- By Chris - April 23rd, 2008
In what Jack Park says is an unprecedented decision, former Michigan o-liner Justin Boren is transferring to play for Jim Tressel’s Buckeyes.
I’m sure the Michigan faithful will downplay the move but it has to sting a bit to see a legacy transfer to the Evil Empire. Justin sounds excited to have a chance to win:
“It’s [...]
- By Jason - April 23rd, 2008
Mike over at Black Shoe Diaries was kind enough to put together a Big Ten Bloggers roundtable taking a look back at spring practice. We’ll dive into the position battles and try to assess the mood of Buckeye Nation heading into 2008.
I love spring. Flowers blooming. Birds chirping. Bones breaking. ACL’s tearing. List the [...]
- By Jason - April 22nd, 2008
USA Today has compiled data from the past 20 NFL drafts to look at the states and schools that produce the most draft picks, among other things.
The big three, California, Texas and Florida, now have pretty solid empirical evidence to support their claims as fertile football grounds:
It is no surprise that California, along with Florida [...]
- By Jason - April 21st, 2008
McLovin Franzia
A Big Lead reader sent in a couple of photos of Oden house-partying over the weekend in State College. Wait, State College?
A reader (ed. – He said he doesn’t mind if we use his name, so Andy from Temple University) sent in a couple photos of a rather tall gentleman who appears to [...]
- By Jason - April 21st, 2008
A lot of talk this spring has focused on the staff’s new approach to teaching broader football concepts to the veteran squad. The thinking was they didn’t want some of the 4th or 5th year guys to get bored going over position fundamentals and concepts that they’ve already seen three or four times, so [...]
- By Chris - April 20th, 2008
Simmons would provide PG depth
Instead of taking his rumored visit to Ohio State this weekend, 6′2″ juco guard Devan Dumes verbally committed to Indiana yesterday.
I’ve yet to hear exactly how the scenario played out but one can hardly blame a juco player for choosing a school with a roster that guarantees more playing time.
With the [...]
- By Jason - April 20th, 2008
We knew there would be some rumblings about the backup quarterback heading into this fall, we just didn’t think it would be this backup.
22 year-old redshirt freshman Joe Bauserman stole the show in the 2008 Buckeye spring game, connecting with fellow soph Taurian Washington on two long scoring strikes (true, one was called back on [...]
- By Jason - April 19th, 2008
UPDATE: The BTN must have added another C-64 to their cluster because the game is now flowing smoothly. Additionally, Bucknuts is live-blogging the game and 1460 has a radio feed you can grab.
If you live out of state, like myself, or are otherwise unable to attend the spring game in person, you had hoped [...]