Buckeye Disa and Data Spring Edition

Beanie is resting for most of spring drills, but oh man, what a game he had last November against Meatchicken.

Buckeyes spring a bit less physical according to Columbus Dispatch…

The powers that be in college football tell Tres to prepare for late start on west coast visit come September…

Wolver-weenie cast away possibly a Buckeye Refugee?…

And we’ll see the SEC again for sure…like in 2018.

Ah, Spring!  It’s time for spring practice back in Columbus near the banks of the Olentangy.  Spring drills are underway as I hear and there is a few tidbits of news here and there.

According to a report I just read on the Columbus Dispatch’s Web site (http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/football/stories/2008/03/27/osufb27.ART_ART_03-27-08_C5_1N9OQFF.html?sid=101), State Head Coach Jim Tressell is toning down hitting this spring and going with a more teaching oriented camp.  Perhaps some of the injuries play into that or Tressell’s want to change things up a bit. 

However, it seems that those factors along with the fact that the team doesn’t have as many challenges as it did going into last year including an offensive scheme change may have facilitated the less hitting approach. 

While there isn’t that many position battles with so many returning faces, this might be a chance for the Buckeyes to focus on details.  Other than that, it seems that Tressell’s spring camp might be a bit boring.  Including the spring game in which he says in the report may be more like a controlled scrimmage instead of a full blown game come April 19.

The USC game’s gonna be a prime time match up.  Really? 

Also on that web site and which has been floating around quite a bit is that the Sept. 13 game out in Los Angeles against Southern Cal is more than likely going to be a Prime Time East Coast game on either ABC or ESPN.  The National audience on ABC is probably the choice for this clash of titan-like programs meeting for the first time in years.  It’s a no brainer.  The downside for me?  Uh, that’s  1 a.m. my time here in the UK.  Yeah, that sucks for me.

Former Wolverweenie Justin Boren (No.65) has left scUM.

The Buckeyes may be in the running to perhaps be where former Michigan and Pickerington native Justin Boren lands.  The son of a former Meatchicken player, the line-men left the school up north recently (the 3rd player to do so of late) and might make his way home.  While this is a rarity, Boren was a prized recruit once upon a time and you can never have enough line-men.  Even if he will forever be marked with a blue and yellow mark.  I don’t like the way this one smells and can’t see it, but stranger things have happened.

And finally, the Buckeyes announced that they will once again play an SEC team in the future.  And, in the regular season for the first time since 1988’s win over then No. 7 L.S.U. in Columbus.  Ohio State will play Tennessee after the schools have agreed to play and home-and-home series. 

However, this won’t take place until 2018 when the Buckeyes will travel to Rocky Top and play in front of the Knoxville faithful on opening day of that year.  The Vols will return in 2019 for a rare trip up north to play in Columbus. 

The teams have only played once back in the 1995 Citrus Bowl which was a 20-14 Vols win.  Let’s see by 2018, Nick Saban will have made his way to Knoxville after having coached at every other SEC school despite vowing that each stop was his last and where he belonged and Tressell will be thinking of hanging em’ up after seven-more consecutive trips to the National Title Game.

Think about this for a moment: the players that will be playing in those games are now in the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth grade at the moment.  That’s right, when that game goes on and you’re out tailgating, the hot co-eds that happen by then are currently 8-to-11 years old.  Creepy.  Yours truly at the tender age of 42, will be going thru yet another mid-life crisis by then and have to drive north from his future home in Florida with his 3rd wife to see the game in Tennessee.  And Big B still won’t have wireless in his garage where he’ll surely be hosting a shindig complete with creepy neighbors visiting late night.  But, it’ll still be a good time.

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