Eh, it hurts to be at the top :D!

...and here all this time I thought it hurt to be a bottom.

Uh...

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/football/stories/2008/01/15/osufb.html?sid=101

 

Laurinaitis staying at OSU

Recruiting classmates' decisions swayed him

Tuesday,  January 15, 2008  - 5:45 AM

By Ken Gordon, THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

 

osu football is preseason number 2 behind georgia.  oh shit, another loss to an sec team in the championship game here we come....or maybe it will be to uc this year  :-)

Does anyone know if Archie Griffin suffered a heart attack/stroke yesterday? I have a friend who was on a flight from Tampa to Dayton, who said he was sitting next to Archie and Archie's assistant and while in mid-flight, Archie suffered a heart attack. He said they laid him down on the seat and there was also a nurse on the flight who stabilized him. Once they landed in Dayton, they were met by a medical team to take him to a hospital. I haven't heard anything since, but was wondering if anyone knows anything or can verify this?

nothing in the news

 

Terrele Pryor is pissing me off.  I need to know whether or not I am going to buy his jersey next year or burn one in efigy at the michigan game.  whats a crazy fan to do?

Ohio State shut out of NCAA Tournament

 

So its football talkin time again...

 

Pryor says he will pick a school within a week

 

Pryor chooses Ohio State

Wednesday, March 19, 2008 - 12:03 PM

By Tim May, The Columbus Dispatch

 

JEANNETTE, Pa. -- Terrelle Pryor is now an Ohio State Buckeye.  Pryor, considered the No. 1 football prospect in the country, made his choice today just before noon at a press conference at his high school.  "It's what I want, and this is what I decided," Pryor said, referring to his decision to attend Ohio State.

 

Read more at http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/football/stories/2008/03/19/pryor_announcement.html?sid=101

Terrelle Pryor commits to Ohio State

 

JEANNETTE, Pa. (AP) -- Oregon was too far away. Penn State was too rural. Michigan was a close second.

 

Terrelle Pryor, the highly touted western Pennsylvania prep quarterback, announced Wednesday that he will play for Ohio State next season.

 

For more info, please click the link:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/players/03/19/pryor.ohiost.ap/index.html

I certainly hope Terrelle has a great career at the "University of Ohio State." 

 

GO UOS!!

Big time signing... big time.  Probably will ride the bench as a red shirt next year, and then play the following year.

^really? I doubt that they will redshirt him. He's not the kind of athlete that would stay four years. He has speed that can help right now. They should use him like Florida used Tebow as a freshman.

Most of the local sports wags think Pryor would likely play his freshmen year.  It probably would be alot like when Florida has senior QB Leak and freshmen QB Tebow, where Leak played most of the time and Tebow was brought in for goal-line or special situations. 

 

OSU will have a similar setup this season with senior QB Boeckman and freshmen Pryor.

^Along those same lines, just found this SI.com article about Pryor and his playing time next season.

 

Hyped QB Pryor was smart to pick Ohio State over UM

Posted: Wednesday March 19, 2008 3:41PM

 

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/andy_staples/03/19/pryor.ohiostate/

I know its jumping from basketball to football, but this Michigan defection, as well as others, does not bode well for RichRod's first UM season.  Read college football Boren's statement about why he's leaving.

 

Boren considering OSU after departing Michigan

Thursday, March 27, 2008

By Tim May, THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

 

One week after beating out Michigan for top quarterback prospect Terrelle Pryor, Ohio State found itself in the running yesterday for Michigan lineman Justin Boren, who announced he's leaving the Wolverines.  Boren, a Pickerington North graduate who started for the Wolverines as a sophomore last season, released a statement in which he criticized the atmosphere under new coach Rich Rodriguez.  Boren's father, Mike, a former Michigan captain and linebacker, supported his son's decision.

 

Read more at http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/football/stories/2008/03/27/osufb_notes27.ART_ART_03-27-08_C1_EI9OQ98.html?sid=101

 

Stop us if you've heard this before: Buckeyes top Dawgs

May 5, 2008

By Dennis Dodd

CBSSports.com Senior Writer

 

Against the tide of an emerging preseason consensus ... against the wishes Fox, which frowns on televising re-runs in January ... against my better judgment... Ohio State is No. 1.

 

http://www.sportsline.com/collegefootball/story/10813944

 

Who is rating Boeckman as a good draft choice and why? The punterceptions?

Never question the widsom of Mel Kiper Jr.  His hair is superior to ours!

And so it begins...

 

Carson Palmer Hates Ohio State Fans

 

DETROIT - Bengals quarterback was recently interviewed on LA-based sports radio station (KLAC) and talked about living in Ohio and the upcoming USC-Ohio State college football matchup.

 

For more info, please click the link:

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080721/SPORTS06/80721057/1118/rss

Fuck Carson Palmer. Period.

^^ Yeah, I listened to the interview on the news last night. Hilarious.

this game should do a lot to quiet the OSU naysayers always siting a weak non-conference schedule

Carson is my hero. OSU isn't the state's football team. Certainly isn't mine. Who dey!

Who dey!

 

Pretty much everybody.

Carson should learn not to shit where he eats..

Typical obnoxious OSU fan thinking Cincy is in their backyard. It's not.

Sorry but the Buckeyes are the most popular Football team in Ohio and everybody knows that. Carson is dogging OSU fans but those are some of the same people who support him.

I understand that you can *gasps* live in Ohio and not root for Ohio State.  I mean, duh.  But the issue I think is that Carson assumed that everybody in Cincinnati, perhaps the LEAST Ohio State-friendly metro in the state, was a Buckeye fan.  That's like me going to Berkeley and saying "f*ck USC!"  I mean, really, do they care?

I'm an OSU fan and alum.  And I think it's perfectly fine for Carson Palmer to back USC.  I mean USC is playing OSU this year (and next year) and he did go to USC.  But he needs to hold off on the insults.  When you're a young guy like Carson, I'm sure insults are fun.  But, this 20something QB represents the Bengals organization.  And judging by the statement in the article below "issued by a Bengals spokesman", the Bengals seem to realize this too.

 

Palmer tries to backpedal from rant about Buckeyes fans

 

But the issue I think is that Carson assumed that everybody in Cincinnati, perhaps the LEAST Ohio State-friendly metro in the state, was a Buckeye fan.

 

Hardly. Toledo has Michigan, Notre Dame, UT, AND Michigan State. Cincinnati has UC. No Big Ten programs are closer than Ohio State. The University of Cincinnati also has as many traitors as OU and Miami. The biggest problem in Ohio is that all the other schools who should wish nothing but failure for Ohio State actually have kids who support them as long as they're not playing them.

 

There went another thread...

 

 

But the issue I think is that Carson assumed that everybody in Cincinnati, perhaps the LEAST Ohio State-friendly metro in the state, was a Buckeye fan.

 

Hardly. Toledo has Michigan, Notre Dame, UT, AND Michigan State. Cincinnati has UC. No Big Ten programs are closer than Ohio State. The University of Cincinnati also has as many traitors as OU and Miami. The biggest problem in Ohio is that all the other schools who should wish nothing but failure for Ohio State actually have kids who support them as long as they're not playing them.

 

There went another thread...

 

 

^C-Dog does tend to do that...and now he'll be on this until 2AM.  BYE!

Toledo isn't a place...it's a zone between the IHOP in Perrysburg and the Michigan stateline.  Think of it as Breezewood, Pennsylvania, minus the trendy 50's motels.

^ f-ing hilarious.

 

I've been to Breezewood, too.. I know what you mean.

^ I think Philly Eagles fans would give them a run for their money (as far as football in general) ...

 

With baseball, the Cubs would also be on par.

The bars of the iron cage must be grueling. Ohio's only points of pride in any sense of the word are Athens, PIB.... Everything else is a national embarrassment that requires Ohioans to binge drink

 

Yeah, no binge drinking goes on in Athens or PIB  :roll:

 

Carson was pretty stupid for saying that.  Support your team, talk ridiculous amounts of crap if you have nothing to do with who you're talking about.  But if you work and live in Ohio and are supported by people who you are talking sh!t about, not a good idea. 

 

For a football team that is already having a PR nightmare from it's prior off the field antics, it doesn't need more from its leader.

As someone who went to Ohio State, they definitely do not get much coverage in Cincinnati.  Much of it is due to the local and other regional schools, but the tell-tale sign is the amount of coverage in the sports page.  Take a look at the city papers around the state on a football Saturday, and that will tell you how much support there is.

 

Personally, I don't care what he said, but of course a huge deal is made of it.  I certainly would not have expected Chris Spielman to suddenly become a Michigan fan because he played for the Lions.

Personally, I don't care what he said, but of course a huge deal is made of it. I certainly would not have expected Chris Spielman to suddenly become a Michigan fan because he played for the Lions.

 

Nobody is asking him to be a Buckeye fan and nothing is wrong with saying "USC is going to roll over Ohio State and give them a PAc-10 a$$ whipping".

 

But refrain from "I cannot stand the Buckeyes, and having to live in Ohio and hear <em>those</em> people talk about their team..." because those people are the same ones cheering you on.

Toledo isn't a place...it's a zone between the IHOP in Perrysburg and the Michigan stateline. Think of it as Breezewood, Pennsylvania, minus the trendy 50's motels.

 

That's it? I expected more from you... :wink: At least attempt some sort of argument. I have no clue what the hell Breezewood is. It's generic-sounding like Columbus.

 

And as you already know, the state of Ohio is not a place, it's a flyover zone, and you're right at the center of it. The bars of the iron cage must be grueling. Ohio's only points of pride in any sense of the word are Athens, PIB, Sandusky, and Raven Riley. Everything else is a national embarrassment that requires Ohioans to binge drink, eat garbage Midwestern pizza, buy a dog, and obsess over football to help distract them from the fact they live in Ohio. At least Toledo has mother Michigan and its maze and blue. It's the only place in Ohio that has the eminent distinction and grand honor of once being part of Michigan, America's greatest and most beautiful state- a land of clean water, endless recreation, majestic coastlines, beautiful women, sunshine, rainbows, and Detroit. We should gather any of the fairweather OSU fans and send them to a game in Columbus. Then at least they'd know what they really are supporting...

 

Any state that brags about a country-fried zoologist with a fetish for gorillas, a washed-up baseball player, and Rob Lowe is a state not worth living in.

 

I rest my case: http://consumer.discoverohio.com/

 

I'm not going to bother reading what I just quoted but all I know is I'm disappointed in YOU about not writing more senseless paragraphs!

 

I win.

Anyway, OSU guys, mark your calendar for a humiliating loss on September 6th. The Bobcats are coming to Bustown!

 

Does OU even have a varsity football team anymore?  I thought it went Club because of Title IX? 

 

Or maybe it just seems that way.

I have no clue what the hell Breezewood is. It's generic-sounding like Columbus.

 

Breezewood is a little town in south central Pennsylvania where I-70 and I-76 split, with I-70 heading east (and south) to Baltimore (I believe the big green signs say "Washington D. C.", too, even though I-70 doesn't go to the nation's capital) and I-76 heading east to Philadelphia.  In order to continue east on I-70 (coming off of the Pennsylvania Turnpike, on which I-70 and I-76 travel) one has to negotiate a bunch of traffic lights along US 30 before connecting to the free Baltimore-bound I-70.  I have read that efforts to connect these segments with a free-flowing highway have been met with resistance by the businesses that make up Breezewood.  Also check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breezewood,_Pennsylvania .

 

Trust me, I've been there.

UH OH!  :-o  SI COVER JINX ALERT!

 

 

 

Well, actually it's one of five regional covers.  But still...

 

       

OSU wins popular vote by a landslide

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

By Darrel Rowland, THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH 

 

The telephone survey of 1,342 Ohio voters from Aug. 5-11 has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 2.7 percentage points.  It can be viewed at http://www.quinnipiac.edu/images/polling/oh/oh08182008.doc.

 

Read more at http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/sports/stories/2008/08/19/BUCKEYES_RULE.ART_ART_08-19-08_C1_J0B2NFT.html?sid=101

 

 

 

Time Warner, Big Ten Network reach agreement

Monday, August 25, 2008

BY JEFFREY SHEBAN AND MARY LYNN PLAGEMAN

THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

 

Late tonight, Time Warner Cable and the Big Ten Network reached an agreement in principle allowing the nation's second-largest cable company to carry the year-old network's programming.  The agreement ends a yearlong stalemate between Time Warner, the dominant cable company in central Ohio, and BTN, which is expected to broadcast three of the first five Buckeye games this season, including the Big Ten opener against Minnesota.

 

Read more at http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/08/25/big_ten_network.html?sid=101

About time.

OHIO STATE 43 | YOUNGSTOWN STATE 0

 

Good all-around first game.  Dark cloud over the victory is RB Beanie Wells injury in the third quarter.

I wonder if it will be that lopsided when they play Ohio? :P

^ which reminds me....how 'bout them mighty utes?!!  :laugh:

I have 2 negative things to say about the game and it has nothing to do with the way the team played. First off the ticket office better get their sh$t together on their will-call ticket pick-up. Last year I casually walked over waited about 10 mins and walked back to my tailgate and then went to the game. This year the wait was 30-40 mins. When I walked up to the Schott the line looked like the one for people still trying to buy tickets. And they grouped student pick-ups with the will-call. My friends had pack up everything and I had to meet them at the stadium.

 

Secondly, what is up with the PA announcer and this, "That's another Buckeye........." and everyone yells "First Down?" That was so frigging annoying. I went to an OSU vs Purdue game back in 2004 and their band would play some queer tune and the fans would yell, "1,2,3,4, first down." The OSU fans were glad they could count to 4. They did this on EVERY first down not just the big ones. I sure hope this doesn't continue.

 

One positive note though. As I walked from my tailgate to the Schott carrying a plastic cup with beer in it a police officer asked me what I had in my cup as I was about to cross Woody Hayes Dr. and I honestly said, "Alcohol." He said, "Go make a worm happy and pour it out." I complied and went on my way. This would not have happened pre Gordon Gee.

OU 72, OSU 14

 

I knew you were nuts (pardon the pun) but perhaps you put a "-" sign infront of 72?