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Game Thread Ohio State 16, Purdue 3 (Oct. 11th)

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Vegas anyone?

Anyone happen to be heading to Vegas this weekend? I'm going to be out there Thursday night through next Wednesday for a conf. I'm trying to figure out which of the three tOSU bars listed in the forums that I should go to. Hanging with any fellow BPers would be the trump card in that decision. Anyhow... in the interest of keeping the thread clean, send me a PM if you're up for drinking some beer and watching our Bucks kick some ass.

In the mean time, I'll work on getting the tables at the Paris to take vcash. I'll let 'cha all know how that goes for me.

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Purdue finally returns to Ohio State

Boilers will play first game there since 2003, so no one on roster has experienced it

By Tom Kubat / Lafayette Journal and & Courier
Posted: October 9, 2008

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- They've been to Michigan Stadium and Notre Dame Stadium. They witnessed "white outs" at Penn State and "jump around" festivities at Wisconsin's Camp Randall Stadium.
Purdue football players have been a lot of places . . . but they've never experienced the Horseshoe.
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"This is my first trip," fifth-year senior Ryan Baker said about Saturday's game at Ohio State. "It's a little more exciting for me, personally. I was asking guys what it's like there. I like new environments. I like going into hostile environments, people screaming and yelling at you, saying that you can't do something. It's a challenge."
One problem. He couldn't find any teammates who had played at Ohio State. Not one.
That's because Saturday's trip to Columbus is the Boilermakers' first since the 2003 season. Purdue's current fifth-year seniors arrived in 2004.
Regardless, the Boilers know what to expect: more than 100,000 fans cheering on their 12th-ranked Buckeyes.
"It's going to be a hostile crowd, a hostile team we're playing, and it's going to be a lot of fun," Baker said. "That's the best atmosphere you can be in. If you're not motivated by that, then nothing will motivate you."
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Injury leaves void in offense

By Tom Kubat ? [email protected] ? October 9, 2008

Most Purdue fans know that junior Kyle Adams, the starter at the beginning of the season, has been sidelined with a knee injury. The question applies to the bigger picture -- the absence of the tight end in the Boilermakers' passing game.
The answer has a lot to do with Adams.
"We haven't thrown the ball in their direction much because Kyle Adams got all the work with the first team during training camp and then got hurt on the opening kickoff of the opening game," Purdue coach Joe Tiller said. "The other guys were out there, but you have the No. 1 tight end work with the No. 1 quarterback, and the No. 2 works with the No. 2 quarterback.
"So I think that's impacted our performance."
After the first five games, Purdue has completed 113 passes but only five have been caught by the tight ends. Senior Jerry Wasikowski has three receptions for 19 yards, and redshirt freshman Colton McKey has caught two passes for nine yards.
"When Kyle disappeared on us, I think that hurt us at that position," Tiller said. "We're now starting to get back to throwing it more to those other guys, although I don't think we're going to go out there Saturday and throw six or eight passes to the tight end. We might throw two to four."
Quarterback Curtis Painter admits things are different from last year when Dustin Keller caught 68 passes as a senior.
But he claims this year's tight ends are all similar-type players.
"I remember saying at the beginning of the season that we had pretty good depth at tight end," Painter said. "That we had guys who could step in, and that's been the case. Jerry and Colton have done a good job.
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Offenses run through porous Purdue defense

Thursday, October 9, 2008 3:19 AM
By Bob Baptist


THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
A year ago, after allowing Ohio State touchdowns on its first two possessions, the Purdue defense settled down, intercepted three Todd Boeckman passes and gave up only three field goals. "It gives you a boost of confidence," linebacker Anthony Heygood said, as the Boilermakers prepare to play the Buckeyes again Saturday in Ohio Stadium.
But it won't be the same Ohio State offense. Boeckman is out and Terrelle Pryor is in.
"You have to have your head on a swivel now," Heygood said. "It opens up a whole new window with Pryor as a runner."
Unfortunately for the Boilermakers, their defense has had more open windows and doors than any other house on the Big Ten block. They have given up by far the most yards (435.8 per game) of any conference team and rank 108th of 119 teams in the Football Bowl Subdivision.
Penn State rushed and passed for more than 200 yards apiece in a 20-6 victory over Purdue last weekend. Evan Royster rushed for 141 yards and Darryl Clark passed for 220 out of a spread attack.
Purdue will see essentially the same look from Ohio State, which got 332 yards rushing and passing from Pryor and Chris "Beanie" Wells in a win at Wisconsin last week.
"Royster doesn't quite have the physical presence that Wells has, but he's very similar," Purdue coach Joe Tiller said. "The same could be said about Clark. He doesn't have the physical presence of Pryor, but he has a little bit more experience (Clark, 22, is a fourth-year junior). They're both physical guys (who) are very good throwers."
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Linebacker unit missing stability

Stacy Clardie

The Journal Gazette

Purdue played almost exclusively in a base 4-3 defense against Penn State last week, and it sounds as if that will continue.
The challenge now is to determine what to do with standout linebacker Anthony Heygood.
Defensive coordinator Brock Spack used two groupings of linebackers last week. One had freshman Chris Carlino at middle linebacker, which freed Heygood to play outside. The other moved Heygood to the middle so redshirt freshman Nickcaro Golding could play the outside. Joe Holland was the other outside linebacker in both groupings.
Golding had five tackles. Carlino had four. Heygood, who leads the team in tackles, had a season-low four. He was coming off back-to-back double-digit tackle games.
Spack and coach Joe Tiller would prefer to play Heygood on the outside in the 4-3.
That could mean more playing time for Carlino.
?I think Carlino probably played a little better than Golding,? Tiller said. ?That would be nice if Chris could play more for us. Moving Anthony around is probably hindering him some. He?s our best linebacker. He?s really playing the best of any defensive player we have right now. It?d be nice if we didn?t have to move him around, but we?re not in that situation right now.?
And then Tiller said what has become a mantra this season: ?We need Jason Werner.?
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Tresselbeliever;1285649; said:
Wisconsin was the gut check that we needed. Now it's time that we carry the momentum and make progress on the individual levels and as a team to really come together in time for Michigan.
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I'm hoping things really come together before the scUM game...say for an Oct 25th night game against Penn St. :wink2:
 
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