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Karma is a bitch. He "narcs" out our program and wines that we turned our back on him. Shame on him. I for one do not shed a tear for a man with a gift like he has. There is no reason that he should not be in the NFL making millions. But now he's carrying a gun robbing people. Sorry Mo, but you are going to get what you deserve and you can only blame yourself. Watch your cornhole!
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Clarett runs into trouble; Smith runs to stardom
By: Jason LloydJournal Register News Service
01/08/2006
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</td></tr></tbody></table>While Troy Smith returned to the desert, to the luxurious life at the Scottsdale Princess hotel for one week, Maurice Clarett was back in Columbus, the city that both made him and ruined him.
While Smith was locked away in his hotel room on New Year's Eve following an 11 p.m. curfew, Clarett was allegedly stumbling down High Street with a gun in his waistband.
If he played by the rules, Clarett would be a senior. He could have given Reggie Bush and Vince Young a push for the Heisman Trophy, he could have led Ohio State to the Rose Bowl and perhaps another national championship. He could have ...
But honestly, being a senior at Ohio State never was in Clarett's grand plan. And he did have a plan. It just included footballs, not felonies.
Now look at Troy Smith, and you'll understand the fine line between a star and an alleged criminal.
Notre Dame coach Charlie Weis realized his worst fears Monday night in the Fiesta Bowl when Smith threw for 342 yards and ran for 66 more. If Clarett's latest saga is true, he likely realized his own worst fears when he transformed into what he hated most as a kid.
During his brief stay at Ohio State, Clarett spoke about growing up in Youngstown, the murders on his street, the bullets that ripped through his own house and friends' bodies and the constant sirens he could hear wailing in the neighborhood.
If he really did approach two victims with a gun in the early hours of 2006, he's no different than those thugs he grew to hate.
Both Smith and Clarett have been brought before the NCAA's judge and jury. For Smith, it was for accepting $500 from a booster - which, ironically, reportedly went to pay for a cell phone bill Clarett ran up in Smith's mother's name.
Clarett was also questioned by the NCAA for his elaborate and confusing tales of loaner cars, easy jobs, free grades and thousands of dollars. During the meetings, he was confrontational, he wouldn't answer questions, and at one point, he reportedly laid his head on the table, infuriating former athletic director Andy Geiger and the NCAA.
When approached with a similar scenario, Smith immediately confessed his sin, served his two-game suspension and Tuesday celebrated being named the offensive MVP of the Fiesta Bowl.
Tuesday, Clarett finally was back in a meaningful uniform, but this one was state-issued, complete with steel handcuffs.
Two former friends, two tales, two drastically different lives.
Both are headstrong, both can be arrogant and both have shown a propensity for opening their mouth at the wrong time. But Smith seems to have learned and moved on, while Clarett only continues to repeat the cycle.
Heading into next season, Smith is slowly emerging as that Heisman candidate who was supposed to be Clarett. Instead, Clarett is the new Cecil "The Diesel" Collins, who was drafted in the fifth round in 1999 by the Miami Dolphins.
Collins bounced from LSU to McNeese State to the NFL. He had first-round potential, but a checkered past that included breaking and entering charges while in college. He was drafted by the Dolphins, then suspended when he broke into a married couple's house and barged into the bedroom while they were sleeping. Both awoke, and he jumped out a window, officially ending his NFL career.
Clarett, a third-round pick with first-round potential, spent time in detention centers as a juvenile - once for breaking and entering. He never even made it as far as Collins. He was cut by the Broncos without ever playing in an NFL game.
Now he's no longer an NFL prospect, even though OSU coach Jim Tressel said over the summer he wanted him to try NFL Europe and Clarett recently seemed open to the idea. Now not even the NFL, a league famous for forgiveness, will give Clarett another look.
On the field, Clarett's timing was always impeccable - instinctively, he knew when to wait on a lineman to open a hole and when to charge ahead. Off the field, his timing couldn't possibly be worse.
A court's reversal denied him the NFL just days before the draft in 2004, when his stock was much higher than it was a year later. His awful showing at the combine last year, when he had reportedly worked so hard to get in such great physical condition, made him - and the Broncos - the laughingstock of the league.
And finally, in the early hours of 2006, Clarett's alleged attempt at armed robbery ended about as successfully as his NFL career. He chose a bar across the street from the Franklin County courthouse and picked two people with nothing on them but a cell phone, then happened to run into an old friend in the middle of the heist who blew everything.
If it wasn't so tragic and scary, it could make for great comedy.
Smith said last year he doesn't speak to Clarett much anymore. It's easy to see why. Tressel spoke to him a few times recently, but only after he indicated Clarett was remorseful and looking for a way to get his life headed in the right direction.
Aggravated robbery, a Class 3 felony, typically doesn't qualify for citizen of the year.
Two former friends, two tales, two drastically different outcomes.
Smith's best days at Ohio State are still to come. Clarett's worst days at an Ohio state penitentiary might be yet to come.
- Journal Register News Service
Clarett runs into trouble; Smith runs to stardom
By: Jason LloydJournal Register News Service
01/08/2006
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</td></tr></tbody></table>While Troy Smith returned to the desert, to the luxurious life at the Scottsdale Princess hotel for one week, Maurice Clarett was back in Columbus, the city that both made him and ruined him.
While Smith was locked away in his hotel room on New Year's Eve following an 11 p.m. curfew, Clarett was allegedly stumbling down High Street with a gun in his waistband.
If he played by the rules, Clarett would be a senior. He could have given Reggie Bush and Vince Young a push for the Heisman Trophy, he could have led Ohio State to the Rose Bowl and perhaps another national championship. He could have ...
But honestly, being a senior at Ohio State never was in Clarett's grand plan. And he did have a plan. It just included footballs, not felonies.
Now look at Troy Smith, and you'll understand the fine line between a star and an alleged criminal.
Notre Dame coach Charlie Weis realized his worst fears Monday night in the Fiesta Bowl when Smith threw for 342 yards and ran for 66 more. If Clarett's latest saga is true, he likely realized his own worst fears when he transformed into what he hated most as a kid.
During his brief stay at Ohio State, Clarett spoke about growing up in Youngstown, the murders on his street, the bullets that ripped through his own house and friends' bodies and the constant sirens he could hear wailing in the neighborhood.
If he really did approach two victims with a gun in the early hours of 2006, he's no different than those thugs he grew to hate.
Both Smith and Clarett have been brought before the NCAA's judge and jury. For Smith, it was for accepting $500 from a booster - which, ironically, reportedly went to pay for a cell phone bill Clarett ran up in Smith's mother's name.
Clarett was also questioned by the NCAA for his elaborate and confusing tales of loaner cars, easy jobs, free grades and thousands of dollars. During the meetings, he was confrontational, he wouldn't answer questions, and at one point, he reportedly laid his head on the table, infuriating former athletic director Andy Geiger and the NCAA.
When approached with a similar scenario, Smith immediately confessed his sin, served his two-game suspension and Tuesday celebrated being named the offensive MVP of the Fiesta Bowl.
Tuesday, Clarett finally was back in a meaningful uniform, but this one was state-issued, complete with steel handcuffs.
Two former friends, two tales, two drastically different lives.
Both are headstrong, both can be arrogant and both have shown a propensity for opening their mouth at the wrong time. But Smith seems to have learned and moved on, while Clarett only continues to repeat the cycle.
Heading into next season, Smith is slowly emerging as that Heisman candidate who was supposed to be Clarett. Instead, Clarett is the new Cecil "The Diesel" Collins, who was drafted in the fifth round in 1999 by the Miami Dolphins.
Collins bounced from LSU to McNeese State to the NFL. He had first-round potential, but a checkered past that included breaking and entering charges while in college. He was drafted by the Dolphins, then suspended when he broke into a married couple's house and barged into the bedroom while they were sleeping. Both awoke, and he jumped out a window, officially ending his NFL career.
Clarett, a third-round pick with first-round potential, spent time in detention centers as a juvenile - once for breaking and entering. He never even made it as far as Collins. He was cut by the Broncos without ever playing in an NFL game.
Now he's no longer an NFL prospect, even though OSU coach Jim Tressel said over the summer he wanted him to try NFL Europe and Clarett recently seemed open to the idea. Now not even the NFL, a league famous for forgiveness, will give Clarett another look.
On the field, Clarett's timing was always impeccable - instinctively, he knew when to wait on a lineman to open a hole and when to charge ahead. Off the field, his timing couldn't possibly be worse.
A court's reversal denied him the NFL just days before the draft in 2004, when his stock was much higher than it was a year later. His awful showing at the combine last year, when he had reportedly worked so hard to get in such great physical condition, made him - and the Broncos - the laughingstock of the league.
And finally, in the early hours of 2006, Clarett's alleged attempt at armed robbery ended about as successfully as his NFL career. He chose a bar across the street from the Franklin County courthouse and picked two people with nothing on them but a cell phone, then happened to run into an old friend in the middle of the heist who blew everything.
If it wasn't so tragic and scary, it could make for great comedy.
Smith said last year he doesn't speak to Clarett much anymore. It's easy to see why. Tressel spoke to him a few times recently, but only after he indicated Clarett was remorseful and looking for a way to get his life headed in the right direction.
Aggravated robbery, a Class 3 felony, typically doesn't qualify for citizen of the year.
Two former friends, two tales, two drastically different outcomes.
Smith's best days at Ohio State are still to come. Clarett's worst days at an Ohio state penitentiary might be yet to come.
- Journal Register News Service
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Not sure if anyone even cares about this case anymor, but here is an update from ESPN/AP...
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2288880
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Former Ohio State star Maurice Clarett on Wednesday waived his right to a preliminary hearing as prosecutors prepared to ask a grand jury to charge him with using a gun to rob two people.
The hearing had been set for Thursday in Franklin County Municipal Court.
Prosecutors expect to present evidence to the grand jury in the next week to 10 days, Franklin County prosecutor Ron O'Brien said.
According to a police report, Clarett flashed a gun and demanded property from a man and a woman behind a downtown Columbus bar on Jan. 1. He got into a sport utility vehicle with two men after he was identified by the bar owner, who happened to come out into the alley.
No one was injured, and only a cell phone was taken from the alleged victims, police said.
Clarett, 22, was wanted by police on two aggravated robbery charges for almost two days before he turned himself in around 9 p.m. on Jan. 2. He posted a $50,000 bond and was released from jail the next day.
Clarett helped Ohio State win the 2002 national championship but sat out the 2003 season after he was charged with misdemeanor falsification for filing a police report claiming that more than $10,000 in clothing, CDs, cash and stereo equipment was stolen from a car he borrowed from a local dealership. He later pleaded guilty to a lesser charge.
Clarett was suspended from the team for misleading police and for receiving special benefits worth thousands of dollars from a family friend. He dropped out of Ohio State and then lost a legal challenge to the NFL's requirement that players wait three years after high school before turning pro.
He was taken in the third round by the Denver Broncos in last year's draft, but the team cut him in August.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2288880
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Former Ohio State star Maurice Clarett on Wednesday waived his right to a preliminary hearing as prosecutors prepared to ask a grand jury to charge him with using a gun to rob two people.
The hearing had been set for Thursday in Franklin County Municipal Court.
Prosecutors expect to present evidence to the grand jury in the next week to 10 days, Franklin County prosecutor Ron O'Brien said.
According to a police report, Clarett flashed a gun and demanded property from a man and a woman behind a downtown Columbus bar on Jan. 1. He got into a sport utility vehicle with two men after he was identified by the bar owner, who happened to come out into the alley.
No one was injured, and only a cell phone was taken from the alleged victims, police said.
Clarett, 22, was wanted by police on two aggravated robbery charges for almost two days before he turned himself in around 9 p.m. on Jan. 2. He posted a $50,000 bond and was released from jail the next day.
Clarett helped Ohio State win the 2002 national championship but sat out the 2003 season after he was charged with misdemeanor falsification for filing a police report claiming that more than $10,000 in clothing, CDs, cash and stereo equipment was stolen from a car he borrowed from a local dealership. He later pleaded guilty to a lesser charge.
Clarett was suspended from the team for misleading police and for receiving special benefits worth thousands of dollars from a family friend. He dropped out of Ohio State and then lost a legal challenge to the NFL's requirement that players wait three years after high school before turning pro.
He was taken in the third round by the Denver Broncos in last year's draft, but the team cut him in August.
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Clarett's promise now just a memory
By Kyle Nagel
Dayton Daily News
When Mike Butch walked into the classroom at Youngstown's Cleveland Elementary School, he spotted the muscular sixth-grader immediately.
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<!-- inset --> <!--begintext--> "The teacher said, 'You've probably heard of Maurice Clarett,' " said Butch, who was the football and basketball coach at Hillman Middle School and had come to speak about his athletic program. "He was sitting right in the front row. He could barely fit in the desk."
For much of his youth, Clarett, the troubled former Ohio State University running back, seemed to quickly outgrow his surroundings.
From elementary school myth to middle school phenomenon to high school legend, Clarett almost always seemed a star in the making, according to coaches, players and athletic administrators who watched him develop.
But since Clarett enrolled at Ohio State in January 2002 after graduating from Warren G. Harding High School a semester early, controversy has rarely left him.
A little more than three years after the Buckeyes won college football's national championship with Clarett as a sensational freshman, the former star now faces two charges of aggravated robbery. If found guilty, he could be sent to prison for as many as 26 years.
The latest allegation is one of many that have tainted Clarett's place among the elite in Ohio State history.
Not long after the 2002 season, he was charged with falsifying a police report, which got the NCAA's attention.
Then came a series of events that included a newspaper report that he received improper academic help to stay eligible, his suspension from the team and his claims against the school and coaching staff of numerous NCAA violations (the NCAA later cleared OSU, partly because Clarett would not cooperate with the investigation).
In August, he was cut by the Denver Broncos, who had chosen him in the National Football League's annual draft. Many saw that as his final chance to play professional football, which seemed all but assured while he rumbled the high school fields of Ohio from 1998-2001.
"I've done this for a long time," said Chuck Kyle, the legendary Cleveland St. Ignatius coach whose resume includes nine state titles in 23 seasons and two national Coach of the Year awards. "There are two running backs in my career that I've had to make a special defense for. One was Robert Smith. The other was Maurice Clarett."
(Smith, who graduated from Euclid High School in 1990, went on to star at Ohio State and with the Minnesota Vikings before cutting his career short in 2001 by retiring at age 28).
As St. Ignatius prepared to play Clarett's Harding team in a 2001 Division I regional final, Kyle knew he needed a somewhat drastic plan.
The previous week, Clarett had rushed for 401 yards and five touchdowns against Lakewood St. Edward, the state's fourth-ranked team.
Kyle instructed linebacker Justin Kasmarcak, who is now listed at 6-feet-2 and 240 pounds on Ohio University's roster, to drop back and play safety. The assignment was simple: Don't let Clarett get past you. Cover passes, don't cover passes, that didn't matter. Just stop the hulking senior, who already was near his OSU-listed 6 feet and 230 pounds.
"He got 170, 180 yards, something like that," Kyle said. "But it wasn't 400."
Clarett, it seems, changed the rules almost anywhere. During his first practice as a seventh-grader, he flattened a teammate on his opening tackle so badly that Butch, from then on, held him out of contact in practice to protect the other players.
His physical condition was his peak concern. He avoided soft drinks and rationed his intake at team pizza parties. He often would head to the Youngstown YMCA for punishing workouts after practices in middle school.
Because of that attention to conditioning, he was always among the most fit and athletic players on any team. He was dunking as an eighth-grader. As a freshman at Austintown Fitch, in 1998, he awed coaches and teammates during a conditioning drill that involved pouring sand or placing weights in backpacks and running the steps of the football stadium.
"It was nothing to him," said Brian Fedyski, who coached Clarett at Fitch. "We must've had 100 pounds in his bag. It might as well have been empty."
Clarett didn't disappoint on the field, either. As a sub in the Fitch opener, he caught passes, ran over defensive backs, picked up yards by the dozens.
"We went in at halftime," Fedyski, said, "and thought, 'He's the guy we've been waiting for.' "
In his second varsity game, according to Fedyski, Clarett gained 140 yards.
By the third game, he set a school record with 245 yards, but an injury in the fourth game led to the premature end of his freshman season.
The next year, he transferred to Harding, where in three seasons he rushed for 4,119 yards and 52 touchdowns.
As a senior, in 2001, he was named Ohio's Mr. Football a media panel and was USA Today's national Offensive Player of the Year.
Lee Frey, the athletics director at Canfield High School, about 20 miles south of Warren, remembers Clarett vividly. Specifically, there was a conversation with Canfield's longtime boys basketball coach that sticks out in his mind.
"He told me that Clarett's were the biggest ankles he ever taped," Frey said. "He was just bigger, more developed than everyone else."
Entering his senior season, Clarett had already informed new Ohio State football coach Jim Tressel that he would play in college for the Buckeyes. Harding won its first three games, 202-0, including a 55-0 thrashing of state power Cincinnati Moeller.
"We hit him, hit him, hit him, hit him," said Bob Crable, Moeller's coach. "But he kept coming back. Harder. It was demoralizing for the guys playing against him."
One of those opponents was John Angelo, whose family has plenty of history with football.
The linebacker, who attended Youngstown Ursuline High School in Clarett's Steel Valley Conference and played collegiately at Villanova, is the third generation of his family to receive a football scholarship.
His uncle, Jerry, is the general manager of the NFL's Chicago Bears.
"We know football pretty well," Angelo said of his family. "You could have a good talk about football with my grandma."
And rarely had any of the Angelos seen a high school player like Clarett.
"Whatever he wanted to do," Angelo said, "he did."
Looking back, that might have been his downfall. During the later stages of his freshman season at Ohio State, Clarett displayed a selfishness that those who watched him grow up said was uncharacteristic. Coaches said he was always the hardest worker in practice, the best leader, the most fit for being a star, despite his troubled childhood in Youngstown.
"He had so much God-given talent," said Fedyski, Clarett's coach from Fitch High. "We all watched him do these things and be amazed.
"You saw him at Ohio State. Didn't it look like he could do anything?"
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Clarett's promise now just a memory
By Kyle Nagel
Dayton Daily News
When Mike Butch walked into the classroom at Youngstown's Cleveland Elementary School, he spotted the muscular sixth-grader immediately.
<!--endtext-->
<!-- inset --> <!--begintext--> "The teacher said, 'You've probably heard of Maurice Clarett,' " said Butch, who was the football and basketball coach at Hillman Middle School and had come to speak about his athletic program. "He was sitting right in the front row. He could barely fit in the desk."
For much of his youth, Clarett, the troubled former Ohio State University running back, seemed to quickly outgrow his surroundings.
From elementary school myth to middle school phenomenon to high school legend, Clarett almost always seemed a star in the making, according to coaches, players and athletic administrators who watched him develop.
But since Clarett enrolled at Ohio State in January 2002 after graduating from Warren G. Harding High School a semester early, controversy has rarely left him.
A little more than three years after the Buckeyes won college football's national championship with Clarett as a sensational freshman, the former star now faces two charges of aggravated robbery. If found guilty, he could be sent to prison for as many as 26 years.
The latest allegation is one of many that have tainted Clarett's place among the elite in Ohio State history.
Not long after the 2002 season, he was charged with falsifying a police report, which got the NCAA's attention.
Then came a series of events that included a newspaper report that he received improper academic help to stay eligible, his suspension from the team and his claims against the school and coaching staff of numerous NCAA violations (the NCAA later cleared OSU, partly because Clarett would not cooperate with the investigation).
In August, he was cut by the Denver Broncos, who had chosen him in the National Football League's annual draft. Many saw that as his final chance to play professional football, which seemed all but assured while he rumbled the high school fields of Ohio from 1998-2001.
"I've done this for a long time," said Chuck Kyle, the legendary Cleveland St. Ignatius coach whose resume includes nine state titles in 23 seasons and two national Coach of the Year awards. "There are two running backs in my career that I've had to make a special defense for. One was Robert Smith. The other was Maurice Clarett."
(Smith, who graduated from Euclid High School in 1990, went on to star at Ohio State and with the Minnesota Vikings before cutting his career short in 2001 by retiring at age 28).
As St. Ignatius prepared to play Clarett's Harding team in a 2001 Division I regional final, Kyle knew he needed a somewhat drastic plan.
The previous week, Clarett had rushed for 401 yards and five touchdowns against Lakewood St. Edward, the state's fourth-ranked team.
Kyle instructed linebacker Justin Kasmarcak, who is now listed at 6-feet-2 and 240 pounds on Ohio University's roster, to drop back and play safety. The assignment was simple: Don't let Clarett get past you. Cover passes, don't cover passes, that didn't matter. Just stop the hulking senior, who already was near his OSU-listed 6 feet and 230 pounds.
"He got 170, 180 yards, something like that," Kyle said. "But it wasn't 400."
Clarett, it seems, changed the rules almost anywhere. During his first practice as a seventh-grader, he flattened a teammate on his opening tackle so badly that Butch, from then on, held him out of contact in practice to protect the other players.
His physical condition was his peak concern. He avoided soft drinks and rationed his intake at team pizza parties. He often would head to the Youngstown YMCA for punishing workouts after practices in middle school.
Because of that attention to conditioning, he was always among the most fit and athletic players on any team. He was dunking as an eighth-grader. As a freshman at Austintown Fitch, in 1998, he awed coaches and teammates during a conditioning drill that involved pouring sand or placing weights in backpacks and running the steps of the football stadium.
"It was nothing to him," said Brian Fedyski, who coached Clarett at Fitch. "We must've had 100 pounds in his bag. It might as well have been empty."
Clarett didn't disappoint on the field, either. As a sub in the Fitch opener, he caught passes, ran over defensive backs, picked up yards by the dozens.
"We went in at halftime," Fedyski, said, "and thought, 'He's the guy we've been waiting for.' "
In his second varsity game, according to Fedyski, Clarett gained 140 yards.
By the third game, he set a school record with 245 yards, but an injury in the fourth game led to the premature end of his freshman season.
The next year, he transferred to Harding, where in three seasons he rushed for 4,119 yards and 52 touchdowns.
As a senior, in 2001, he was named Ohio's Mr. Football a media panel and was USA Today's national Offensive Player of the Year.
Lee Frey, the athletics director at Canfield High School, about 20 miles south of Warren, remembers Clarett vividly. Specifically, there was a conversation with Canfield's longtime boys basketball coach that sticks out in his mind.
"He told me that Clarett's were the biggest ankles he ever taped," Frey said. "He was just bigger, more developed than everyone else."
Entering his senior season, Clarett had already informed new Ohio State football coach Jim Tressel that he would play in college for the Buckeyes. Harding won its first three games, 202-0, including a 55-0 thrashing of state power Cincinnati Moeller.
"We hit him, hit him, hit him, hit him," said Bob Crable, Moeller's coach. "But he kept coming back. Harder. It was demoralizing for the guys playing against him."
One of those opponents was John Angelo, whose family has plenty of history with football.
The linebacker, who attended Youngstown Ursuline High School in Clarett's Steel Valley Conference and played collegiately at Villanova, is the third generation of his family to receive a football scholarship.
His uncle, Jerry, is the general manager of the NFL's Chicago Bears.
"We know football pretty well," Angelo said of his family. "You could have a good talk about football with my grandma."
And rarely had any of the Angelos seen a high school player like Clarett.
"Whatever he wanted to do," Angelo said, "he did."
Looking back, that might have been his downfall. During the later stages of his freshman season at Ohio State, Clarett displayed a selfishness that those who watched him grow up said was uncharacteristic. Coaches said he was always the hardest worker in practice, the best leader, the most fit for being a star, despite his troubled childhood in Youngstown.
"He had so much God-given talent," said Fedyski, Clarett's coach from Fitch High. "We all watched him do these things and be amazed.
"You saw him at Ohio State. Didn't it look like he could do anything?"
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JXC
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Bucktastic said:
hahahaha...it's sad cuz we all loved the guy in 2002...and since then things couldn't have gone worse for him...and in the 3 seasons since he left? Two top 5 finishes, two 10 win seasons, 2-1 against Michigan, and 3-0 in Bowl games. I'm gonna have to say that things have gone great for the Buckeyes since tOSU and MoC parted ways.
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I am well past caring for this guy or worrying about his lost potential but it's still a darn shame.
Things have been good at Ohio State but I think we would have won another national championship with Clarett, if he had come right. We would have had a smashing running game in 2003/4. But that was not to be and I am not sure that Smith would have come into his own or that Clarett would have been all that much better than Pittman.
No matter what this kid has done, he apparently arrived at Ohio State with as many issues as talent. It's a shame that all that potential went to waste. How many of us would have given anything to have had the opportunities he had? Imagine...to play for Ohio State. What a bloody waste!
Things have been good at Ohio State but I think we would have won another national championship with Clarett, if he had come right. We would have had a smashing running game in 2003/4. But that was not to be and I am not sure that Smith would have come into his own or that Clarett would have been all that much better than Pittman.
No matter what this kid has done, he apparently arrived at Ohio State with as many issues as talent. It's a shame that all that potential went to waste. How many of us would have given anything to have had the opportunities he had? Imagine...to play for Ohio State. What a bloody waste!
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Maurice Clarett's trouble last month
Has anybody heard anything on Maurice ( Mauron ) Clarett? He had attempted burglary in Columbus. I was wondering anybody had anything new that they heard.
Has anybody heard anything on Maurice ( Mauron ) Clarett? He had attempted burglary in Columbus. I was wondering anybody had anything new that they heard.
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