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Jim Tressel: BCS Ring Collector

Jim Tressel has added to his already impressive resume with the Buckeyes' heart attack inducing win in the Sugar Bowl against the Arkansas Razorbacks. After whiffing in two straight NCG games, the Sweatervest legion have come back swinging with two BCS victories over the past two years. The two losses against SEC foes in the NCG tattered both Ohio State's and Tressel's national reputation, especially in the South. The win in the Rose Bowl a year ago gave a much needed boost to Ohio State's national prestige. But heading into this season there were still doubters out there, people who were dubious Ohio State had what it took to win a game against an SEC team. The 2010 season played itself out and lo and behold it pitted Ohio State in the Sugar Bowl against Arkansas. Here was Ohio State's chance to redeem itself against their personal Kryptonite .  .   . an SEC team  .  .   . a team with 'Southern Speed'

The stakes of the game were raised with the revelation of the Tatgate scandal and once more with the huge egg the Big 10 dropped on New Year's day. Suddenly the Big 10 was once again on the cusp of becoming nationally irrelevant. In one hard day the Big 10 fell hard and fell fast, becoming a national laughingstock in the eyes of everyone. Only a Buckeye win against Arkansas could salvage any respectability for the Big 10. Not only did Ohio State need the win for the Big 10, but they also needed it for themselves. They needed it to soothe the sting of the Tatgate scandal, they needed it to silence the critics, they needed it to ensure the record would not extend to 0-10.

Hungry for the win, the Buckeyes came roaring out of the gates en route to a comfortable 28-10 lead at the half. Ohio State's offense went cold and Arkansas continued to put more points on the board, resulting a potential blowout turn into an uncomfortably (at least from the Buckeyes' point of view) tight game. A sense of impending doom seemed to settle over the field as the lead continued to lessen and as Ohio State failed to mount any sustained drives. The Razorbacks recovered a blocked punt deep in Buckeye territory. With momentum on their side, Arkansas seemed poised to finish an incredible comeback. Fortunately, Solomon Thomas came up with a late interception to seal the game for the good guys.

With the win, Tressel added another BCS bowl win to his resume. But has this win put him in a league apart from the rest of the coaches out there? Maybe not quite, but it certainly puts him among the leading candidates. It also puts the Sweatervest one Orange bowl ring away from being the only coach to win all four BCS bowls. Having won the Fiesta bowl (several times), Tressel has recently added two more BCS bowl wins to his resume. Jim Tressel has the most BCS bowl game appearances (8) of any coach. He also boasts the most BCS bowl wins in the coaching ranks. Without a doubt Tressel is among the best, if not the best, college football coaches out there. The Sugar bowl win has done as much to vindicate and repair Tressel's reputation as it has for the Buckeyes.

Will Tressel ever get a shot at the Orange bowl? A Buckeye appearance in a future Orange bowl is something that is unknowable at this point. But if Jim ever does get a shot at the Orange, I have faith that he's the best coach period to come out of the Orange bowl with the 'W'. For now though, I will 'settle' with basking in the afterglow of Tressel's latest win.



Sugar Bowl 2011: An Open Letter to Eleven Warriors and Its Readers

I cannot do this alone. I need all of you to be my support group today, because although I've been doing ok for five weeks, today I'm a nervous wreck.

Today is the day our beloved Buckeyes are taking on an SEC team in a bowl game for the 10th time. You would think the law of averages would have already provided us ONE stinkin' win in the first nine tries. True, some of those Buckeye teams weren't very good. Four of those teams had at least four losses, while only the 2000 Gamecocks had as many as four. None of those nine came against a team with more losses than Ohio State at the end of the season and the Buckeyes had more losses in each instance except three times, when the teams had the same number of losses (not that anyone ever talks about that).  All but one of those nine losses came in the SEC's back yard, with the other coming in the desert on a night when I'd rather pretend everything that happened after the opening kickoff didn't happen at all. But the law of averages has treated us like The Sisters treated Andy Dufresne in The Shawshank Redemption. But I digress.

It's not that I'm not optimistic about tonight's game. I think this is the best matchup we've had against the SEC in awhile. I think we have a pretty talented offensive group that has proven it can win games in a variety of ways - power running, big plays, dink-and-dunk, TP scrambling every other down, you name it. I like our defense, even though they occasionally make my aorta want to explode with their lack of a killer finish by the D line on third down (the last Iowa series is the first time I can remember a clutch sack all year).  Devon Torrence made me throw up in my mouth a little in the first half against Penn State, but aside from that they've been pretty good. If I had to put a percentage on it, I'd say tonight's game is pretty close to 50/50, with the team committing the fewest turnovers being the likely winner.

So what exactly has me wanting to chug Maalox? It's this damn national perception thing, I think. It's just the intense NEED to have ESPN and the rest of the media sheep SHUT THE HELL UP about Ohio State's SEC bowl record, the Big Ten's struggles and above all, the entire stupid lack-of-speed argument. Just once, I want to watch Mark May choke on his tongue, talking about how Ohio State came out and took care of business and that our opponents couldn't match up against US. I guess I'm just craving an end to the complete lack of respect that we and our conference have sustained for the last...I don't know, 8-10 years or so. Some of it is no doubt deserved (Leaders and Legends, anyone?), but a lot of it is unjust and I'm filled with butterflies just thinking about how tonight could be the night we turn it around. But we said that back in 2007 before the LSU game, too.

There's another thing, too. Remember Neutron Man, the dancing fat guy who would shake it when the OSU Marching Band played "Neutron Dance" in the Horseshoe? He's no longer with us. Neutron Man died without having seen his beloved Buckeyes defeat an SEC team in a bowl game. I'm 44 years old and I do not want to be like Neutron Man.

I know that these are my own personal neuroses and that it's only a f#$%ing football game. I know I shouldn't allow it to affect me like this and that I shouldn't care what ESPN or anyone else thinks. I don't know if any of my fellow Buckeye fans out there are feeling quite as nuts or as nervous about the whole thing as I am. But, if you're out there, I need your support. We're all in this together. Aren't we? Or am I alone in this anxiety-filled purgatory?

What say you?

Thanks for listening.



Representing: Arkansas

First posted on Inside The Shoe

 

Our Sugar Bowl opponent has some pretty good blogs out there, and one of the best, Arkansas Expats was kind enough to join us in answering questions about the Razorbacks.

Arkansas has so many weapons on offense, and not just Mallett. Who else does this team build around in big game situations, and can make the big plays?

 

Ryan Mallett is the unquestioned leader and main guy on offense but, like you said, he has a lot of weapons to chose from. For starters, the receiving corps might be the deepest in the nation, to the point where they didn't miss a beat even with the loss of  #1 WR Greg Childs to a season-ending injury against Vanderbilt in October. Since Childs went out, the other wide receivers - Joe Adams, Cobi Hamilton and Jarius Wright - have each stepped up with big games and huge plays in key moments. Because Mallett tends to spread the ball around a lot, none of these guys got the individual acclaim that comes with gaudy stats, but they're all very dangerous players.

 

Moving on, Mackey Award winner D.J. Williams is probably the best pass-catching tight end in the country, and usually presents a tough matchup for the defense with his size and speed. And, although Bobby Petrino isn't known as a running coach, it was actually the emergence of RB Knile Davis and the ground game that spurred Arkansas from a potentially disappointing season into the Sugar Bowl. Davis rushed for more than 1,000 yards despite not being chosen as the featured back until October, and has added a key element that was missing when the Hogs let 4th quarter leads slip away against Georgia (a close win) and Alabama (a painful loss) because they couldn't run the ball.

 

What has to happen for Ohio State to beat Arkansas, and vice versa?

 

When OSU is on defense, their best option will be to pressure Mallett (easier said than done, but certainly not impossible) and force him into a bad INT or two. His reputation as a questionable decision-maker is a little overstated (his TD to INT ratio over the last two seasons is more than 3:1), but he does have a tendency to trust his arm a bit too much when he's hurried. Also, completely eliminating big plays against Mallett and company is unlikely, but if the Buckeye D can keep those game-breakers to a minimum they'll be in good shape. 

 

The Hogs' defense is much improved over the terrible unit in 2009, but talented running QBs tend to give them trouble (Example A: Cameron Newton during the Auburn game). If Terrelle Pryor can make enough plays with his feet to open up the passing game then Arkansas will be in bad shape. The nightmare scenario for Razorback fans is Pryor (and Herron) running for first downs and keeping our offense off the field, mixed in with the occasional big pass against our injury-depleted secondary.

 

For the Hogs to win, they basically need to do the opposite of everything we described above (duh)...make enough big plays on defense to give our offense the ball, and execute a balanced offense well enough to grind out some points against your D. The ideal scenario for us would be something like our game against LSU, in which the defense played well throughout and the offense hit enough big passing plays in the first three quarters to get the lead, then salted it away with a ball-control running attack in the 4th.

 

Jim Tressel - What do you think of him?

 

First of all, his track record speaks for itself - he's won a national championship and, although we don't know his W-L percentage off the top of my head, we're sure it's very high on the list of all active coaches. It seems like he recruits well, and OSU is always in the conversation for championships at the end of the season. So, he's obviously doing a lot of things right.

 

Beyond that, we don't know *all* that much about Tressel. Frankly, he seems fairly boring - both in his notoriously sweater vesty taste in clothes to his old school meat & potatoes approach to the game. Not that that's really a bad thing, but that's our outsider's take on it.

 

As you well know by now, the Tat Five are allowed to play in the Sugar Bowl. If it was you in that situation what would you do with those players?

 

That's a really hard question. It'd be easy for us to get on our moral high horse and say they should have been suspended immediately or whatever, which probably would have been the most logical approach based on, you know, the rules. But, we generally try to stay off our high horse as much as possible, as people usually tend to be kind of obnoxious when they're up there.

 

Objectively speaking, it seems pretty weird that the players are being allowed to play in the Sugar Bowl, especially when other precedents (like A.J. Green at Georgia earlier this year) would suggest otherwise. More than anything, the decision illuminates the NCAA as fairly ridiculous organization that bases its rulings either on complete whims or due to financial pressures above all else. 

 

But, as Razorback fans, we're really glad the Tat Five are playing. Arkansas-Ohio State promisees to be one of the best of all the bowl matchups, and we want to see the Buckeyes at full strength for the game. That way, if we win there will be no excuses and if we lose we'll know it was to a fully-manned squad. For the sake of watching a good game, we're happy to see those guys on the field, even if it how it happened is a bit dubious.

 

How do you feel about where Arkansas is as a team, and who wins the Sugar Bowl and why?

 

We're confident that most Hog fans will agree with us when we say we feel really good about where Arkansas is as a team and a program in general. After many years of near-misses and overall frustration, we finally have a system in place with the right coaches and players to be in the national conversation every year (even if we haven't exactly been dominant recently, Arkansas has a rich football history so our expectations tend to run high). In year three of the Petrino era things seem to be clicking in all the ways we'd hoped. Making the Sugar Bowl this year is the culmination of a process that's been building for a few years now, and win or lose we feel like things are definitely on the right track.

 

As for the Sugar Bowl, picking bowl games is always a crapshoot because of the time off between games and extracurricular factors involved. But, we're homers so it's hard not to go with the Razorbacks. We think it'll be a hard-fought, back and forth game that comes down to the waning minutes of the fourth quarter...the OSU defense will contain the Hogs more than a lot of teams have, but in the end we expect the Razorbacks to break through just enough times to win a close one.



Letter to fans from JT

As you know by now, I write letters.  I wrote one to JT just to tell him I was thinking of him during this difficult time.  Apparently, so did a lot of others, so he responded to all of us with the following:

 

"Please excuse this informal/impersonal response to your thoughts that you took time to share with me regarding our recent situation with our Ohio State Football Family. You can imagine we are quite busy at this moment.

 

I did indeed read your thoughts, and I appreciate you caring enough to spend the time to send them. There was quite an array of opinions of our kids, our program, our coaching, the NCAA, Ohio State, and the game of football. And for how we should proceed.

 

What I appreciated most was your passion for Ohio State and your compassion for kids and their futures. You can be sure we take very seriously our responsibility to the well being of the kids, Ohio State, and the game of football. We will continue to do our best in representing each.

 

Best wishes to you and yours as we celebrate a New Year living in the greatest country in the world."

 

jim tressel



Answering Some Suspension Questions

 

First posted on Inside The Shoe. Brady answers the 3 biggest questions about the suspensions. 

Wow! That wasn't the way Buckeye nation wanted to kick off the holiday season. Unless you have been living in a cave for the past week you know that Terrelle Pryor, Boom Herron, Mike Adams, DeVier Posey, Soloman Thomas and Jordan Whiting all were found to have either sold some awards for extra cash and/or receive discounts on body ink in exchange for signed memorabilia. The news broke late last week by the infractions occurred in the 2008 and 1009 seasons. Like any Buckeye fan, I was shocked and extremely worried about the timing of the announcement and the speed at which the NCAA handed down its punishment to the individuals involved.

Player eligibility for the Sugar Bowl seemed in jeopardy along with OSU’s chances of ending its’ embarrassing 0-9 record against gods conference in bowl games. Luckily Jim Delaney and AD Gene Smith stepped in on the teams behalf and it was deemed that the players were not given adequate information on what the rules were pertaining to selling personal awards. Yeah, I don’t believe that either but this was the “official” explanation handed down by the university. 
 

After digesting all of the information over the weekend (along with an abundance of holiday cuisine) I figured there were 3 main questions/concerns that fans would have about the situation. Let’s explore them as individual items rather than lumping the whole thing together as there are varying degrees to this mess. 

 

Is it wrong to sell personal awards (rings, gold pants, etc..) for monetary gain?

Absolutely not. I would argue until I’m blue in the face that these guys had the right to sell those items. I can see where the NCAA had a problem with it though. At Ohio St., football is the revenue king and anything to do with the program would have more value than other championship rings or awards received in other sports at the university. That gives football players an advantage over other student athletes and consequently can be viewed as unfair. Unfortunately, this is the nature of the beast. These players worked their tails off to earn those Big Ten championships along with their victories against Michigan. The rings and gold pants awarded are technically their property and there is no court on earth that would view it any other way. College players are broke and often come from rough backgrounds.

Many have families that are struggling to pay the bills back home. I am not naive enough to think that this was the only reason these players decided to part with those various items though. That was the official reason given by Ohio St. but you would be crazy to think that some of that cash didn’t go towards nice dinners or a case of Budweiser. If, and that’s a big IF, most of the money went towards supporting a family going through tough times, the punishment does not fit the crime. The NCAA appears quite hypocritical to allow college students to be awarded rings and trinkets made out of precious medals to then say you can’t sell them. A classic case of letting the inmates run the asylum if you ask me. Just asking for trouble. 
 

How could these guys possibly part with championship rings, and especially those golden pants, for a few extra bucks?

I have no idea. This is the aspect to the story that really upset me and surely upset many players from the OSU past. I might feel better about the whole situation if it involved agents and $100 handshakes to tell you the truth. Seriously guys, you have a free education, meal money and free room and board. Most of you will be making more money per Sunday than most folks see in 3 years. Your telling me you can’t hold on to these cherished items and wait another year to make the big bucks? This act of betrayal and selfishness really illustrates the disconnect between player and fan in today's college football.


I realize that many of these guys don’t hail from our great state but they must know by now how important football is to us. Selling Big Ten championship rings and freakin’ gold pants is like punching the fans right in the gut. Really? You sold the gold pants from the Michigan victories?! I get TSUN has been a dumpster fire as of late but they are still the hated Wolverines. What do you think past Buckeye’s such as Antoine Winfield or Mike Vrabel would do for a few more pairs of those things. Hell, Cooper might still have a job if he had only a few more pairs. I am sure ol’ Coop added a few more gray hairs to that dome of his after reading about this. 
 

How do the suspension effect next season? Not that much in my opinion. Let’s face the facts. Terrelle Pryor has not lived up to the incredible hype bestowed on him and this team may be better off with Braxton Miller under center next season. I realize that many of us are still clinging to the notion that TP is superman but can you see OSU getting to the MNC with another season of shot put throws and indecisiveness out of the QB position? I sure as hell can’t. The guy is a tremendous athlete and will probably make and excellent NFL receiver if he is humble enough for a position change (not likely).

Time for the Braxton Miller Era

Personally, the sooner Braxton gets here the better. The team may suffer through some freshman mistakes in the first few weeks but will be better for it in the end. Miller will also have the spring to prepare for the spotlight as he is graduating early this year. This quote from Miller after choosing the Buckeyes may mean more to us now than ever. “I’m an Ohio guy. It just came down to the fact that it was Ohio St. That was that.” Music to my ears brother! 

The running back position is loaded with young talent and the loss of Boom Herron should not affect the running game in the slightest. It took upwards of 2 seasons for Herron to become a serviceable back and his absence will open the door for Hall, Berry, Hyde and Smith. From all accounts, Rod Smith has been tearing up bowl practices and many of his teammates are raving about the guy. Hall has been good in his limited action and Berry has opened some eyes with his kick returns. Even if one of the aforementioned guys decides to transfer, there is still plenty of talent to go around and I am looking forward to seeing the next wave of Buckeye backs. 

We're going to miss you, Dane.

DeVier Posey struggled this season and I would argue that the loss of Sanzenbacher is far and away the bigger of the two. There were whispers that Posey was a goner even before this story broke so losing him was a foregone conclusion anyway. He is definitely a threat on the outside but his drops this season coupled with the disappearing acts for entire games makes him an expendable commodity. Hopefully Philly Brown and Chris Fields are ready for the limelight next season because we will need those guys to perform at a high level.


The biggest loss may be that of Mike Adams. He finally lived up to his recruiting hype this season and made 1st team all Big Ten while helping to anchor a much improved offensive line. As with any offense, its’ success starts up front in the trenches and replacing big Mike won’t be easy (though there are some young guys I am excited about on the O line). It remains to be seen if Adams will bolt for the league but I can’t see how the Junior will sit out half a season in favor of NFL riches. He would be a key addition to the team midway through next season (especially with a young QB at the helm) if he decides to stay. Only time will tell.


Obviously this whole situation is another black eye to the Ohio St. football program but I don’t view these infractions as egregious, just disappointing. Don’t tell that to noted Buckeye hater Mark May though. He had the balls to come out and say that if this had happened at an SEC university, the NCAA would have ruled the players out for the bowl game. Are you F’n serious Mark? Did you forget about Cam Newton and his family trying to squeeze 180K out of Miss. St.? What did the NCAA do in the wake of these PROVEN allegations? They limited the amount of visits by his father and gave Newton the Heisman along with allowing him to play in the MNC. Sounds like a pretty good deal to me considering the severity of that situation. I don’t know why I continue to let this douche bag get under my skin but I can’t help it. I am convinced he is on the ESPN staff only to piss off one of the largest fan bases in the country. Congratulations Mark! You got me again. 
 

All in all, if OSU had to get busted this was the absolute best outcome they could’ve expected. Not only do we keep our starters for the Sugar bowl but the young guys will get a chance to show their stuff next year. The NCAA continues to befuddle me and everyone else with their inconsistent and self serving punishments. Money and television ratings obviously fuel their decisions and the boys from Indianapolis continue to be a joke year in and year out. Unfortunately we have to live with their decisions but thankfully this year’s Sugar Bowl won’t be ruined because of them. I’m ready to put this whole mess in the rear view mirror and concentrate on something fun… like a football game.

 


Should We Thank Wisconsin?

Something came to my mind earlier today. Along with the fact that some of Ohio State's best players are going to be suspended for 5 games, and maybe the Sugar Bowl (depending on what Tressel decides), maybe Buckeye fans should be thanking, yes thanking,  Wisconsin. The tatgate has hit OSU hard, and hit the legacy of Terrelle Pryor even harder. Ohio State plays in the Sugar Bowl on January 4th, but what would have happened if they were playing on the 10th, for the National Championship? The NCAA and Ohio State would be in a pickle. Say Auburn was our opponent, would the NCAA still suspend these Buckeyes after letting Cameron Newton go free with money in his pocket, simply because he "didn't know"?


If they did, maybe it's time to be gracious we aren't in a position to win a National Title this year. If we had to stick the ball into Bauserman's or Guiton's hands without our starting left tackle, without a starting wide receiver, and without the leading rusher, could they really pull out a win? The defense might be fine, other than the mind game they would be playing while trying to tackle the best player in college football in Cam Newton. The mind game would overtake their minds simply because they have no offense backing them up. Who knows, maybe they would take that into a good way, maybe they like taking the load on their shoulders, but really, you can't win with just a defense. You can come close, don't get me wrong, but you have to have some sort of an offense.

This being said, what about the TatFive? Pryor, Posey, Herron, Adams, and Thomas would be standing on the sidelines with hecklers behind them and an NFL future seeming inevitable all while their teammates and good friends for the past 2-3 years are on the field trying to overcome what they've done and churn out a desperate victory. If we lost, that would move the Buckeyes to 0-10 against the SEC and another Buckeye debacle in the National Championship. Sure, some media would stick up for the Buckeyes saying their best players were sitting down, but over at Arkansas Expats, they're already viewing this as an excuse in case we lose the Sugar Bowl.

Who's to say that the rest of the country won't see that, and not just in the Sugar Bowl, but if we hadn't lost to Wisconsin, in theNational Championship. Tressel would be hit hard, moving to 5-5 in bowl games, and 4-4 mark in BCS games, and don't forget 1-3 in Championship games.
 

Ohio State's suffering comes back to the Tat Five.

These records might move Tressel's job into danger. I'm not talking hot seat, but this not only hurts Ohio State's and his own records, but it also taints the programs view. I've said it before, Buckeye fans have been on the outside looking in, which is where you want to be, on the whole NCAA investigations/suspension mode. So once again, even if it's wrong to think like this, I have to thank Wisconsin because I would much rather be in this situation at the Sugar Bowl then the National Championship.

I can only hope that somehow, some way, Tressel can pull out a win in New Orleans. Last time he was there he had all the tools, but LSU dismantled the OSU offense with all the starters. Arkansas's defense isn't as good, but if Tressel decides to sit his Tat Five, then it doesn't matter what kind of defense you have, you're probably going to have a successful defensive game facing a back up QB. I would sit Pryor anyway, but at the same time, can we win without him?

 

I would like to add that I don't think Tressel would come close to being fired, I'm merely stating that another loss, especially to an SEC team is tough to swallow again for Buckeye fans.



Backtracking, It's an Art

We're not huge into blogger beefs, unless you're talking about that one erect turd of a site that accused of us stealing their content, but this is disingenuous at best:

We’ve known about a possible investigation for the past three days, but have stayed deliberately silent on the matter because of a lack of credible sources. However, with the Dispatch confirmation of earlier reports and ESPN's reporting tonight, the news has spiraled into a miniature scandal.

Really?

This is part in parcel with the whole Scout/BSB assault on Bucknuts relating to their rivalry and lack of love between each other. Here's one of Scout's "insiders" saying the whole ordeal was "much ado about nada" just two days ago (before claiming to be close to the situation and holding relevant details late last night).

Nobody is right all of the time, but at least be man enough to admit you're wrong (or blindly taking part in site beefs) when you are.

We've never been huge into any messageboard or forum community and right now, I'm pretty thankful for that. You are not effective in reporting news when you have a clear bias against another operation.



Sugar Bowl MS Paint artwork

Just thought I'd share a picture I drew for the Sugar Bowl on Paint, it actually worked out great because this was the exact same picture I drew for the Rose Bowl last year, I just changed the duck to a razorback lol. Very convenient. Enjoy. I guess I have to reach 125 words so, I have a lot more Buckeye pictures that I have made on Paint if anyone else is interested in seeing them. If anyone has a catchy slogan/idea that I can turn into a picture, go ahead and suggest it, I'll make it if it's cool enough. Still like 12 words short, so Brian Rolle is a monster, that is all. Hopefully this is now 125 words. Thanks.

Edit: I keep trying to resize it, but it is still getting cut off. To see the whole thing, right click and view image.



Marcus Freeman to be Named LB Coach at KSU

I just got word from a trusted source that Marcus Freeman got the linebackers coaching job at Kent State. Freeman played at OSU from 2004-2009 and was part of a great linebacker duo along with James Laurinaitis. Freeman had a tango with the NFL as part of the Bills and texans, but had to retire prematurely due to an irregular heart beat. Freeman returned to Ohio State upon retiring to finish up his Master's Degree in Sport Management. During that time (last spring to this fall) he served as the defensive quality control coach for OSU and has done a great job for Jim Tressel this season. Freeman was offered a position on Darell Hazell's staff and accepted it earlier today.

Best of luck to Freeman on his first full-time coaching position at the division 1 level. Who knows, maybe one day he'll be back in Columbus as linebackers coach, defensive coordinator, or maybe even head coach one day? You never know, but what we do know is that the OSU coaching tree continues to branch out further every year.



Duron Carter - The Plot Thickens

Apparently people have been bothering Duron on FaceBook for information about his plans regarding Ohio State.

I just noticed a juicy morsel in my news feed from Duron:

"People stop asking me questions about O state.... ask them..."

Before he was dominating the nation at Coffeyville (TerreLOL!) he was making waves at OSU as a crushing blocker with sticky hands, poised to make a jump in playing time. There are plenty of fans that would love to see him back in the scarlet and grey.

Perhaps I'm reading more in to this than I should, but his statement seems to indicate that Duron is waiting on OSU before he makes a move. I would assume there is still a scholarship available for him if he wanted to commit, so this makes me wonder if there are still academic issues involved.

Anyone care to offer alternate conjectures?



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