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Ohio State Pro Day 2006

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3/9

OSU FOOTBALL NFL scouts to view Buckeye prospects



Thursday, March 09, 2006 Doug Lesmerises Plain Dealer Reporter

Columbus- The scouts are coming, the scouts are coming. Twelve Ohio State players were invited to the NFL Combine two weeks ago, more than any other school except Southern Cal. Today, NFL scouts will arrive at Ohio State looking for even more information. Two Buckeyes who didn't run at the combine, receiver Santonio Holmes and linebacker Bobby Carpenter - who is still reaching full strength after an ankle injury - are among those players expected to run for scouts in the Woody Hayes Athletic Center. Linebacker A.J. Hawk, who impressed with a 4.59-second 40-yard dash time in Indianapolis, might take another shot, telling OSU coach Jim Tressel he thinks he can go faster. Current Buckeyes are invited to run for the scouts as well, and Tressel expects blazing junior-to-be receiver Ted Ginn Jr. to take that chance. To reach this Plain Dealer reporter:
Twelve Ohio State players were invited to the NFL Combine two weeks ago, more than any other school except Southern Cal. Today, NFL scouts will arrive at Ohio State looking for even more information.
Two Buckeyes who didn't run at the combine, receiver Santonio Holmes and linebacker Bobby Carpenter - who is still reaching full strength after an ankle injury - are among those players expected to run for scouts in the Woody Hayes Athletic Center.
Linebacker A.J. Hawk, who impressed with a 4.59-second 40-yard dash time in Indianapolis, might take another shot, telling OSU coach Jim Tressel he thinks he can go faster. Current Buckeyes are invited to run for the scouts as well, and Tressel expects blazing junior-to-be receiver Ted Ginn Jr. to take that chance.
 
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Dispatch

3/9/06

OSU FOOTBALL

Ginn won’t make a run for scouts from NFL

14 Buckeyes are expected to take part in workout

Thursday, March 09, 2006

Tim May
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

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The sideshow for what promises to be a circuslike atmosphere has been canceled.

Ted Ginn Jr. will not run for the approximately 100 NFL coaches and scouts expected to gather at Ohio State today to put draft-hopeful Buckeyes through their paces.

OSU coaches allow underclassmen to take a shot at the stopwatches just for the experience. Coach Jim Tressel said this week that there was a chance Ginn, a speedy, big-play receiver and return man who will be a junior in the fall, might try to start a buzz for next spring.

"I just decided not to," Ginn said yesterday. "It’s important, but it’s not important right now. It’s more important for the guys going out (into the draft)."

At least 14 Buckeyes are expected to take part. Based on their 40-yard dash times and performances in drills, hundreds of thousands of dollars are on the line for the likes of linebackers A.J. Hawk and Bobby Carpenter, receiver Santonio Holmes and defensive back Ashton Youboty. Each has been projected by one service or another as a possible first-round pick in the draft April 29.

For Carpenter and Holmes, especially, it will be a big afternoon. Neither ran at the combine in Indianapolis.

Carpenter will try to show he has recovered from a broken leg suffered Nov. 19. Holmes, like many top prospects, elected to work out on his home turf, where he might be more comfortable.

As for Ginn, the scouts will have to wait.

Ginn was a standout in football at Cleveland Glenville and a world-class prospect in track in the high hurdles and 400-meter run. When he signed with the Buckeyes, he said he would like to compete in both sports in college, but he has yet to run for the track team.

There is a chance he might run some events this spring during the outdoor season.

"I’ll sit down with coach Tressel after spring football (the end of April) and see if it fits into my schedule, and then go from there," Ginn said.

There has been speculation since the middle of Ginn’s freshman season that he would opt for the NFL after his junior year. That’s one reason many people expected him to run today, just to whet NFL teams’ appetites.

Ginn said "the only thing I’m looking to do at this moment is go out and play hard for my seniors this season and still do what I have to do to make myself a better player. . . . And the outcome will be the outcome."

Ginn’s father, the football and track coach at Glenville, said they haven’t talked seriously about what could be coming next year.

As for running track, "I think that came and went," Ted Ginn Sr. said. "I think Ted loves football more than track. When he was in track he was really into it, and I think one reason is because no matter what he’s doing, he’s going to give it all he has. But once he got out of it, that was pretty much a done deal."
Dick Tressel honored



Assistant coach Dick Tressel will be inducted into the Minnesota High School Football Coaches Association Hall of Fame, the hall’s committee announced this week.

Tressel was coach at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minn., from 1978 to 2000, during which time he was active in the state’s high-school association.

Dick is the older brother of Jim Tressel.

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I have to admit, I kind of like the mystery that's being created by Teddy not running a timed 40. It's like: "he's fast - faster than you - and that's all you need to know."
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I honestly believe Ginn is not running due to the simple fact he does not want to take any attention away from the other guys and why run at this early stage? Everyone knows he is fast....:biggrin:
 
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AJHawkfan said:
I have to admit, I kind of like the mystery that's being created by Teddy not running a timed 40. It's like: "he's fast - faster than you - and that's all you need to know."
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I agree. While I think he truly is letting the spotlight shine for the other guys, it does enhance the mystique of Ohio speed. "How fast is TG? You have to see it to believe it, it's the stuff of legend."
 
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Just watched my FiestaBowl DVD last night and to see Teddy G take that end around and just excelerate into "Ginn Speed" gives me a giant grin every time I see him do it.

I'm curious to know what his 40 time would be, but no 40 time could detract from (or probably even enhance too much in my mind) the special gear this guy has on the field.

"You have to see it to believe it." is exacty right.
 
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ginn may not run the 40 at all. if he has a good year this year (and possibly next year) running the 40 would likely be more damaging than anything else. everyone knows he is the fastest guy in college football. but if guys like gonzo are actually faster in the 40... how could it possibly help ginn to prove it? his speed would go from being a mystical thing of fairy tales to being a measureable #. what you can imagine is always more spectacular than what you can measure. i think he'd be far more likely to loose money in the draft with a timed 40 than without it.
 
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Has anyone seen a list of the underclassmen participating? I'd love to see Gonzo put up some numbers. Last year Hawk was already well known nationally, but he generated a lot of positive buzz that carried into the season by running at the pro day.
 
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