier that mirrors Wolfe. "You know, he's shorter than some, so I guess you can say [he's similar to] Hart from Michigan, in that type of thing," Tressel said. "But Wolfe is on a zone run team, and I don't know if we've played against a guy like Garrett Wolfe, which will make this an even greater challenge." Wolfe averaged 175.6 yards rushing per game in 2005, second in the nation, and had 1,656 rushing yards in nine games, missing three games with a knee injury. His second straight 1,600-yard season gives Northern Illinois a streak of seven straight seasons with a 1,000-yard rusher. "They've done extraordinary things. And I think it's been because they teach so well, their fundamentals are so good, they play low, they play hard, they do the things you like to see as a football coach," Tressel said. David Patterson, who along with Pitcock are the only returning starters on the Ohio State defense, said Wolfe's package of speed and quickness in a diminutive frame allows him to get lost in the battle up front. "He gets the ball and picks his spots and then he hits the hole so fast," Patterson said. "He'll be a challenge for us to stop." Wolfe had four touchdowns and almost 400 yards rushing in games against Michigan and Northwestern last season, and Tressel does not expect the specter of a Big Ten opponent to have any bearing on how Wolfe or the rest of the Huskies play on Saturday. "They bring it every week, and it really doesn't matter who they're playing against," he said. "You can turn on the game with Michigan last year, or a couple years ago when they beat Alabama down in Tuscaloosa, or going over to Maryland and beating Maryland. You can go down their history. They know what they have to do and their players just understand the game." Tressel said he expects Saturday to tell him more about the Buckeyes than it will about Northern Illinois. "We know they're good, and we're anxious to find out a little about ourselves," he said. "They're going to come in here with nothing on their mind other than a victory, and our guys are going to have a chance to line up against a good football team and get maybe some of these questions that we've been asking back and forth over the last six months, and find out some answers to those." Contact Matt Markey at:
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BUCKEYES REPORT
DEPTH CHART The official two-deep depth chart is out. A mild surprise is DE Vernon Gholston edging Lawrence Wilson for a starting position opposite Jay Richardson. The top three linebackers — Marcus Freeman, James Laurinaitis and John Kerr — are the same, but all three are in different positions. Freeman went from strong side to weak side, Laurinaitis from strong side to middle and Kerr from middle to weak side. Brandon Mitchell beat out Jamario O’Neal to start at strong safet. Head Coach Jim Tressel said not to read to much into the two-deep just yet. “You may see a little more substitution when it comes to the back seven,” he said. “We think we have a decent number of guys that are capable.”
BACKUPS WR Brian Hartline (GlenOak) has earned the second spot behind Anthony Gonzalez. Hartline is a redshirt freshman who is expected to see plenty of action. Jon Thoma (St. Thomas Aquinas) is the second-team punter behind A.J. Trapasso.
HONORARY CAPTAIN Former Buckeye defensive back Ahmed Plummer will be the team’s honorary captain Saturday. Plummer recently ended his NFL career and is a volunteer strength coach.
GETTING WET True freshmen RB Chris Wells, WR Ray Small and LB Ross Homan are listed on the two-deep as backups at their respective positions. Tressel said Wells will play in the opener. “ You know, he wants to know exactly what the score is. Just watching him yesterday, he looked even quicker than I’ve seen him in the spring and fall, and I thought he looked awfully quick then,” Tressel said.
BUCKEYES Saturday’s game will be televised by ABC to 47 percent of the country ... Seven Big Ten teams open against Mid-American Conference opponents. ... Northern Illinois gained national attention in the 2003 opener with an overtime win over No. 15 Maryland. The last time NIU played the country’s top-ranked team was 1986. The Huskies lost, 34-0, to Miami (Fla.) that year.
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Wolfe in Huskies' clothing not kid stuff to Buckeyes
By MATT MARKEY
BLADE SPORTS WRITER
COLUMBUS - Ohio State wants everyone to know that its No. 1 ranking and its long and illustrious tradition probably do more to motivate the opposition than anything else, so they say beware of everyone.
And with Mid-American Conference favorite Northern Illinois coming to Ohio Stadium on Saturday, the Buckeyes are crying Wolfe - Garrett Wolfe that is, the top returning rusher in all of Division I-A college football. "He's a small, quick back, running behind a big, strong offensive line, so that's our primary concern right now," Ohio State senior defensive tackle Quinn Pitcock said of the 5-foot-7, 175-pound Wolfe. "First you have to find him, and then you have to stop him."
The Buckeyes have won their last 27 home openers, and will be prohibitive favorites against the Huskies, who have claimed at least a share of the MAC West title in four of the last five years. But Ohio State coach Jim Tressel contends there is nothing automatic about this one. He sees the big and bad part of this deal in those folks in front of Wolfe.
"They'll give you perhaps one of the finest running backs in the country, Garrett Wolfe, and it doesn't matter who he's playing against, he's 200-yard rush guy," Tressel said. "They have a huge offensive line and sometimes you lose sight of those guys behind mammoth folks like that. If you watch them on film, they are fundamentally sound. They're very physical, tough kids." Tressel said that although Wolfe is comparable in stature to Michigan running back Mike Hart, Ohio State has not really seen a ballcarrier that mirrors Wolfe. "You know, he's shorter than some, so I guess you can say [he's similar to] Hart from Michigan, in that type of thing," Tressel said. "But Wolfe is on a zone run team, and I don't know if we've played against a guy like Garrett Wolfe, which will make this an even greater challenge." Wolfe averaged 175.6 yards rushing per game in 2005, second in the nation, and had 1,656 rushing yards in nine games, missing three games with a knee injury. His second straight 1,600-yard season gives Northern Illinois a streak of seven straight seasons with a 1,000-yard rusher. "They've done extraordinary things. And I think it's been because they teach so well, their fundamentals are so good, they play low, they play hard, they do the things you like to see as a football coach," Tressel said. David Patterson, who along with Pitcock are the only returning starters on the Ohio State defense, said Wolfe's package of speed and quickness in a diminutive frame allows him to get lost in the battle up front. "He gets the ball and picks his spots and then he hits the hole so fast," Patterson said. "He'll be a challenge for us to stop." Wolfe had four touchdowns and almost 400 yards rushing in games against Michigan and Northwestern last season, and Tressel does not expect the specter of a Big Ten opponent to have any bearing on how Wolfe or the rest of the Huskies play on Saturday. "They bring it every week, and it really doesn't matter who they're playing against," he said. "You can turn on the game with Michigan last year, or a couple years ago when they beat Alabama down in Tuscaloosa, or going over to Maryland and beating Maryland. You can go down their history. They know what they have to do and their players just understand the game." Tressel said he expects Saturday to tell him more about the Buckeyes than it will about Northern Illinois. "We know they're good, and we're anxious to find out a little about ourselves," he said. "They're going to come in here with nothing on their mind other than a victory, and our guys are going to have a chance to line up against a good football team and get maybe some of these questions that we've been asking back and forth over the last six months, and find out some answers to those." Contact Matt Markey at:
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NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOTBALL
Novak stays course, does things his way
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Bob Baptist
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
Like most every kid who plays high school football in Ohio, Joe Novak wanted to play for Ohio State. But Ohio State didn’t want Joe Novak.
So the Mentor native went to Miami University and played for coach Bo Schembechler, who once said Novak was "the smartest defensive end I ever coached ... and the slowest."
Good thing for Northern Illinois that administrators were willing to let Novak go slowly after hiring him as football coach in 1996. The Huskies’ record his first three seasons was 3-30.
"Every time I’d go home, I was taking boxes with me so I was ready to pack," Novak said.
The only moving he’s done is up. Northern Illinois was 17-16 his second three seasons and 34-14 the past four.
Along the way, it not only has become an MAC power but earned a reputation for, if not always slaying, at least scaring teams from the giant conferences.
Northern beat Alabama, Maryland and Iowa State in 2003, narrowly lost to the latter two in 2004 and lost by a point at Northwestern last season.
The Huskies take on Ohio State on Saturday, bringing Novak for the first time as a college head coach to a place where he wasn’t good enough to play but that has influenced his coaching career profoundly.
"I think a lot of what we’re about goes back to Woody Hayes," Novak said. "I worked for Bill Mallory, who worked for Woody. I worked for Dick Crum, who worked for Bill Mallory. I worked for Gary Moeller, who played for Woody. I’m from Ohio.
"So much of the influence of the people around me has been Woody Hayes and that type of background: toughness, character, working hard, nothing fancy. Just kind of a blue-collar approach to things and trying to be sound and not make mistakes."
Novak started his coaching career as a graduate assistant to Schembechler at Miami. He moved to Warren Western Reserve High School, where he won a state championship and coached future Outland Trophy winner Ross Browner. He returned to Miami in 1974 as an assistant to Crum, worked for Moeller at Illinois and for Mallory at Northern Illinois and Indiana.
Novak stuck to his beliefs when he might have considered a quicker fix during the lean times of the late ’90s at Northern Illinois.
"I questioned everything," Novak said. "Honestly, I questioned our janitor. I didn’t know if he was cleaning our building good enough so that when recruits came in, they were impressed by it.
"I finally sat down and said, ‘You know what? This is my shot and I’m not going to change. If what we’re doing here isn’t right or if it doesn’t work out, I can live with that. I won’t like it, but I can live with it. But if I change and do things the way I really don’t believe and we fail, I won’t be able to live with that.’
"I think the best thing we did is we stayed the course. Luckily, it worked out well for us. In this day and age, at 95 percent of the schools, I would have been gone."
Mallory said the recruiting ties in Illinois and Wisconsin that Novak developed while working as an assistant for him for 16 years helped him gradually get the talent he needed.
"How do you get players at Indiana? At Northern? You have to go out and find them ... kick the bushes a little bit. That’s one thing the MAC does a great job of," Mallory said.
"He’s picked up probably a lot of what some people refer to as ‘seconds’ and made them into ‘firsts.’ It’s a matter of getting out there as a staff and doing a good job evaluating, and once you get them, developing them out."
Seventeen former Huskies were in NFL training camps this year. The current team has the top returning rusher in NCAA Division I-A, Garrett Wolfe, and 6-foot-7 offensive tackle Doug Free, a potential first-round draft choice next spring.
Ten years ago, Novak said, he wouldn’t have wanted to play Ohio State.
Now?
"Some of the teams in the BCS leagues aren’t willing to play us," he said.
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Novak stays course, does things his way
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Bob Baptist
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
Like most every kid who plays high school football in Ohio, Joe Novak wanted to play for Ohio State. But Ohio State didn’t want Joe Novak.
So the Mentor native went to Miami University and played for coach Bo Schembechler, who once said Novak was "the smartest defensive end I ever coached ... and the slowest."
Good thing for Northern Illinois that administrators were willing to let Novak go slowly after hiring him as football coach in 1996. The Huskies’ record his first three seasons was 3-30.
"Every time I’d go home, I was taking boxes with me so I was ready to pack," Novak said.
The only moving he’s done is up. Northern Illinois was 17-16 his second three seasons and 34-14 the past four.
Along the way, it not only has become an MAC power but earned a reputation for, if not always slaying, at least scaring teams from the giant conferences.
Northern beat Alabama, Maryland and Iowa State in 2003, narrowly lost to the latter two in 2004 and lost by a point at Northwestern last season.
The Huskies take on Ohio State on Saturday, bringing Novak for the first time as a college head coach to a place where he wasn’t good enough to play but that has influenced his coaching career profoundly.
"I think a lot of what we’re about goes back to Woody Hayes," Novak said. "I worked for Bill Mallory, who worked for Woody. I worked for Dick Crum, who worked for Bill Mallory. I worked for Gary Moeller, who played for Woody. I’m from Ohio.
"So much of the influence of the people around me has been Woody Hayes and that type of background: toughness, character, working hard, nothing fancy. Just kind of a blue-collar approach to things and trying to be sound and not make mistakes."
Novak started his coaching career as a graduate assistant to Schembechler at Miami. He moved to Warren Western Reserve High School, where he won a state championship and coached future Outland Trophy winner Ross Browner. He returned to Miami in 1974 as an assistant to Crum, worked for Moeller at Illinois and for Mallory at Northern Illinois and Indiana.
Novak stuck to his beliefs when he might have considered a quicker fix during the lean times of the late ’90s at Northern Illinois.
"I questioned everything," Novak said. "Honestly, I questioned our janitor. I didn’t know if he was cleaning our building good enough so that when recruits came in, they were impressed by it.
"I finally sat down and said, ‘You know what? This is my shot and I’m not going to change. If what we’re doing here isn’t right or if it doesn’t work out, I can live with that. I won’t like it, but I can live with it. But if I change and do things the way I really don’t believe and we fail, I won’t be able to live with that.’
"I think the best thing we did is we stayed the course. Luckily, it worked out well for us. In this day and age, at 95 percent of the schools, I would have been gone."
Mallory said the recruiting ties in Illinois and Wisconsin that Novak developed while working as an assistant for him for 16 years helped him gradually get the talent he needed.
"How do you get players at Indiana? At Northern? You have to go out and find them ... kick the bushes a little bit. That’s one thing the MAC does a great job of," Mallory said.
"He’s picked up probably a lot of what some people refer to as ‘seconds’ and made them into ‘firsts.’ It’s a matter of getting out there as a staff and doing a good job evaluating, and once you get them, developing them out."
Seventeen former Huskies were in NFL training camps this year. The current team has the top returning rusher in NCAA Division I-A, Garrett Wolfe, and 6-foot-7 offensive tackle Doug Free, a potential first-round draft choice next spring.
Ten years ago, Novak said, he wouldn’t have wanted to play Ohio State.
Now?
"Some of the teams in the BCS leagues aren’t willing to play us," he said.
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Buckeyes' depth chart to shuffle
Wednesday, August 30, 2006 Doug Lesmerises
Plain Dealer Reporter
Columbus- Ohio State's season starts Saturday, but the competition for starting jobs will continue for weeks.
The competition is most pronounced at kicker, where Buckeyes coach Jim Tressel said Aaron Pettrey and Ryan Pretorius will share the field goal and kickoff duties against Northern Illinois. Pretorius held the edge during the spring, but Pettrey outkicked him in a scrimmage a week ago and is listed as the starter on the depth chart.
"I'm not sure that there's as much separation as one might think," Tressel said. "Aaron gets the first shot out of the gate . . . and we hope Ryan gets an opportunity, and we'll keep evaluating."
Both kickers had said anointing one starter would provide a confidence boost, especially because a Mike Nugent-Josh Huston kicker rotation in 2001 didn't work out well.
"That would give one guy some confidence. I have a concern about both guys, you know," Tressel said. "If that one guy is anointed and he misses three times in a row and kicks four kickoffs out of bounds, he's going to be unanointed, so we'll let it work out."
The shuffling that's expected on the defense is a complete shift from last year. Other than Troy Smith taking over at quarterback in the third game of the season after Justin Zwick started the first two, no Buckeye lost his job during the 2005 season. Sixteen players started every game, and others, such as tackle Kirk Barton, tight end Ryan Hamby and cornerback Tyler Everett, missed starts only when they were injured.
Rotating on the defensive line is common to keep players fresh, but at least for the first three weeks, expect regular substitutions at linebacker and in the secondary as well.
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Huskies won't mind Buckeyes looking to Texas
By Rick Armstrong STAFF WRITER
Ohio State's Jim Tressel and his No. 1-ranked Buckeyes may not be looking past their season opener Saturday against Northern Illinois to next week's date at No. 3 Texas, but the same can't be said for much of the national media.
The first questioner for Tressel at Tuesday's Big Ten coaches teleconference was a Dallas-based reporter who wondered how Ohio State players could be focused anywhere other than Texas.
"The reality of our situation is that with so many new players, they're nervous as can be to get out there and play for the first time with new roles," said Tressel, who returns eight starters on offense but just two on defense. "(Keeping the players focused on NIU) really hasn't been a problem. We know how tough our schedule is, starting with Northern Illinois and on to Texas and beyond. It hasn't been hard to be focused."
Knowing human nature, NIU coach Joe Novak knows it's easier said than done.
"I think the coaches understand that you never want to overlook anybody, but I think you have a hard time selling that to the players at times," he said.
Novak found out the hard way last year when his heavily favored Huskies were trounced 31-17 at home late in the season by Ball State.
That's why former Michigan coach Bo Schembechler, who also coached Novak at Miami of Ohio, was such a good motivator, said the Huskie boss.
"When you played somebody you were supposed to beat he was a terror that week in practice," recalled Novak. "When you played a tough opponent, he was laid back. Look at his record and you'll see, he didn't lose very often to teams he wasn't supposed to lose to."
Tressel's talented Buckeyes, led by twin Heisman Trophy candidates Troy Smith at quarterback and Ted Ginn Jr., at wideout, aren't supposed to lose to Northern. OSU has 18 seniors, 17 of them in their fifth year.
The pressure, says Novak, is on Tressel and his team.
"That's why I'm gonna enjoy this one," the NIU boss said. "Jim will have a tougher time enjoying this one more than I will. What a great opportunity it is for our kids to go play at Ohio State, the number one team in the country. It's a great college football moment and we are just going to go in ther and enjoy it.
Nobody expects us to win and yet again, we do. We think we have a chance. We know we have to play very well, and we have to catch things right. We think we have a chance."
Novak has tried to prepare his players by putting up pictures of 102,000-seat Ohio Stadium in the lockerroom and piping in music that is played there during his team's practices this week. Running back Garrett Wolfe, who went to the stadium last spring when was in town to receive an award from the Ohio Touchdown Club, said he went to the stadium.
"(Ohio Stadium) is a lot more attractice to the eye (than Michigan Stadium)," he said. "A lot of guys are gonna have that Wow factor when they walk in there. Still, it's a football field. It's 120 yards long and 57 yards wide."
Novak grew up two-and-a-half hours northeast of Columbus in Mentor, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland.
"I was an Ohio State fan but never went to a game until I was in college," he said. "I hitchhiked up there and saw Northwestern beat them. I remember seeing a plane flying overhead with a banner that said, 'Good-bye Woody' and thinking that's a tough crowd."
Novak has also coached there, as an assistant at both Illinois and Indiana. In eight trips, he's experienced just one win.
"Ohio State is even more intimidating than Michigan," said Novak, whose team turned the ball over five times and dropped a 33-17 decision to No. 4 Michigan in last year's season opener. "Ohio (Stadium) is just as big (as the Wolverines' Big House) only it is built upward from the ground so it's more intimidating.
"Our veterans know what's going on. Some of the young kids, it may take them a while. We'll see."
Wolfe and senior quarterback Phil Horvath both said they'll have butterflies before the game.
"You wouldn't be human if you didn't," said Horvath.
"It's still the No. 1 team," said Wolfe. "Last year, Michigan was No. 4 when we played them. When you're dealing with a top five team, they're all pretty good. It's still a number. And, it's the preseason ranking. A few weeks from now, they might not be No. 1."
OSU FOOTBALL
Buckeyes' depth chart to shuffle
Wednesday, August 30, 2006 Doug Lesmerises
Plain Dealer Reporter
Columbus- Ohio State's season starts Saturday, but the competition for starting jobs will continue for weeks.
The competition is most pronounced at kicker, where Buckeyes coach Jim Tressel said Aaron Pettrey and Ryan Pretorius will share the field goal and kickoff duties against Northern Illinois. Pretorius held the edge during the spring, but Pettrey outkicked him in a scrimmage a week ago and is listed as the starter on the depth chart.
"I'm not sure that there's as much separation as one might think," Tressel said. "Aaron gets the first shot out of the gate . . . and we hope Ryan gets an opportunity, and we'll keep evaluating."
Both kickers had said anointing one starter would provide a confidence boost, especially because a Mike Nugent-Josh Huston kicker rotation in 2001 didn't work out well.
"That would give one guy some confidence. I have a concern about both guys, you know," Tressel said. "If that one guy is anointed and he misses three times in a row and kicks four kickoffs out of bounds, he's going to be unanointed, so we'll let it work out."
The shuffling that's expected on the defense is a complete shift from last year. Other than Troy Smith taking over at quarterback in the third game of the season after Justin Zwick started the first two, no Buckeye lost his job during the 2005 season. Sixteen players started every game, and others, such as tackle Kirk Barton, tight end Ryan Hamby and cornerback Tyler Everett, missed starts only when they were injured.
Rotating on the defensive line is common to keep players fresh, but at least for the first three weeks, expect regular substitutions at linebacker and in the secondary as well.
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Huskies won't mind Buckeyes looking to Texas
By Rick Armstrong STAFF WRITER
Ohio State's Jim Tressel and his No. 1-ranked Buckeyes may not be looking past their season opener Saturday against Northern Illinois to next week's date at No. 3 Texas, but the same can't be said for much of the national media.
The first questioner for Tressel at Tuesday's Big Ten coaches teleconference was a Dallas-based reporter who wondered how Ohio State players could be focused anywhere other than Texas.
"The reality of our situation is that with so many new players, they're nervous as can be to get out there and play for the first time with new roles," said Tressel, who returns eight starters on offense but just two on defense. "(Keeping the players focused on NIU) really hasn't been a problem. We know how tough our schedule is, starting with Northern Illinois and on to Texas and beyond. It hasn't been hard to be focused."
Knowing human nature, NIU coach Joe Novak knows it's easier said than done.
"I think the coaches understand that you never want to overlook anybody, but I think you have a hard time selling that to the players at times," he said.
Novak found out the hard way last year when his heavily favored Huskies were trounced 31-17 at home late in the season by Ball State.
That's why former Michigan coach Bo Schembechler, who also coached Novak at Miami of Ohio, was such a good motivator, said the Huskie boss.
"When you played somebody you were supposed to beat he was a terror that week in practice," recalled Novak. "When you played a tough opponent, he was laid back. Look at his record and you'll see, he didn't lose very often to teams he wasn't supposed to lose to."
Tressel's talented Buckeyes, led by twin Heisman Trophy candidates Troy Smith at quarterback and Ted Ginn Jr., at wideout, aren't supposed to lose to Northern. OSU has 18 seniors, 17 of them in their fifth year.
The pressure, says Novak, is on Tressel and his team.
"That's why I'm gonna enjoy this one," the NIU boss said. "Jim will have a tougher time enjoying this one more than I will. What a great opportunity it is for our kids to go play at Ohio State, the number one team in the country. It's a great college football moment and we are just going to go in ther and enjoy it.
Nobody expects us to win and yet again, we do. We think we have a chance. We know we have to play very well, and we have to catch things right. We think we have a chance."
Novak has tried to prepare his players by putting up pictures of 102,000-seat Ohio Stadium in the lockerroom and piping in music that is played there during his team's practices this week. Running back Garrett Wolfe, who went to the stadium last spring when was in town to receive an award from the Ohio Touchdown Club, said he went to the stadium.
"(Ohio Stadium) is a lot more attractice to the eye (than Michigan Stadium)," he said. "A lot of guys are gonna have that Wow factor when they walk in there. Still, it's a football field. It's 120 yards long and 57 yards wide."
Novak grew up two-and-a-half hours northeast of Columbus in Mentor, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland.
"I was an Ohio State fan but never went to a game until I was in college," he said. "I hitchhiked up there and saw Northwestern beat them. I remember seeing a plane flying overhead with a banner that said, 'Good-bye Woody' and thinking that's a tough crowd."
Novak has also coached there, as an assistant at both Illinois and Indiana. In eight trips, he's experienced just one win.
"Ohio State is even more intimidating than Michigan," said Novak, whose team turned the ball over five times and dropped a 33-17 decision to No. 4 Michigan in last year's season opener. "Ohio (Stadium) is just as big (as the Wolverines' Big House) only it is built upward from the ground so it's more intimidating.
"Our veterans know what's going on. Some of the young kids, it may take them a while. We'll see."
Wolfe and senior quarterback Phil Horvath both said they'll have butterflies before the game.
"You wouldn't be human if you didn't," said Horvath.
"It's still the No. 1 team," said Wolfe. "Last year, Michigan was No. 4 when we played them. When you're dealing with a top five team, they're all pretty good. It's still a number. And, it's the preseason ranking. A few weeks from now, they might not be No. 1."
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Relax. Oregon-Stanford is on AFN Sports.Fucking AFN. I get the pleasure of watching Oregon-Stanford.
Guess I'm following along on BP.
Our game is on AFN Atlantic.
http://myafn.dodmedia.osd.mil/tv/sports/schedule.asp
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Just to clear everybody up on the espn360 link since you obviously didn't click the button that launches the viewer.......yes you can get to the website I posted from any ISP, but they won't stream unless your ISP is signed on with them. When you click on the viewer, it will ask for your ISP, and if it isn't listed it will give you a form to fill out that counts as you signing a petition to get your ISP on the list.
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FootballOptimism and Question Marks Fueling Buckeye Mania Before Opener
By John Porentas
By John Porentas
There are two things that bring extraordinary anticipation for a football season. One of them is high expectations, the other is the unknown. The Buckeyes have a very unusual blend of both of those ingredients this fall, and that is sending the anticipation index into the stratosphere around the Buckeye nation.
People are excited about OSU's number one ranking. Those same people want to know if with nine new starters the defense is going to be good enough to help carry this team to great heights, and they just can't wait to see it on the field to make their own judgments about it. There are some people, however, who have made up their minds already.
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Troy Smith [/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Photo by Jim Davidson [/FONT]
"They give us fits every day in practice so I know what kind of defense they're going to be," said OSU quarterback Troy Smith.
"They're going to be fast, they're going to come after you, we've got some defensive backs that are going to make some plays on some balls, not to say that we didn't have any in the past, but we've got some guys with a nose for the ball.
"Our defensive front four, I can't say enough about them. David Patterson and Quinn Pitcock are probably two of the best interior guys that I've ever played against. They're going to give teams fits," Smith said.
That is what you would expect from a captain, but when you hear Smith say those words, it just doesn't sound like rhetoric. Smith comes across as a true believer, as do other members of the OSU offense who see that defense on a regular basis.
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Antonio Pittman [/FONT]
"I'm not curious (about how the defense will perform)," said OSU running back Antonio Pittman.
"I go against those guys every day in practice. I mean this. I think the front four is better than last year's, and that's serious. Those guys come at you.
"With a good front four you have good linebackers because they stay free and the safeties can just come down and crash. I think the defense is really ready. It's just going to be shocking to see how many sacks they can put up this year," Pittman said.
According to wide receiver Anthony Gonzalez, the play of the defense this fall has caught some of the offensive players by surprise.
"I remember thinking to myself 'Were they practicing when nobody was around or something?' because they got so much faster and just better overall from the end of spring to the beginning of fall camp," said Gonzalez.
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Anthony Gonzalez [/FONT]
"I give a lot of credit to our strength staff as well as the guys just getting in and studying the video and getting their assignments down cold. If you don't know your assignments perfectly you can't play as fast as you want, and I feel like they all know their assignments now. You're not seeing any blown coverages or missed assignments.
"As far as I'm concerned on defense if you're playing fast, you're going to be successful. The thing that I've seen out of our defense in the last month or so is that they're playing extremely fast which is very encouraging.
"In the spring it seemed like they were just trying to find their way a little bit, playing just a little bit slower than last year's defense, but come fall camp they really got after it and picked up the speed a lot. I'm encouraged," Gonzalez said.
The question still remains as to whether those young defenders can do it when there are 105,000 people in the stands and there are people wearing different colored shirts on the field. Pittman thinks that the defense actually has enough experience that when the lights come on, they will be ready to rock and roll.
"Honestly the only one on defense that hasn't taken that many snaps would probably be Vernon (Gholstin). Donald Washington might be another one. I think they'll be all right," said Pittman.
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]T. J. Downing [/FONT]
"I'm enthused to see them (in a game)," said offensive lineman T. J. Downing .
"That's the first thing I'm going to watch when I get home.
"I want to see the defensive highlights and see who's stepped up because there are a lot of new faces out there and I think there's going to be some guys hitting the scene that are going to jump up and be super stars real quick.
"The linebackers and defensive line are amazing, and replacing everybody in the secondary is not going to be a problem either because those guys in the waiting are ready to go."
In four more days, we'll know if its all a bunch of rhetoric or if this indeed has the potential to be special year for the Buckeyes.
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Everything a Buckeye needs to know for the game
Advocate staff report
COLUMBUS -- Ohio State opens its football season with a 3:30 p.m. Saturday kickoff against Northern Illinois. It will be the first of seven home games for the Buckeyes, and each will bring more than 100,000 people to The 'Shoe.
To encourage a good experience for everyone involved, university officials released fan guidelines Tuesday. A few changes have been made from the normal arrangements, notably parking because of construction.
Because of construction, the Ninth Avenue garage will be closed for all games except the Northern Illinois game, and the parking lots located east of the Woody Hayes Athletic Center will remain closed throughout the 2006 season.
GETTING THERE
Campus parking lots tend to fill early on game days. Fans should plan to arrive at least two to three hours before kickoff to park in a campus parking lot. About three hours before the game starts, some streets on and around campus become one-way going toward the stadium. At the end of the game, traffic patterns are reversed, going away from the stadium.
PUBLIC PARKING
Public parking is available in any day of game lot at a charge of $10 per vehicle.
These parking lots include: parts of the Polo Field lot, Agriculture campus lots, Fawcett Center, Woody Hayes Facility, Blankenship Hall, the Buckeye lots at the Schottenstein Center and West Campus lots.
Free bus service from West Campus begins six hours before kickoff and continues until one hour after the game.
Campus garages available for public parking include the new Neil Avenue Garage, accessible from Neil Avenue just north of 12th Avenue; the Ohio Union Garage, Arps Hall Garage, South Cannon Garage, 11th Avenue Garage and 12th Avenue Garage.
Public parking is also available at the South Campus Gateway Garage, located east of High Street between East 11th and East Ninth avenues. A free shuttle bus will take fans from the Barnes and Noble bookstore on High Street to the stadium on game days. Shuttle service begins two hours before and ends two hours after each game.
CAMPER AND RV PARKING
Parking for recreational vehicles, campers and vans with season parking permits is located west of Bill Davis Stadium and north of Borror Drive. A limited number of Day of Game RV/Camper parking permits will be sold on a first-come, first-served basis. About 100 spaces will be sold for $50 per spot on Saturday morning in the parking lot located west of Bill Davis Stadium. Lots open at 6 a.m.
DISABILITY PARKING
Disability parking is located in the parking lots north of St. John Arena. They are accessible from High Street to Woodruff Avenue to Tuttle Park Place. An OSU disability parking permit, a disability parking permit issued by the Athletic Department, or a valid State Disability Placard is required. The individual to whom the State Disability Placard has been issued must be present in the vehicle. A shuttle will provide continuous adapted transportation service to Gate 14 of the stadium beginning six hours before kickoff continuing through one hour after the game.
SEASON PARKING PERMITS
Reserved lots for those who have purchased a season parking permit from the Department of Athletics are: the permit lots around Ohio Stadium, south French Field House, Sisson Hall, parts of the Polo Field lot, the lots south of Lincoln Tower, the Schottenstein Center lots and the Riverbank lots west of the Olentangy River, as well as the Northwest, Tuttle Park Place, and North Cannon (Medical Center) garages.
SHUTTLE INFORMATION
Free bus service from West Campus begins six hours before kickoff and continues until one hour after the game. Shuttles pick up and drop off fans at Mount Hall on West Campus and the Sisson Hall footbridge located just west of Drake Union and Ohio Stadium.
SKULL SESSIONS
The OSU Marching Band Skull Session starts two hours before kickoff of every home game. Done at St. John Arena, the Skull Session is a popular concert/pep rally, with more than 10,000 fans in attendance. The event is free, with seating on a first-come, first served basis.
TAILGATING, TENTS AND ALCOHOL
Tailgating at Buckeye football games is a long-standing Ohio State tradition. Gathering around a tailgate to eat and socialize is a great way to enjoy the game day atmosphere.
Fan behavior before, during and after each game reflects on the university and the community. Fans are asked to continue to conduct themselves in a manner that allows all fans to enjoy the game in a safe, family-friendly atmosphere.
Fans are expected to obey all state and local laws; treat fellow fans -- including those supporting the opposing team -- with civility; and respect the property of others.
Before, during and after the game, law enforcement agencies will continue to enforce state laws regarding use and possession of alcohol. As in past years, both Columbus police and OSU police will issue citations or make arrests for violations of the laws prohibiting open containers of alcohol in public areas, including university parking lots and garages. Persons engaging in underage drinking, public indecency, disorderly conduct and other violations are also subject to arrest.
In accordance with fire codes, there is no grilling inside of parking garages, including the rooftop level. Grills (propane or charcoal) are permitted on surface parking lots.
Columbus Division of Fire inspectors will inspect tents to enforce a city code that requires a permit for tents larger than 200 square feet. In addition there is no cooking permitted inside or underneath a tent or awning.
In accordance with state fire codes, Ohio State will continue to enforce the ban on grilling in parking garages. Grilling is permitted on surface parking lots.
Law enforcement agencies will continue to enforce Ohio's open-container laws in and around parking lots.
Officials remind fans that city code requires a permit for tents larger than 200 square feet, and inspectors will be on hand to inspect tents to ensure they have the proper permit. In addition, no cooking of any type is permitted underneath tents or awnings.STADIUM SECURITY
Gates will open two hours before kickoff.
Officials remind fans to travel light. All bags, small purses and containers are subject to search, and will slow fan entry to the stadium.
Security personnel outside each gate will assist with crowd control, check identification for those with discounted student or faculty/staff tickets, and look for prohibited items.
The following items are not permitted in Ohio Stadium:
Weapons of any type
Large bags or backpacks
Food
Beverages
Coolers or other containers
Video cameras
Cameras with professional lenses
Televisions
Radios without headsets
Chairback seats
Banners, signs, noisemakers or other irritantsFans with special health or medical needs should use gates nine, 14 or 25.
TICKETS FOR UNIVERSITY STUDENTS, FACULTY AND STAFF
Ohio Stadium will be packed with fans for all home games. All fans must have a ticket.
Only tickets purchased or received from the Athletics Ticket Office are guaranteed to be valid. Tickets that are reported lost or stolen will be voided and will receive an invalid scan at the gates. Fans with an invalid scan will be turned away.
DISCOUNTED TICKETS
Fans using discounted faculty, staff or student tickets will be required to show appropriate OSU ID (BuckID) along with their ticket before entering the gates of Ohio Stadium.
Fans with student season tickets (which begin with the Penn State game on Sept. 23) must present a valid OSU Student ID at the gate.
Those with discounted tickets wishing to let the general public use their ticket will be able to upgrade their ticket to a full-priced public ticket. The ticketholder will need to come to the ticket office and authorize the exchange; they also will be required to pay the difference in the ticket price and any service charges that apply. Upgrades must be done before the day of the game.
Faculty/staff tickets are printed on distinctive "faculty/staff ticket stock" that identifies the ticket as requiring a current OSU ID for admittance. One valid OSU ID gets two faculty/staff season ticket holders into the game.DISABILITY SEATING
Reserved season seating for people in wheelchairs is located in D deck and the top of the AA deck.
Individuals who need wheelchair-accessible or disability seating should contact the ticket office at (614) 292-2624 before the game so they may be reseated. A handicap placard or doctor notification will be required.
Elevators are located near sections seven, 10 and 37. These elevators may be used by individuals needing assistance in climbing to their seats in B deck or C deck.
SMOKING
Smoking is prohibited in all areas within the gates of the stadium.
UMBRELLAS
Umbrellas may not be opened in the seating areas of Ohio Stadium. Fans may carry their umbrellas into the stadium for use before and after the game.
Originally published August 30, 2006
Everything a Buckeye needs to know for the game
Advocate staff report
COLUMBUS -- Ohio State opens its football season with a 3:30 p.m. Saturday kickoff against Northern Illinois. It will be the first of seven home games for the Buckeyes, and each will bring more than 100,000 people to The 'Shoe.
To encourage a good experience for everyone involved, university officials released fan guidelines Tuesday. A few changes have been made from the normal arrangements, notably parking because of construction.
Because of construction, the Ninth Avenue garage will be closed for all games except the Northern Illinois game, and the parking lots located east of the Woody Hayes Athletic Center will remain closed throughout the 2006 season.
GETTING THERE
Campus parking lots tend to fill early on game days. Fans should plan to arrive at least two to three hours before kickoff to park in a campus parking lot. About three hours before the game starts, some streets on and around campus become one-way going toward the stadium. At the end of the game, traffic patterns are reversed, going away from the stadium.
PUBLIC PARKING
Public parking is available in any day of game lot at a charge of $10 per vehicle.
These parking lots include: parts of the Polo Field lot, Agriculture campus lots, Fawcett Center, Woody Hayes Facility, Blankenship Hall, the Buckeye lots at the Schottenstein Center and West Campus lots.
Free bus service from West Campus begins six hours before kickoff and continues until one hour after the game.
Campus garages available for public parking include the new Neil Avenue Garage, accessible from Neil Avenue just north of 12th Avenue; the Ohio Union Garage, Arps Hall Garage, South Cannon Garage, 11th Avenue Garage and 12th Avenue Garage.
Public parking is also available at the South Campus Gateway Garage, located east of High Street between East 11th and East Ninth avenues. A free shuttle bus will take fans from the Barnes and Noble bookstore on High Street to the stadium on game days. Shuttle service begins two hours before and ends two hours after each game.
CAMPER AND RV PARKING
Parking for recreational vehicles, campers and vans with season parking permits is located west of Bill Davis Stadium and north of Borror Drive. A limited number of Day of Game RV/Camper parking permits will be sold on a first-come, first-served basis. About 100 spaces will be sold for $50 per spot on Saturday morning in the parking lot located west of Bill Davis Stadium. Lots open at 6 a.m.
DISABILITY PARKING
Disability parking is located in the parking lots north of St. John Arena. They are accessible from High Street to Woodruff Avenue to Tuttle Park Place. An OSU disability parking permit, a disability parking permit issued by the Athletic Department, or a valid State Disability Placard is required. The individual to whom the State Disability Placard has been issued must be present in the vehicle. A shuttle will provide continuous adapted transportation service to Gate 14 of the stadium beginning six hours before kickoff continuing through one hour after the game.
SEASON PARKING PERMITS
Reserved lots for those who have purchased a season parking permit from the Department of Athletics are: the permit lots around Ohio Stadium, south French Field House, Sisson Hall, parts of the Polo Field lot, the lots south of Lincoln Tower, the Schottenstein Center lots and the Riverbank lots west of the Olentangy River, as well as the Northwest, Tuttle Park Place, and North Cannon (Medical Center) garages.
SHUTTLE INFORMATION
Free bus service from West Campus begins six hours before kickoff and continues until one hour after the game. Shuttles pick up and drop off fans at Mount Hall on West Campus and the Sisson Hall footbridge located just west of Drake Union and Ohio Stadium.
SKULL SESSIONS
The OSU Marching Band Skull Session starts two hours before kickoff of every home game. Done at St. John Arena, the Skull Session is a popular concert/pep rally, with more than 10,000 fans in attendance. The event is free, with seating on a first-come, first served basis.
TAILGATING, TENTS AND ALCOHOL
Tailgating at Buckeye football games is a long-standing Ohio State tradition. Gathering around a tailgate to eat and socialize is a great way to enjoy the game day atmosphere.
Fan behavior before, during and after each game reflects on the university and the community. Fans are asked to continue to conduct themselves in a manner that allows all fans to enjoy the game in a safe, family-friendly atmosphere.
Fans are expected to obey all state and local laws; treat fellow fans -- including those supporting the opposing team -- with civility; and respect the property of others.
Before, during and after the game, law enforcement agencies will continue to enforce state laws regarding use and possession of alcohol. As in past years, both Columbus police and OSU police will issue citations or make arrests for violations of the laws prohibiting open containers of alcohol in public areas, including university parking lots and garages. Persons engaging in underage drinking, public indecency, disorderly conduct and other violations are also subject to arrest.
In accordance with fire codes, there is no grilling inside of parking garages, including the rooftop level. Grills (propane or charcoal) are permitted on surface parking lots.
Columbus Division of Fire inspectors will inspect tents to enforce a city code that requires a permit for tents larger than 200 square feet. In addition there is no cooking permitted inside or underneath a tent or awning.
In accordance with state fire codes, Ohio State will continue to enforce the ban on grilling in parking garages. Grilling is permitted on surface parking lots.
Law enforcement agencies will continue to enforce Ohio's open-container laws in and around parking lots.
Officials remind fans that city code requires a permit for tents larger than 200 square feet, and inspectors will be on hand to inspect tents to ensure they have the proper permit. In addition, no cooking of any type is permitted underneath tents or awnings.STADIUM SECURITY
Gates will open two hours before kickoff.
Officials remind fans to travel light. All bags, small purses and containers are subject to search, and will slow fan entry to the stadium.
Security personnel outside each gate will assist with crowd control, check identification for those with discounted student or faculty/staff tickets, and look for prohibited items.
The following items are not permitted in Ohio Stadium:
Weapons of any type
Large bags or backpacks
Food
Beverages
Coolers or other containers
Video cameras
Cameras with professional lenses
Televisions
Radios without headsets
Chairback seats
Banners, signs, noisemakers or other irritantsFans with special health or medical needs should use gates nine, 14 or 25.
TICKETS FOR UNIVERSITY STUDENTS, FACULTY AND STAFF
Ohio Stadium will be packed with fans for all home games. All fans must have a ticket.
Only tickets purchased or received from the Athletics Ticket Office are guaranteed to be valid. Tickets that are reported lost or stolen will be voided and will receive an invalid scan at the gates. Fans with an invalid scan will be turned away.
DISCOUNTED TICKETS
Fans using discounted faculty, staff or student tickets will be required to show appropriate OSU ID (BuckID) along with their ticket before entering the gates of Ohio Stadium.
Fans with student season tickets (which begin with the Penn State game on Sept. 23) must present a valid OSU Student ID at the gate.
Those with discounted tickets wishing to let the general public use their ticket will be able to upgrade their ticket to a full-priced public ticket. The ticketholder will need to come to the ticket office and authorize the exchange; they also will be required to pay the difference in the ticket price and any service charges that apply. Upgrades must be done before the day of the game.
Faculty/staff tickets are printed on distinctive "faculty/staff ticket stock" that identifies the ticket as requiring a current OSU ID for admittance. One valid OSU ID gets two faculty/staff season ticket holders into the game.DISABILITY SEATING
Reserved season seating for people in wheelchairs is located in D deck and the top of the AA deck.
Individuals who need wheelchair-accessible or disability seating should contact the ticket office at (614) 292-2624 before the game so they may be reseated. A handicap placard or doctor notification will be required.
Elevators are located near sections seven, 10 and 37. These elevators may be used by individuals needing assistance in climbing to their seats in B deck or C deck.
SMOKING
Smoking is prohibited in all areas within the gates of the stadium.
UMBRELLAS
Umbrellas may not be opened in the seating areas of Ohio Stadium. Fans may carry their umbrellas into the stadium for use before and after the game.
Originally published August 30, 2006
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