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Dispatch
'Once in a lifetime'
Columbus man wins dream trip to much-hyped OSU-USC showdown
Saturday, September 13, 2008 6:07 AM
By Jeffrey Sheban
| The Columbus Dispatch
James D. DeCAMP | Dispatch
Chuck Taylor and girlfriend Jessica Moon at Buffalo Wild Wings on W. 5th Avenue, where they learned of their good fortune
Chuck Taylor wasn't a shoo-in to win two tickets to the Ohio State-USC game tonight. In fact, someone else's name was drawn ahead of his in a radio-station contest, but she got the boot over a conflict of interest. Now Taylor, 23, is the one feeling conflicted. "It's been like the greatest and lousiest feeling in the world," said the graphic designer at Victoria's Secret. Taylor beat out almost 1,500 others to win the $1,800 travel package, including end-zone seats, round-trip airfare and two nights in the elegant Millennium Biltmore Hotel.
On the one hand, the Far West Side resident is thrilled about seeing his beloved (and fifth-ranked) Buckeyes take on No. 1 University of Southern California in storied Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. His friends and co-workers are envious. And he can't wait to paint the town with his girlfriend.
"I've never won anything before," he said, "and this is probably a once-in-a-lifetime trip for us to go to California."
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osugrad21;1255865; said:
Interesting that a guy covering USC whines about scheduling and says it should require an NCAA sanction.....
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sparcboxbuck
What happened to my ¤cash?
Let's get today started (and ended) in the right way.
Go BUCKS!
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eW2ZBU9UHI"]YouTube - Cie Grant sings Carmen Ohio[/ame]
This, my friends, is what we live for. It's all right there in Cie's voice. Listen to it, Live for it, Love it.
Go BUCKS!
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eW2ZBU9UHI"]YouTube - Cie Grant sings Carmen Ohio[/ame]
This, my friends, is what we live for. It's all right there in Cie's voice. Listen to it, Live for it, Love it.
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We are now 10 hours away from gametime. I have so much nervous energy I just had to go to work to calm myself down. Scary... I know.
So Chris Wells isn't playing... SO WHAT!!! This will just make a victory that much sweeter.
It is funny, all summer the thought was it was going to be a low scoring game with USC's unproven OLine and QB and WRs while talented that haven't lived up to their expectations. We all thought the team first to 20 will win.
Then Virginia happened and USC's offense looked great and the world imploded. Why??? If it was last year's Virginia Defense with Chris Long then I would have been impressed. But Virginia lost a ton of players and was inexperienced and got burned by the normal USC onslaught. We will learn how bad Virginia is when they lose to UCONN today.
Then Ohio played the game of their lives while OSU came out flat and handcuffed by a vanilla gameplan meant to hide what we were going to do against USC while Tressel knew the whole USC squad was probable sittin around in LA watching the game live and now everyone questions everything about this game?
2 games... one by each opponent changes everything we know about tonight??? I don't buy it!
Now back to no Beanie so what. I am confident our offense without Beanie can score 20 points.
The real question and real matchup still remains. The silver bullets of Ohio State's defense versus USC's golden boy but young offense. If Ohio State gives up 30+ points Beanie would not have mattered (like the LSU game). So the big key like it was over the summer is can the OSU defense shut down USC.
The blitzes we have not shown this year will come out in full force to test the young USC line. The pressure will cook Sanchez into forcing turnovers as the young USC's WRs that couldn't get open last year will not get open against Jenkins and company. The Ohio State defense has always and will always eat up 'conventional' lined up offenses.
Sanchez must get hit and hit often. The WRs must get hit so they know when they catch the ball they are going to get hit. This will cause Sanchez to throw the ball earlier than when he wants to and the WRs to short arm their catches and ducking for contact.
Screw the pundits and screw everyone else. This is the game this team has been thinking about and focusing on since mid-January. They better come out flying or else.
GO BUCKEYES!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So Chris Wells isn't playing... SO WHAT!!! This will just make a victory that much sweeter.
It is funny, all summer the thought was it was going to be a low scoring game with USC's unproven OLine and QB and WRs while talented that haven't lived up to their expectations. We all thought the team first to 20 will win.
Then Virginia happened and USC's offense looked great and the world imploded. Why??? If it was last year's Virginia Defense with Chris Long then I would have been impressed. But Virginia lost a ton of players and was inexperienced and got burned by the normal USC onslaught. We will learn how bad Virginia is when they lose to UCONN today.
Then Ohio played the game of their lives while OSU came out flat and handcuffed by a vanilla gameplan meant to hide what we were going to do against USC while Tressel knew the whole USC squad was probable sittin around in LA watching the game live and now everyone questions everything about this game?
2 games... one by each opponent changes everything we know about tonight??? I don't buy it!
Now back to no Beanie so what. I am confident our offense without Beanie can score 20 points.
The real question and real matchup still remains. The silver bullets of Ohio State's defense versus USC's golden boy but young offense. If Ohio State gives up 30+ points Beanie would not have mattered (like the LSU game). So the big key like it was over the summer is can the OSU defense shut down USC.
The blitzes we have not shown this year will come out in full force to test the young USC line. The pressure will cook Sanchez into forcing turnovers as the young USC's WRs that couldn't get open last year will not get open against Jenkins and company. The Ohio State defense has always and will always eat up 'conventional' lined up offenses.
Sanchez must get hit and hit often. The WRs must get hit so they know when they catch the ball they are going to get hit. This will cause Sanchez to throw the ball earlier than when he wants to and the WRs to short arm their catches and ducking for contact.
Screw the pundits and screw everyone else. This is the game this team has been thinking about and focusing on since mid-January. They better come out flying or else.
GO BUCKEYES!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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