What would Tyler Whaley think?
Jan 09, 2008 @ 11:59 PM
The Herald-Dispatch
Despite Ohio State's 38-24 loss to LSU in Monday's national championship game, the team's second consecutive title-game defeat, I still want to be a Buckeye. Specifically, I want to be fullback Tyler "Tank" Whaley.
So here goes:
As the 23-year-old senior from Ironton, I want to say that this loss really hurts. We worked our tails off the past several weeks to get ready for this game. Nobody on our team believed LSU was any better than we were -- and they weren't. We just made some mistakes in the game we couldn't overcome.
I don't want to take anything away from the Tigers; they are an excellent football team. They earned and deserve this win. But, I want to remind everybody that our team was extremely young this year. This was supposed to be a rebuilding year for us. Remember? We lost Teddy Ginn, Troy Smith, Antonio Pittman and Anthony Gonzales to the NFL after last season. Nobody gave us much of a chance to even win our own conference when this season started, much less play for it all.
What would Tyler Whaley think? - Huntington, WV -- The Herald-Dispatch