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OL Kirk Barton (Don't tase me Bro!)

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Is Kirk Barton a Fake Buckeye?

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Canton

Worth the wait for Barton
[FONT=Verdana,Times New Roman,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Coaches name Perry graduate to All-American team[/FONT]
Friday, November 30, 2007
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REASON TO CELEBRATE Kirk Barton (No. 74) joins his teammates in celebrating a Buckeyes victory over Michigan State in 2006. Barton, who did not win many honors after his senior year at Perry High School, got a big one Thursday ? he was named to the American Football Coaches Association?s All-American team.
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By TODD PORTER

REPOSITORY SPORTS WRITER

Kirk Barton has a message for disappointed high school football players. Don?t worry about not making postseason all-star teams. There might be something more satisfying in a few years.

Such as an All-America team. Barton was named to the American Football Coaches Association?s All-American team Thursday. The 6-foot-4, 300-pounder did not make any Stark County publication?s postseason teams his senior year at Perry High School and was not voted onto the coaches? all-county team.

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Captain Kirk
JASON LLOYD, Morning Journal Writer
12/23/2007
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COLUMBUS -- While many of his teammates gathered together to watch Pitt upset West Virginia three weeks ago, Kirk Barton was furiously typing term papers. Two of them, in fact, 10 pages each.

Barton is the old man on this team, and not just because he recently graduated with a degree in history. He is the only fifth-year senior, making him a leader of boys.

It wasn't that long ago when Barton was one of those boys adding gray hairs to Jim Tressel's head. But in this his final season, Barton has transformed his image -- and likely his future.

Asked how much he would miss the outspoken Barton, Tressel said ''Probably a year ago, I would have said ?Very little.' I'm just being honest. But I've really admired what Kirk Barton has done this year.''
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The Morning Journal - Captain Kirk
 
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Barton is yet another great example of this staff turning a relatively unheraled recruit into big time player. Going back to his first interview on signing day, he mentioned that Bollman had told him something to the effect of "Give us four years with you and you'll be a living bitch".

Obviously, this staff just knows how to see the potential in guys like Barton, Hawk, Youboty, Jenkins, etc. and more importantly, knows how to bring it out.
 
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Dispatch

Ohio State football: Barton goes to school on opponents

Friday, December 28, 2007 3:11 AM
By Tim May


THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH



When Ohio State receiver Brian Robiskie put a shimmy on another defensive back, then broke clear this season, all the world could see. But when right tackle Kirk Barton defeated yet another defensive end's best pass-rushing move, who noticed? "It's just another part of a lineman's world," Barton said. "People aren't going to watch the guard or the tackle -- well, unless they are just offensive line enthusiasts, who are few and far between."
But just as a receiver studies a defensive back's tendencies, offensive linemen do the same in preparation for their opponent up front.



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Second Chance
Confident that there will be no repeat of last year's title-game nightmare, tackles Kirk Barton and Alex Boone power Ohio State's championship drive against LSU
Posted: Monday December 24, 2007
By Austin Murphy

One is a scholar and a smart-ass, as outspoken as his coach is bland. The other is a wild man with a big grin whose mother says of him, "That boy could have fun at a funeral -- and he has." They are Ohio State senior tri-captain Kirk Barton and junior Alex Boone, respectively, and they are the finest pair of tackles in the nation, as valuable as they are voluble. While less technically polished than his counterpart on the right side, "I think I'm a lot dirtier," says Boone, making it clear that in his mind that's a good thing.
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Blessed with great wheels for his size, the 6' 5" 312-pounder has yet to outrun the grief that descended on him in the summer of 1998. Twelve years ago Barton's father, Kirk Sr., ran a thriving landscaping business, and the family lived in a spacious house on a 10-acre spread in Naples, Fla. "We had the nicest house on the block, a pool in the backyard," Barton recalls. "Life was good." That changed on Valentine's Day 1996, when Kirk Sr. was diagnosed with adenoid cystic carcinoma, a rare throat cancer.

He would live another 2 1/2 years and endure more than 20 operations, including one to have a large tube inserted into his throat to keep open his damaged trachea. To speak, "he had to put his finger on it," says Barton. "He was the greatest guy in the world, but when you have something like that, everybody looks. Everybody stares. It got to him." From the pain in his voice, it's clear that it got to Kirk as well.

Three months after losing her husband, Brigette Barton moved Kirk and his younger sister, Kasey, to Massillon, Ohio, to be closer to her family. She bought a house down the street from Calvary Cemetery, where Kirk Sr., an Ohio native, is buried. "He was so upset about his dad," remembers Brigette of the son she still calls, in unguarded moments, Kirkie. "He wanted to destroy our home movies."
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At a recent press conference Tressel was asked how much he'll miss Barton next fall. "A year ago," the coach said, "I'd have said, 'Very little.' " The line killed -- the bar isn't that high at a Tressel media gathering -- and he was smiling when he said it.

But Tressel wasn't always happy with Barton, such as in '04, when Zwick was the No. 1 quarterback but the team was responding better to Smith coming off the bench. The Buckeyes limped to a 3-3 start, and Barton popped off into a thicket of microphones. It was his opinion that Smith needed to be starting. Thereafter, Barton was seldom available for media sessions. Funny how that works.

Late last season Barton again tumbled briefly from Tressel's good graces when he showed up in the interview room after a win over Michigan with a lit cigar and a bottle of champagne. Afterward the coach reminded Barton that he is a role model for young Buckeyes fans.

The mild-mannered Tressel liked to rebuke Barton for his profanity on the practice field by asking him, "Would Brigette appreciate that language?" In the end the coach has come to appreciate what Barton brought to the team. "If everyone was like me, we'd be in trouble," says Tressel. "If everyone was like him, we'd be in trouble."
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SI.com - NCAA Football - Second Chance (cont.) - Monday December 24, 2007 9:49AM
 
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Kirk is usually a guy the writers love. Here's a preparing for Ivan Drago scenario.

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Q. Kirk and Beanie, now that you guys
are here, you see the LSU flags. You hear all
about LSU on the radio. Are you guys aware of
how much of a non-neutral site this will be?​

BEANIE WELLS: Of course we are. We
know that we're going to have to come ready,
because we are in their territory. So, I mean, that's
something that we've been emphasizing to our
team that we're not at a neutral site really. We're
basically -- it's basically a home game for them so
we know we have to be prepared for that.​

KIRK BARTON: I mean it was kind of like
in Rocky IV when he goes to Russia, gets off the
plane and the KGB is with him. My favorite scene
in that movie is when he's running down the road
and they get in the car and try to follow him and
then he goes off the road and they crash.
As far as running my laps around the city
tonight, I'll probably have some people chasing
after me with their flags and stuff. But that's kind of
what it's like. I mean -- I know it's funny I say that.
But you know where you stand when you're in
Louisiana, because they have a lot of -- they love
their Tigers down here. It's very evident. That's
just how it is. It would be the same way if they had
a bowl game in Columbus.
It's a lot of fun being in an environment like
this.​

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Another Barton quote.

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Sometimes it's just fun to listen to Ohio State offensive tackle Kirk Barton talk about anything. The "smart-ass" (as Sports Illustrated described him) talked Thursday about going through the high school camp circuit with five-star recruits.

"Some of these guys are all-world," he said. "But some of them, if they're all-world, they're, like, all-Pluto and Pluto's not a world anymore."
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