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lvbuckeye;660700; said:[FONT=arial,sans-serif]Monday, November 13, 2006[/FONT]
[FONT=arial,sans-serif]Carr upset after interview
By Jim Carty
News Sports Reporter
Nobody's talking about why, but after University of Michigan football coach Lloyd Carr finished taping interviews for Saturday's game against Ohio State with ABC Sports Monday, he came storming out of the Michigan locker room irate and loudly complaining about the direction the questioning had taken.
Carr uttered several profanities and left in his car after ordering Dave Ablauf, assistant director of media relations, to go back and address his concerns with the television crew.
Ablauf and ABC officials refused to discuss the incident afterward.
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i wonder what direction the questioning took?
Can't say I'm surprised to hear that.
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BlkRamGuy
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Hello to everyone I'm brand new and experiencing this site and what can I say but that I love this place. Anyways Its the time of the year for me where I live in Michigan and have to deal with the fact the people know that I'm a proud Buckeye fan and I have to listen to them constantly ragging on me but thanks to coach tressel I can say "Who won last time?", anyways I hope that we beat the shit out of Michigan so that I can say that for another year.
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ECUBuckeye
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Time Out!!!!! I just wiped my M!ch!g@n when I was in the bathroom!!!! I feel better :osu2:
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It's been this way since I was a boy. This week. Don't sleep as well as normal. Don't concentrate as well as normal.
I know it is a game. I know that there are many other things in life that are more important. I really want to wake up on Sunday morning looking forward to finding out about who we play in the National Championship game. But, more than that, I want to go to bed early Sunday morning knowing that Ohio State beat TSUN, in every way.
I know it is a game. I know that there are many other things in life that are more important. I really want to wake up on Sunday morning looking forward to finding out about who we play in the National Championship game. But, more than that, I want to go to bed early Sunday morning knowing that Ohio State beat TSUN, in every way.
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OSU-Michigan is the big game, but is it biggest ever?
By Kyle Nagel
Staff Writer
Monday, November 13, 2006
The question is an obvious one: Is this the biggest game Ohio State and Michigan have ever played? They are, after all, both undefeated and the nation's top two teams.
The game feels enormous. Outright Big Ten title on the line. National championship game appearance. Another notch in college sports' top rivalry.
But, I just don't think this is the biggest it has been.
Think back to the gigantic Bo-Woody games. The same things were at stake. Big Ten title. Possible national championship. The winner received similar benefits.
You know what the loser got? Sometimes nothing. Their season ended. The next day, they turned in their pads.
After Saturday, whoever loses this version of The Game gets a ticket to Pasadena, Calif., and the Rose Bowl. That's quite the runner-up prize.
It feels like more is on the line because we live in an age of super-hype, non-stop highlights, football players on the covers of newspapers. Sports is inching closer to three hours of marketing interrupted every once in awhile by a game.
Plus, it's easy to see the most recent as the biggest and best. What have you done for me lately, right?
Take a look at those past season results for Ohio State and Michigan. If there was a loss in The Game, there sometimes weren't any more games to play.
Don't get me wrong, Saturday's game will be so anticipated that it's difficult to even describe.
But it has been bigger.
Contact this reporter at (937) 225-7389 or [email protected].
OSU-Michigan is the big game, but is it biggest ever?
By Kyle Nagel
Staff Writer
Monday, November 13, 2006
The question is an obvious one: Is this the biggest game Ohio State and Michigan have ever played? They are, after all, both undefeated and the nation's top two teams.
The game feels enormous. Outright Big Ten title on the line. National championship game appearance. Another notch in college sports' top rivalry.
But, I just don't think this is the biggest it has been.
Think back to the gigantic Bo-Woody games. The same things were at stake. Big Ten title. Possible national championship. The winner received similar benefits.
You know what the loser got? Sometimes nothing. Their season ended. The next day, they turned in their pads.
After Saturday, whoever loses this version of The Game gets a ticket to Pasadena, Calif., and the Rose Bowl. That's quite the runner-up prize.
It feels like more is on the line because we live in an age of super-hype, non-stop highlights, football players on the covers of newspapers. Sports is inching closer to three hours of marketing interrupted every once in awhile by a game.
Plus, it's easy to see the most recent as the biggest and best. What have you done for me lately, right?
Take a look at those past season results for Ohio State and Michigan. If there was a loss in The Game, there sometimes weren't any more games to play.
Don't get me wrong, Saturday's game will be so anticipated that it's difficult to even describe.
But it has been bigger.
Contact this reporter at (937) 225-7389 or [email protected].
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Michigan Week is serious stuff, and that's no joke
By Jim Morris
Staff Writer
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
It's inevitable.
All this week we are going to hear nasty things around these parts about our neighbors to the north.
And if we were living a few hours north of this location, we'd be hearing constant bad-mouthing of the Buckeyes.
It's the same thing every year. It's called Michigan Week, and this year it will be hyped like no other.
You tell bad jokes about us, and we tell nastier jokes about you. Talk shows will be aglow with such banter. Didja hear the one about Michigan's ...
There will be plenty of old stories, too. Like the one that has OSU's team returning by bus from a Michigan game and the bus driver telling Woody Hayes he's almost out of gas. To which Woody replied that he'd better make the Ohio border before buying gas unless he wants to push a bus load of football players across the state line.
Did that really happen? You decide. But it does make a good Michigan Week story.
And can you imagine the silly
e-mails that will be flying around out there in space? I think I'll start counting the ones I receive. Probably in the hundreds.
You know there will be all this nasty, childish anti-Michigan stuff. There will be cartoons, songs, short movie clips, poems and, of course, joke after joke after joke. Some are cute and many are, well, distasteful.
And you know what?
I'm going to love every one of them!
Michigan Week is serious stuff, and that's no joke
By Jim Morris
Staff Writer
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
It's inevitable.
All this week we are going to hear nasty things around these parts about our neighbors to the north.
And if we were living a few hours north of this location, we'd be hearing constant bad-mouthing of the Buckeyes.
It's the same thing every year. It's called Michigan Week, and this year it will be hyped like no other.
You tell bad jokes about us, and we tell nastier jokes about you. Talk shows will be aglow with such banter. Didja hear the one about Michigan's ...
There will be plenty of old stories, too. Like the one that has OSU's team returning by bus from a Michigan game and the bus driver telling Woody Hayes he's almost out of gas. To which Woody replied that he'd better make the Ohio border before buying gas unless he wants to push a bus load of football players across the state line.
Did that really happen? You decide. But it does make a good Michigan Week story.
And can you imagine the silly
e-mails that will be flying around out there in space? I think I'll start counting the ones I receive. Probably in the hundreds.
You know there will be all this nasty, childish anti-Michigan stuff. There will be cartoons, songs, short movie clips, poems and, of course, joke after joke after joke. Some are cute and many are, well, distasteful.
And you know what?
I'm going to love every one of them!
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Bo's blood still boils over OSU's tactics
Ohio State and Michigan will meet for the 103rd time on Saturday. Winner plays in the Jan. 8 national championship game.
By Dayton Daily News
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
Bo Schembechler, the legendary University of Michigan football coach, was asked Monday about the atmosphere during Ohio State-Michigan games at Ohio Stadium.
"It's the toughest place to play by far because of the intensity of the crowd," he said.
Then, as he did several times during his meeting with the media in Ann Arbor, Mich., Schembechler became animated. He referenced the incident two years ago when the Michigan travel party had its luggage sniffed by dogs as it entered Ohio Stadium.
His answer was indicative of the emotion involved in The Big Game, which arguably will write its biggest chapter Saturday at Ohio Stadium when No. 1 Ohio State plays host to No. 2 Michigan.
"If they embarrass the Michigan team like they did two years ago, somebody ought to do something about it," Schembechler said. "When they made them get off the bus, unload all their gear and have dogs sniff them and all that. ... They didn't do it to any other team, and they haven't done it to any other team."
Meanwhile in Columbus, Ohio State coach Jim Tressel faced a media crush that left his weekly press luncheon teetering on the brink of bedlam.
About 150 reporters ? more than twice the usual number ? pelted him with questions, often two or three at a time. At one point, Tressel turned to Media Relations Director Steve Snapp and joked, "We have anarchy here."
Snapp said OSU has filled about 1,100 credential requests, breaking the previous school record by 200. Even a media outlet in Japan asked for space in the press box.
"We checked it out," Snapp said. "It's legit."
Bo's blood still boils over OSU's tactics
Ohio State and Michigan will meet for the 103rd time on Saturday. Winner plays in the Jan. 8 national championship game.
By Dayton Daily News
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
Bo Schembechler, the legendary University of Michigan football coach, was asked Monday about the atmosphere during Ohio State-Michigan games at Ohio Stadium.
"It's the toughest place to play by far because of the intensity of the crowd," he said.
Then, as he did several times during his meeting with the media in Ann Arbor, Mich., Schembechler became animated. He referenced the incident two years ago when the Michigan travel party had its luggage sniffed by dogs as it entered Ohio Stadium.
His answer was indicative of the emotion involved in The Big Game, which arguably will write its biggest chapter Saturday at Ohio Stadium when No. 1 Ohio State plays host to No. 2 Michigan.
"If they embarrass the Michigan team like they did two years ago, somebody ought to do something about it," Schembechler said. "When they made them get off the bus, unload all their gear and have dogs sniff them and all that. ... They didn't do it to any other team, and they haven't done it to any other team."
Meanwhile in Columbus, Ohio State coach Jim Tressel faced a media crush that left his weekly press luncheon teetering on the brink of bedlam.
About 150 reporters ? more than twice the usual number ? pelted him with questions, often two or three at a time. At one point, Tressel turned to Media Relations Director Steve Snapp and joked, "We have anarchy here."
Snapp said OSU has filled about 1,100 credential requests, breaking the previous school record by 200. Even a media outlet in Japan asked for space in the press box.
"We checked it out," Snapp said. "It's legit."
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It feels like Michigan Week to Tressel
Despite his success against UM, the OSU coach says he doesn't have his rival solved.
By Doug Harris
Staff Writer
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
COLUMBUS ? Ohio State coach Jim Tressel finished his lengthy opening statement at his press luncheon Monday, paused for questions and then realized he had left out a standard component of his weekly report.
"I guess I should have mentioned last week's game," he said, "but we haven't thought much about it ? just being honest."
He's hardly alone.
The countdown officially has begun for the Ohio State-Michigan game, which defines a season even in ordinary years. But the stakes this time couldn't get any higher.
The Buckeyes are trying to become the first team in school history to begin and end a season No. 1, and a victory will propel them to the national championship game Jan. 8. They also are bidding for their first outright Big Ten title since 1984, having shared six conference crowns since then.
"You can feel the electricity and the energy," Tressel said. "You can't quantify it, but you can feel it.
"I remember my first game as an assistant (here in the mid-1980s), thinking I was preparing for just another game as a coach. And then all of a sudden, you got into the environment, and I wasn't worth a hoot for probably the first quarter because I was just in awe of the feeling. I probably wasn't worth a hoot in the fourth quarter, either."
But Tressel has been masterful against Michigan as a head coach, having won the last two meetings and four of five during his tenure, although he would advise against anyone thinking he's figured out the answer to long-term dominance in the rivalry.
"I was watching film this morning ? I don't have any answers at this moment, I'll tell you that," he said. "Troy Smith spins and runs 46 yards (to ignite the 2004 victory). Now, come on, I don't have any answers.
"I think our guys play hard. They have for however many years the Ohio State-Michigan game has gone on. Sometimes you come up on the good end, sometimes you don't. But if anyone pretends to think they have the answer, they've got a problem."
It feels like Michigan Week to Tressel
Despite his success against UM, the OSU coach says he doesn't have his rival solved.
By Doug Harris
Staff Writer
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
COLUMBUS ? Ohio State coach Jim Tressel finished his lengthy opening statement at his press luncheon Monday, paused for questions and then realized he had left out a standard component of his weekly report.
"I guess I should have mentioned last week's game," he said, "but we haven't thought much about it ? just being honest."
He's hardly alone.
The countdown officially has begun for the Ohio State-Michigan game, which defines a season even in ordinary years. But the stakes this time couldn't get any higher.
The Buckeyes are trying to become the first team in school history to begin and end a season No. 1, and a victory will propel them to the national championship game Jan. 8. They also are bidding for their first outright Big Ten title since 1984, having shared six conference crowns since then.
"You can feel the electricity and the energy," Tressel said. "You can't quantify it, but you can feel it.
"I remember my first game as an assistant (here in the mid-1980s), thinking I was preparing for just another game as a coach. And then all of a sudden, you got into the environment, and I wasn't worth a hoot for probably the first quarter because I was just in awe of the feeling. I probably wasn't worth a hoot in the fourth quarter, either."
But Tressel has been masterful against Michigan as a head coach, having won the last two meetings and four of five during his tenure, although he would advise against anyone thinking he's figured out the answer to long-term dominance in the rivalry.
"I was watching film this morning ? I don't have any answers at this moment, I'll tell you that," he said. "Troy Smith spins and runs 46 yards (to ignite the 2004 victory). Now, come on, I don't have any answers.
"I think our guys play hard. They have for however many years the Ohio State-Michigan game has gone on. Sometimes you come up on the good end, sometimes you don't. But if anyone pretends to think they have the answer, they've got a problem."
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Herbstreit: Rematch not coming
By Doug Harris
Staff Writer
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
COLUMBUS ? When discussing the chances of Ohio State and Michigan meeting again for the national championship, college-football analyst Kirk Herbstreit sounded like Apollo Creed in the first Rocky movie: There ain't gonna be no rematch.
The Centerville native said he'd be "shocked" if the loser of the game ends up second in the final Bowl Championship Series standings, despite an 11-1 record, predicting the polls would favor the Southern California-Notre Dame winner or Southeastern Conference champion ? provided those teams finish with just one loss.
"It's winner-take-all," Herbstreit said. "The loser goes to the Rose Bowl."
That's fine with OSU coach Jim Tressel, who doesn't believe a team should get to play for the national crown if it doesn't win its conference.
"The thing we say as we go into every year, 'If you want a chance to play for the national championship, you'd better make the assumption that you need to win every game in Division I-A and be a (league) champion,' " he said.
The Buckeyes and Wolverines will meet for the first time as the nation's two top-ranked teams, and Herbstreit, who will broadcast the game for ABC-TV, is happy to see the rivalry rise to prominence again.
"When Woody (Hayes) and Bo (Schembechler) were here, it was as big as it got ? just because it was Ohio State-Michigan and it was (often) for the national championship, and the Big Ten championship always seemed to be on the line, too," he said. "Since Jim Tressel has been here and Lloyd Carr has taken over (at Michigan), I think it's come back full circle to where it's not just for Big Ten bragging rights.
"That's why I think the entire nation ? whether you're a Pac-10 fan or an SEC fan ? you have great appreciation for what's at stake here."
Carr appreciates rivalry
Carr may appear like a sore loser in grousing after defeats to OSU, but Tressel has seen a classier side to his colleague.
When the two were chasing the same recruit about five years ago, Carr refused to bad-mouth the Buckeyes to the player.
"He said, 'One thing you want to make sure you do is go to one of these two schools. This is the greatest rivalry in college football, and you want to be a part of that,' " Tressel recalled. "I was tremendously impressed with his feeling for what Ohio State and Michigan are both all about."
Smith could be first
If Troy Smith leads the Buckeyes to a third consecutive win over Michigan this season, OSU football historian Jack Park believes the senior deserves credit for being the first quarterback to accomplish the feat.
The OSU media guide says Tippy Dye engineered three straights wins over the Wolverines from 1934-36, but Park, who published The Official Ohio State Football Encyclopedia, said his research shows that Dye was the primary QB only during that last season.
Herbstreit: Rematch not coming
By Doug Harris
Staff Writer
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
COLUMBUS ? When discussing the chances of Ohio State and Michigan meeting again for the national championship, college-football analyst Kirk Herbstreit sounded like Apollo Creed in the first Rocky movie: There ain't gonna be no rematch.
The Centerville native said he'd be "shocked" if the loser of the game ends up second in the final Bowl Championship Series standings, despite an 11-1 record, predicting the polls would favor the Southern California-Notre Dame winner or Southeastern Conference champion ? provided those teams finish with just one loss.
"It's winner-take-all," Herbstreit said. "The loser goes to the Rose Bowl."
That's fine with OSU coach Jim Tressel, who doesn't believe a team should get to play for the national crown if it doesn't win its conference.
"The thing we say as we go into every year, 'If you want a chance to play for the national championship, you'd better make the assumption that you need to win every game in Division I-A and be a (league) champion,' " he said.
The Buckeyes and Wolverines will meet for the first time as the nation's two top-ranked teams, and Herbstreit, who will broadcast the game for ABC-TV, is happy to see the rivalry rise to prominence again.
"When Woody (Hayes) and Bo (Schembechler) were here, it was as big as it got ? just because it was Ohio State-Michigan and it was (often) for the national championship, and the Big Ten championship always seemed to be on the line, too," he said. "Since Jim Tressel has been here and Lloyd Carr has taken over (at Michigan), I think it's come back full circle to where it's not just for Big Ten bragging rights.
"That's why I think the entire nation ? whether you're a Pac-10 fan or an SEC fan ? you have great appreciation for what's at stake here."
Carr appreciates rivalry
Carr may appear like a sore loser in grousing after defeats to OSU, but Tressel has seen a classier side to his colleague.
When the two were chasing the same recruit about five years ago, Carr refused to bad-mouth the Buckeyes to the player.
"He said, 'One thing you want to make sure you do is go to one of these two schools. This is the greatest rivalry in college football, and you want to be a part of that,' " Tressel recalled. "I was tremendously impressed with his feeling for what Ohio State and Michigan are both all about."
Smith could be first
If Troy Smith leads the Buckeyes to a third consecutive win over Michigan this season, OSU football historian Jack Park believes the senior deserves credit for being the first quarterback to accomplish the feat.
The OSU media guide says Tippy Dye engineered three straights wins over the Wolverines from 1934-36, but Park, who published The Official Ohio State Football Encyclopedia, said his research shows that Dye was the primary QB only during that last season.
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