Ohio State – Where Even Cheerleaders Can Ball
Scout’s 83rd and 85th-ranked wide recieversThough the Buckeyes are losing their top two receivers from last season, many fans actually welcomed the infusion of new talent, especially the speed that will be accompanying DeVier Posey, Lamaar Thomas, Jake Stoneburner and the other youngsters vying to step into the starting lineup.
Now, you can add Josh Springer to that list. The 5-11, 185-pound walk-on receiver is fresh off a stint with the OSU cheerleading team (yes, you read that correctly) and supposedly turned some heads after clocking a 4.47 forty. Not too bad for a guy that didn’t even play a down of football in high school (oh, how that first stick is going to sting).
Save for Tank Whaley, and a few other notable exceptions, walk-ons rarely see the light of the playing field. Instead, they spend their time serving as live tackling dummies and paying for their own food at the training table. In Springer’s case, we can only hope he gets on to the field for a touchdown in Ann Arbor some day as I can’t imagine anything else that would give us as much smack-talking ammunition.
It’s clinic season for coaches and Tressel ventured into the South last week for the Championship Coaching Clinic. While there, he went on record saying something the SEC has known recently, but being the part of the country that’s perhaps quickest to perceive slights and lack of respect, they just had to get on tape:
“I think the SEC might be the roughest conference there is, top to bottom,” Tressel said in an exclusive interview. “I can’t imagine what they go through week-in and week-out.
Thus the article headline: Tressel to WVLT: SEC "might be the roughest conference". And yes, Southern Man, your penis is gigantic. Please do expect our Chinpokomon shipments.
And in other clinic/speaking tour news, it turns out that the JHC is knife collector. No word on whether Desmond Howard’s name appears on any of them.
Finally, the McDonald’s All-American Game is coming to Columbus in 2010. The Schott will host the event on March 31 and we’re hoping it turns into the Jared Sullinger Show ahead of him hitting campus later in the year.
cue 100,000 “and he would know LOLZ” comments on that article on JT
He would know and I’m not laughing.
OK, first off, I’m assuming that Josh Springer is the one on the right in the photograph. You can probably take this article a couple different ways; a) that OSU cheerleaders can play wide receiver, or b) that OSU receivers were former cheerleaders. Let’s go with ‘a’. Thanks for brightening up my afternoon.
Unfortunately, that’s not Spring pictured (at least that we’re aware of).
I’ve met that cheerleader pictured…definitely not Springer.
God I hate the SEC. That is all.
Because we need more receivers!
That first hit is definitely gonna hurt.
This kid is from the same school as Kurt Coleman and CJ Barnett.
http://www.daytondailynews.com/s/content/oh/story/sports/college/osu/2009/03/08/ddn030809spspringer.html
Looks like Meyer isnt the only SEC coach lacking in the class department.
http://www.fanhouse.com/tag/Lane+Kiffin
well, at least his post TD celebrations will be entertaining!!
Orlando Pace back in Columbus. This needs a facebook group.
Wasn’t Terry Glenn a walk-on? Here’s hoping Josh Springer becomes as good as Terry Glenn. May he score a touchdown against Michigan and celebrate by throwing a cheerleader up in the air. And catching her, of course.
I do hope that Josh Springer becomes as good as Terry Glenn. Then the world would end.
Glenn, to my knowledge, was not a walk on. I was shocked that he ended up at tOSU. I know O Pace was released, but what is he doing in Columbus???
Oh no, he isn’t, I was just agreeing with 11W’s suggestion under the story on him on the sidebar.
Glenn’s wikipedia entry suggests that he was a walk on, but I’m not sure what the source is.
……..walk on to All-American!
While Florida is fast, they aren’t THAT fast. If they were, they would have to hold their own NFL combine. What Florida players have more than anything is the ability to run after the catch…something unfathomable in Columbus.
Florida players in space when the ball is caught, not so much up north
They are fast but not Ted Ginn Jr fast.
I’ll agree with you up until Rainey and Demps.
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/blog/dr_saturday/post/Of-course-Jacoby-Ford-knows-this-means-sprint-w?urn=ncaaf,142047
Dudes have unbelievable quicks. Like mighty mite Ted Ginns who are just as good running as receiving.
Demps and Holiday are fast, but I don’t think either one of them can carry their pads as well as Ginn does/did.
Ginn never lost speed in his cuts and could show you a leg, take it away and be off in the other direction before you even knew what he just did. The kid could sustain speeds at over 27 MPH – he was a freak!
I would love to see Ted in a track meet with Demps, Holiday and Hester on the turf and fully padded – I don’t even think it would be close.
Glenn was a walk-on and I think it’s a safe bet that he will go down as the best walk-on in OSU history…Andy Groom was also a walk-on…
Here is a video of Josh. It’s just a interview, but the kid looks like a pretty big guy to be a WR who runs a 4.4!
http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-us&vid=8226b918-2165-4897-83d3-9a740f637901
One of these days we’re going to beat those effing toolbags from the South, and it will be a glorious day. And the heavens will open, and we will see Woody punching Bear in the face with Bo laughing his ass off. Buckeyes will rain from the sky, and the rivers in the South will run scarlet and gray. I don’t know when this will happen, but I hope while I’m still alive (I’m only 26), and I hope I’m still blogging.
I hope these young’ins possess the SEC-killer speed and attitude that our favorite team needs. I don’t know how much more of this abuse I can take as a fan.
Steve,
Could you please remind me what The Buckeyes record much less your Conference’s record is against the SEC?
hence the “one of these days” shithead. go troll somewhere else
Ohio State vs The SEC 4-11-1
The Big Ten vs The SEC 91-89-3
you wanted to know, so there it is. douchebag.
So that’d make the Bucks 4-2-1 during regular season matchups. Must be a postseason curse ala ND of recent times.
Look deeper into the numbers… most SEC schools will not play games against big-time opponents on the road in the regular season…. the majority of OSU losses are at Neutral Sites (LSU had a home game in the NC) or on the road at SEC schools…. Look at their schedules…. find one that goes on the road to play a big -time opponent.
I believe three of those victories are against either Kentucky or Vandy.
2-0 vs UK
1-1 vs vandy
1-1-1 vs LSU
Last I checked, conference record was fairly even. Michigan has a winning record, among other teams.
OSU just can’t seem to beat them for some stupid reason.
SEC SEC SEC SEC SEC SEC
If there was a 5th quarter in the last title game we played LSU would have gone down. They were doing what they did in every game that year, which was let their opponent get back into the game in the 4th quarter. That being said DONT RUN INTO THE F’ING PUNTER AND WE WIN THAT GAME. DAMN…I am glad I don’ t remember who the clown that did that was or I would still be calling to yank his scholarship!
ummm, no. LSU was better than us. by a long shot. they would have won a 5 quarter or a 50 quarter game.
While I appreciate the homerism, please dont say things like “if there was a 5th quarter” because that just makes us look worse. For real. They beat us, soundly, give them their due. TP is going to right the ship hopefully, and all will be glorious in C-bus soon enough. No more living in the “what if” past fellas.
Wrong. Our defense was in Matt Flynn’s face all day, and it didn’t matter at all. The only reason we came back in the 4th quarter was because they were playing their bench players. Plus, I’ve never seen a Buckeye team of such offensive calibur just die when they get within their opponent’s 25 yard-line so consistently against good teams. We march down the field, score a TD, march down the field again, get a field goal, march down the field again, field goal gets blocked, LSU then went to school on our defense. The USC game was pretty much a carbon copy, except our team literally died in the 2nd quarter.
Furthermore, The Buckeyes had 3 games without a TD last year and still went to a BCS bowl, and still won a share of the Big Ten. How pathetic is that?
I have faith that this team has the “score-at-will” potential. We saw that Pryor CAN evade any pass rush that comes after him (even though it often results in sacks – chalk it up to youth), he CAN connect with these speedy young receivers in his class, he CAN freeze defenses with his feet. If it all comes together they will frustrate defenses, even the speedy SEC defensive ends. But we won’t know until it happens.
Lets hope the offense opens it up this year. God know we have speed. It will be interesting to see how much better the o-line is with these young guys and boren stepping in. Im ready to see what we got. It won’t be long before we know if we will be champ or not. Sept. 13 is USC right?
that was homan
Wrong, that was Spitler.
same thing
For the record, that cheerleader looks like she got her face in the way of TP’s metal spikes on an end around…..
you’d hit it, faceless internet name.
Yeah…OSU wasn’t going to come back in that game. LSU = good.
SEC! SEC! SEC!
sOUTHERN mAN = Vandy Fan
Jack Ass! Jack Ass! Jack Ass!
Pick a team