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DDN

Tom Archdeacon: Boone, Buckeyes can erase bad memories

Boone felt the brunt of critics' wrath after OSU was routed in the title game, and now he's fired up about proving them wrong.


By Tom Archdeacon
Staff Writer

Friday, January 04, 2008

NEW ORLEANS ? You might remember that classic Christmas ditty, "Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer."
Well, this year the old gal faced another holiday assault, only with a different result. Call it, "Grandma Wanted to Kill Somebody."


Alex Boone ? the massive Ohio State tackle with the chin whiskers and mischievous eyes ? told the story here Thursday before his team practiced for Monday's BCS championship game with Louisiana State.



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He went to the basement of the family's Lakewood home with his girlfriend and his 73-year-old grandmother, Noreen Sulzer.
"You gotta understand my grandma's a little crazy," he said. "She gets out there and she can swing with the best of 'em. She's Irish. She can cuss.
"And she's folding clothes and watching and getting really PO'd. She's screaming at the TV, just going nuts. I tried to remind her she's a little older, to calm down ... but she wanted to kill somebody. She was calling (ESPN analyst) Mark May a liar. She said, I'm not slow. I'm pretty speedy."
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ABJ

OSU lineman looking for vindication He's determined his play in title game will answer critics of debacle in '07
By George M. Thomas
Beacon Journal sportswriter

Published on Friday, Jan 04, 2008
NEW ORLEANS: As a team, the Ohio State Buckeyes took last year's 41-14 blowout loss to the Florida Gators like they'd all been beaten with a baseball bat.
Few took it as hard as left tackle Alex Boone, a Lakewood native. Analysts and fans vilified Boone and his bookend teammate, right tackle Kirk Barton, for their play in last year's BCS National Championship Game.
On Thursday, as he met with reporters, Boone said they had been right, because there were times when he didn't play to his ability. He pointed to several occasions when quarterback Troy Smith had receivers Ted Ginn Jr. and Anthony Gonzalez open downfield only to soon find a Florida defensive lineman in his face.




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ABJ

Grandma ready to play thanks to DVD By George M. Thomas
Beacon Journal sportswriter

Published on Friday, Jan 04, 2008
NEW ORLEANS: Much was made of a 10-minute DVD that Ohio State coach Jim Tressel gave to his players for their viewing pleasure. It featured footage of nationally known college football analysts saying that Ohio State shouldn't be in the BCS National Championship Game.
Little did he know how it would affect a grandmother from Lakewood. Noreen Sulzer watched the disc with her grandson, right tackle Alex Boone.
''It was terrible,'' Boone said. ''I had my grandma watch with me and she was crying. She wanted to kill somebody. She said Mark May was a liar. I'm not slow. I'm pretty speedy.''
Sulzer said that the pundits' opinions left her a bit ticked off.

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OregonBuckeye;1049287; said:
Mmkay?
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Pffft. You must be blind...he was wide open all night. They didn't even cover him.

CPD

DVD riles up grandmother of Ohio State Buckeyes lineman Alex Boone


Friday, January 04, 2008Doug Lesmerises
Plain Dealer Reporter
New Orleans- Alex Boone's Nana wanted to cry and punch the television. And coach Jim Tressel did it to her.
When the Buckeyes went home over the holidays, they left with a present from their coaches, a 10-minute DVD of television commentators dismissing the Buckeyes. They watched it together as a team and then took copies with them, where Noreen Sulzer was eager to view it at her home in West Park.
"She's a crazy lady, but I love her to death," said Boone, an offensive tackle who played at St. Edward High in Lakewood. "So we're watching it and she was going off at the TV. I mean, 10 minutes of straight bashing us. Someone is going to get [angry], right? And I didn't really take it to heart. My grandma is folding clothes and going nuts."




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Canton

Enough trash talk: Even Boone?s grandmother incensed by OSU critics
Friday, January 4, 2008
By Todd Porter
REPOSITORY SPORTS WRITER

NEW ORLEANS By the time Alex Boone finished watching a 12-minute DVD of national talking heads trashing the Buckeyes, he was left with one opinion of his team.

?We suck,? Boone said, clearly tongue in cheek.

Boone?s grandmother, Noreen Sulzer, wanted to watch the DVD with him. So he waited until she was doing something that would occupy her mind and keep something soft in her hands. Boone watched with his 73-year-old granny while she folded laundry.

It didn?t help.

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Blade

Article published Friday, January 4, 2008
Stand-up Buckeye: Responsibility Boone's defining characteristic

By MATT MARKEY
BLADE SPORTS WRITER

NEW ORLEANS - After Florida cut apart Ohio State in last year's national championship game, Alex Boone was hemorrhaging emotionally, like the rest of the Buckeyes. But he opted not to sulk off into a corner and dodge the frenzied bloodbath of blame, or tourniquet those wounds with self-pity or a litany of excuses. Instead, Boone stood up on the team bus as the Buckeyes left the airport in Columbus on their way home from Arizona, and he fell on the sword. "I took the blame for the game last year," Boone said. "I said it was all on me. That's what happened."

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Lima

Boone looking for more favorable BCS reviews this year

Jim Naveau | [email protected] - 01.04.2008

NEW ORLEANS ? Maybe the DVD Ohio State coaches gave each of the players just before Christmas for inspiration in the Bowl Championship Series national title game against LSU was even more effective than they could have hoped for.
It even got offensive tackle Alex Boone?s grandma fired up.
The 10-minute DVD, which included lowlights of a 41-14 loss to Florida in last year?s BCS title game and clips of various television analysts downgrading Ohio State?s abilities this fall, was handed to each player as he left a team meeting on Dec. 19.
When Boone was home in Cleveland on Christmas break he mentioned to his grandmother, Noreen Sulzer, that he had gotten a DVD from the coaches and she said she wanted to watch it.

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Scout.com's article on Boone seeking redemption

Teaser paragraph:
One of the biggest guys around, Alex Boone was also viewed as one of the biggest reasons why Ohio State was destroyed in last season's BCS National Championship Game. As it turns out, there is a lot more to the story than Boone simply getting beat. Find out what really happened along the offensive line in last year's title game and how the team is changing things this time around.
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anyone heard about this

I couldn't believe that guys were fighting with other guys, this isn't a barroom. You don't need to be fighting with your own teammates. We were here to play football, (but) some guys didn't get that," a still-stunned Alex Boone, the massive Ohio State tackle, said as he stood in the middle of the nearly empty Superdome field an hour after his Buckeyes had been embarrassed by LSU, 38-24, in the BCS Championship Game.

"Everyone was fighting with each other and I'm like, 'Calm down. It's OK. It's halftime.' But everyone's like, 'This is your fault,' and 'No, this is your fault.' I was like 'Calm down, we got a half to go.' But some guys panicked like the game was over.

This was fwd'd to me, not sure where it came from.

But if true, this type of behavior is very surprising to me from a Tressel coached team
 
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ShakerBuck;1061910; said:
anyone heard about this

I couldn't believe that guys were fighting with other guys, this isn't a barroom. You don't need to be fighting with your own teammates. We were here to play football, (but) some guys didn't get that," a still-stunned Alex Boone, the massive Ohio State tackle, said as he stood in the middle of the nearly empty Superdome field an hour after his Buckeyes had been embarrassed by LSU, 38-24, in the BCS Championship Game.

"Everyone was fighting with each other and I'm like, 'Calm down. It's OK. It's halftime.' But everyone's like, 'This is your fault,' and 'No, this is your fault.' I was like 'Calm down, we got a half to go.' But some guys panicked like the game was over.

This was fwd'd to me, not sure where it came from.

But if true, this type of behavior is very surprising to me from a Tressel coached team
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Yes, it came from an article that has been posted on this site. The players put a tremendous amount of pressure on their shoulders and it backfired.
 
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yeah they probably put too much pressure on themselves, but it also can't be ignored that this team was lacking in mental toughness. the fourth quarter of the illinois game and the second quarter of this one were like mirror images of a team that couldn't handle adversity. basically the polar opposite of the 2002 team in that regard.

short of the rest of the big ten improving and giving us more challenging games next year, somehow the staff is going to need to toughen the team up this offseason.
 
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I think they just had so few games over the last 2 years where they had to play from behind ( i think UF & LSU were the only 2 since TSUN '05 where they were down by more than 1 score) Its hard to prepare for those situations when you rarely if ever even have pressure situations in the 2nd half of games

Polar opposite of '02 where E-V-E-R-Y game was tight.
 
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