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QB Troy Smith (2006 Heisman Trophy Winner)

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Troy being politically correct......:biggrin:

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7/24/06

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Ranking for MSU quarterback Drew Stanton on Ohio State QB Troy Smith's list of college football players he loves to watch, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. In true Lou Holtz style, Smith's second choice was Northern Illinois tailback Garrett Wolfe, against whom the Buckeyes open their season.
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Rest of Troy's list from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution:

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1. Drew Stanton, quarterback, Michigan State. I've known him for years, and he's a good quarterback.
2. Garrett Wolfe, tailback, Northern Illinois. A little guy doing big man things.
3. Brandon Meriweather, safety, Miami. The definition of the hit stick.
4. Dwayne Jarrett, wide receiver, Southern Cal. Besides Ted Ginn Jr., Dwayne has some of the best hands in college football.
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HineyBuck said:
At some point before fall practice opens, I wanted to make a post about how impressed I have been with Troy Smith's development, both on and off the field. Now is as good a time as any.

First, my confession. I was one of the many who hoped Justin Zwick would eventually become the leader of this team. It did not happen (and I'll have a parallel post on how impressed I've been with Justin, and how he's handled it). This is Troy's team, no question about it.

Off the field, Troy is one who could have easily gone off the track. There was the skirmish outside the dorm, and we all remember the suspension for taking $500 from a booster. But he's paid it all back and he really seems to have bought in to Tressel's admonition that "Nothing good happens after 10pm."

Still off the field, he graduated in four years, and is looking to take something more than ballroom dancing for his eligibility coursework.

Still off the field, but getting closer to the field, I've been impressed by his eagerness to learn: a) film study--again, he has bought in. He rousts Jim Bollman from his hospital bed, "Hey coach, glad you're feeling better, wanna break down some tape?" and b) he wants to learn every position on the field--he's learning offensive line play and the center's line calls.

On the field, I have never doubted his arm or his legs, but I used to worry about his propensity to tuck and run too soon, or that he would put the ball on the ground or throw into coverage at the inopportune time. (Well, I guess I'll always worry about that.) But, coming into this season, I have more confidence in Troy Smith's decision-making than anyone I can recall (including Rex Kern or that molecular biologist Craig Krenzel).

In sum, this could be a very special year for all of us. But, for Troy Smith, he could become the greatest Buckeye QB ever.
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ps, I would also like to thank and congratulate Coach Tressel on Troy Smith's development as a person and as a quarterback.
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Terrific post.

Let me make one little addition as to Smith's development--Ted Ginn, Sr.
He and Jim Tressel have both been with Smith all the way. They're two of the greatest forces in HS/College Football.

As for Smith, it just goes to show what a kid can do when he's willing to listen. What a quarterback!!


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7/27/06

Ten Heisman hopefuls to consider


Angelique S. Chengelis
The Detroit News

Jul. 26, 2006 04:30 PM


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It's July, so is it too early to begin asking who's going to win the Heisman Trophy?

Of course not.

By December, more than likely there will be an unheard-of, unheralded player who will make an impressive run and be a factor in the Heisman race.

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Here's a look at some of the players to watch this season as they make a case for winning the Heisman Trophy.

Chris Leak, QB, Florida



The 6-foot, 210-pound drop-back passer has thrown for 8,271 yards and 65 touchdowns in three seasons, despite playing for three coordinators.

Don't forget coach Urban Meyer, who made his Florida debut last year and installed the spread offense, in which Leak has never felt particularly comfortable or confident.

Last season, Leak competed 63 percent of his attempts for 2,639 yards and 20 touchdowns.

Dwayne Jarrett, WR, USC



Matt Leinart, Reggie Bush and LenDale White are gone, but the Trojans still have some pop.

Jarrett, at 6-5 and 210 pounds, is a big, athletic playmaker with great hands. He had 91 receptions and 16 touchdowns last year as a sophomore (29 touchdowns overall, three off the Pac-10 record).

Jarrett, 12th nationally in receptions and 13th in receiving yards, has received kudos for his route-running and ability to get physical. It will just be a question of how often, post-Leinart, he gets the ball.

Calvin Johnson, WR, Georgia Tech



He could be the best receiver in college football, and NFL scouts are excited. He's 6-4 and 225 pounds and has 4.4 speed, not to mention exceptional hands.

Johnson was voted preseason Atlantic Coast Conference player of the year, and if the Yellow Jackets find consistency at quarterback, he could have a huge year.

"He's a great player, but he doesn't know everything," Georgia Tech coach Chan Gailey said recently. "He's still learning. The great thing about him is he still wants to get better. ... He doesn't think he has arrived."

Ted Ginn, WR, Ohio State



Ginn is a multiple threat, perhaps the most dangerous of his kind in college football. He can catch, run and return kicks (five punts and one kickoff for touchdowns).

Can you say game-changer? He finished the 2005 season with 51 catches for 803 yards and four touchdowns, the shortest of which was 42 yards. Ginn had 17 catches in his final two games, but saved his best for last with 167 yards receiving in the Fiesta Bowl against Notre Dame.

He scored twice against the Irish - a 56-yard reception and a 68-yard reverse.

Troy Smith, QB, Ohio State



Smith is this year's version of Vince Young. Could Smith be better? The 6-1, 215-pounder threw for 2,282 yards and rushed for 611 yards and scored 27 touchdowns (11 rushing). He averaged 263 yards of offense and led the Big Ten in pass efficiency - fourth nationally.

The last time Smith was on the field, he directed the Buckeyes in their Fiesta Bowl defeat of the Irish and gained a career-high 408 total yards.

During the offseason, Smith devoted himself to film-viewing. He has increased his knowledge of the offense, which, by most accounts, could prove to be the most explosive in the country this fall.

Brady Quinn, QB, Notre Dame



In his first season under coach Charlie Weis, Quinn, 6-4 and 231 pounds, took his game to a higher level. He threw 32 TDs in his record-setting season, becoming the only quarterback in team history to throw for more than 400 yards in multiple games - he had five .

Quinn, a four-year starter, threw for 3,919 yards, and with Weis designing the offense, is a Heisman favorite. If Quinn wins, it would be the first for Notre Dame since Tim Brown in 1987.

Pat White, QB, West Virginia



White and tailback Steve Slaton were a phenomenal 1-2 punch last season as freshmen.

White did not win the starting job at the beginning of the season, but by October, was firmly in charge, running the spread for the Mountaineers.

He is extremely mobile and returns as one of the top rushers in the Big East. White had 131 carries for 952 yards (7.3 per carry). He scored seven rushing touchdowns.

Chad Henne, QB, Michigan



Henne would never admit to a sophomore jinx, but he had what most would consider a disappointing 2005 after his stellar debut as a freshman.

Henne has lost weight since the end of last season. In the Alamo Bowl, he showed mobility we hadn't seen before. He has a strong arm, and behind a fairly solid line, and with a healthy backfield mate, tailback Mike Hart, Henne should have time to find the Wolverines' talented receivers and tight ends.

Henne, a two-year starter, completed 58 percent of his attempts last season for 2,526 yards and 23 touchdowns.

Adrian Peterson, RB, Oklahoma



He's healthy, his attitude, reportedly, is upbeat, and he spent the spring developing himself as a complete player - he worked on blocking, running pass routes and being more aware of what defenses are showing.

This could be a dangerous combination for defensive coordinators.

Two years ago, the 6-2, 218-pounder set an NCAA freshman record with 1,925 rushing yards. He averaged 5.7 yards per carry and scored 15 touchdowns, when he finished second in Heisman Trophy voting.

He is coming off a difficult 2005 during which he struggled because of an ankle injury. He missed nearly four games but still rushed for 1,108 yards, scored 14 touchdowns and became the first back in team history to rush for 3,000 yards his first two seasons.

Marshawn Lynch, RB, California



He made Heisman watchers take notice in the Las Vegas Bowl when he rushed for 194 yards and three touchdowns against BYU.

Lynch is 5-11, 223 pounds and missed two games last season because of injuries. He still managed to gain 1,246 yards rushing even though he shared time with Justin Forsett.

The Bears will do plenty of running now that former Northwestern assistant Mike Dunbar is there to install his spread offense. That means Lynch will get the ball plenty and will use his powerful body to make a difference.<SCRIPT language=Javascript>if(ScriptsLoaded) stInit();</SCRIPT>
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EA Sports Elite 11 QB camp
posted: Thursday, July 27, 2006

Footballs were already whizzing through the air by the time I arrived at the EA Sports Elite 11 QB camp a little after 9 in the morning yesterday.

The young quarterbacks, along with the camp counselors made of elite college QBs Drew Stanton, Troy Smith, Tyler Palko, Trent Edwards, Jordan Palmer, Mark Sanchez and JaMarcus Russell, were throwing in groups of threes spread out across a lush green field that sits perfectly in the center of the canyons of Orange County at posh SOKA University. Along the sidelines were a handful of parents (including former NFL star Jessie Tuggle whose son, a promising young QB, was assisting as a ballboy) as well as dozens of baby-faced receivers and DBs from local high schools who were there to catch passes, run routes and take part in 7-on-7 drills.

It was really quite a scene.

The campers were selected from a pool of over 1,400 high school QBs who had competed in 18 different workout sessions across the country. The camp's selection process criteria is this: you had to prove through a tryout that you belonged before you'd get invited.

(Blue-chipper Jimmy Clausen isn't part of the camp because he didn't opt to take part in any of the tryouts. My hunch is that probably has something to do with political reasons since Clausen's longtime QB coach Steve Clarkson is a business competitor of Bob Johnson, who tutors QBs at the Elite 11. One of the campers said he really would've loved to have seen Clausen out there to see how everyone measures up in the competition, because "he is the one who gets all the hype and this would've been a good chance to prove it." Of course, Clausen will get plenty of chances to do that over the next few years.)

The QBs throw for two hours doing a variety of drills orchestrated by Johnson and his son Bret, a former Michigan State quarterback, and are overseen by the counselors paired in the kids groups.

Footwork is paramount here, and it's fascinating to see how the various body types navigate certain commands before unloading. In one particular drill, Willy Korn, a blonde-haired QB bound for Clemson, really looks smooth sliding all over the pocket while Johnson barks direction calls at him.

Towards the end of the two-hour period, a series of targets are lined up at different parts of the field with throwing stations of various distances. This is part of what they call their Golden Gun competition, and the most accurate guy for the morning gets to wear a yellow jersey the next day. USC commit Aaron Corp is wearing the jersey today.

For about 10 minutes the quarterbacks, counselors too, fire passes at a target before hustling down the field to the next station. (I thought Michigan-bound Ryan Mallett, a towering Texan with an absolute cannon for an arm, was going to kill one of the younger receivers standing behind the targets waiting to shag balls. His throws have incredible velocity and you could tell these 9th and 10th graders were dreading it every time they saw him trotting over to their station.) Mallett won the event for the day.

At 11:30, the QBs were inside a classroom for film work. The first tape in was some Miami footage from the Ken Dorsey era. Johnson calls Jarrett Lee, a QB headed to LSU, up to the screen and asked him to identify which side of the defense is the ¼ side and which is the ½ side in "quarter-quarter-half coverage." Lee points to the top of the screen. Johnson nods and calls up Va. Tech- commit Tyrod Taylor and asks the same question. Taylor points at the top of the screen too.

"Take a seat, another wrong answer," Johnson barks.

He asks Korn, who not-so-surprisingly says it's the bottom half, and then Johnson wants to know why the defense would do that. Korn throws out a few vague theories couched in questions, but he doesn't seem to give Johnson what he's looking for.

In truth, most of the kids fumble for answers, but no one seems embarrassed to be wrong. There seems to be a very nice camaraderie amongst the entire group.

A few minutes later, when Logan Gray, a slender kid headed to Georgia, gives a good answer on a hypothetical about what coverage he would expect if a cornerback at the bottom of the screen would blitz out of a certain alignment, Troy Smith, the Ohio State star, applauds him from the front row.

Soon the other counselors take over some of the teaching as UTEP's Palmer explains how in a pre-snap read the alignment of a linebacker can tip off quarter-quarter-half coverage. It's obvious there is a big brother kind of relationship formed quickly between the counselors and the campers.

The night before each counselor was asked to say something about their college experience. Smith chose to detail a huge bad decision he had made when he took money from a booster. That certainly got everyone's attention in the room. "Wow, to hear him talk like that really was amazing," Rontrell Bailey, a QB from Arkansas, said. "You learn about how things like that can happen." Smith added that he was fortunate to have a strong support system around him to enable him to bounce back.

In a larger sense, Smith's presence at the camp is telling. Five years ago, despite not being a "name guy" he took part in the Elite 11. Another QB from his area, Justin Zwick was one of the big names invited. Turns out, Zwick is now backing up Smith for OSU.

"When I came here I was the bottom of the bottom," Smith says.

But he came in with a very open mind and says he learned a ton about his mechanics (ranging from getting constant depth on his drops to the role of taking a little short six-inch step before he unloads) and how to read coverages. Now he is helping to give back. I think hearing Smith talk about the spirit of the camp itself may have been the most impressive part of the whole day.

A few quick random thoughts on what I noticed during the course of my trip down to SOKA:

• Texas commit John Brantley is really impressive in just about everything. He has an exceptionally quick release, one of the stronger arms at the camp and is very sharp.

• Mallett's arm is ridiculous. Plus, he really has some swagger to him, which should make for a nice mix with Lloyd Carr. (Mallett won the EA NCAA 2007 Tournament. He used FSU and swapped out Drew Weatherford for Xavier Lee. One camper lamented to one of the EA guys that the next time they need to drop Lee's Awareness rating down to about 20 because he's too good right now.)

• Corp, the lanky USC kid, may have the look of a golfer, but he proved to be a lot more athletic than the other campers when he threw down a baseline dunk after taking a pass from Bailey in a hoops game Tuesday.

• Smith is a lot thicker than I expected. He's got the build of an NFL running back. He also is quite a spokesman and apparently has come a long way from making the wrong kind of headlines.

• The pedigree of this camp is impressive given that it's only been around for about a decade. You could go through the Top 25 and find about 90 percent of the teams that have at least one Elite 11 alum playing QB and probably 60 percent have at least two on the roster.

• Tampa native Stephen Garcia, an intriguing mix of arm strength, athleticism and charisma, will be fun to observe over the years. Andy Bark, one of the guys who runs the Elite 11, said he never saw Brett Favre in high school but figures he was probably a lot like Garcia is now.

• I'm not saying he will be the best of the bunch, but I suspect Korn is the first guy to win a starting job and break out as a star.
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Pretty good effort, R0CK3tM4NN.

My advice is for anybody to watch it, and if they don't want to hear the music, they can hit the mute button below the video. I think the music's fine, but it may not be suitable for those at work.
 
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Piano rounded out Hiney's and Mili's good views on TS. The football gods are fickle, but I think Troy Smith will no doubt be one of the best, if not the very best of Buckeye QBs when his final season ends. Just writing that gives me the shivers.

I also believe Coach Ginn has been a monumental positive factor for Troy over the years. The more I read about the Ginn family, the more it's apparent they are very special teachers of our youth.
 
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According to the O-Zone

OSU quarterback Troy Smith has been named the preseason Big Ten Offensive Player of the Year

August 1, 2006 9:00 AM
Football: The Big Ten Football media meetings open today, and the first news is already out.
A media poll has tabbed Ohio State as the preseason favorite to win the Big Ten this season, with Michigan and Iowa selected to finish second and third respectively.
Ohio State quarterback Troy Smith as been named the preseason offensive player of the year, while Penn State linebacker Paul Posluszny has been named the preseason defensive player of the year.
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