Game Thread Game One: Ohio State 34, Miami of Ohio 14 (final)

[Jaxbuck]

I got it, 'cuz I predicted 33-14 first, beyatch.

LOL, we ought to have the BP car award for prediction contests.

Make a little one to give someone as an award. Here's the template for the photoshop skilled.

 

[OSUBasketballJunkie]

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9/5/05

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Ryan Hamby and A.J. Hawk

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Date: Sep 4, 2005

From the opening kickoff, Ohio State dominated the game against the Miami Redhawks. Justin Zwick took advantage of the suspension to Troy Smith and executed a solid game while he was under center for the Buckeyes. Donte Whitner's intereception return for a touchdown highlighted the action on defense. Ted Ginn caught a 42-yard touchdown pass from Todd Boeckman, who was playing quarterback for the first time in three seasons. OSU now has the momentum in their favor heading into Texas week.

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Justin Zwick has his game face on early. <HR>

Ted Ginn is stepping out. <HR>

Thad Matta is giving this basketball recruit a tour on game day. Assistant coach Dan Peters is in the foreground. <HR>

Jeremy Mullins (left) is a member of the USAF and will be redeployed in Iran come October. He is stationed out of Oklahoma and the Miami game was his only chance to see the Buckeyes. His brother Jerrod is a senior at OSU this year. May God bless you Jeremy. His OSU pals in the military are regular viewers of the Bucknuts web site. <HR>

Ohio State historian Jack Park was on the pregame radio show on The Fan in front of St. John Arena. <HR>

What would an OSU game day be without TBDITL... <HR>

...or the cheerleaders. <HR>

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The alumni cheerleaders were back. <HR>

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Game time! <HR>

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Zwick came out throwing. On the day he was 17 of 23 for 155 yards with 1 touchdown and 1 interception. <HR>

Antonio Pittman was the game's leading rusher with 100 yards on 14 carries. <HR>

The veteran offensive line paved the way for 160 yards rushing and gave up only one sack. <HR>

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Ginn couldn't break away on his first catch of the day that went for minus 6 yards. Ginn had 5 catches for 75 yards and 1 TD. <HR>

Santonio Holmes grabs this 20-yard pass for a touchdown. Holmes had 5 catches for 74 yards and 1 score. <HR>

The defense pitched a shutout until late in the game when the backups were on the field. <HR>

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Brandon Murphy of Strongsville led Miami with 48 yards on 15 carries. <HR>

Ginn took a short pass and ran with it for a 25-yard gain on this play. <HR>

Bobby Carpenter played some at tight end on offense. <HR>

In all the offense netted 382 yards on the day. <HR>

Doug Datish started at left tackle and moved to center when Nick Mangold went out with an injury. Later Datish returned to tackle. <HR>

A.J. Hawk led the defense with 10 tackles and had a sack. <HR>

Donte Whitner almost pulls up on a pump fake on this play... <HR>

...but he follows through and gets the sack anyway. Whitner was only credited with 2 tackles but he seemed like he was all over the field making plays including a 26-yard interception return for a touchdown. <HR>

More Teddy being Teddy. <HR>

Roy Hall had 5 catches for 23 yards. <HR>

There's Teddy again being Teddy. <HR>

Quinn Pitcock is holding his own inside on this play. Pitcock had 4 tackles including 1 for a loss. <HR>

Anthony Schlegel had 5 tackles and Marcus Green had 3 on the day. <HR>

Pittman on the carry. <HR>

And another. <HR>

Zwick trying to keep his balance on this scramble. <HR>

Anthony Gonzalez had 5 catches for 39 yards and 1 run for 8 yards. <HR>

Schlegel credited with the sack on this play. <HR>

Carpenter played down at end on occasion. He was credited with 3 tackles on the day with 1 of them being a sack of the quarterback. <HR>

Pitcock pressures Josh Betts on this play. Betts was 24 of 44 passing for 250 yards and 1 interception. <HR>

Pittman on the carry. <HR>

Brandon Schnittker scores a touchdown on this 1-yard run. Schnittker had four carries in the game for 7 yards. <HR>

Maurice Wells gets his first collegiate carry on this play. Wells finished with 7 rushes for 10 yards. <HR>

Mike Kudla separates Betts from the football on this pile drive of a sack. <HR>

Nate Salley had 4 tackles and played aggressive defense. <HR>

Alex Boone saw his first collegiate action in the game. <HR>

Todd Boeckman threw a 42-yard touchdown pass to Ginn and was 5 of 7 for 67 yards in the game. <HR>

Lawrence Wilson (#87) helps on the tackle on this play. <HR>

Marcus Freeman left the game in the first half with an injury. <HR>

Wells, of course, is sporting his trademark dreadlocks. <HR>

Oh come let's sing Ohio's praise... <HR>

Holmes is clearly experiencing rebounding thrill. <HR>

o-Hi.............! <HR>

The post-game press conference. <HR>

Hawk <HR>

Boeckman holding service. <HR>

Teddy still being Teddy one last time. <HR>

And finally Whitner talking about his memorable day. <HR>
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[Dryden]

what people are overlooking is how discipilined we were. how many penalties did we have? it couldnt have been many, i dont think either of our lines jumped offsides, i dont remember any face masks either, i know we had a roughing the kicker and holding but thats all i can remember.

Box score says 2 penalties for 26 yards. I agree that it's been overlooked; playing disciplined football like that in a home opener is very difficult to do, and discipline can be what separates a good team from a great one. I watched that Va Tech/NC State game and had flashbacks of what the Buckeye team had become by the 2000/01 season, particularly in the Outback Bowl before Cooper was shown the door. I can handle a loss if the Buckeyes are outplayed. I could not handle a loss, like we saw last night with NC State, when the team does everything to win and gives up 100 yards in penalties. We saw the exact same thing last season when the Bucks played NC State too.

On topic, our Bucks aside, I was most impressed by Ryne Robinson and the DBs Joey Card and Darrell Hunter. Card displayed some serious wheels and never quit, and Hunter showed awesome hands on the INT. I know Nance is the #1 receiver, and he was Miami's yardage leader, but he had some drops that left me scratching my head. I'm not sure if Whitner and Salley were whispering in his ear or what, but I've read that this has been a problem for Nance, so he might need to spend some time catch 100mph tennis balls from a Jugs Machine. I was a little disappointed with Nande too, though I hear he may have had a hand injury? Nande has been praised as a physical freak for the past six months from a variety of sources, but weight room feats aside he didn't show the footwork and fundamentals to be a first round choice. Pittman bowled him over and carried him on at least two occassions, and most of it was the fault of Nande's body position and feet.

 

[scooter1369]

I went to the game, came out looking for sears again and he was gone.

Went out of town and just got back about 2 hours ago.

What a game.

 

[BB73]

Some of those alumni cheerleaders could certainly get me 'up' for the game. And I'm only talking about the females.

 

[scarletngrey11]

Some of those alumni cheerleaders could certainly get me 'up' for the game. And I'm only talking about the females.

man i hope so.

 

[BB73]

man i hope so.

On this board you can't leave any room for intentional misinterpretation.

 

[MililaniBuckeye]

LOL, we ought to have the BP car award for prediction contests.

Make a little one to give someone as an award. Here's the template for the photoshop skilled.

Forget that...here's what we need as the prize:

 

[AirForceBuck]

Anyone else notice the weight Ted Ginn put on? When I saw his video on the Jumbotron, I could definitely see it in his neck and upper body. He also looked pretty thick in the pre-game interviews. He looked great and seemed like he didn't loose a step of speed.

 

[Ginn4Heisman20]

Now that is a prize I could get excited over. Ghetto fabulous man.

 

[CountryRedHawk]

Terna Nande was indeed playing with a broken hand. All in all, it coulda been a whole lot worse, and I'll admit it. Mililani.... that is eerily close, you getting inside info? I'll eat a bug if OSU loses to Tejas, and they are clicking like they were Saturday.

 

[scarletngrey11]

RedHawk, thanks for being a good fan, hope you guys have a good season.

 

[AJHawkfan]

Ok, finally back after the long weekend. I'm still smiling from my trip to Columbus. Everything was awesome. No need to re-state everything that's been said here already.

A couple items of note:

Before the game, I walked right past Coach Matta, who was walking with a recruit, the same one pictured above. Anyone know who he is? Walking a few people behind Matta was Matt Sylvester.

Just as the game was ending, I passed Coach Bollman, and a couple of other assistants as they were running to the lockerroom from the press box. Congratulated him on a good game.

A few minutes later, we saw Ken Johnson and his wife/girlfriend and daughter. A very large man......

After the game we celebrates with a few cold ones at the Thirsty Scholar, where we were able to watch the end of the OU/TCU game and the start of the scUM game. Nice place.

 

[Golferdow01]

Ok, finally back after the long weekend. I'm still smiling from my trip to Columbus. Everything was awesome. No need to re-state everything that's been said here already.

A couple items of note:

Before the game, I walked right past Coach Matta, who was walking with a recruit, the same one pictured above. Anyone know who he is? Walking a few people behind Matta was Matt Sylvester.

Just as the game was ending, I passed Coach Bollman, and a couple of other assistants as they were running to the lockerroom from the press box. Congratulated him on a good game.

A few minutes later, we saw Ken Johnson and his wife/girlfriend and daughter. A very large man......

After the game we celebrates with a few cold ones at the Thirsty Scholar, where we were able to watch the end of the OU/TCU game and the start of the scUM game. Nice place.

Perhaps this guy??

EDIT: You already mentioned it being the guy above...nevermind

I wonder if the Thirsty Scholar does their $6 unlimited Domestic $10 unlimited Import Saturday night deal on gamedays???

 

[AJHawkfan]

Perhaps this guy??

EDIT: You already mentioned it being the guy above...nevermind

I wonder if the Thirsty Scholar does their $6 unlimited Domestic $10 unlimited Import Saturday night deal on gamedays???

Yeah, that was the dude. I'm not completely up to date on roundball recruiting, so I won't begin to make a guess as to who it is.

Re: the Thirsty Scholar: I don't think they had their drink specials in effect. I didn't see anyone drinking draft beers, everyone had cans. $3.50 for Bud Light, Coors Light and Miller Lite. Not a bad price.