Helmet Stickers / Buckeye Leaves (all merged)

[bucknut4life]

whitner is a stud..damn hes got a lot of em..

 

[SanAntonioBuck]

whitner is a stud..damn hes got a lot of em..

Yes, he's a great player. I hope he's in on some post season awards!

 

[MililaniBuckeye]

I'm just wondering....is the max number of leaves you can get 10 per week?

I had previously replied "No" to this, without providing proof. Well, Ginn, Gonzo, and Holmes all getting 11 proves it. I'm pretty sure that others have acutally gotten more in the past for one game (for some reason that number 14 comes to mind).

Those helmets should look beautiful and half-full tomorrow when Illinois rolls in.

And they should have half the right side full for the Northwestern game...

 

[Dryden]

Whitner and Salley each earned 13 leaves against Indiana, which is a season single-game record for anyone on the team, and they could have earned two more if the defense had not given up a 20 yard pass or if the defense had forced more turnovers (+2 positive TO margin would be easier to reach if the offense hadn't given up a fumble and INT also).

There is no limit to how many leaves a player could earn. It is conceivable that with merely a 'good' performance a three-way player (like Chris Gamble) could earn 15-20 leaves in one game.

 

[holybuckeye33]

Buckeye Leaf Criteria for the current year. Pretty similar to what Milli post on page 1, with only a few variations.

http://coachtressel.com/sideline_pass/measuring_up/criteria.asp

<table class="text" border="1" width="95%"> <tbody><tr><td colspan="3" bgcolor="#000000">

Buckeye Leaf Criteria ​

</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="3" bgcolor="#990000">

ENTIRE TEAM ​

</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2">

Goal (all criteria in each row must be met to earn a buckeye leaf)​

</td> <td>

Awarded to ​

</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="7%">

</td> <td width="72%">Win - every team member will receive a Buckeye Leaf after a victory
</td> <td width="21%">

Team​

</td> </tr> <tr> <td>

</td> <td>Big Ten - every team member will receive an additional Buckeye Leaf for a Big Ten win</td> <td>

Team​

</td> </tr> <tr> <td>

</td> <td>Win T.O. Margin </td> <td>

Team​

</td> </tr> <tr> <td>

</td> <td>Winning Performance – each individual that meets the film grade standard as set by the staff receives a Buckeye Leaf.

• Offensive Lineman - 80%
• Defensive Lineman - 80%
• Tailback - 90%
• Fullback - 85%
• Linebackers - 85%
• Defensive Back - 90%
• Quarterback - 85%
• Wide Receiver - 85%

</td> <td>

Individual​

</td> </tr> <tr> <td>

</td> <td>Big Play in Football Game as designated by Coach Tressel </td> <td>

Individual​

</td> </tr> </tbody> </table>
<table class="text" border="1" width="95%"> <tbody><tr> <td colspan="3" bgcolor="#000000">

Special Units Buckeye Leaf Criteria ​

</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="3" bgcolor="#990000">

Kickoff Team ​

</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2">

Goal (all criteria in each row must be met to earn a buckeye leaf)​

</td> <td>

Awarded to ​

</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="7%">

</td> <td width="72%">Result inside 25-yard line every time
No Penalties
No Missed Tackles
11 Hustling in Proper Lanes
</td> <td width="21%">

Kickoff Team​

</td> </tr> <tr> <td>

</td> <td>Recover Onside Kick</td> <td>

Kickoff Team​

</td> </tr> <tr> <td>

</td> <td>Cause Fumble and Recovery</td> <td>

Individual​

</td> </tr> <tr> <td>

</td> <td>Tackle Inside 20 yard line</td> <td>

Individual​

</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="3">
</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="3" bgcolor="#990000">

Punt Team​

</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2">

Goal (all criteria in each row must be met to earn a buckeye leaf)​

</td> <td>

Awarded to ​

</td> </tr> <tr> <td>

</td> <td>Net Punt 35 Yards
No Rushed or Blocked Punts
No Penalties
No Missed Tackles
11 Hustling in Proper Lanes
</td> <td>

Punt Team​

</td> </tr> <tr> <td>

</td> <td>Successful Fake Punt for 1st Down</td> <td>

Punt Team​

</td> </tr> <tr> <td>

</td> <td>Down Punt Inside 10 Yard Line </td> <td>

Punt Team​

</td> </tr> <tr> <td>

</td> <td>Cause Fumble/Recovery </td> <td>

Individual​

</td> </tr> <tr> <td>
</td> <td>
</td> <td>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="3" bgcolor="#990000">

Kick-Off Return Team​

</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2">

Goal (all criteria in each row must be met to earn a buckeye leaf)​

</td> <td>

Awarded to ​

</td> </tr> <tr> <td>

</td> <td>All Returnable Kicks past 25-yard line
No Fumbles
No Penalties
Never Lose an Onside Kick
</td> <td>

Kick-Off Team​

</td> </tr> <tr> <td>

</td> <td>Kick-off Returned past 40-yard line
</td> <td>

Kick-Off Team​

</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="3">
</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="3" bgcolor="#990000">

Rangers​

</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2">

Goal (all criteria in each row must be met to earn a buckeye leaf)​

</td> <td>

Awarded to ​

</td> </tr> <tr> <td>

</td> <td>Average 5 yards or more per return
Catch in air all catchable punts
No Fumbles
No Penalties
</td> <td>

Rangers​

</td> </tr> <tr> <td>

</td> <td>Punt Returned over 20 yards</td> <td>

Rangers​

</td> </tr> <tr> <td>

</td> <td>Block or force a poor punt</td> <td>

Rangers​

</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="3">
</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="3" bgcolor="#990000">

Field Goal / Extra Point Team ​

</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2">

Goal (all criteria in each row must be met to earn a buckeye leaf)​

</td> <td>

Awarded to ​

</td> </tr> <tr> <td>

</td> <td>100% PAT Success & 40-Yard FG or Less
75% FG Success Outside 40 Yards
No Penalties
100% Mechanics
No rushed or block kicks or penetration
</td> <td>

FG / XP Team​

</td> </tr> <tr> <td>

</td> <td>Successful fake field goal attempt </td> <td>

FG / XP Team​

</td> </tr> <tr> <td>

</td> <td>45+ yard Field Goal</td> <td>

Individual​

</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="3">
</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="3" bgcolor="#990000">

Field Goal / Extra Point Block Team ​

</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2">

Goal (all criteria in each row must be met to earn a buckeye leaf)​

</td> <td>

Awarded to ​

</td> </tr> <tr> <td>

</td> <td>Blocked attempt or pressure forcing miss
</td> <td>

Block Team​

</td> </tr> <tr> <td>

</td> <td>Preventing fake attempt </td> <td>

Block Team​

</td> </tr> <tr> <td>

</td> <td>Score</td> <td>

Block Team​

</td> </tr> </tbody> </table>
<table class="text" border="1" width="95%"> <tbody><tr> <td colspan="3" bgcolor="#000000">

Buckeye Leaf Criteria ​

</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="3" bgcolor="#990000">

Defensive Unit ​

</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2">

Goal (In each category if criteria is met, the entire defensive unit that played significantly will receive an award. )​

</td> <td>

Awarded to ​

</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="7%">

</td> <td width="72%">Hold opponents to 13 points or less (if sufficient for an OSU victory)
</td> <td width="21%">

Defensive Unit​

</td> </tr> <tr> <td>

</td> <td>Defensive Score</td> <td>

Defensive Unit​

</td> </tr> <tr> <td>

</td> <td>Five “3 and outs”</td> <td>

Defensive Unit​

</td> </tr> <tr> <td>

</td> <td>Stop opponents in all sudden change situations</td> <td>

Defensive Unit​

</td> </tr> <tr> <td>

</td> <td>Stop opponent inside their own 10-yard line so that Ohio State obtains the ball in “plus territory”.</td> <td>

Defensive Unit​

</td> </tr> <tr> <td>

</td> <td>Stop opponent in all two-minute situations.</td> <td>

Defensive Unit​

</td> </tr> <tr> <td>

</td> <td>Force three (3) turnovers.</td> <td>

Defensive Unit​

</td> </tr> </tbody> </table>

<table class="text" border="1" width="95%"> <tbody><tr> <td colspan="3" bgcolor="#000000">

Buckeye Leaf Criteria ​

</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="3" bgcolor="#990000">

Offensive Unit ​

</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2">

Goal (In each category if criteria is met, the entire offensive unit that played significantly will receive an award. )​

</td> <td>

Awarded to ​

</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="7%">

</td> <td width="72%">Score 24 points (when it is sufficient for an Ohio State victory).
</td> <td width="21%">

Offensive Unit​

</td> </tr> <tr> <td>

</td> <td>No turnovers and all possession changes must occur across 50 yardline so that our opponent begins their drive with more than 50 yard to go.
</td> <td>

Offensive Unit​

</td> </tr> <tr> <td>

</td> <td>Ten plays of 12 + yard.
</td> <td>

Offensive Unit​

</td> </tr> <tr> <td>

</td> <td>Convert all short yardage situations.
</td> <td>

Offensive Unit​

</td> </tr> <tr> <td>

</td> <td>Four drives of 8 + plays.
</td> <td>

Offensive Unit​

</td> </tr> <tr> <td>

</td> <td>54% first down consistency</td> <td>

Offensive Unit​

</td></tr></tbody> </table>

 

[shotGINN]

Helmet Stickers / Buckeye Leaves

ESPN talking about how helmet stickers came along with Woody and Ernie Biggs.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=lukas/051117

 

[martinss01]

so you don't actually have to venture to into the den of all things evil:

In 1968, Ohio State football coach Woody Hayes and trainer Ernie Biggs decided to change the team's uniforms. They added names on the backs of the jerseys, put stripes on the sleeves, and, in a football first, decided to reward players who made big plays by putting a little decal on their helmets, sort of like getting a gold star from the teacher.

Nearly 40 years later, Hayes is remembered primarily as a blowhard who punched out an opposing player on national TV (preserved for posterity on video), and Biggs is barely a footnote. But their innovation -- the helmet merit decal, or award decal, or pride decal, as it's variously called -- has spread throughout college football. In some cases, such as Ohio State's cluster of buckeye leaves and Florida State's tomahawk (which is awarded according to a complex formula), the merit decals are at least as important to the uniform's overall look as the main helmet design itself.


Why are OSU and FSU's decals so iconic? The schools' fans would no doubt cite heritage and mystique, but the real reason is much simpler: Their decals are larger than everyone else's, so you can actually see what they're depicting. By contrast, unless you're standing two feet away from a player, how is anyone supposed to figure out what's shown on BYU's decals? (It's a cougar's head.) Or Purdue's? (A locomotive.) Or Vanderbilt's? Or Akron's (a lightning bolt), or N.C. State's (a blood-tipped wolf's fang), or East Carolina's (a pirate skull)?

But at least those schools have come up with distinct decal designs, which is more than you can say for the schools whose merit decals are just miniature repetitions of their main helmet logo, a move that shows a major failure of imagination. Like, seriously, couldn't Clemson have come up with something better than a paw print? And the Colorado brain trust really couldn't think of anything better than a buffalo? This is higher education, people -- you're supposed to be more creative than that!

At the other end of the spectrum are the more eccentric decal programs. Northwestern, for example, has all sorts of symbols intermingling on its helmets. "They're for championship performances and key plays," a team spokesperson told an inquiring Uni Watch. Yeah, OK, but what's the system behind the different designs? "I don't want to get into that -- it's very intricate and you'd probably take up 10 paragraphs trying to explain it." Uh, right. In a more modest quirk that's easily comprehensible to mere mortals like Uni Watch, Michigan State bestows a green "S" inside a white circle to defensive players but offers no awards for the offense.

Then there are the schools that try to acknowledge both halves of the term "student athlete." It's a laughable gesture, natch, but let's humor them: Georgia awards white dog bones for on-field exploits and black bones for academic achievement, although the ratio of one to the other is fairly predictable; Florida State supposedly prints "Academics" on the handle of some of its tomahawks, but good luck discerning that; and Virginia Tech gives nifty little mortarboards to players slated to graduate by December.

Those are the merit decals that Uni Watch has been able to confirm for the current season, although there are probably more of them out there. If you know of others, send visual evidence here, but make sure it's from 2005 -- lots of schools have dropped their decals in the past couple of years (a partial list: Louisville, Temple, Connecticut, Wyoming, Arizona, Utah, North Carolina, Central Florida and a bunch more), especially this season, when decals showing support for hurricane victims have taken precedence over individual honors.

Meanwhile, it turns out that decals aren't the only mechanism for helmet accolades. Check out these chapters from college football history:

• From reader Jim Holt: "In the 1960s, when the Washington Huskies wore plain gold helmets, players who graded out to some absurdly high level on defense would be awarded a purple helmet for the next game. So you'd have most of the team wearing gold, but one or two guys a game on defense would be outfitted in purple."

• That innovation later spread to Iowa State, as Chris Andringa explains: "In the mid-1980s, ISU head coach Jim Criner instituted an 'award helmet,' instead of merit decals. ISU's helmet at the time was a yellow shell with a red stripe and logo; the award helmet was a red shell with yellow stripe and logo. In a 1983 newspaper article, Criner said, 'By providing a different-colored helmet, you won't see running backs and wide receivers with 10,000 decals on their helmets and some ol' offensive and defensive linemen, who do the majority of the work, with nothing on their helmets.' According to the 1985 ISU football media guide, 'Yes, using two different-colored helmets is legal. The players simply are required to wear matching jerseys.' Of course, this made scouting easy for the opponent -- just find the guys in red helmets and key on them."

• From Greg Evans: "During the 1985 and 1986 seasons, certain members of the Georgia Tech defense were given helmets with black 'GT' logos and a black stripe, as opposed to the normal helmet with a white logo and no stripe. These players were called the 'Black Watch Defense.' It was a merit thing -- only some of the defensive players wore the black, and none of the offensive players."

• From John Heffernan: "Since Notre Dame's helmets are meant to represent the Golden Dome atop the university's Administration Building, many people assume that putting a logo or decal on the helmet would be tantamount to defacing the Golden Dome itself, which would be sacrilegious (not to mention perilous, given the long climb to get to the top of the Dome). But the excellent Notre Dame football blog The Blue-Gray Sky recently did a complete rundown of Fightin' Irish attire through the years and noted that Ara Parseghian added blue stars to the helmets in the early 1970s for making outstanding plays. I guess adding symbols to the Golden Dome is acceptable so long as it's authorized by the Pope, or by a national championship coach. Anyway, the interesting thing is that the Notre Dame stars weren't decals -- they were stenciled onto the helmets."

Award decals (or stencils, or helmets) aren't allowed in the NFL. But there's been one similar example in Major League Baseball: the 1979 Pirates, whose caps featured gold merit stars. The stars were the brainchild of -- and were awarded by -- team captain Willie Stargell. He used plain store-bought star patches during that first season, then switched to specially designed "Stargell Stars," with an "S" in the center, for 1980.

The stars disappeared from the Pirates' caps when Stargell retired in 1982 (except for a brief revival on the '79 throwback unis that the team wore in 2003). But that didn't stop Stargell from handing out the stars at various functions, which he continued doing for years as an inspirational gesture. Baseball Hall of Fame researcher Bill Deane once told Uni Watch, "Moments before Stargell's 1988 induction into the Hall, he affixed gold stars to the staff ribbons of many Hall employees. I still have mine." The stars became so closely associated with Stargell that they were even reprised on the memorial patch that the Pirates wore after he died in 2001.
So there you have it: Woody and Willie -- an odd couple, joined at the head. Or at least the headwear ornament.

cliff notes: woody rocks, buckeye leaves are the shit, and everyone else is either copying off of us or lame.

 

[Hodge]

http://www.coachtressel.com/sideline_pass/measuring_up/buckeye_leaves.asp


Updated again. The helmets are gonna look good come Saturday

 

[808 Buck]

"Nearly forty years later", Woody Hayes is still revered by Buckeye fans, and respected by most true college football fans. Yes, he made mistakes. But no man cared about his players and the university more than Woody. The only people who still regard him as a "blowhard" are media clowns who haven't done their homework regarding his legacy. Other than that, not too bad for ESPN.

 

[BB73]

For the numbers conscious, it looks like Whitner has the most with 74, while Ginn and Salley are next with 69.

Let's hope a shitload get awarded for Saturday.

:scum4:

 

[AJHawkfan]

Does anyone know when they're going to update the list from the victory over scUM?

 

[osustamm]

I find it awesome that Woody started that tradition.

 

[martinss01]

That is all fine, but certainly not Woody's vision. Why put them on the individual helmets at all? Just post them in the WHAC or on the back of the benches.

pittman got 9 leaves against nw. only 8 were awarded to the offense for the game.

hawk against msu was only eligible for a total of 8 team leaves for offense and special teams. he got 9 for the game.

against sdsu the offense was up for 8 leaves. ts got 3. most linemen got 4. boone got 3. gonzo got 4 and holmes got 1 total for offense and special teams. so just because the offense earned 8 doesn't mean that just because you played every down on o you automatically get 8. 8 is the max you can get without play above and beyond expectations for that position.

Winning Performance – each individual that meets the film grade standard as set by the staff receives a Buckeye Leaf.

• Offensive Lineman - 80%
• Defensive Lineman - 80%
• Tailback - 90%
• Fullback - 85%
• Linebackers - 85%
• Defensive Back - 90%
• Quarterback - 85%
• Wide Receiver - 85%

<TABLE class=text width="95%" border=1><TBODY><TR><TD>

</TD><TD>Big Play in Football Game as designated by Coach Tressel </TD><TD>

Individual​

</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>

http://www.coachtressel.com/sideline_pass/measuring_up/criteria.asp

its a team game. going above and beyond is obviously going to be rewarded. but team goals come before all else. i doubt that is much different than woody's ideals on the situation.

*shakes fist at holybuckeye33*

 

[bucknut11]

Does anyone know when they're going to update the list from the victory over scUM?

Updated. Looks like the defense was in the doghouse (AJ only had 4), even though virtually all of the starters graded to a winning percentage. Apparently scUM rushed for too many yards

There are too many to count now .... but it looks like Ginn took the overall lead from Whitner (pipeline, anyone?)

Tyree got 9

Animal Jr only got 2 - as many as he would've gotten had he not played at all. Bobby got 3, but his heart deserved more...

Oh, the helmets will look good in 'Zona under the lights!

link

 

[MililaniBuckeye]

Schlegel was the only defensive starter to get more than four stickers (five).