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OL Corey Linsley (B1G Champion, National Champion, All-Pro)

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Good news that it wasn't too serious. Hopefully Corey can get healthy soon. He looked pretty good out there with the second unit. He was sustaining his blocks and looked to be playing with that nasty streak that we all like.
 
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Corey is back for this week, correct?

Any chance that he pushes Hall for that RG spot. I have had multiple people tell me that Hall was unfortunately the weak link on the line this past week.
 
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Hall didnt have his best game thats for sure. As far as the weak link, only Brewster that I could tell was playing his A game. They didnt move the LOS at all and if not for some tackle breaking, Hyde wouldnt have gotten the long one that he did. Any more linemen coming available is welcome news at this point.
 
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Buckeyes center finds new inspiration to perform with new regime
Published: Saturday, April 21, 2012
By Doug Lesmerises, The Plain Dealer

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- If he hadn't changed, junior center Corey Linsley is sure he wouldn't be at Ohio State anymore.

Since he did change, he took the field for the spring game Saturday as the starting center and one of the success stories so far of the Urban Meyer regime.

"I really think I made a 180 in my life, on and off the field," Linsley said after the Scarlet beat the Gray, 20-14, at Ohio Stadium. "I feel like I'm rejuvenated.

"I just kind of had an awakening. It was at a crossroads in my life. I had to make a decision to make myself a better player and better person or continue down the path I was going down."

When a coaching staff changes, some players face the choice to change or leave. Linsley may have faced it regardless, after meandering through his first three seasons as a Buckeye.

"Corey Linsley is a fine player. He's the first one to tell you he wasn't a fine player a year ago," Meyer said Saturday. "His complete commitment to Ohio State wasn't there. It is now."

The expectation of some was that sophomore Brian Bobek would be the starting center after serving as Mike Brewster's backup for most of 2011. Instead, Linsley has been Meyer's choice since the new coach took over, and Linsley has lived up to the part. Linsley played only the first quarter for the Scarlet on Saturday because Meyer feels he knows what he has.

"He's really cerebral," starting left tackle Jack Mewhort said of Linsley. "Coach pegged him as the center from day one and he accepted that role and he's more confident than I've ever seen him."

Linsley said his confidence grew through 5 a.m. workouts this winter, some of which were brought on by offensive linemen coming late to some of the early team meetings.
Ohio State's Urban Meyer after spring game Ohio State's Urban Meyer after spring game Ohio State coach Urban Meyer on April 21, 2012, after his first spring game running the Buckeyes. Watch video

"At first, those were the hardest things I've ever done," Linsley said. "It was, 'Am I really going to quit through this?' And the answer was absolutely not. And I'd be constantly telling myself I wasn't going to quit. It was layer upon layer of building confidence.

"After that, I would come in to every workout and be like, 'I made it through those 5 a.m. workouts, I can make it through this.'"

Then he started coming in early, maybe showing up at 5:15 for a 6 a.m. workout, to practice snaps with quarterback Braxton Miller. Linsley had some snapping problems in the past, but he said he's been told to quit throwing his shotgun snaps like passes and instead to cup his hand under the ball more and toss it back.

"I've got to have faith in him and he's got to have faith in me," Miller said. "We've got to work on little things like that."

At the very least, Linsley now has faith in himself, and faith that he's where he needs to be.

"Thanks to a lot of the people around me," Linsley said, "I feel like right now I'm a 10 times better player than I was last year."
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http://www.cleveland.com/osu/index.ssf/2012/04/buckeyes_center_finds_new_insp.html
 
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OSU's Linsley finds center after turnaround
June, 6, 2012
By Brian Bennett | ESPN.com

Going into this offseason, Ohio State needed to find a replacement for four-year starting center Mike Brewster. Many people thought Brian Bobek, Brewster's backup from last season, had the inside track. Few would have predicted that Corey Linsley would grab the job and make it his own.

It's not that Linsley lacked talent. It's just that he hadn't shown a lot in his first three seasons. Last season, he was suspended for two games and didn't get a lot of playing time as a backup guard.

"I really didn't see myself as accomplishing too much," Linsley told ESPN.com about his career. "I wasn't putting in all the time to be a great player. I was just doing enough to get by, and thought that was good enough. Obviously, last year showed that it wasn't."

That's why Linsley felt like he had approached a crossroads this winter. He had a clean slate with new head coach Urban Meyer. But he also had to push himself harder than ever when new strength coach Mickey Marotti began the team's challenging early morning workouts. Linsley called it "do or die" time for him as a college player.

"We had a series of 5 a.m. workouts right when Coach Meyer started, and that's when it kind of clicked for me," he said. "I had to make a decision: Am I going to sit back and relax, or am I going to take the initiative to get better, to become a better player and a better person?

"It was probably the hardest thing I've ever done. But every day I told myself, 'If I got through this, I can get through the next workout. And not only get through it, but get better while I was doing it.'"

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http://espn.go.com/blog/ncfnation/post/_/id/61903/osus-linsley-finds-center-after-turnaround
 
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Jim Naveau: Linsley's turnaround helps him, helps OSU
July 16, 2012
Jim Naveau

COLUMBUS ? The day Urban Meyer was hired, Ohio State offensive lineman Corey Linsley got a warning.

His high school football coach at Youngstown Boardman, D.J. Ogilvie, called with this terse advice: "You?d better strap your helmet on."

Linsley, who admits in the past he might have been a little loose in the chin strap and in a few other ways, took the advice to heart and has played his way into a probable starting position at center for OSU in the fall.

The 6-3, 290-pound junior offensive lineman says he has "made a 180 in my life, on and off the field" from last season and has become a poster child for new beginnings in the first months of the Meyer regime.

Linsley says he wasn?t working up to his potential on or off the field in his first two years at Ohio State, including being suspended for the always intentionally vague "violation of team rules" the first two games of last season.

After OSU?s spring game, Meyer was typically blunt about where Linsley was coming from and where he had gotten to in a short time.

"Corey?s a fine player and he?d be the first to tell you he wasn?t a fine player a year ago. His complete commitment to Ohio State wasn?t there," Meyer said in April.

That commitment was awakened in 5 a.m. workouts during the winter and by the chance to be a starter. The rejuvenated Linsley also began working on center-quarterback exchanges with QB Braxton Miller.

"I feel like right now I?m a 10 times better player than I was last year," Linsley said.

Apparently, Meyer?s fire and bluntness were just what Linsley needed.

"If you do something wrong, you?re going to get called out. It gives me a lot of motivation," Linsley said. "Everybody knows it happens to everybody and he?s just trying to get you better.

"We?ve all really embraced it. That really wasn?t the style of Coach Tress (Jim Tressel) and his staff -- being blunt in the media and being blunt everywhere. It was behind the scenes and in the film room. We were still getting critiqued, it was just in a different manner.

"I think we?ve all responded fine. We?re used to getting yelled at. My high school coach was a screamer. If you?re not going to embrace it, you?re not going to be here," he said.

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A timely turnaround for Corey Linsley
The junior from Youngstown Boardman seized the opportunity to right his wayward ways and now finds himself starting at center for the Buckeyes
By Bill Rabinowitz
The Columbus Dispatch Thursday September 6, 2012

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Twelve months ago, Corey Linsley watched Ohio State?s second game of the 2011 season from the discomfort of his cousins? couch in Blacklick.

Instead of helping the Buckeyes edge Toledo, Linsley was serving the second game of a suspension for violating team rules.

Nothing against the hospitality of cousins Darrin and Nick O?Bruba, but Linsley knew that wasn?t where he was supposed to be.

?It was a feeling of embarrassment,? the junior center said. ?I let a lot of people down, including myself.?

Perhaps no Buckeye has come further in the past year than Linsley.

After finishing last year as a backup, he rededicated himself as soon as the season ended to getting his football career and life back on track.

His timing couldn?t have been better: The hiring of Urban Meyer opened the door to a fresh beginning.

?Coach Meyer had said early on that he was giving everybody the chance to press the ?restart? button and would give everyone a clean slate,? Linsley said. ?But he also talked to me and said, ?Your reputation precedes you.??

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http://buckeyextra.dispatch.com/content/stories/2012/09/07/gameday/cover-linsley.html
 
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The perfect center
Corey Linsley's consistent snapping a big reason for Ohio State's 10-0 record
Updated: November 14, 2012
By Austin Ward | BuckeyeNation

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- For such a seemingly small number, Ohio State has no shortage of different ways to evaluate what it means.

Its head coach has been thrilled with it, comparing it to a pitcher's no-hitter in baseball, preferring not to jinx it.

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Corey Linsley has only had three errant snaps in 10 games this season.

A position coach actually thought the total was just a bit lower. Even the guy responsible for the statistic is of two minds, pleasantly surprised with how few mistakes he's made and still bothered that there have been any at all.

The bottom line is that three is the total of errant snaps this season for Buckeyes junior Corey Linsley. And considering his lack of experience as a snapper coming into the season, the importance of his role in starting every play in the spread offense and now the number of games he's played as the offensive line's anchor, Ohio State has plenty of reasons to consider that a magic number.

"Definitely, it had to be that low, and I hoped it would be lower," Linsley said. "But to play in this offense, obviously the snap is the most important thing. That's why Coach [Urban] Meyer always talks about the center being such an important position, because it all starts with the snap.

"I hoped it would be lower, but I knew it had to be this low if I wanted to be the center."

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