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New Offensive Coordinator - The Student Manager

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I wonder what the real call was.

"Just moments after beating Michigan for the sixth straight year to win the outright Big Ten title, OSU coach Jim Tressel was asked about the play call on the counter-read play to Saine that went for a 29-yard touchdown in the second quarter:

?You're going to laugh, but the first one, Saine's touchdown, the student intern, student manager, put the wrong wrist band number on the board, so that was not the play we called. He called that,? Tressel said with a smile.

Upon hearing that a student manager called what ultimately would be the game-winning touchdown, laughter would seem to be the only appropriate response. But that?s just fine by Tressel. When it comes to beating Michigan and winning Big Ten titles, Ohio State?s ninth-year head coach will take it any way he can get it; lucky or good."
 
buckeyes_rock;1602750; said:
Well, that's just depressing. I thought that was the best play call of the game.
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It was great too because it was perfectly set up by running Pryor the play before or 2 plays before. Michigan thought it was going to be the same. I loved the setup, then learned they never called it...

Is it bad when your most effective play wasn't even called?
 
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I don't know if he was kidding or not but TP backed him up on the story.

It is a little distressing to the Chicken Littles of the world (myself) who really think the offense is just a cross that the defense has to bear during games. I mean, even on the screen they were all out of whack (trying to call time out because the staff wasn't sure what play was being run).

Then you hear that the most effective play of the game (misdirection...whoa!!!) was a mistake put in there by the student manager???

I shudder to think what play was supposed to be run, but I bet I can guess.
 
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Steve19;1602867; said:
I'm not sure that Tressel wasn't kidding.
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You'd hope so . . .

Regardless, while I appreciate the success OSU has against UM on plays never before seen due to establishing tendencies, I'm not convinced that breaking tendencies now and again throughout the season would ruin the surprises.
 
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I also thought Tress was joking, but either way, it's not as though the intern drew up the play, coached it to the team, and then called it. Tressel came up with the play with the intent of running it at some point or another, either today or in the Rose Bowl.
 
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