Your Football in April Open Thread
Happy BlitzesLive, televised, streamed or through the radio, no matter how you’re taking in the Spring Game, this is your spot to talk about it. (If you are unsure how you’ll tune in to the scrimmage, this should do the trick.)
Our day is booked. From hitting up the Buck Icon tailgate party first thing in the morning, to paying homage to the Varsity Club in honor of its 50th birthday, to the actual gridiron action, followed by the Football Frenzy charity event and last, but not least, culminating in the 11W Spring Game Social* at Park Street Patio (with one eye on the NFL draft), we’re going to be busy peeps.
As such, our involvement in this open thread will be ultra-spotty at best, but in our absence, BuckeyeChief is in charge. And if he wants you to drop and give him 20 or would like to inspect your footlocker, well, he’s a Chief after all.
If you’ve read this far, we’ll reward your patronage by closing with a quick contest. Be the first to post a comment with the name of the Buckeye that scores the first touchdown today and you’ll win a free t-shirt from the 11W Store (must include valid email address with comment, no dupes, etc, etc.).
* Save your ticket from the Spring Game or bring one of our limited edition flyers (to be passed out at Football Frenzy) to get a quick wristband for the event.
I’m voting for Boom.
With email this time ;-)
Pryor
Which will be hard since he has a black jersey on… ^This guy is an idiot!
Taurian Washington
Good Guess!
Winner! Email us at contact@elevenwarriors.com with your mailing addy and choice of shirt, plz.
I knew it…
The boy can play, lets hope he keeps it up in the fall!
Brandon Saine scores first.
Devier Posey with the first score
Jake Ballard—just hoping to see see some TE action.
THANK GOD
http://dispatch.com/live/content/sports/stories/2009/04/25/mbk_turner_25.ART_ART_04-25-09_C9_20DLNVC.html?sid=101
Hyde
also, STONEBURNER
Gotta go with my boy Adam Homan
I wish I had Bob Ross hair. He is my MVP today. I hope the camel toe is on full display today in the beach section of the shoe and I don’t come off as creepy for looking.
mike brewster on a fumblerooskie.
well since everyone already beat me, i’m gonna have to go with lamaar thomas
Ummm… Bauserman?
Sanzenasty comes off the bench miraculously from his injury..puts pryor on his back and piggy backs him to the endzone..so…is that Sanze or pryor….hmmmm
Ray Small
You mean THE Ghost of Ray Small?
Yup, my bad!
Wow, speaking of, I’d love to see a punt return!
Nooooo…..Tressel doesn’t even like to punt man, go for it on 4th and 12 ALL DAY!
Against our punt coverage defense? noooo thanks.
You’ll be eating those words this fall.
Nic DiLillo
Flash Thomas
Is Flash Lamaar’s cousin?
IS IT 1:30 YET?!?!?!
I literally brought my laptop to work today, and requested an hour lunch beginning at 1:30 so I can sit in my car and watch the game. Superfan? All signs point to yes
Why is the lacrosse game not streaming? Is it working for anyone? Does not bode well for live football action.
Because Lacrosse is……gay LOL
Very helpful there. Thanks.
Glad to be of service.
chekwa pick six
sorry, that was me
Thaddeus Maximus ala Sparty last year
Anyone know how to get the 10tv.com player running? I can’t find it on the webpage.
they just got the link up, nevermind
Bobby Carpenter is a big man, Lawrence Wilson must be HUGE because he was towering over Carpenter. Amazing.
Jim Tressel = Thomas Magnum….love it.
Flash and Anderson Russell back to return the opening kickoff. Let’s do this.
Wow, sloppy first exchange from Scarlet…2 bad plays by Gray to start the drive.
Fumble recovery deep in Scarlet’s territory…3 plays 8 yards and a field goal…PATHETIC! No excuses, that should have been a TD…are they making any fucking strides at all from last year?!
There it is Flash
Woody Hayes = 3 yards and a cloud of dust
Jim Tressel = 3 downs and a field goal
Good 2nd drive by Scarlet…I knew they had a few more playmakers than Gray on offense, and they’re showing it.
might have to buy me a #8 jersey soon
Posey will be an all american soon
Moeller is fast!
Pryor has some rust, there is no doubt. Looks like he’s still having vision problems. Good 2nd attempt to Ray Ray, but another disappointing drive. Bad play calling running off-tackle with a no-namer.
this web streaming thing fucking blows. I’m having to stop and restart it repeatedly for continuous video.
B10 feed is working great
Mine is doing the same thing, but I know my computer is a little outdated.
Nice move by gantz, weired to see 33 carrying the ball tho
Wow, pass out in the flat to some dude name Gantz (who the fuck?)…shify move and big yardage w/ 1st down…looking good!
boom looks real good. running tough
Boom is lookin awesome
great vision along with the speed burst
Agree. He looks sharp so far.
put these two teams together and you got yourself a football team
Scott mcvey committed to the bucks before the spring game and is our 5th verbal for 2010! Spring game is awesome
Does anyone else see this joker in the captain america buckeye costume?
Dude stunk like a mother, too. 20 pounds of foam rubber @ 90 degrees for 4 hrs. = not your best idea ever…
the FB should not be getting beasted by a CB like that!
Big Ten stream down
Pryor is throwing effin lazers!
O-lines still look terrible.
I think all those people claiming our offense will be massively improved with all that ESS EEE SEE speed are going to be retracting those statements soon.
Stoneburner scores the first TD.
who is this delande kid??…the guy is a bruiser.
Posey catching everything in sight…..if hes not careful he’s gonna catch an STD too LOL
hey hey, Twash.
WOW! WHAT A PASS FROM PRYOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Washington strikes in the srping again!
T. Washington. Nice throw TP!
I said he’d catch the big one. Jim Tressel still hasn’t noticed.
Pryor’s arm is looking real good.
First touchdown to T. Washington!
James jackson #5 TD
Cemented starters: Tyler Moeller, Taurian Washington.
Washington’s a stud out there.
This scoring thing confuses me and makes me uncomfortable.
hahahahaha im lovin it
Go Ray Small! Holy crap, yards after a catch!
Offense!
can the season please start now
Posey, Washington and Small all looking great. I want to believe.
Well believe brother, believe!
Halftime Stats:
Pryor 13/18 for 191 and 2 TDs
Bauserman 3/8 for 25
Siems 3/5 for 21
Herron 7/37
Saine 0/0 on the ground (1/8 receiving)
Delande 3/13
Washington 4/92 and 1 TD
Small 4/74 and 1TD
Posey 4/34
Schwartz 3/17
DiLillo 1/6
Rolle 5 UA, 3 A
Sabino 0 UA, 6 A
Coleman 0 UA, 4 A
Homan 0 UA, 4 A
Moeller 4 UA, 3 A
Amos 2 UA, 1 A
Gibson 2 UA, 0 A
Moeller – 1 sack
Gibson – 2 sacks
Does Fickell normally coach one of the teams? Does this mean that, as “co-defensive coordinator,” he’s eclipsed Jim Heacock?
Loving how Saine is fighting for yards, and DAMN what a burst. I MIGHT have been wrong about him
who are you, and what have you done with Brandon Saine???
Gene Smith has moobs
Spitler ROCKED siems. keep this shit up!
“we get back to football for just a moment” – that statement seems to summarize this broadcast :p
most def.
and then: “There’s a game going on down there!”
Don’t think they meant it that way, but…
Anderson Russell witha kick return?
95K in attendance too, wow
95,722 – New national record for spring game attendance. Where you at Saban?
Saban is busy sniffing our crotches.
Oh man…major hit.
What’s with the no-name RB’s ripping huge ones and playing tough?! Are we that deep? The touted freshman aren’t even on campus yet!
who is #24? lousy broadcast…
nvrmind it’s marcus williams, they replayed it
Red-zone TDs are still NOT happening! Must get better.
That offense was walk-on-laden. I wouldn’t hold it against them. The defense with actual starters tightened up; that’s the bright spot.
Fair enough…but they’re merely mimicking what the starters have done in this game.
WHO IS JOE GANTZ?! Guy’s a beast.
Eight minute fourth quarter. Tress must have got injury spooked.
Announcer just said Bauserman was “whacked” by Brian Rolle.
Whelp, looks like nothing much more is going to occur in this one…the O-linemen have a lot of work to do, Pryor didn’t look all that much better than he did last year, when Bauserman led the offense, it looked like they could make things happen, but never did – makes me think of Boeckman. T-Wash, and T-Moe look very, very solid. Hope to see more of them.
However, when they had the most success was at the end of the 2nd half when they treated it like a video game, fearlessly bombing away with Pryor. Let’s do it!
Did I watch the same Spring Game? Pryor looked MUCH more improved….MUCH, MUCH more than what I was expecting and it’s only the Spring.
The only knock that I had on Pryor was his elbow still seemed to be lower than I would have liked to have seen, but you can’t expect a complete change in his throwing motion in a 4 month time frame.
His footwork however is like night and day and where he’s picked up that power from. Though he was wide open, his pass to Wash was on the money… The pass to Small was PERFECT! Yes, Small was the reason the play went for 6, but that ball couldn’t have been thrown any better.
The only bad throw I saw from Pryor was the Fade route in the first quarter. He needed more air under it, but really every other pass he threw looked a lot better than last year.
I don’t know if this is 100% and I don’t think stats mean a lot in a Spring Game, but Pryor was 13-18 191yrds and 2TDs first half… It’s hard, for me anyway, to not be impressed by what Pryor did.
They went vertical, he threw 2 TD’s in 2 minutes of over 40 yards a piece. Throwing one would have been a major improvement over last season. This is a major progression. Now, they just need to hit the field and do it off the bat…no more of this stalling deep in enemy territory off a turnover. It was certainly an outstanding 2 minutes, we need a great hour from this kid each Saturday…particularly in the 2nd game next year.
Hines just ran someone over
What else is new?
Moeller is the MVP from where I sit. Dude looked nasty, quick as hell, and smart out there. Took the right angle to the ball-carrier everytime, and was in on almost all D stops. Look to see alot outta him this season.
Proposal for next year: Promote Luke Fickle.
Amen
Denlinger had a nice game!
Kudso to big ten network for running a reliable real-time video stream!
So… Who’s got the torrent?
http://www.buckeyeplanet.com/forum/football-torrents/
they should have it in about a week or so i’d think, though it might be the BTN replay version
i still like Boom as the starter, but shit, i might have to think about the merits of this multi-back thing with what i saw out of saine today. homeboy looked GOOD
What a great day down at the Shoe. Is Beanie going to slip to the Browns at #21?
Browns are stupid.
Not as much $$ as Beanie was expecting. Really surprised the Browns didn’t grab him, taking a center that high doesn’t make much sense to me.
The Browns always disappoint me. You can get a quality center later in the draft. Beanie at 21 or 22 whatever it was, would have been perfect….
thats why the browns suck. how can you not draft beanie wells at 21? weak.
i think Beanie goes to New England. as soon as philly passed on him i thought that was the most likely spot
WELP
also i don’t know if you guys caught this, but Tressel wore his hawaiian shirt today and the granny shades. i have (blurry) pics, it’s amazing
it would be sick to see beanie go to the steelers
Cards? or steelers? beanie would fit in great in pittsburgh
hoooooly crap beanie isn’t even the second RB picked. who the hell is donald brown? uconn plays football?
beanie shoulda come back and shut up the skeptics about his injury issues, this decision to go to the nfl is costing him lots of cash.
i don’t know, i think leaving was still probably the right move. if he isn’t in the 1st round, he’ll certainly be in the second. if he got hurt next year he might fall to 3rd or 4th
also Beanie to the steelers would be awesome, and i’m a bengals fan
Beanie to arizona probably, that’s a great place for him
Agreed. They need the firepower on the ground.
yeah, and they made a good point about the arizona offense being able to spread people out so Beanie might not be facing 11 dudes all geared up to stop him anymore. ALSO Beanie celebrating with his 57 siblings = awesome
Well, bup, the Bengals took Maualuga. Is it just me, or do they pride themselves on taking players that have terrorized OSU in the past? Chris Perry, Rey-Rey, Kijana Carter….
yeah, i don’t get it either, makes it hard to root for them sometimes. on the other hand, their general terribleness also makes it hard to root for them sometimes.
i do like the rey-rey pick, they need DTs (and have for years now), but him in the 2nd round is a steal of a deal. hopefully andre smith pans out, talent wise he was the right pick.
i’d probably feel better about him if i had never seen him with his shirt off
Yeah, I like the pick too, but…. Ray Lewis struggled when didn’t have a DT. The Bengals have needed a DT since Dan Wilkinson didn’t pan out. I’d be fine if we traded a pick or two to get someone better than Tank frickin’ Johnson
yeah i have no idea why they thought tank johnson was someone they should ever even talk to ever.
Sounds like he’ll start next year once they get rid of Edge, but the real question is what are the browns thinking passing on this guy? D Brown before beanie will give him a huge chip on his shoulder.
i can understand it if it’s based mostly on offensive schemes, the colts and other teams probably want dudes who can catch and run out of the backfield, and Beanie isn’t going to do that.
the cardinals have like a billion dudes who can catch the ball, Beanie gives them that mean, nose to the grindstone mentality in running they don’t have.
First off, one HELL of a crowd! I never wouldve guessed 95k+! Bama can suck deez nuts. I was very happy to see the amount of spread/shotgun plays called. Not having Beanie will force Tress to open up the playbook this year. At least I hope so. Walking back to the car I passed Joyner signing autographs outside one of the gates and asked him what he thought. The kid was amazed. Hopefully the weather, crowd and facilities make it an easy decision for him. Is it September yet?
http://www.ohiostatebuckeyes.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=17300&ATCLID=3728039
two concerns: pryor getting thrown out for talking trash
tressel continues to hate on t washington! “needs to be more consistent”…he catches an f’n td pass every spring, what more do you want?!
“two concerns: pryor getting thrown out for talking trash”
reading the transcript, think this might’ve been a little tongue in cheek
so was this:
“COACH TRESSEL: Yeah, Taurian did a great job.
REPORTER: What do you see different about him this spring now?
COACH TRESSEL: Those little wristbands that he had on the top of his calves, that’s what I saw different. We’ve got to straighten that out. I don’t know if he’s got difficulty with his blood flow or what.”
ZING
hahaha also (re: the hawaiian shirt and granny shades):
“REPORTER: Why do you think there was 95,000 here this year, as opposed to previous years?
COACH TRESSEL: I think it was warm, that was probably the biggest thing.
REPORTER: But there have been beautiful days before and haven’t drawn that many, 70 or –
COACH TRESSEL: Yeah.
SHELLY POE: I think we stepped into the fashion crowd today.
COACH TRESSEL: Yeah, appealed to a whole other audience. I better go.”
I kinda like the fire Pryor has and don’t look at him jawing it up after a play as so much of a concern. We need that fire and that “swagger” (can’t believe I just said that…I hate that word)… I would much rather have that, than a guy like Todd who looked like he was going to tuck his tail between his legs and run back to the locker room.
However, I do like that Tress is trying to reel some of that it. As great as it is to have that attitude, he needs to learn to harness it a little more than he does and use the fire to lite up his line.
All and all, I really don’t see a young kid that has a pair willing to scrap for this team as a bad thing….so long as it doesn’t turn into taking 15 yards backwards and physical contact.
I was at the press conference– Pryor “ejected” was certainly tongue in cheek– Tress, LiC and Worthington were all laughing about it
thats good to hear
Its obvious from what I saw from the presser, that yes, the comments were made from a lighter side. That being said, I believe that there was some preaching behind the grins and laughs. This is still the same Tress that got upset about a late 4th quarter score last year. You can’t tell me that the guy doesn’t get upset when he sees the leader talkin some shiz (even if it is all in fun and in the heat of the moment).
Like I said I like that side of Pryor, but I have to believe there was some truth to what Tress was trying to say. Pryor was visibly upset in the 4th quarter and its odd that Tress would joke about it without there being some sort of meaning….even if his jokes are a little dry
i think you’re reading a little too much into this
Went to the game with my 15 year old son and his friend(first time in Ohio Stadium for him) and was thoroughly impressed with the 95,000+ fans in the stands! Incredible for a PRACTICE game. Wow! Ohio State has THEE best fans in college football, bar none.
Was impressed with Taurian Washington, Posey and of course Pryor. Really hope that Saine and Boom can tag team defenses in place of Beanie.
What a great day! Beautiful weather, girls all over the place, and Buckeye football! Can’t do better than that!
Also, I was hoping to more of Lamaar “speed kills” Thomas, and got my wish, but the man has to learn to hold on to the ball. I don’t think he should be returning kickoffs until he can catch.
absolutely agree with that, i’d hate to see him lose the ball like that in a game that counts
Damn! I forgot about James Jackson! He played a real good game too and seemed to be getting good separation from defenders for Bauserman to hit him behind D linemen. This kid’s going to get significant playing time, I predict. We’re stacked with linebackers and receivers.
Pryor sure is in the spotlight, isn’t he? Even the slightest bit of jawing is scrutinized.
I, and a fellow reader (possibly related to me), hit up park street. We drank from 9am-time of post and…ran from the cops at some time in between…with all due respect, Mr. and Ms. Authority…we love what you do…but, we fast like flash and shifty like ginn swimmin in butter…we got away.
Reminds me of taking an Ambien before the Michigan game last year and watching Beanie run at 450 mph.
I may or may not be the related poster……my cousin TJ may or may not be the previous poster……..we may or may not have consumed large quantities of alcohol…………we may or may not have shown up at park street patio and left before anyone showed up…….we may or may not have evaded the authorities…..we may or may not have been successful……we may or may not still be intoxicated……..this may or may not remind us of Bristol……we may or may not be out of hound………
…..we are out of hound.
let me just say if i was a browns fan i would be pissed the fuck off. beanie was sitting there at 21 and you go with who? come on!!!! come on!!!! 235lbs and 4.5 speed just doesn’t come around everyday. The cards will be sweet next year.
This may or may not have been the best spring game of all time.
p.s.-I may or may not have an extreme urge to go back to Bristol.
After seeing Moeller and Spitler perform, I don’t think we’ll have any problem at LB. Corners are definately a concern.
Really liked the crossing patterns with Pryor hittin the WR’s in stride. Haven’t seen that for a while. As usual the TE’s are MIA.
keeping alot of things under wraps im sure for usc. We have lots of talented wideouts for sure. This team will surprise some people this year. The lines will be much improved once they find the right combination. Pryor had some nice looking throws one of which he threw over the linebacker into the zone. DB’s looked good really no reason for concern at any position. Saine is a beast when healthy.
I’m sorry, but there’s no way i’m buying the “keeping things under wraps” argument again… not after last year
You don’t understand! Last year, we were keeping things under wraps for USC THIS year! It’s all part of the grand scheme to embarass them so badly that they can’t recruit anymore.
Thank you for saying it for me. Nothing is being kept under wraps. What from the USC game last year was being kept under wraps? Todd Boeckman option on 3rd and 22? That supercool trick play where we pass right to Rey Maualuga and he scores (for the other team)?
LOL I laughed @ that sour suzy……
sooooooo…..how was the social?
5 things from the spring game please!
Seconded.
I think the o-line looked like crap. We better improve a whole lot before USC comes to town or itll be national embarrassment part 4.
Oh yeah, the Bengals crushed the Browns in the draft and it will show on the field this year, who dey?
I hated Maualuga until about 6pm yesterday, now he’s my boy. Holla!
you can’t judge an O-line in the spring game. They’re divided up, moved around, and don’t have the reps as a unit yet.
That’ll come in the fall.
I saw:
1: Pryor looked like a real quarterback at time, throwing with authority.
2: Our Linebackers are going to be fine, Moeller/Homan/Spitler
3: D-line looks faster than it did last year
4: Ray Small may no longer be a ghost.
5: Starting three recievers are Devier Posey, Dane Sansenbacher, and Ray Small, with T-wash in on 4 reciever sets.