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QB Craig Krenzel (B1G Champion, National Champion)

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Just watched the 2002 game vs Illinois on BTN and before that watched the NC game against Miami. I just feel the need to say, Dang CK was one tough college QB! Some of the shots he took that season were crazy and he always jumped right up. He might not have been the most talented kid, but he certainly got the most out of what he had. Heart of a champion that guy.
 
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Krenzel and doctors lead "Walk with A Doc"
By Ashley Dingus
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Published: Sunday, April 18, 2010

Although Craig Krenzel wasn?t gearing up for the football field Saturday morning, he teamed up with Walk with a Doc to play for active lifestyle choices.

After years of mandatory practices and scheduled trainings, Ohio State?s 2002 National Championship quarterback and later NFL quarterback, willingly makes time to keep active by running, cycling, swimming and participating in sprint triathlons. These days, Krenzel fills the competitive void of football by chasing his kids around and doing ?the old man stuff,? he said.

For Krenzel, being active correlates with being in a better mood, which is why he strongly supports Walk with a Doc.

He also gave advice to OSU students on ways they can keep active.

?It?s not about being athletic, it?s about fitness and exercising. It?s just getting out and being active, even if it?s getting out and walking for 30 to 45 minutes,? Krenzel said.
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The Lantern - Krenzel and doctors lead "Walk with A Doc"
 
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Ohio State?s Craig Krenzel Now An Insurance Man, Radio Analyst In Ohio

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With Ohio State and Miami meeting again for the first time since the 2003 Fiesta Bowl, we look back at the leader of the Buckeyes that seasn: QB Craig Krenzel. Beside Maurice Clarrett, he may have been the most visible Ohio State player that season. Today he?s an OSU radio analyst and works in insurance with the Arthur Krenzel Lett Insurance Group in Dublin, OH.
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Where Are They Now?

Radio commentator for OSU football on Columbus' 1460 The Fan
Business partner with Arthur Krenzel Lett Insurance Group
Resides in Columbus, OH area

After College:

Selected in 5th Round (148th overall) in 2004 NFL Draft (Chicago)
Played in NFL (2004-05) for Bears and Bengals

College Career:

Member of 2002 National Championship Team
2002 & 2003 Fiesta Bowl MVP
24-3 record as starter

Krenzel, Craig
School: Ohio State
Sport: Football
Position: QB
Years Lettered: 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003
Hometown (H.S.): Utica, MI (Henry Ford II H.S.)
Birth: 07.01.1981 (Age 29)
Death: None
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Who’s Hot? Ohio State’s Craig Krenzel Now An Insurance Man, Radio Analyst In Ohio – LostLettermen.com
 
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Craig Krenzel Podcast:
Recalling The Heart-Pounding 2002 Season And ?The Call? To End The ?03 Fiesta Bowl

Ohio State?s Craig Krenzel talks about the Buckeyes? heart-attack inducing run through the 2002 season, how the team managed to play through all those comeback wins and what he thought of ?The Call? in the 2003 Fiesta Bowl (run time is 6:20; transcript below the jump).

Lost Lettermen: This is Jose Bosch from LostLettermen.com and I?m being joined by Ohio State?s Craig Krenzel, member of the 2002 national championship team and current a partner at Arther Krenzel Lett Insurance Group and also a radio commentator in Ohio.

Mr. Krenzel, thank you very much for joining us today.

Craig Krenzel: No problem. Pleasure to be here.

LL: Now I just quickly want to transition into your playing career because I know a lot of readers and listeners would be upset if you didn?t talk a little bit about that 2002 season.

So memorable for so many reasons. But I think the one thing that sticks out at least for me watching as a fan, so many close games that you guys had where you either came from behind or really didn?t win until the very end.

Obviously having the ?W? at the end helps but how much of an emotional toll did that take on you guys playing so many games where you had to come from behind or the outcome of the game was unknown until the very end?

CK: I don?t know if it had a lot of emotional toll. I think a good, mature football team just understand how difficult it is to win every game. And a good, mature football team, a team that?s kind of wise and ready to go out and win a national title or go undefeated, you realize that it?s not always going to be pretty.

And that?s just the game of football. That?s the nature of football. and at the end of every single one of those games, our mentality was such that it was, ?Hey, we won and it?s time to forget about this win. Learn from some of our mistakes but start moving on toward the next game.?

The No. 1 thing about playing that many close games was we knew we could make the play when we needed to. We knew we had a group of guys that could get the job done regardless of what the situation was.

And another bright spot is when you?re winning football games like that and it?s not always pretty and you?re not blowing people out, for some of the guys that are a little bit younger, there?s no room to be content. We walked out of every single football game we played pretty much all year and said, ?Hey, we can and need to play a lot better.?

LL: In hindsight I think a lot of people will look at the Purdue game and Brent Musburger calling, ?Holy Buckeye!? as the moment where you knew that you guys had something special going on, at least looking back in hindsight.

But as you were experiencing it during the season, at what moment did you realize you had something special with this team and that a national championship was a very realistic possibility?

CK: It was toward the latter part of the season. Obviously at a place like Ohio State you go into every season with the national championship as our goal. Win the Big Ten, go undefeated, win the national title. But also as a player, you understand how difficult that is. And it?s not an easy thing to do. You have to be good, you have to be well-coached, you have to catch a couple breaks.

You also have to understand that it?s a very long season. So going from Purdue to Illinois, right around that time of the season, we knew all season long and felt all season long that we could do this. But it?s one of those things that, you talked about emotion a little bit ago; emotionally throughout the week things started to build up toward that ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth game.

You?re 9-0, you?re 10-0 and next thing you know you?re 11-0 and you?re staring at Illinois. And you go into a game at Illinois in overtime to go 12-0 and now it?s Michigan Week.

And so the emotional started building up but our guys knew all season long that we were a good football team to do what we did. But you still have to take the opportunity to go out there and prove it.
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http://www.lostlettermen.com/2010/0...-the-heart-pounding-2002-season-and-the-call/
 
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Craig Krenzel Podcast:
Doing Radio On Top Of My 9-To-5 Job
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Ohio State?s Craig Krenzel talks about working in Ohio sports talk radio, what he does on a daily basis and his favorite part of being a radio host (run time is 4:06; transcript after the jump).

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Lost Lettermen: This is Jose Bosch from lostLettermen.com and I?m being joined by Ohio State?s Craig Krenzel, member of the 2002 national champions and currently a partner in Arthur, Krenzel Lett Insurance Group, and also a radio commentator in Ohio.

Mr. Krenzel thank you very much for joining us today.

Criag Krenzel: No problem, pleasure to be here.

LL: Just very quickly, we?ve read that you?re not only working in insurance but you?re also doing some commentary work on Ohio sports radio. How did you get into that?

CK: It was kind of one of those things when I got done playing ball it?s an opportunity that?s there for a lot of players. Like you said, my full-time job is a partner of mine and I we have a full-time full services insurance brokerage firm, but the radio work is usually one day a week, sometimes two days a week. Just a couple of hours at a time. It?s more fun.

It?s a good time to talk sports, talk football, talk Buckeye football. No game-day responsibilities. I?m not doing any kind of announcing or stuff like that. It?s more commentary or analysis type stuff.
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http://www.lostlettermen.com/2010/09/craig-krenzel-podcast-doing-radio-on-top-of-my-9-to-5-job/
 
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Krenzel: I liked Rodriguez hire at the time

I interviewed Craig Krenzel earlier this week, for a story that will run in tomorrow's Dispatch (about whether the OSU-Michigan rivalry has been diminished by Michigan's struggles).

Anyway, this didn't really fit into the story, but with Rich Rodriguez' job seriously in jeopardy, I thought this was interesting:

"I was questioning the decision three years ago, but yet somewhat excited about the decision to hire Rich Rodriguez, because I had hopes that he would kind of bring an energy and an anti `good old boy, shake your hand and let?s go out and let's not embarrass each other. . . .?

"I thought Rich Rodriguez might bring a `Screw you? kind of attitude, `I?m going to beat you by as many points as possible.? And I still think he?s got that attitude, he just can?t do it.

"And there?s a big part of me that hoped he did do it, that kind of hoped that. Because on a national level, I think our conference needs that. I think there?s an aggressive nature of the game of football from a `score as many points in the world and hold you to as few as possible,? that the great teams have, that for awhile, the Big Ten has kind of lacked."
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http://blog.dispatch.com/buckeyesblog/2010/11/krenzel_i_liked_rodriguez_hire.shtml
 
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Craig Krenzel said:
I thought Rich Rodriguez might bring a "Screw you" kind of attitude, "I'm going to beat you by as many points as possible." And I still think he's got that attitude, he just can't do it.
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