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WR Torrance Gibson (Green Bay Blizzard)

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Kid can freaking leap too! Hope he can get the route running down. It really is a science and Michael Thomas is a brilliant route runner to learn from. His stutter step against Va Tech is one of the best WR moves I've ever seen. With TGs athleticism is he does everything perfectly now on the technique side, by the time he's ready to go pro, he'll be extremely good at it.
 
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Buckeye Football Notebook: 'I love Torrance Gibson. I love his talent.'
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"Torrance has a 2.7 gpa," Urban Meyer said last month. "Worked his rear end off at a highly-competitive university. I’d say mid-Septemberish is when he really grew up. I love Torrance Gibson. I love his talent. I love the fact that he did well academically. I think it’s a future without — I use this comment sometimes — I don’t see a ceiling. I would love to use him at quarterback-slash, because he’s that good of an athlete. So this spring is going to be big. But his maturity level from the day he walked on to this campus to now, I can’t be more proud of what that young guy did."

Entire article: http://theozone.net/Ohio-State/Foot...book-I-love-Torrance-Gibson-I-love-his-talent
 
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ScriptOhio said:
Buckeye Football Notebook: 'I love Torrance Gibson. I love his talent.'
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"Torrance has a 2.7 gpa," Urban Meyer said last month. "Worked his rear end off at a highly-competitive university. I’d say mid-Septemberish is when he really grew up. I love Torrance Gibson. I love his talent. I love the fact that he did well academically. I think it’s a future without — I use this comment sometimes — I don’t see a ceiling. I would love to use him at quarterback-slash, because he’s that good of an athlete. So this spring is going to be big. But his maturity level from the day he walked on to this campus to now, I can’t be more proud of what that young guy did."

Entire article: http://theozone.net/Ohio-State/Foot...book-I-love-Torrance-Gibson-I-love-his-talent
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That's really great hear.

Proud if the kid!

He has to be nearly indefensible.
 
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ScriptOhio said:
Buckeye Football Notebook: 'I love Torrance Gibson. I love his talent.'
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"Torrance has a 2.7 gpa," Urban Meyer said last month. "Worked his rear end off at a highly-competitive university. I’d say mid-Septemberish is when he really grew up. I love Torrance Gibson. I love his talent. I love the fact that he did well academically. I think it’s a future without — I use this comment sometimes — I don’t see a ceiling. I would love to use him at quarterback-slash, because he’s that good of an athlete. So this spring is going to be big. But his maturity level from the day he walked on to this campus to now, I can’t be more proud of what that young guy did."

Entire article: http://theozone.net/Ohio-State/Foot...book-I-love-Torrance-Gibson-I-love-his-talent
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No offense but is a 2.7 gpa considered a great achievement for the football team or something?
 
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I think it's all relative. From what we've heard, Torrance struggled with some things when he first got on campus and I wouldn't be surprised if one of those things was academics. Digging yourself out of a hole can be difficult, and it sounds like he is putting in the work to turn that around and is on track to get his degree. Good for him.
 
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TORRANCE GIBSON DEVELOPING AT WIDE RECEIVER FOR OHIO STATE, BUT MUST REMAIN PATIENT TO MAXIMIZE ABILITY AT NEW POSITION

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It's no secret: Torrance Gibson is supremely talented. Five-star recruits don't grow on trees, but when they enter college football programs, they are expected to produce early and often in their career.

Fans, media and even Ohio State's coaches jumped at every opportunity to discuss Gibson last season, a terrific talent Urban Meyer and his staff plucked from south Florida. He was one of the few 2015 commitments Meyer spoke about having a chance to be involved in Ohio State's offense last year, even though the wealth of talent on roster was extensive.

An ankle injury knocked back his development, though, after Gibson elected to turn to Meyer and tell him he wished to switch from quarterback to wide receiver in order to better his chances of lining up between the lines on Saturdays.

The 6-foot-4, 205-pounder doesn't run, he glides. He has great extension and speed. On a 2015 team desperate for a deep threat, Gibson's body looked the part after Noah Brown's season-ending leg injury in August.

It never happened, both due to his own injury and a bout with immaturity that led to him not even dressing a few home games last season because he let his grades slip.

Then came spring 2016, when Ohio State's three top receiving options — Brown, Corey Smith and Curtis Samuel — are out with injuries and Braxton Miller, Jalin Marshall and Michael Thomas are onto the NFL. Youth rules at the Woody Hayes Athletic Center, and a fully healthy Gibson has a golden opportunity to get noticed though he still hasn't been full-time at wide receiver for an entire calendar year.

"Torrance is coming around I just think the main thing with him is this is a new position," quarterback J.T. Barrett said Saturday. "He gets all beat up on himself because he wants to be great, but it's the simple fact that he hasn't done it before."

Entire article: because he wants to be great, but it's the simple fact that he hasn't done it before."
 
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pnuts34 said:
Trying to temper my excitement for Gibson as it's just the spring game, and fight the urge to get an aliexpress jersey of him, lol!
Good(spring) game, by young Torrance, he's coming on nicely at WR. So freaking talented
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When he starts going up and high pointing the ball I'll get excited. Until then he's gonna get a lot of balls knocked away by DBs. He would have had 3 TDs had he gone up and got the ball. Mack does a great job of going up and attacking the football in the air.
 
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OhioState001 said:
No offense but is a 2.7 gpa considered a great achievement for the football team or something?
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BayBuck said:
Better than my first year at OSU...
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(Although "freshman forgiveness" helped bump that up later.)
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My first quarter at Ohio State I got a 2.736 and thought it was a pretty good achievement. Hell, I thought getting a D (i.e passing it) in Freshman English was a really great achievement. Back in 1966/1967, English. Math, and Chemistry were known as "flunk out" courses and I was taking all three.
 
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buckeye4ever21 said:
When he starts going up and high pointing the ball I'll get excited. Until then he's gonna get a lot of balls knocked away by DBs. He would have had 3 TDs had he gone up and got the ball. Mack does a great job of going up and attacking the football in the air.
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Noticed that as well but that is something he will learn with more time at receiver. His athleticism and natural ability is off the charts though. He is the player I am most excited to watch grow.
 
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