Homan Named Big Ten Defensive Player of Week
For the first time since Gholston took the honor for his Michigan game performance in ‘07, a Buckeye has been awarded the Big Ten’s Defensive Player of the Week award.
Homan racked up a career-high 15 tackles while adding two sacks, a pass breakup and a forced fumble to help the Ohio State defense hold the Badgers’ offense to a pair of field goals and remain atop the Big Ten standings. The junior linebacker’s two sacks pushed Wisconsin back 13 yards and nine of his 15 defensive stops were solo tackles. He surpassed his previous career high of 10 tackles, set in two games last season. Homan spearheaded a defensive attack that held the Big Ten’s top-ranked scoring and rushing offense to a pair of field goals and 118 yards on the ground. The Badgers entered the game averaging 35.0 points and 217.2 rushing yards per contest. Homan collects weekly laurels for the first time in his career, marking Ohio State’s first defensive honoree since Vernon Gholston was named player of the week on Nov. 19, 2007.
Ross had a monster game and in our completely biased eyes, this award is spot on.
Awesome. Kudos to Ross Homan. It’s about time this defense and the players get the respect they’ve earned. Matt Millen and the other 2nd rate color commentator kept talking about the lack of star power, and that the Buckeyes play good team defense.
Well, Here’s one of your new stars:ROSS HOMAN
I guess it’s hard to point out the star power when there are so many!
Great for Homan. I thought it’d be tough to award just one player when the entire defensive unit came through. Can’t complain, it seemed like Homan was in on every play.
Don’t be surprised to see Kurt Coleman’s name joining the awards list soon. He is the real deal!
As an aside, one of my favorite things to do is to peruse the MGoBlog liveblog the day after the most recent heartbreaking Michigan loss. Here’s a fun game: try to guess from below the precise moment when the hearts of hundreds of thousands of Wolverines were broken in the same instant:
11:28
Dennis: 1ST AND 10: ROBINSON KEEPS FOR 7
11:28
[Comment From Jim Harbaugh Scramble]
hurry it up c’mon!
11:28
[Comment From rugbijosh]
Shouldn’t we have a passing QB in here?… No timeouts and all?
11:28
[Comment From Brad]
DR is too slow to the line
11:28
formerlyanonymous: This is a passing qb
11:28
[Comment From Ms. Wolverine]
NO FUCKING WAY. That was awesome.
11:28
[Comment From David]
THIS IS CRAZY
11:29
[Comment From runandshoot]
holy hell – nice throw
11:29
[Comment From G]
Now that’s a real throw.
11:29
[Comment From DPs LR]
fuck
11:29
[Comment From JediLow]
Well, this drive should make people respect the pass with DRob
11:29
[Comment From Jim Harbaugh Scramble]
shit well that suked
11:29
Dennis: 2ND AND 3: DENARD PASS DEEP INTERCEPTED, GAME OVER
11:29
[Comment From Niet]
:(
11:29
[Comment From JediLow]
Or not.
11:29
[Comment From Karate Fists and Beans]
fuck
11:29
[Comment From Blue Balls]
shit
11:29
[Comment From Big M]
oh know
11:29
[Comment From Plegerize]
game over
11:29
[Comment From NayVar]
Denard should not have been in th egame
11:29
[Comment From JLC21]
Sighhhhhhhhhhhh.
11:29
[Comment From Karate Fists and Beans]
THAT’LL HAPPEN
11:29
[Comment From Ruhmann]
ok, now I remember, true freshmen… fucker-doodles
11:29
[Comment From Big M]
It should have been tate and now that is all they’re going to talk about
11:29
Dennis: You can can that, but Denard led them to the touchdown on the previous drive, it’s just a question of making sure he knows not to throw like that
11:29
[Comment From Jim Harbaugh Scramble]
he had all day to run – news flash to puss-berger Wisco and MSU scuck
11:29
[Comment From BlueGoM]
Denard is in tears.
11:30
[Comment From Guest]
seriously, forcier should have been in.
11:30
[Comment From Jim Harbaugh Scramble]
fuck it we covered the spread so we won!
Live threads are the strangest chart of the pure emotional up and downs of a game. You could almost graph it out. One second everyone’s screaming about how awesome X player or coach it and the next they want them fired. It’s complete unedited emotional reaction.
Ross Homan the pride of Coldwater Ohio.
I guess if there was one person who deserved, it it was him. Props, however, to the whole defense – for moving the ball up there feild, and scoring at will.
Our linebackers were all ferocious in the game