scooter1369
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That's where you and the coaches come in to talk sense in to him.
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That's where you and the coaches come in to talk sense in to him.
scott91575
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Sounds good that he is getting better. I missed many of the earlier threads, but I guess it was bacterial pneumonia. I have had viral pneumonia and it was more like a really long cold (after 2 weeks of non stop hacking and coughing I finally saw a doctor). Bacterial can kill (see Muppets creator Jim Henson). If caught soon it can be cleared up, and it looks like this is the case with Steve. Our best goes out. Get well and we all look forward to seeing you on the field soon!
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teddybgame
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This kid really exemplifies what it means to be a buckeye. He is a true warrior. Get better soon Steve.
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OHIO STATE FOOTBALL
Rehring wins battle of a lifetime
Thursday, August 17, 2006Doug Lesmerises
Plain Dealer Reporter
Columbus- Steve Rehring opened his eyes in the intensive care unit at the Ohio State Medical Center and tried to focus on the television, on the game going on a few miles from his room, Iowa at Ohio State.
The Buckeyes, his teammates, won that game last September, 31-6. But Rehring didn't remember he'd watched it, the antibiotics dulling his senses. The 320-pound lineman, who would lose 40 pounds in a week while his body battled pneumonia, also didn't realize how sick he was.
His mother, Eileen, through tears, knew it all.
"We almost lost him," she said.
Today, nearly 11 months after the attack on his lungs, which doctors think started with strep throat, Rehring is battling to be the Buckeyes' starting left guard, nearly 100 percent recovered. That a big ole' lineman, a block-out-the-sun kind of big, could be felled so suddenly still leaves those who saw him in the hospital shaking their heads.
"Anyone who had a chance to walk in that hospital and see the way he looked, I'm just happy to have him back," offensive line coach Jim Bollman said. "Nobody would want to see their son or daughter the way he was, so many gizmos and tubes coming out of his body."
"It's not that it bothers you," said Rehring, "but when you see your parents or coaches walk in and you come to, you're like, 'Wow, I'm that sick.' "
Rehring's brush with death began innocuously, with the kind of nagging illness football players don't complain about.
First came a cold the week of the Texas game that didn't quite feel like a cold, then the sore throat. Rehring kept practicing.
He played against San Diego State, but battled a headache all the following Sunday. He still practiced, but then came a trip to the emergency room in the middle of the night on Wednesday, quarterback Justin Zwick at the wheel. Rehring was given some medicine and sent home. The next night, Zwick was rushing Rehring to the ER again.
Rehring's parents sped to Columbus from their home in West Chester, just north of Cincinnati, meeting him in the emergency room. Soon, their son was headed to the ICU because he couldn't breathe.
"To get that far, that quick . . . " Eileen Rehring said, " . . . these football players don't want to be sick and don't want to be hurt. They're fighting for positions all the time, so rarely will they tell anybody."
While treating cases of walking pneumonia is a regular aspect of college life, Dr. Ted Grace, the director of student health services at Ohio State, said this type of pneumococcal pneumonia is rare and typically found among the elderly or children.
"We don't know why they get it," said Grace, "but when it invades a healthy, college-aged student, it's a very serious infection, and they can get worse before they get better."
Rehring did, staying in intensive care for a week before his discharge. At the time, Ohio State announced only that Rehring was recovering from an infection. Rehring said that recovery took until June, his strength during spring practice only at 80 percent.
"Dealing with it over the winter and how cold it got, those lungs really hurt," said Eileen Rehring, "but he didn't complain at all. He's a fighter, he really is."
Now, Rehring just wants to get back to where he was, to the way he played when he earned time as a freshman in 2004, when he was penciled in as a starter last August before losing out to Doug Datish, then regaining the confidence of his coach just as it all came apart.
"He was really playing good when he got sick," said Bollman, "and to miss the whole season like that, that was a long comeback. I don't think he's quite back yet, but he's making progress, that's for sure."
Next time his throat hurts, you can bet he'll check it out sooner.
"I had close friends back home who told me how bad it was for my mom and dad," Rehring said. "They were like, 'Don't ever do that to us again.' "
To reach this Plain Dealer reporter:
[email protected], 216-999-4479
OHIO STATE FOOTBALL
Rehring wins battle of a lifetime
Thursday, August 17, 2006Doug Lesmerises
Plain Dealer Reporter
Columbus- Steve Rehring opened his eyes in the intensive care unit at the Ohio State Medical Center and tried to focus on the television, on the game going on a few miles from his room, Iowa at Ohio State.
The Buckeyes, his teammates, won that game last September, 31-6. But Rehring didn't remember he'd watched it, the antibiotics dulling his senses. The 320-pound lineman, who would lose 40 pounds in a week while his body battled pneumonia, also didn't realize how sick he was.
His mother, Eileen, through tears, knew it all.
"We almost lost him," she said.
Today, nearly 11 months after the attack on his lungs, which doctors think started with strep throat, Rehring is battling to be the Buckeyes' starting left guard, nearly 100 percent recovered. That a big ole' lineman, a block-out-the-sun kind of big, could be felled so suddenly still leaves those who saw him in the hospital shaking their heads.
"Anyone who had a chance to walk in that hospital and see the way he looked, I'm just happy to have him back," offensive line coach Jim Bollman said. "Nobody would want to see their son or daughter the way he was, so many gizmos and tubes coming out of his body."
"It's not that it bothers you," said Rehring, "but when you see your parents or coaches walk in and you come to, you're like, 'Wow, I'm that sick.' "
Rehring's brush with death began innocuously, with the kind of nagging illness football players don't complain about.
First came a cold the week of the Texas game that didn't quite feel like a cold, then the sore throat. Rehring kept practicing.
He played against San Diego State, but battled a headache all the following Sunday. He still practiced, but then came a trip to the emergency room in the middle of the night on Wednesday, quarterback Justin Zwick at the wheel. Rehring was given some medicine and sent home. The next night, Zwick was rushing Rehring to the ER again.
Rehring's parents sped to Columbus from their home in West Chester, just north of Cincinnati, meeting him in the emergency room. Soon, their son was headed to the ICU because he couldn't breathe.
"To get that far, that quick . . . " Eileen Rehring said, " . . . these football players don't want to be sick and don't want to be hurt. They're fighting for positions all the time, so rarely will they tell anybody."
While treating cases of walking pneumonia is a regular aspect of college life, Dr. Ted Grace, the director of student health services at Ohio State, said this type of pneumococcal pneumonia is rare and typically found among the elderly or children.
"We don't know why they get it," said Grace, "but when it invades a healthy, college-aged student, it's a very serious infection, and they can get worse before they get better."
Rehring did, staying in intensive care for a week before his discharge. At the time, Ohio State announced only that Rehring was recovering from an infection. Rehring said that recovery took until June, his strength during spring practice only at 80 percent.
"Dealing with it over the winter and how cold it got, those lungs really hurt," said Eileen Rehring, "but he didn't complain at all. He's a fighter, he really is."
Now, Rehring just wants to get back to where he was, to the way he played when he earned time as a freshman in 2004, when he was penciled in as a starter last August before losing out to Doug Datish, then regaining the confidence of his coach just as it all came apart.
"He was really playing good when he got sick," said Bollman, "and to miss the whole season like that, that was a long comeback. I don't think he's quite back yet, but he's making progress, that's for sure."
Next time his throat hurts, you can bet he'll check it out sooner.
"I had close friends back home who told me how bad it was for my mom and dad," Rehring said. "They were like, 'Don't ever do that to us again.' "
To reach this Plain Dealer reporter:
[email protected], 216-999-4479
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Underdogg44
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osugrad thanks, for the post, I was getting online here to ask anyone if or when they saw the story in the paper they could do this. Thanks!
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Alex gets a ton of press...this article can go in Steve's thread and bump him up for a while.
OZone
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Boone and Rehring Present Big Problems for Opposing Defenses
By John Porentas
Football players are, generally speaking, exceptionally large persons, particularly those who play along the line of scrimmage, such as offensive and defensive linemen.
Offensive linemen at Ohio State are large as you might expect, with the possible exception of the two that started at left tackle and left guard for the Buckeyes against Iowa, because "large" really does not adequately describe that tandem.
OSU starting left tackle Alex Boone is listed at 6-8, 325 pounds on the official OSU roster. Steve Rehring, who started at left guard next to Boone against Iowa, is listed at 6-8, 329. Both are pups, albeit large ones. Boone is a true sophomore while Rehring is a redshirt sophomore, and as a pair they are physically imposing, even to other football players who have seen plenty of big people in their playing days.Take for example the reaction of OSU wide receiver Anthony Gonzalez the first time he met Rehring.
"When I first met him I thought he was the biggest person alive," said Gonzalez.
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Alex Boone [/FONT]
Boone, who is no dwarf, has much the same reaction to Rehring, saying he has never met anyone bigger.
"Not in my life," said Boone. "I don't know anybody bigger than me, and he's nice to me too," said Boone with a laugh.
Rehring is rounding back into form after a bout with a serious lung condition last year that put him the hospital and ended his season. He wound up getting a medical redshirt in 2005 after seeing significant playing time in 2004 at left tackle including several starts. The only true freshmen to log more playing time than Rehring that season were Antonio Pittman and Ted Ginn.
This season Rehring has found himself in competition with senior Tim Schafer for the left guard spot, a spot that Schafer won originally, but one that Rehring appears to have claimed after strong outings against Cincinnati and Penn State in a reserve role. Boone, for one, is happy to see a little more of Rehring on the field.
"That's a lot of meat. It's great for us. I love him. I think he's by far the best left guard," said Boone.
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Steve Rehring [/FONT]
Rehring played the entire game next to Boone against Iowa, and the two played extremely effectively. An unofficial review of the game tape showed that the Buckeye rushing game was particularly effective to the left side of the formation. The Buckeyes attempted 24 rushes for 138 yards (5.75 yards per attempt) on the left side, six rushes for 28 yards (4.66 yards per attempt) in the middle of the line, and 16 rushes for 49 yards (3.25 yards per attempt) on the right side. The results left Boone smiling after the game.
"We always tell each other before the game that we're the best left side out there and we're going to do what we've got to do to get things done," said Boone.
"Today it showed because we kept running to the left.
"It was way more left. Everything was going to the left. They kept calling it and I was 'Wow, this is outrageous,'" Boone said.
"It felt great. They kept calling our side and me and Steve were just laughing. We were just ready to go. We felt in synch, it was just great."
The duo was at minimum effective, and at times just plain dominating.
"I saw Steve Rehring flat out demolish somebody this past week, which was pretty impressive," said OSU tight end Rory Nicol.
"I personally wouldn't want to line up across from them. I mean, they're huge! Steve Rehring has got to be 330 pounds, and he's an athlete, that's the sickest part about it."
"I feel bad for the defensive tackles they're going against," said OSU senior right guard T. J. Downing.
"When you're 6-8, 330 pounds and you put two of those together on one body, there's going to be some movement and something's got to give eventually," Downing said.
Last Saturday it was the right side of the Hawkeye defense that gave when Boone and Rehring caved it in consistently to spring running backs Antonio Pittman and Chris Wells to the outside. They also did an outstanding job of protecting OSU quarterback Troy Smith.
"It feels great when we're doing that, when you're able to run the ball and able to pass the ball and able to protect. You can always get better but it's always fun when you see those guys make plays," said Rehring.
The OSU game plan this season has been to rotate the offensive linemen , but you get the feeling that Boone likes having Rehring out there next to him.
"It's amazing . I love the way he plays, he's a tough kid, he'll play when he's hurt," said Boone.
"Sometimes its weird when we switch guys around like that.It takes the momentum out of the game sometimes. Today they kind of left Steve in there for the game and it felt great, because once you start rolling you just keep going with the same person, but once you change a guy in there it just feels different, but they're both (Rehring and Schafer) good players and they both deserve to play," Boone said.
Boone himself has a few fans, like Nicol, who sees Boone and Rehring as very similar players at about the same stage of development.
"Alex is a guy who has potential just like Steve," said Nicol.
"Those are guys who have a lot to learn and a ways to go, but they get better every week.
"That's like 650 pounds of force so they're two guys who can be unbelievable football players if they keep their heads screwed on. If they keep working the way they're working right now God only knows how good they're going to be when we're all seniors," said Nicol.
"I mean, they're big. I think we run the ball downhill really well to the left side," Nicol added.
OSU senior defensive lineman Joel Penton who lines up across from the two from time to time at OSU practices is definitely impressed.
"Those are big guys," said Penton. "When they bring a double team you feel it."
Boone and Rehring Present Big Problems for Opposing Defenses
By John Porentas
Football players are, generally speaking, exceptionally large persons, particularly those who play along the line of scrimmage, such as offensive and defensive linemen.
Offensive linemen at Ohio State are large as you might expect, with the possible exception of the two that started at left tackle and left guard for the Buckeyes against Iowa, because "large" really does not adequately describe that tandem.
OSU starting left tackle Alex Boone is listed at 6-8, 325 pounds on the official OSU roster. Steve Rehring, who started at left guard next to Boone against Iowa, is listed at 6-8, 329. Both are pups, albeit large ones. Boone is a true sophomore while Rehring is a redshirt sophomore, and as a pair they are physically imposing, even to other football players who have seen plenty of big people in their playing days.Take for example the reaction of OSU wide receiver Anthony Gonzalez the first time he met Rehring.
"When I first met him I thought he was the biggest person alive," said Gonzalez.
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Alex Boone [/FONT]
"Not in my life," said Boone. "I don't know anybody bigger than me, and he's nice to me too," said Boone with a laugh.
Rehring is rounding back into form after a bout with a serious lung condition last year that put him the hospital and ended his season. He wound up getting a medical redshirt in 2005 after seeing significant playing time in 2004 at left tackle including several starts. The only true freshmen to log more playing time than Rehring that season were Antonio Pittman and Ted Ginn.
This season Rehring has found himself in competition with senior Tim Schafer for the left guard spot, a spot that Schafer won originally, but one that Rehring appears to have claimed after strong outings against Cincinnati and Penn State in a reserve role. Boone, for one, is happy to see a little more of Rehring on the field.
"That's a lot of meat. It's great for us. I love him. I think he's by far the best left guard," said Boone.
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Steve Rehring [/FONT]
"We always tell each other before the game that we're the best left side out there and we're going to do what we've got to do to get things done," said Boone.
"Today it showed because we kept running to the left.
"It was way more left. Everything was going to the left. They kept calling it and I was 'Wow, this is outrageous,'" Boone said.
"It felt great. They kept calling our side and me and Steve were just laughing. We were just ready to go. We felt in synch, it was just great."
The duo was at minimum effective, and at times just plain dominating.
"I saw Steve Rehring flat out demolish somebody this past week, which was pretty impressive," said OSU tight end Rory Nicol.
"I personally wouldn't want to line up across from them. I mean, they're huge! Steve Rehring has got to be 330 pounds, and he's an athlete, that's the sickest part about it."
"I feel bad for the defensive tackles they're going against," said OSU senior right guard T. J. Downing.
"When you're 6-8, 330 pounds and you put two of those together on one body, there's going to be some movement and something's got to give eventually," Downing said.
Last Saturday it was the right side of the Hawkeye defense that gave when Boone and Rehring caved it in consistently to spring running backs Antonio Pittman and Chris Wells to the outside. They also did an outstanding job of protecting OSU quarterback Troy Smith.
"It feels great when we're doing that, when you're able to run the ball and able to pass the ball and able to protect. You can always get better but it's always fun when you see those guys make plays," said Rehring.
The OSU game plan this season has been to rotate the offensive linemen , but you get the feeling that Boone likes having Rehring out there next to him.
"It's amazing . I love the way he plays, he's a tough kid, he'll play when he's hurt," said Boone.
"Sometimes its weird when we switch guys around like that.It takes the momentum out of the game sometimes. Today they kind of left Steve in there for the game and it felt great, because once you start rolling you just keep going with the same person, but once you change a guy in there it just feels different, but they're both (Rehring and Schafer) good players and they both deserve to play," Boone said.
Boone himself has a few fans, like Nicol, who sees Boone and Rehring as very similar players at about the same stage of development.
"Alex is a guy who has potential just like Steve," said Nicol.
"Those are guys who have a lot to learn and a ways to go, but they get better every week.
"That's like 650 pounds of force so they're two guys who can be unbelievable football players if they keep their heads screwed on. If they keep working the way they're working right now God only knows how good they're going to be when we're all seniors," said Nicol.
"I mean, they're big. I think we run the ball downhill really well to the left side," Nicol added.
OSU senior defensive lineman Joel Penton who lines up across from the two from time to time at OSU practices is definitely impressed.
"Those are big guys," said Penton. "When they bring a double team you feel it."
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scooter1369
HTTR Forever.
I met Steve and shook his hand after the Penn State game in the RV lot. That's one big kid. Crikey!!!
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Underdogg44
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There is a small article on Steve and the DT from _ichigan in the latest edition of ESPN the mag (Greg Oden on cover) it is towards the back. There is also a nice picture of the Buckeyes coming out of the tunnel at UofI
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osugrad21;625205; said:
Nice touch, grad21. Steve has impressed me this year and he is going to be a very key player this week!
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WaitingforKickoff
Legend
Looked like Michigan's much heralded DL was caught off-guard by the strength of OSU's interior OL. Rehring was a beast inside. A Boone-Rehring-Cordle-Skinner-Barton line for next season sounds pretty good to me right now.
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prayer
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what's with steve? i've read (scout free board; i know, shaky) that he reported out of shape/is in the doghouse/has lost (for the time being) his starting job to bryant browing.
i've always liked rehring. i remember when he earned an offer, at camp i think, and many questioned whether he should get one. his brother used to post on bucknuts to give us update. steve worked hard to earn playing time as a true freshman when i think most assumed he'd be redshirted. then after missing a year, he earned a starting job and performed really well.
he doesn't sound like a guy who would let himself get so out of shape that he's been demoted.
i've always liked rehring. i remember when he earned an offer, at camp i think, and many questioned whether he should get one. his brother used to post on bucknuts to give us update. steve worked hard to earn playing time as a true freshman when i think most assumed he'd be redshirted. then after missing a year, he earned a starting job and performed really well.
he doesn't sound like a guy who would let himself get so out of shape that he's been demoted.
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prayer;897897; said:
I read that somewhere also, and now I can't find it.
FWIW, here's a quote from JT yesterday, which doesn't sound negative about Rehring.
official.site
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