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merbele;668655; said:
Rumor is that's a load of shit. I saw that posted on Bucknuts. I won't believe it for a second until I see a reputable source report it.
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OregonBuckeye;668667; said:
Cannot confirm if he showed up toward the end, but he was definetly late.
http://www.cleveland.com/sports/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/sports/1164189289118180.xml&coll=2
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Ahh, when somebody posted that article on Bucknuts it didn't say he was kidding. There's no way Tressel would say something like that and be serious so that's why I called bs.
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holybuckeye33
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Bucky Katt;667779; said:
Sorry Bucky...little late on the draw.
TSUN game now updated.
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From nowhere to stardom for OSU?s Smith
By MATT HAYES - The Sporting News
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Fans held signs of reverence for the man called Bo, and there was a moment of silence in the Horseshoe for the coach they loved to hate.
It was somber and surreal and surely something Bo Schembechler never could have imagined. The ol? firebrand would have been humbled.
Then he would have puked.
Eighty-one points and 900 total yards. What?s worse? No. 1 Ohio State beating No. 2 Michigan, 42-39, in the biggest game in the history of The Biggest Game or Schembechler?s beloved Big Ten dissolving into a game of pitch and catch? Three yards and a cloud of dust gave way to a three-step drop and finding someone streaking free in the secondary. At least Bo had Woody to curse at up there.
?They were probably sick about it,? Ohio State linebacker James Laurinaitis said. ?But at this point, it?s all about winning.?
And advancing. What do we glean from this playground football disguised as the Game of the Millennium? Ohio State will play in the national title game. And no matter what numbers the BCS system eventually spits out, no matter what some geek with a laptop says, Michigan made one heck of an argument that it deserves to be there, too.
?There can?t be many teams in the nation better than Michigan,? Ohio State coach Jim Tressel said.
There is, however, one clear leader above them all. The team that made a defining statement back in September with a win against defending national champion Texas in Austin, then lollygagged through a cake schedule, flexed its muscle again when it mattered most.
The star quarterback wrapped up the Heisman Trophy, the game?s best coach continued to turn The Biggest Game into his game, and the one, unwavering constant remained firm in what otherwise has been an ever-changing season.
The reason: Troy Smith.
Two days before The Biggest Game and one day before the world changed for Michigan, when its beloved former coach died of heart failure, Smith was standing in front of his teammates and speaking to the group. Tressel allowed each senior to address the team, and Smith, the heart and soul and fuel of this group, was last.
Wasn?t long ago that Smith was an afterthought recruit in a heralded 2002 class. He was the last player signed and was seen as an athlete type who the coaches hoped would find his way. Smith surely wouldn?t be competition at quarterback for Ohio schoolboy legend Justin Zwick, the phenom Buckeyes fans long had been charting.
Wasn?t long ago that Smith was just another arm on the scout team, just another pair of fresh legs on special teams. He was undersized and didn?t really fit anywhere. Yet in the five years since he arrived in Columbus, Smith has gone from nowhere man, to vilified stooge, to the best player in college football. Three years ago, his college career almost ended before it began when he accepted $500 from a booster and was suspended for the last game of the 2004 season and the first game of last season.
Ohio State could have cut ties with Smith and forged ahead with Zwick, who shared time with Smith in ?04 and was being groomed for the position. But Tressel convinced the Ohio State administration to petition the NCAA to allow Smith to regain his eligibility ? but there was one caveat: ?He said, ?Don?t make me look stupid,? ? Smith said.
Last week, with all of that in the rearview and the biggest game of his life straight ahead, there was Smith weeping in front of his teammates. He tried to keep it in, tried to hold it together for the 100 or so sets of eyes fixated on the player they feed off of.
?I love each and every one of those guys with the most passion a man can have,? Smith said. ?I wanted them to know what they meant to me and what we still had in front of us.?
Then he went out and cemented his status as the best player in the 103-year history of The Biggest Game. No player has dominated the series more than Smith. No player has done a better job of lifting his team in crucial spots and under every circumstance: as an underdog in ?04, trailing by nine on the road midway through the fourth quarter in ?05 and finally as the favorite with everything ? the Big Ten championship, a spot in the national title game, No. 1 vs. No. 2, the Heisman Trophy ? on the line last Saturday.
Three games and three once-in-a-lifetime performances.
?Once would?ve been something to remember forever,? Ohio State wideout Anthony Gonzalez said. ?He has done it over and over and over.?
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ABJ
Forgetting his roots?
Buckeyes quarterback Troy Smith was a conspicuous no-show at last week's OSU Alumni Club of Greater Cleveland $100-a-plate dinner. He was supposed to receive the club's Lou Groza Award for best player from Northeast Ohio.
Please note that I wrote supposed. Anyone who knows Smith's story can appreciate how he has evolved as a football player, but more importantly as a man.
If he had some sort of family emergency to contend with, his absence would be understandable. To date, no explanation has been given. It's a long season. The Michigan game was probably emotionally and physically draining. However, you do not blow off your college's local chapter of the alumni club in your hometown right after the biggest game of the year.
If he's lucky and doesn't allow collegiate success to go to his head -- a la another former OSU athlete currently sitting in a prison cell -- Smith will have a decade or so to act like some of the egomaniacal pro athletes out there. Until Jan. 9, he needs to keep it all in check, and he owes about 600 people an apology.
Forgetting his roots?
Buckeyes quarterback Troy Smith was a conspicuous no-show at last week's OSU Alumni Club of Greater Cleveland $100-a-plate dinner. He was supposed to receive the club's Lou Groza Award for best player from Northeast Ohio.
Please note that I wrote supposed. Anyone who knows Smith's story can appreciate how he has evolved as a football player, but more importantly as a man.
If he had some sort of family emergency to contend with, his absence would be understandable. To date, no explanation has been given. It's a long season. The Michigan game was probably emotionally and physically draining. However, you do not blow off your college's local chapter of the alumni club in your hometown right after the biggest game of the year.
If he's lucky and doesn't allow collegiate success to go to his head -- a la another former OSU athlete currently sitting in a prison cell -- Smith will have a decade or so to act like some of the egomaniacal pro athletes out there. Until Jan. 9, he needs to keep it all in check, and he owes about 600 people an apology.
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