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Playing on an island
By John Bombatch
Staff Writer
Wednesday, November 08, 2006
The countdown has begun to what is billed as the greatest football game, ever. The countdown was shown on television, down to the last second.
If you don't know who's competing you have been asleep longer than Rip Van Winkle. Just in case you haven't been awake, it's Ohio State against Michigan. The game is set for Nov. 18.
There is nothing new about the Buckeyes and the Wolverines squaring off on the last game of the regular season but there is something new about this contest. It pits No. 1 (Ohio State) against No. 2 (Michigan). The ball game will decide who plays for the national championship. There's is nothing that says both clubs cannot play for the national title, regardless of how the Nov. 18 tilt comes out.
At least that's the way it shapes up until now. Before they meet, though, they both have one opponent to put away on the regular schedule. Both schools will be up against relatively weak opponents with losing records. The Bucks take on Northwestern and the Wolverines take on Indiana.
But that's the way it was on the 10th week of the season. Michigan had Ball State to contend with and OSU had Illinois. Both the Buckeyes and the Wolverines appeared to be vulnerable. They didn't play like they had in previous weeks. They didn't play like national contenders. Both might have been looking ahead or both might have been tired from a long season.
The teams played nine-game seasons, then added one to make it 10. Then they added another to make it 11, before they reached a dozen this year. Maybe the season runs too long.
They might also have been playing basic football so as not to reveal any strategy secrets.
It is not known whether Jim Tressel has adopted any of Woody Hayes' strategy for the season finale against the boys from up north, as Woody referred to the Wolverines. Woody would use any moment he had to plan against the big rival.
There were many occasions when Woody would be practicing plays in the pre-season that he would use against Michigan while preparing for some nonconference foe. Every now and then, Woody would lose one of those games but he didn't care as long as he defeated Michigan. That's all that counted.
Woody hated Michigan to the point one day when he reported at a coaches meeting wearing a new raincoat. He was showing it off until one of his assistants pointed out that it was blue, a Michigan color. With that, Woody took off his coat and shredded it to pieces.
We'll have a better line on both clubs after this Saturday. Both should be showing their strength in preparation for the game that has so much at stake riding on it. The coaches don't want it viewed as just another game.
Playing on an island
By John Bombatch
Staff Writer
Wednesday, November 08, 2006
The countdown has begun to what is billed as the greatest football game, ever. The countdown was shown on television, down to the last second.
If you don't know who's competing you have been asleep longer than Rip Van Winkle. Just in case you haven't been awake, it's Ohio State against Michigan. The game is set for Nov. 18.
There is nothing new about the Buckeyes and the Wolverines squaring off on the last game of the regular season but there is something new about this contest. It pits No. 1 (Ohio State) against No. 2 (Michigan). The ball game will decide who plays for the national championship. There's is nothing that says both clubs cannot play for the national title, regardless of how the Nov. 18 tilt comes out.
At least that's the way it shapes up until now. Before they meet, though, they both have one opponent to put away on the regular schedule. Both schools will be up against relatively weak opponents with losing records. The Bucks take on Northwestern and the Wolverines take on Indiana.
But that's the way it was on the 10th week of the season. Michigan had Ball State to contend with and OSU had Illinois. Both the Buckeyes and the Wolverines appeared to be vulnerable. They didn't play like they had in previous weeks. They didn't play like national contenders. Both might have been looking ahead or both might have been tired from a long season.
The teams played nine-game seasons, then added one to make it 10. Then they added another to make it 11, before they reached a dozen this year. Maybe the season runs too long.
They might also have been playing basic football so as not to reveal any strategy secrets.
It is not known whether Jim Tressel has adopted any of Woody Hayes' strategy for the season finale against the boys from up north, as Woody referred to the Wolverines. Woody would use any moment he had to plan against the big rival.
There were many occasions when Woody would be practicing plays in the pre-season that he would use against Michigan while preparing for some nonconference foe. Every now and then, Woody would lose one of those games but he didn't care as long as he defeated Michigan. That's all that counted.
Woody hated Michigan to the point one day when he reported at a coaches meeting wearing a new raincoat. He was showing it off until one of his assistants pointed out that it was blue, a Michigan color. With that, Woody took off his coat and shredded it to pieces.
We'll have a better line on both clubs after this Saturday. Both should be showing their strength in preparation for the game that has so much at stake riding on it. The coaches don't want it viewed as just another game.
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Since that was a Woody story, I'll mention my driving tactics for the Michigan State game. Coming from Chicago, I got gas in Indiana just before heading into TSUN. I was able to make it to East Lansing and back to Indiana without buying a penny's worth of gas in that damned state. 
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BB73;656305; said:Since that was a Woody story, I'll mention my driving tactics for the Michigan State game. Coming from Chicago, I got gas in Indiana just before heading into TSUN. I was able to make it to East Lansing and back to Indiana without buying a penny's worth of gas in that damned state.
Hopefully you did stop and piss all over something in that damn state to make the trip through complete.
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Dryden;655953; said:
Hmmm, The Game in The Shoe is going to be called by Mr. Holy Buckeye, a Youngstown State alum, and a former Ohio State quarterback. Tell me the stars aren't aligned...
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buckeye247
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I have been surfing the net for scUM forums and they seem extremely confident going into the game. I dont know about all you but i think its going to be about 50/50 chances to win. I just hope we win so bad because i dont want scUM to go to the NC game and win.
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buckeye247;656341; said:
- Their defense isn't as good as ours
- Their offense isn't as good as ours
- The Game is at The Shoe
- Our coach is Tressel, theirs is Carr
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MililaniBuckeye;656316; said:
Isn't Davie a former OSU assistant too? Maybe I'm confusing him with Zook or someone....
Anyway, that is a pretty interesting coincidence....
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Canton
COLLEGE FOOTBALL: Columbus prepares for rowdy OSU fans
Thursday, November 9, 2006
Columbus officials are preparing for rowdy fans at the Nov. 18 matchup between Michigan and Ohio State by cracking down on public drinking, barring some on-street parking and keeping trash bins empty. The measures are part of a plan to minimize problems similar to those that occurred after the two teams met in 2002, when the Buckeyes' win preserved an undefeated season and touched off riots in which fans set fire to cars, couches and trash bins.
To cut down on fires, the city has banned keeping couches on porches and trash collectors will empty bins three times during the week before the game, Public Safety Director Henry Guzman said.
Homes with porch couches will be reported to enforcement officials, Guzman said.
A crackdown on open alcohol container violations on campus will expand to include off-campus areas, and parking will be restricted on some streets prior to the game, Columbus Safety Director Mitchell Brown said.
Ohio State is chipping in with public service announcements from University President Karen Holbrook, Heisman Trophy winner Archie Griffin and Columbus Mayor Michael Coleman encouraging Ohio State supporters to be "the best fans in the land."
COLLEGE FOOTBALL: Columbus prepares for rowdy OSU fans
Thursday, November 9, 2006
Columbus officials are preparing for rowdy fans at the Nov. 18 matchup between Michigan and Ohio State by cracking down on public drinking, barring some on-street parking and keeping trash bins empty. The measures are part of a plan to minimize problems similar to those that occurred after the two teams met in 2002, when the Buckeyes' win preserved an undefeated season and touched off riots in which fans set fire to cars, couches and trash bins.
To cut down on fires, the city has banned keeping couches on porches and trash collectors will empty bins three times during the week before the game, Public Safety Director Henry Guzman said.
Homes with porch couches will be reported to enforcement officials, Guzman said.
A crackdown on open alcohol container violations on campus will expand to include off-campus areas, and parking will be restricted on some streets prior to the game, Columbus Safety Director Mitchell Brown said.
Ohio State is chipping in with public service announcements from University President Karen Holbrook, Heisman Trophy winner Archie Griffin and Columbus Mayor Michael Coleman encouraging Ohio State supporters to be "the best fans in the land."
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COMMENTARY
Does Woody rest in peace as Michigan week nears?
Thursday, November 09, 2006
ROB OLLER
A guy I know enjoys bursting the bubble of back-in-the-good-olddays Ohio State fans by pointing out that "Woody is dead."
Wanting to see for myself, I drive to Union Cemetery, burial place of Wayne Woodrow Hayes and his wife, Anne. He died in 1987; she in 1998.
Union Cemetery has two sections, one on the east side of Olentangy River Road, just north of the Woody Hayes Athletic Center. The other, where Hayes is buried, is located about a mile farther north, on the west side of the road.
Strangers visit Hayes? grave site at least twice a month, according to Lou Willis, who digs graves and drives a truck around both sections of the cemetery. Some friends and former players visit, too. But not Earle Bruce.
"I?ve driven by there thinking I should stop and see where it is. Every time I drive by that place, I think about that," Bruce said. "I ought to go see him."
Pause.
"He was a different Joe, buddy."
The temperature is about 55 degrees. Too warm for Woody weather. I wear a white short-sleeved shirt, for full effect. I also feel compelled to put my cell phone on vibrate.
There is no better or worse time to visit a cemetery, although it probably feels more full of life, if that makes sense, in the spring and summer when trees shine green.
Under November gray, the sun looks like a bathroom light bulb dimmed by shower steam. The only color belongs to the grass, burning bushes and the scarlet crabapples clinging to life.
Woody resides near the southwest corner of Section 12, under a black granite marker with HAYES etched in gray. Under the name, an inscription: "And in the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love hears the rustle of a wing."
A miniature American flag fastened to a brass World War II marker is to the left of the tombstone. Fourteen pennies sit on the base of the stone to the left. Two sit on the right. An overhanging pine tree limb serves as an umbrella. Pine needles cover the top of the marker.
While there, I wonder what Woody thinks of the upcoming Michigan game. I know he?ll pay no attention to the game Saturday at Northwestern. When Woody coached, the Wildcats were nothing more than an irritating screen door blocking the main entrance, which is Michigan.
"When we played Northwestern, he used to call me and say, ?Are you practicing for Michigan?? " Bruce said. "I don?t think Michigan ever left his mind."
Let?s hope that Hoy and June McIntire and Charles and Jane Ott love talking Ohio State football. The McIntires rest to the left of Woody?s grave. The Otts are to the right.
A man and his dog, a West Highland terrier, , walk up from behind.
"He?s probably coaching from there," the man said, nodding at the black stone.
Pete Wilkins, 87, lost his wife of 62 years, Phyllis, on Jan. 23, 2005. He visits her grave about twice a week, walking past Woody?s plot to get there.
"I had to cut the chrysanthemums off today," he said. "They had become frozen."
He misses his bride a ton.
Wilkins considers himself fortunate to have watched Woody coach his last game in Ohio Stadium, a 14-3 loss to Michigan in 1978. By then, he understood what that meant.
"We came from New York, the Finger Lakes region," Wilkins said. "When we first arrived here in 1962, we thought everybody in Columbus was crazy."
Some still are. On his walks, Wilkins has noticed people taking family pictures beside Hayes? grave; on some Saturdays, beer cans sit stacked on the marker.
Noon chimes begin to ring. A cemetery bell plays a hymn I can?t name.
Wilkins and his dog climb into a maroon Ford Focus and drive off. I walk 30 feet or so to Phyllis? tombstone. A cardinal sitting on a dogwood is carved into the stone. Wind chimes dangle from a tree over the grave site.
I return to my car and turn on the radio. Chris Spielman is talking about wind chimes. On my walk to the office, I notice more wind chimes tinkling an erratic tune from a house on Franklin Street. I had not heard the sound of wind chimes even once in the past three years. Strange.
COMMENTARY
Does Woody rest in peace as Michigan week nears?
Thursday, November 09, 2006
ROB OLLER
A guy I know enjoys bursting the bubble of back-in-the-good-olddays Ohio State fans by pointing out that "Woody is dead."
Wanting to see for myself, I drive to Union Cemetery, burial place of Wayne Woodrow Hayes and his wife, Anne. He died in 1987; she in 1998.
Union Cemetery has two sections, one on the east side of Olentangy River Road, just north of the Woody Hayes Athletic Center. The other, where Hayes is buried, is located about a mile farther north, on the west side of the road.
Strangers visit Hayes? grave site at least twice a month, according to Lou Willis, who digs graves and drives a truck around both sections of the cemetery. Some friends and former players visit, too. But not Earle Bruce.
"I?ve driven by there thinking I should stop and see where it is. Every time I drive by that place, I think about that," Bruce said. "I ought to go see him."
Pause.
"He was a different Joe, buddy."
The temperature is about 55 degrees. Too warm for Woody weather. I wear a white short-sleeved shirt, for full effect. I also feel compelled to put my cell phone on vibrate.
There is no better or worse time to visit a cemetery, although it probably feels more full of life, if that makes sense, in the spring and summer when trees shine green.
Under November gray, the sun looks like a bathroom light bulb dimmed by shower steam. The only color belongs to the grass, burning bushes and the scarlet crabapples clinging to life.
Woody resides near the southwest corner of Section 12, under a black granite marker with HAYES etched in gray. Under the name, an inscription: "And in the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love hears the rustle of a wing."
A miniature American flag fastened to a brass World War II marker is to the left of the tombstone. Fourteen pennies sit on the base of the stone to the left. Two sit on the right. An overhanging pine tree limb serves as an umbrella. Pine needles cover the top of the marker.
While there, I wonder what Woody thinks of the upcoming Michigan game. I know he?ll pay no attention to the game Saturday at Northwestern. When Woody coached, the Wildcats were nothing more than an irritating screen door blocking the main entrance, which is Michigan.
"When we played Northwestern, he used to call me and say, ?Are you practicing for Michigan?? " Bruce said. "I don?t think Michigan ever left his mind."
Let?s hope that Hoy and June McIntire and Charles and Jane Ott love talking Ohio State football. The McIntires rest to the left of Woody?s grave. The Otts are to the right.
A man and his dog, a West Highland terrier, , walk up from behind.
"He?s probably coaching from there," the man said, nodding at the black stone.
Pete Wilkins, 87, lost his wife of 62 years, Phyllis, on Jan. 23, 2005. He visits her grave about twice a week, walking past Woody?s plot to get there.
"I had to cut the chrysanthemums off today," he said. "They had become frozen."
He misses his bride a ton.
Wilkins considers himself fortunate to have watched Woody coach his last game in Ohio Stadium, a 14-3 loss to Michigan in 1978. By then, he understood what that meant.
"We came from New York, the Finger Lakes region," Wilkins said. "When we first arrived here in 1962, we thought everybody in Columbus was crazy."
Some still are. On his walks, Wilkins has noticed people taking family pictures beside Hayes? grave; on some Saturdays, beer cans sit stacked on the marker.
Noon chimes begin to ring. A cemetery bell plays a hymn I can?t name.
Wilkins and his dog climb into a maroon Ford Focus and drive off. I walk 30 feet or so to Phyllis? tombstone. A cardinal sitting on a dogwood is carved into the stone. Wind chimes dangle from a tree over the grave site.
I return to my car and turn on the radio. Chris Spielman is talking about wind chimes. On my walk to the office, I notice more wind chimes tinkling an erratic tune from a house on Franklin Street. I had not heard the sound of wind chimes even once in the past three years. Strange.
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smartone
Zen Master
Stats
This site ranks teams by their performance over this season on HOME and Away games. For whatever it's worth.
http://teamrankings.com/ncf/2powerratings.php3
This site ranks teams by their performance over this season on HOME and Away games. For whatever it's worth.
http://teamrankings.com/ncf/2powerratings.php3
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Nordberg
Heisman Candidate
OSU v. Mich Game Attire
I searched the forums and didn't see anything with this topic. I don't have a lot of time, so I will make this quick.
Going to the Penn State game, I was very impressed with every OSU fan wearing Scarlet. The stands looked like the way it does in my dreams. With the big game having all of the implications as it is, I think that if everyone who goes to the game wears their scarlet, I think that would go a long way for an intimidation factor for that team up north. I think that if everyone spreads the word to have everyone who is going to the game to wear their scarlet, I think that the stadium would be an impressive sight for the big game.
Go Bucks!!
I searched the forums and didn't see anything with this topic. I don't have a lot of time, so I will make this quick.
Going to the Penn State game, I was very impressed with every OSU fan wearing Scarlet. The stands looked like the way it does in my dreams. With the big game having all of the implications as it is, I think that if everyone who goes to the game wears their scarlet, I think that would go a long way for an intimidation factor for that team up north. I think that if everyone spreads the word to have everyone who is going to the game to wear their scarlet, I think that the stadium would be an impressive sight for the big game.
Go Bucks!!
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ytownbuckeye
Heisman
Date:Nov 9, 2006 6:15 AM SubjectNew Buckeye Tradition???Body:Forwarded it me, let's see if we can get this to work:
Ok so instead of the typical booing of that team up north, we want to try a different approach this year. When the wolverines take the field, we want to be dead silent and turn around and look away from the field.
The impact will be much greater than any booing that the shoe could muster. Ok guys, so the question is that even if we get the word out through facebook, how do we get the word out to people without facebook. The shoe can hold 105,000 people and every seat will be filled.
The Red Out Penn State group only had about 8000 members and that was incredibly successfull. At that point it would be an easy sell of the story to the newspapers. So don't worry about it and just let us start a new tradition that will go down in the books forever. Right now we have almost 4,000 memebers on facebook.com and we are still growing. As Ohio State students we are trying to get the public involved in this awsome experience.
SPREAD THE WORD!!!!! ESPECIALLY IF YOU KNOW SOMEONE GOING TO THE GAME NOVEMBER 18TH, 2006
Ok so instead of the typical booing of that team up north, we want to try a different approach this year. When the wolverines take the field, we want to be dead silent and turn around and look away from the field.
The impact will be much greater than any booing that the shoe could muster. Ok guys, so the question is that even if we get the word out through facebook, how do we get the word out to people without facebook. The shoe can hold 105,000 people and every seat will be filled.
The Red Out Penn State group only had about 8000 members and that was incredibly successfull. At that point it would be an easy sell of the story to the newspapers. So don't worry about it and just let us start a new tradition that will go down in the books forever. Right now we have almost 4,000 memebers on facebook.com and we are still growing. As Ohio State students we are trying to get the public involved in this awsome experience.
SPREAD THE WORD!!!!! ESPECIALLY IF YOU KNOW SOMEONE GOING TO THE GAME NOVEMBER 18TH, 2006
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ytownbuckeye;656854; said:
I'm reminded of the man law commercial. No offense but " duh-umb". Sounds like something a bunch of Duke kids would do.
I prefer to greet opponents the old fashioned way. Boo/obscene gesture/scream obsceneties and I guarantee we can get more than 8,000 to do it.
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