WR Grant Schwartz (official thread)

[ShakerBuck]

Competition will be brutal!

thats an understatement. But just the fact that they would move him to WR with the depth we have there says something.

 

[RB07OSU]

Smart, athletic player, could this be a surprise in playing time? Competition will be brutal!

I hope so...Grant has some great athletic skills and I remember being so excited when he an offer and commited. Here's to hoping Grant gets some PT.

 

[osugrad21]

Scout$--Schwartz Vying For Action

Grant is making strides at WR and is pushing for PT.

 

[Buckrock]

Scout$--Schwartz Vying For Action

Grant is making strides at WR and is pushing for PT.

Grant has one big thing going for him in his quest for playing time. Ray Small's inability thus far to put it together.

 

[daddyphatsacs]

While I'm sure that Schwartz is a great talent, I am not going to make a comment about him sneaking on the field this season until he's up on the depth chart..........or Tressel makes mention of him. Sometimes a comment by a player can be taken a bit far. After all, they ARE college kids.......some have close buddies.

 

[Buckskin86]

OSU notebook: Schwartz kicks himself for not blocking punt
Monday, September 14, 2009
By Bill Rabinowitz, Bob Baptist and Tim May
The Columbus Dispatch

In a fourth quarter in which Ohio State was begging for a big play to put away Southern California on Saturday night, Grant Schwartz came within millimeters of delivering.

OSU was leading 15-10 with a little more than 10 minutes left when Schwartz had a chance for a blocked punt. He swooped in on punter Billy O'Malley.

"I was pretty shocked I didn't get it," Schwartz said. "I came free, maybe a little too free. I put my hands out and thought I had it, but somehow it got through. I either overran it or misplayed the ball, but I don't know how it got through."

After several USC punts, Schwartz said he noticed a potential hole in the blocking scheme and lobbied assistant coach Taver Johnson for a chance for a punt block.

"I had my opportunity, and I just didn't capitalize on it," he said.

It would have been the first career block for the junior receiver from Dana Hills, Calif., and his first truly memorable play.

"It's definitely something that's going to stick with me for a long time," Schwartz said. "That's the kind of stuff careers are made off of -- making big plays in games like this."

BuckeyeXtra - The Columbus Dispatch : OSU notebook: Schwartz kicks himself for not blocking punt

 

[CHU]

Very happy and proud that Schwartz did not back down when bumping into the Michigan player while walking into the tunnel. And he even got to talk trash to the crowd near the end of the fourth quarter with Zach Boren.

They were 5-6 (now 5-7). Don't back down to that.

 

[TheStoicPaisano]

So, Mr. Bucknuts is floating the idea that Schwartz is looking into transferring to Colorado, where he'll be eligible right away after graduating this summer.

Move to Rumor Mill if necessary or Reference Locker if I'm an idiot and this was just sarcasm going over my head.

 

[Basebuck]

So, Mr. Bucknuts is floating the idea that Schwartz is looking into transferring to Colorado, where he'll be eligible right away after graduating this summer.

Move to Rumor Mill if necessary or Reference Locker if I'm an idiot and this was just sarcasm going over my head.

I could be wrong but didnt the NCAA eliminate that loop hole last year? I thought you still had to sit even if you are a graduate.

 

[jwinslow]

They closed the graduate school loophole after 1 year of existence, which was either during or after the 06 season.

 

[Poe McKnoe]

So, Mr. Bucknuts is floating the idea that Schwartz is looking into transferring to Colorado, where he'll be eligible right away after graduating this summer.

Move to Rumor Mill if necessary or Reference Locker if I'm an idiot and this was just sarcasm going over my head.

Maybe he meant basketball.

 

[LightningRod]

The NCAA announcement regarding graduate school transfer waivers:

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Mr. Paulus has expressed an interest in competing in a second sport at another Division I school after earning an undergraduate degree at Duke University and competing on the men?s basketball team. The NCAA encourages and applauds academic achievement and realizes this is an unique situation and opportunity for Mr. Paulus. Student-athletes seldom have the opportunity to transfer late in their college careers and compete in a second sport after four seasons of competition. The NCAA established a ?students first? waiver process to address unique situations and extenuating circumstances such as this that are not outlined in our rules.
If a student-athlete wants to transfer and immediately compete as a graduate student, the college or university they are transferring to would need to seek a waiver, because in most cases they would have to sit out a year before competing under NCAA transfer rules and would not have any remaining eligibility. One of the factors our members have determined is appropriate for a graduate student waiver is if the transfer is academically motivated.

 

[Buckskin86]

Meet a Buckeye: Grant Schwartz
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
By Tim May
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON: Thirty years after his father, Brian, played in the Rose Bowl for Ohio State, Grant Schwartz will get to do the same for the Buckeyes. (Neal C. Lauron, Dispatch)

Talk about walking in the same footsteps, 30 years after his father Brian Schwartz played in the Rose Bowl for Ohio State, junior receiver Grant Schwartz will do the same thing for the Buckeyes today against Oregon. Brian Schwartz went east from California to play defensive back for Woody Hayes in 1976, and his son followed suit - from Dana Hills, Calif. - to play for Jim Tressel in 2006. Though Grant, Schwartz, in his fourth year after redshirting as a freshman, hasn't risen to the status of isn't a regular starter, he has contributed some big hits on special teams this season. Who knows what today's game will bring for him, but as Dispatch reporter Tim May found out in this brief question-and-answer session, Regardless of his role in today's game, his teammates have leaned on the "beach boy" to help them during this trip.

Q: Because you're a native son of southern California, did you consider it your responsibility on this trip to act as the ipso facto be the answer man on this trip?

A: Definitely. And I've had guys asking how far things are from one place to another, and whatnot. They gave me a nickname: . They call me 'Google Grant.

GameDay+

 

[Buckskin86]

Ohio State's Grant Schwartz plays role of tour guide
As the only Buckeye from Southern California, the wide receiver has been showing his teammates around as they prepare for Friday's Rose Bowl.
By Kevin Baxter
January 1, 2010

What was arguably the biggest play of Grant Schwartz's Ohio State career took place not on a field but in a tunnel.

About an hour before the Buckeyes' annual showdown with Michigan, the junior wide receiver from Dana Hills High was walking toward the locker room as the maize-clad Michigan team left its dressing room to take the field.

Ahead of him, Schwartz says he saw two teammates swerve out of the way of a Michigan player, but he decided not to move, throwing a shoulder into his opponent and touching off a melee that was captured -- and replayed endlessly -- on national TV.

"I definitely heard there was a lot of support for that," said Schwartz, whose team won that game, clinching its berth in today's Rose Bowl.

"It was something that Woody Hayes would have been proud of," said Schwartz's father, Brian, who played for the irascible Hayes at Ohio State and was on the Buckeyes' 1980 Rose Bowl team.

"Woody Hayes had always said, 'Hey, you see something blue, you hit it. I don't care whether it's a cheerleader or a player.' "

Schwartz isn't likely to be starting any fights today. Whatever game action he sees is likely to be limited to special teams. But as the only Southern Californian on the Buckeyes' Rose Bowl roster, he has been useful as a tour guide over the last week.

"They call me Google Grant," he said of his teammates. "It's definitely a cool experience to be with all my Ohio State teammates and finally be on my own home turf where there's more Lakers jerseys than Cavs jerseys."

Ohio State's Grant Schwartz plays role of tour guide - latimes.com

 

[CHU]

Happy everything is alright with Schwartz, in terms of broken bones (as it was earlier rumored he had a broken leg on WBNS-FM).

Will always be respected by myself for the altercation with Mike Shaw in 2009 and not moving out of the way.