QB Art Schlichter (official thread)

[Steve19]

Originally Posted by ScriptOhio

YouTube - Game winning drive and INT - UCLA 1979

That was 8:39 down memory lane! What a great memory. Thanks for posting that!

[ashlandbuck]

Originally Posted by Steve19

Let us also not forget that gambling addicts do not have total control over their ability to stop gambling. Gambling addition is biosocial. It is linked to the sensation seeking personality trait, which is triggered by the context in which gambling addicts find themselves. It has been linked to monoamineoxidase levels in the brain and to other hormones linked to arousal. Work in recent years has identified a genetic predisposition.

In that sense, we can all think that perhaps if we had lived his life, we might also have found ourselves making his same mistakes. Or not.

Whatever you think of him, I wonder on what basis any of us can judge him, not his behavior, but judge him? Who are we to be forgiving Art Schlichter?

Child molestation can be considered biosocial as well. Can we judge them?
I think we can. A scumbag is a scumbag. As we try to define,catorgorize and even excuse bad behavior, these psychological terms fall off our tongues at an ever increasing rate. It's psyscobabble.

[Oneshot]

Guy's got a GUN!

My goodness.

[SanClementeBuck]

I attended that '79 game with Buckeye wife and two usc friends. ucla folks were a bit unhappy after the game. Several thousand Bucks made some noise in stands at endzone.

[DaveyBoy]

QB faking is a really lost art. It seems that if a QB would take just a split second longer and a few calories more energy by carrying out the fake they could gain some valuable time and space for their receivers.

[OSUBasketballJunkie]

Link

Addiction became an affliction for QB

Published:Wednesday, October 8, 2008
By Jon Moffett

"I went to prison for 10 years. I spent time in 44 different jails and prisons over that time. It got pretty bad, as bad as you can imagine." Art Schlichter Former OSU quarterback


Art Schlichter suffered because of a gambling illness that ruined his NFL career.


CANFIELD ? On the field, Art Schlichter knew the rush that came with football.
Off the field, Schlichter searched for the rush that came with gambling.
?I?m a recovering gambler,? Schlichter said. ?And now, part of what I do is I promote gambling awareness and gambling treatment.?
Schlichter did just that when he visited the Valley Tuesday.

Continued...........

[jimotis4heisman]

Originally Posted by Oneshot

Guy's got a GUN!

My goodness.

best qb i saw play for osu. best qb i saw play probably elway?

[OregonBuckeye]

He recently gave an interview on the bucknuts radio hour. Still has scarlet and gray in his blood.

[Apache]

Just another example of how addictive personalities end up crashing. I do not understand the NEED to gamble in spite of losing everything, but it must be a powerful internal force. Once again, addictions of any sort are a demonic force that changes everything in your life. Art had so much talent and was enabled by family, friends and it seems by coaches.

[BuckeyeBooks]

Originally Posted by Apache

Just another example of how addictive personalities end up crashing. I do not understand the NEED to gamble in spite of losing everything, but it must be a powerful internal force. Once again, addictions of any sort are a demonic force that changes everything in your life. Art had so much talent and was enabled by family, friends and it seems by coaches.

Good post, Apache. What most people don't realize with the compulsive gambler is that they are NOT motivated by making money. Their "crack-pipe" is the "Action." Their "syringe" is not knowing whats going to happen, and that's what makes it attractive. I personally know a bit about this subject. In it's simplest terms, the guy that goes into the local 7-11 and blows his whole $400 paycheck on instant lottery tickets and finally gets a $500 winner on his last scratch does not get as big of a rush out of putting that $500 in his pocket as he does walking back out to his car to scratch the next $50 worth he just bought with his "winnings."

[brodybuck21]

"With all due respect to Andy Katzenmoyer, Pandel Savic and the rest of the most recent class of inductees into the Ohio State Athletic Hall of Fame, it has always seemed a bit strange that the school?s all-time leading passer remains on the outside looking in.
Your powers of deduction don?t have to be much to figure how why Art Schlichter remains a hall of fame outsider. Nothing besmirches a reputation quite like a decade-long stretch in prison for a much-publicized gambling addiction.
In 1977, the athletic department, in cooperation with the Varsity ?O? Alumni Association, established the hall of fame. According to the Varsity ?O? constitution and bylaws, the hall was established ?to pay tribute and extend the recognition to those individuals who through the years have contributed to the honor and fame of The Ohio State University in the field of Athletics, and who have continued to demonstrate, in their daily lives, the values learned in Intercollegiate Athletics.?"

Schlichter Belongs In OSU Hall Of Fame ? Rea’s Day Blog

[NJ-Buckeye]

Originally Posted by brodybuck21

...the hall was established to pay tribute and extend the recognition to those individuals who through the years have contributed to the honor and fame of The Ohio State University in the field of Athletics, and who have continued to demonstrate, in their daily lives, the values learned in Intercollegiate Athletics"

Schlichter Belongs In OSU Hall Of Fame - Rea?s Day Blog

Doesn't that pretty much refute the title of the blog?

The guy was tremendous... on the field... but life values... hmmmm.. dunno.. I feel for him.. and always have... but he had the world by the ass... and let it slip

[MaxBuck]

Originally Posted by brodybuck21

... the hall was established to pay tribute and extend the recognition to those individuals who through the years have contributed to the honor ...

I'd say this phrase disqualifies Schlichter forever.

[Jake]

Originally Posted by brodybuck21

"With all due respect to Andy Katzenmoyer, Pandel Savic and the rest of the most recent class of inductees into the Ohio State Athletic Hall of Fame, it has always seemed a bit strange that the school?s all-time leading passer remains on the outside looking in.

MLB's all time hits leader isn't in its HOF, either.

[Steve19]

Originally Posted by Jake

MLB's all time hits leader isn't in its HOF, either.

Well said. I am deeply sorry that Art experienced gambling addiction. It cost him his family and everything he might have gained from his heroics on the field at Ohio State. I agree with NJ-Buckeye, MaxBuck, and Jake, he doesn't belong in the HoF.