Buckeye 411
- Injury Report- Ross Homan’s injury will mean that he’s out for a couple of weeks, Dorian Bell is recovering from a concussion that he got against Indiana. Storm Klein was not 100% last week, but is expected to be ready for Purdue. Orhian Johnson should also be ready to go. Shugarts’ foot still hurts and will probably do so for the remainder of the season.
- Tress Talk– Buckeyes, it seems, are like Goonies:
I think the other reality is that the Buckeyes never quit. The Buckeyes played and played. I thought we did a good job of putting ourselves in position to have a chance to get back in the game and perhaps take over the game and, again, to their credit, they put together a nice drive which was keyed by a couple key third-down conversions that they did a nice job with and those really are the realities in the football game.
- Injury Report, cont.- When it rains, it pours- Christian Bryant has been hospitalized for an foot infection, and will not be available on Saturday. No decision has been made yet regarding who might play the Star position, since Moeller is also out. Johnny at 11W sums it up nicely.
- Gee, You Think So, Doctor?- Coach Tressel on special teams issues:
Well, there aren’t any other issues, other than being in your lane and taking on blockers and everyone being where they’re supposed to be. So, yeah, they’re the exact same
- What You Can Get For A Nickle: a) Hines at Star and Grant at Safety, b) Oliver at Star if healthy, c) Base defense, lots of prayer. Remember, option C is better than anything Mich1gAAn will be able to put on the field for the next year or so.
- Tress Talk, The Sequel- I know this is “Senator speak”, but you’ve got to think that there’s a full awareness of the teachable moment that’s here-
To me the key will be, what kind of students are we, because if you’re being taught through adversity, how well are we learning from it, and that will be the fun of attacking the practice field. Because what’s interesting is Purdue really doesn’t care about the difficulty of the challenge or the adversity or the disappointment of maybe letting someone down. Purdue has had their own adversity. They lost their quarterback early. They lost a running back in preseason. They lost a great receiver. And to their credit, they just rolled up their sleeves and have gotten better and better and better and find themselves by doing so, sitting at the top of the Big Ten, 2-0, playing well, young quarterback coming in and the staff, I think, is doing a great job with that young quarterback. He’s a very, very good runner and a very good passer. I think they’re doing the things that conceptually he understands and keep adding a little bit as he goes and in terms of our situation, Purdue doesn’t really care about our adversities, they’ve dealt with their own, they just care about getting better. And what we have to make sure when we take the field this afternoon is that we’re most concerned with getting better at what we need to do. Our players and coaches spent just as long on Sunday watching the film together as they normally do, and someone asked me on the Big Ten call, well, how were our guys this week. Well, Sunday they were tired. They were sore. They were disappointed, but they went to work and went to do what they had to do. Yesterday was their day off and there were lots of them roaming around the building, watching more film, lifting weights and doing all the things they do on an off day, but in my mind, the measure of how we confront that adversity and what kind of students we are of adversity will be determined by how we hit the practice field and how we take the field on Saturday and, you know, life is tough.
- Award Winners- Boom was the offensive player of the week, Mike Adams was awarded the Offensive Lineman award. No shock: no defensive, special teams, or attack force POTW.
- Tressel’s Komedy Klassic- As always, presented without commentary or context.
REPORTER: Both Illinois and Wisconsin came out hard charging out of the gate and I’m wondering if there was a common denominator in those games, are those experiences something you could learn from that would help you be more productive earlier in games?
COACH TRESSEL: You mean not get behind?
Other Buckeye News
- Numerology- Wisconsin gained four or more yards on 17 of their 21 first downs; Ohio State gained four or more yards on 14 of 29 first downs
- Ah, An Autumn Night In Madison, Part 2- Over on Buckeye Planet, there’s a lot of wonderment regarding how Wisconsin never plays any road night games in conference. My thoughts? It would impact everyone’s ability to get back in time for milking.
- Hope Springs Eternal- Purdue’s coach sees this weeks’ game against the Buckeyes as an “Opportunity“. For what, he didn’t specify.
Elsewheres
- Ron Zook, Talent Evaluator- Guess who Z’s saying is the best quarterback in the Big T1e1n? IU’s Ben Chappell.
- Knowing Our Boundaries- We have a lot of fun here at tBBC, and express our joys and frustrations with Buckeye football in what I believe are healthy ways. While this is due, in part, to the generally classiness of your favorite authors, the truth of the matter is that we realize that this could happen if we were less than civil with our critique:
Fear not- this is footage from a Canadian game, so they’ve all got access to health care. Come to think of it, that may also explain why there weren’t any handguns present…
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