Just found this thread for the first time, thought I should give it go. I grew up in the shadows of the shoe (Upper Arlington) and been a Buckeye ever since I remember seeing my first favorite athlete, Joey Galloway. I always wanted his autograph, but never could get it, that all changed when I was in the 8th grade and given the amazing chance to shadow the newly hired Jim Tressle. Joey was at the practice I got to witness and needless to say I jumped on my opportunity to get his autograph. Amazingly so as well, the legend himself Jim Brown was on campus that exact time I shadowed Tressle and he was giving an inspirational talk to the team, it was simply unreal to be in the presence of Mr. Brown and I still believe I should have gone to the hospital right after that day of shadowing because Mr. Brown's grip is bone crushing!
Anyways enough of that memory, I am now currently attending OU down in Athens, was turned down from tOSU (but hold no grudge - OU has a wonderful campus, it just would have been nice to have been able to pay about 22 times less for my Texas ticket last year! - I'll let any math wizzes who know current student ticket pricing at tOSU to figure that # out, as it was quite the pocket puncher...). I followed tOSU ever since that first time when Joey ran past me onto the field, and I watched the modern greats such as Bobby Hoying, Joe Germaine, Eddie George, Orlando Pace, Terry Glenn, David Boston, The Big Kat, Doss, etc.
Just to mention as well, I was raised a buckeye from the get go because both my parents graduated from tOSU in the '70's and have made sure that I know how evil the wolverines truly are. Currently I enjoy making highlight tapes (started with the 2004 season) for some of my friends and family to help spread the reasons to why I love tOSU football so much.
Finally I fell in love with buckeye recruiting when I would catch updates here and then about the amazing 2002 class, so I thought I'd begin to follow things for myself, and I then began penciling in wish lists, and organzing target lists of my own for the 2004 class and have since then been an avid buckeye football and basketball recruiting fan. I joined BN's around February 2004 and then was invited to come here in early 2005, I haven't posted too much because I was just getting the feel of how things are run here as compared to other sites and I must say this has been my saving grace when it comes to recruiting boards. I just can't stand BN's anymore, although I frequent it sometimes here and there, but I mostly use BP for all my recruiting info.
Well thanks again for the invite to this place and I look forward to being able to adding as much as I can to this site! Go Bucks!