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OHIO STATE CENTER BILLY PRICE SETS SCHOOL RECORD WITH 51ST CONSECUTIVE START
Ohio State center Billy Price set a school record on Saturday by starting his 51st consecutive game as a Buckeye.
By taking the field for Ohio State's first offensive play once again for Saturday's game against Michigan State, Price broke the record previously held by Luke Fickell.
A fifth-year senior, Price has started every game in his four-year playing career to date. After starting at left guard for the 2014 national championship team and again in 2015, Price started at right guard in 2016 before moving to center for his final season as a Buckeye.
Fickell, a former assistant coach for the Buckeyes who is now the head coach at Cincinnati, set the previous Ohio State record by starting 50 consecutive games at nose tackle from 1993 to 1996.
Entire article: https://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio...ets-school-record-with-51st-consecutive-start
Ohio State center Billy Price set a school record on Saturday by starting his 51st consecutive game as a Buckeye.
By taking the field for Ohio State's first offensive play once again for Saturday's game against Michigan State, Price broke the record previously held by Luke Fickell.
A fifth-year senior, Price has started every game in his four-year playing career to date. After starting at left guard for the 2014 national championship team and again in 2015, Price started at right guard in 2016 before moving to center for his final season as a Buckeye.
Fickell, a former assistant coach for the Buckeyes who is now the head coach at Cincinnati, set the previous Ohio State record by starting 50 consecutive games at nose tackle from 1993 to 1996.
Entire article: https://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio...ets-school-record-with-51st-consecutive-start
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
How Billy Price went from near-quitter to Ohio State's ironman
Strong play, strong opinions and a wild journey. Billy Price's road to becoming Ohio State's all-time consecutive start leader was a "violent" ride.
Billy Price answered the phone and apologized.
He wasn’t actually calling the reporter late, but he waited until the end of an hour-long window because he’d caught up with his roommate post-practice at Ohio State to “keep the ocean all good.” Then, the redshirt senior offensive linemen made dinner while bumping the sounds of 50 Cent and his favorite band, Florida Georgia Line.
This leads into Price bemoaning the football world and its one-note musical tastes.
“In the football world it’s all hip-hop,” Price told 247Sports. “Today in practice we played “Welcome to the Jungle” by Guns and Roses and all the guys are like, ‘What is this s***?! Turn this s*** off.’ These people need to just appreciate it.”
Price, when not discussing music, is Ohio State’s starting center and the new consecutive start leader (51) in Buckeye history after passing Luke Fickell on Saturday against Michigan State. He’s a four-year starter, 2016 All-American and a national champion.
Price is also one of the most interesting players in college football.
A first-year center who views his transition as a “puzzle,” Price is a college graduate with strong opinions on everything from the spoiled nature of recruits in 2017 to national anthem protests.
Price will call out big men for wearing joggers – “joggers on linemen don’t tend to look good” – and is constantly chirping throughout Buckeye practices with demands for his teammates and tips for younger players. At 45-6 as a starter as a Buckeye, Ohio State is glad to have him at the center of it all.
“He’s played from Alabama to Oregon to every Big Ten team,” said fellow senior offensive lineman Jamarco Jones. “He’s been in a lot of big games. There’s no moment that’s too big for him. Having that experience on the o-line and having a guy like Billy it’s just great for us.”
It wasn’t always that way, though.
Price, a fountain of motivational messages on Twitter, remembers a day well when his mentions were angry words coated in scarlet anger from fans. There were nights he stayed awake wondering if football was for him. A boisterous All-American he might be, but Price remembers well the struggles that got him here.
“Well … they say life is a roller coaster," Price said. "And at Ohio State it’s the most violent roller coaster."
Before Price could transition from guard to center as a senior, he had to make the switch from defensive tackle to the offensive line.
But first, Price had to painfully realize where he belonged.
Ohio’s co-Defensive Player of the Year as a senior at Austintown Fitch High School, Price ranked as a four-star recruit per the 247Sports Composite in the 2013 class. Schools recruited Price as both a DT/OG, but watch him play high school ball and his projection seemed clear. Price played almost exclusively defense as a senior. His high school quarterback, Matt Futkos, who is now the quarterbacks coach at Fitch, said Price used to “destroy people.”
Fitch faced rival Warren G. Harding to open the 2012 season, which meant stopping eventual Iowa running back signee LeShun Daniels (now with the LA Chargers). Late in the fourth quarter, Harding needed a fourth-down conversion to keep the game going. So it fed Daniels, a 215-pound high school back. That’s when Price barreled through.
“He grabbed him and just destroyed him in backfield,” Futkos said. “He just locked onto him and he was done.”
It’s an ability that made Price an early commit in Ohio State’s famed 2013 class, and it also meant Price arrived in Columbus with expectations even among a defensive line group that included Joey Bosa, Tyquan Lewis and Tracy Sprinkle. Price wasn’t competing with those future Buckeye stars to start. Instead, he battled for second-team reps. Competition is the forge at Ohio State, and even the most productive high school prospects are often overwhelmed by the heat.
“Production is expected,” Price said. “You’re supposed to come in and play.”
This is about the point the nominally polite Price employs one of his favorite phrases “The PG version …”
Arriving in the summer of 2013, it didn’t take Price long to realize he was miserable. Defensive line, at least on the college level, didn’t fit his personality. He didn’t mesh with the position, and Price felt like he wasn’t growing as a prospect based on his own expectations. He’d yet to adjust to what’s required of college athletes and the competition level after regularly dominating in high school. It was hard. He wanted out.
So during fall camp Price approached head coach Urban Meyer and broke down.
“I need to switch or I’m not going to be here much longer,” Price told Meyer. “I don’t enjoy playing football.”
Meyer literally, and figuratively, opened his arms and said: “We’ll make this happen.”
The next practice Price moved to the offensive line full-time for the first time since his sophomore year of high school. After a few months of reflection and misery, Price was back where he felt most comfortable.
“I don’t know if he did (think DT was best),” said Price’s HS coach Phil Annarella. “I think he may have been swayed that way because a lot of people were looking at him as a defensive tackle. … I think as a high school senior he was thinking that’s where I’m supposed to be.”
Price is offensively minded. He wants to have a single blocking assignment and then put his hat on the man. He is comfortable protecting J.T. Barrett because he’s 100 percent confident in his ability to win that matchup. In college, at least at defensive tackle, that self-assurance wasn’t there. Annarella said the biggest difference in Price after he made the switch was a “calmness taking over him.”
Better stated, “That relief that he’d made the decision of where he wanted to be.”
“A big thing is confidence,” Price said. “Most of these guys are 6-foot and above. We’re at least 270 pounds, most of us are. You go in there and you’re fighting and scratching. You have to have confidence in your abilities to get the job done as opposed to that 18-year-old freshman who had no confidence. That hinders your growth.”
.
.
.
continued
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.
.
“It’s been one hell of a journey,” Price said.
Entire article: https://247sports.com/Article/How-B...near-quitter-to-Ohio-States-ironman-110526593
Strong play, strong opinions and a wild journey. Billy Price's road to becoming Ohio State's all-time consecutive start leader was a "violent" ride.
Billy Price answered the phone and apologized.
He wasn’t actually calling the reporter late, but he waited until the end of an hour-long window because he’d caught up with his roommate post-practice at Ohio State to “keep the ocean all good.” Then, the redshirt senior offensive linemen made dinner while bumping the sounds of 50 Cent and his favorite band, Florida Georgia Line.
This leads into Price bemoaning the football world and its one-note musical tastes.
“In the football world it’s all hip-hop,” Price told 247Sports. “Today in practice we played “Welcome to the Jungle” by Guns and Roses and all the guys are like, ‘What is this s***?! Turn this s*** off.’ These people need to just appreciate it.”
Price, when not discussing music, is Ohio State’s starting center and the new consecutive start leader (51) in Buckeye history after passing Luke Fickell on Saturday against Michigan State. He’s a four-year starter, 2016 All-American and a national champion.
Price is also one of the most interesting players in college football.
A first-year center who views his transition as a “puzzle,” Price is a college graduate with strong opinions on everything from the spoiled nature of recruits in 2017 to national anthem protests.
Price will call out big men for wearing joggers – “joggers on linemen don’t tend to look good” – and is constantly chirping throughout Buckeye practices with demands for his teammates and tips for younger players. At 45-6 as a starter as a Buckeye, Ohio State is glad to have him at the center of it all.
“He’s played from Alabama to Oregon to every Big Ten team,” said fellow senior offensive lineman Jamarco Jones. “He’s been in a lot of big games. There’s no moment that’s too big for him. Having that experience on the o-line and having a guy like Billy it’s just great for us.”
It wasn’t always that way, though.
Price, a fountain of motivational messages on Twitter, remembers a day well when his mentions were angry words coated in scarlet anger from fans. There were nights he stayed awake wondering if football was for him. A boisterous All-American he might be, but Price remembers well the struggles that got him here.
“Well … they say life is a roller coaster," Price said. "And at Ohio State it’s the most violent roller coaster."
Before Price could transition from guard to center as a senior, he had to make the switch from defensive tackle to the offensive line.
But first, Price had to painfully realize where he belonged.
Ohio’s co-Defensive Player of the Year as a senior at Austintown Fitch High School, Price ranked as a four-star recruit per the 247Sports Composite in the 2013 class. Schools recruited Price as both a DT/OG, but watch him play high school ball and his projection seemed clear. Price played almost exclusively defense as a senior. His high school quarterback, Matt Futkos, who is now the quarterbacks coach at Fitch, said Price used to “destroy people.”
Fitch faced rival Warren G. Harding to open the 2012 season, which meant stopping eventual Iowa running back signee LeShun Daniels (now with the LA Chargers). Late in the fourth quarter, Harding needed a fourth-down conversion to keep the game going. So it fed Daniels, a 215-pound high school back. That’s when Price barreled through.
“He grabbed him and just destroyed him in backfield,” Futkos said. “He just locked onto him and he was done.”
It’s an ability that made Price an early commit in Ohio State’s famed 2013 class, and it also meant Price arrived in Columbus with expectations even among a defensive line group that included Joey Bosa, Tyquan Lewis and Tracy Sprinkle. Price wasn’t competing with those future Buckeye stars to start. Instead, he battled for second-team reps. Competition is the forge at Ohio State, and even the most productive high school prospects are often overwhelmed by the heat.
“Production is expected,” Price said. “You’re supposed to come in and play.”
This is about the point the nominally polite Price employs one of his favorite phrases “The PG version …”
Arriving in the summer of 2013, it didn’t take Price long to realize he was miserable. Defensive line, at least on the college level, didn’t fit his personality. He didn’t mesh with the position, and Price felt like he wasn’t growing as a prospect based on his own expectations. He’d yet to adjust to what’s required of college athletes and the competition level after regularly dominating in high school. It was hard. He wanted out.
So during fall camp Price approached head coach Urban Meyer and broke down.
“I need to switch or I’m not going to be here much longer,” Price told Meyer. “I don’t enjoy playing football.”
Meyer literally, and figuratively, opened his arms and said: “We’ll make this happen.”
The next practice Price moved to the offensive line full-time for the first time since his sophomore year of high school. After a few months of reflection and misery, Price was back where he felt most comfortable.
“I don’t know if he did (think DT was best),” said Price’s HS coach Phil Annarella. “I think he may have been swayed that way because a lot of people were looking at him as a defensive tackle. … I think as a high school senior he was thinking that’s where I’m supposed to be.”
Price is offensively minded. He wants to have a single blocking assignment and then put his hat on the man. He is comfortable protecting J.T. Barrett because he’s 100 percent confident in his ability to win that matchup. In college, at least at defensive tackle, that self-assurance wasn’t there. Annarella said the biggest difference in Price after he made the switch was a “calmness taking over him.”
Better stated, “That relief that he’d made the decision of where he wanted to be.”
“A big thing is confidence,” Price said. “Most of these guys are 6-foot and above. We’re at least 270 pounds, most of us are. You go in there and you’re fighting and scratching. You have to have confidence in your abilities to get the job done as opposed to that 18-year-old freshman who had no confidence. That hinders your growth.”
.
.
.
continued
.
.
.
“It’s been one hell of a journey,” Price said.
Entire article: https://247sports.com/Article/How-B...near-quitter-to-Ohio-States-ironman-110526593
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Telekinesis
Easily Amused by the Bitterly Disappointed
Billy Price on his Journey at Ohio State:
www.landof10.com/ohio-state/ohio-state-football-billy-price-goodbye-senior-day-2017/amp
“When I consider my time at The Ohio State University, it’s impossible to not be emotional. There’s no word for it other than monumental. When looking back on the things and emotions I’ve experienced, they are something a normal human will never experience, and somehow they’re mine. They will shape every part of who I am in the future. I came to this place as a 19-year-old young man being thrown into the fire, learning every week how to survive and grow. It’s an experience most men will never go through. In reality, most wouldn’t want to.”
Can we get this pinned somewhere? This is amazing.
Thank you, Mr. Price.
www.landof10.com/ohio-state/ohio-state-football-billy-price-goodbye-senior-day-2017/amp
“When I consider my time at The Ohio State University, it’s impossible to not be emotional. There’s no word for it other than monumental. When looking back on the things and emotions I’ve experienced, they are something a normal human will never experience, and somehow they’re mine. They will shape every part of who I am in the future. I came to this place as a 19-year-old young man being thrown into the fire, learning every week how to survive and grow. It’s an experience most men will never go through. In reality, most wouldn’t want to.”
Can we get this pinned somewhere? This is amazing.
Thank you, Mr. Price.
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pianobuck46
pianobuck46
"I'm not leaving here without a Championship." -Billy Price, November 4, 2017.
Bravo, Sir........I love your indomitable spirit!
GO BUCKEYES!!!
Bravo, Sir........I love your indomitable spirit!
GO BUCKEYES!!!
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Quite simply, this kid has been an absolute treasure to this program.
Billy Price puts the "A" in "Student-"A"thlete
Peace
Billy Price puts the "A" in "Student-"A"thlete
Peace
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buckeye4ever21
Heisman
Has been the anchor for the best part of our offense this year. The protection has been great and the OCs have finally figured out that giving the ball to the RBs behind the 2017 slobs is a great idea. Billy price has been everything you could ask an offensive lineman to be and a true warrior to last 51 straight games through 4 seasons in the big ten. While this front 7 of Michigan will be a tough test, I'm thankful the ironman streak Billy has given the Buckeyes. It has truly been a joy to watch!
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