More impressive tOSU true freshman performance leading to a national title?

[Jagdaddy]

While it's not actually on point for this conversation, if anyone wants to consider true freshman special teams impact, Ted Ginn, Jr. had 15 punt returns for 384 yards and 4 TDs in 2004.

 

[jwinslow]

Yeah, but 2002 Iowa was good enough to be #3 in the country before the bowl games.

And that of course was a year where Ferentz won COY over a Buckeye coach, both in the Big Ten and the national AP award.

You have to respect the fact that Kirk has maintained that brand so long that we could be talking about a Hawkeye defense 20 years in either direction.

 

[OregonBuckeye]

I'm going JJ Smith.

I don't have any problem with Clarett, I just wonder if he was really that good or the guys behind him were that bad.

The example I used to make was that if we had had a running back as good as Michael Wiley in 2003, we would have won the whole thing. Lydell Ross was truly a generational, maybe all time, player. Just not the good kind. But out of necessity he still got nearly 600 carries in his career and I swear I remember them all.

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Mo was really that good

 

[Buckeyeskickbuttocks]

For all of you jumping off the Flydell train, with the exception of one game from Zeke.. one quarter, really... there was NO other back you'd want if you're playing Indiana... Honestly, I remember being pretty pleased when OSU landed Ross. The Florida kids weren't typical OSU recruits at the time. Going national had phases. I guess, to me, he represented something of a growing foothold in a HS hotbed.

 

[AKAK]

For all of you jumping off the Flydell train,

Not only did I jump off the train long ago, it was everything I could do to not throw myself in front of it.

 

[BUCK3YE5]

All this Lydell talk is giving me PTSD.

I think Tuf Borland probably ran a faster 40

 

[knuckifyoubuck]

I'm going JJ Smith.

I don't have any problem with Clarett, I just wonder if he was really that good or the guys behind him were that bad.

The example I used to make was that if we had had a running back as good as Michael Wiley in 2003, we would have won the whole thing. Lydell Ross was truly a generational, maybe all time, player. Just not the good kind. But out of necessity he still got nearly 600 carries in his career and I swear I remember them all.

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I remember being at the UM game in 02. MoC by that point was hurt, with harness. When he trotted out, the stadium and team became electric. Nothing ever like it.