Football Press Luncheon Thread

[BuckeyeNation27]

Originally Posted by martinss01

IF CHARLIE WEIS SAID THAT YOU'D ALL BE CALLING HIM FAT!!!!!!!

[gregorylee]

Originally Posted by BuckeyeNation27

IF CHARLIE WEIS SAID THAT YOU'D ALL BE CALLING HIM FAT!!!!!!!

Whyyes, yes we would...

[Steve19]

REPORTER: Are you better, too, over the years?
COACH TRESSEL: Am I? No, unfortunately. Old people don't get better with age.

I call BS!

As for Weis, is anyone not calling him fat?

[DaddyBigBucks]

Originally Posted by BuckeyeNation27

IF CHARLIE WEIS SAID THAT YOU'D ALL BE CALLING HIM FAT!!!!!!!

Originally Posted by gregorylee

Whyyes, yes we would...

Originally Posted by Steve19

REPORTER: Are you better, too, over the years?
COACH TRESSEL: Am I? No, unfortunately. Old people don't get better with age.

I call BS!

As for Weis, is anyone not calling him fat?

Charlie didn't stay that and people here are STILL calling him fat.

I'm not sure I understand that though. His performance in the Michigan game this year is a much bigger (and more relevant) target.

[OSU_Buckguy]

REPORTER: There are some stories floating around out there that Gonzalez is the best receiver on the team.
COACH TRESSEL: There are some stories floating around, written by any of these people?
REPORTER: Most of them are nationally. I was just wondering how you feel about that.
COACH TRESSEL: Gonzalez is the best receiver playing the position we have him playing. Teddy is the best guy we have playing that position and that's the way it is.

with answers like this, a senator's seat is one day waiting for tressel if he wants it.

[martinss01]

Originally Posted by BuckeyeNation27

IF CHARLIE WEIS SAID THAT YOU'D ALL BE CALLING HIM FAT!!!!!!!

well... "" is an action not a statment so your actual statement should be something along the lines of:

IF CHARLIE WEIS WERE TO BOW BEFORE TRESSLE YOU'D ALL BE CALLING HIM FAT!!!!!!!

my response naturally is, "you think he could actually do that...?"

[Dryden]

http://ohiostatebuckeyes.cstv.com/sp...101006aad.html

Transcript From The October 10th Football Press Luncheon

Previewing Ohio State at Michigan State

Oct. 10, 2006

COACH TRESSEL: I have a picture here that I asked the folks in the back from the -- I don't know if you can see that, Rusty, can you see that?

REPORTER: Oh, yeah.

COACH TRESSEL: Earl Lefty Bruce going around the corner, the turkey day game, and I asked him if he scored or not and you know he emphatically said that he did. So in case anyone wants a copy of that for tomorrow's edition. It was a little bit different experience we had this past week going with a nonconference game in the midst of the conference schedule and as opposed to an open week and so forth.

I mentioned a couple times that I thought our guys did a good job Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, using that time, did a lot of work against one another, did a little extra scrimmage on Tuesday with some of the young guys and really worked hard to try to get a little bit better, and I thought we used the day Saturday solid. I don't know that it was wonderful. As we mentioned, after the game, but I think there are some things we can learn from it. There are some experiences that some guys got that I think will help them in the future and I think we learned a little bit more about ourselves and where we need to get better and how we need to attack things as we jump back in to the Big Ten schedule.

As far as winning performances, I think there were four or five on the defensive side and I think eight or nine over on the offensive side, so probably not as high as we would like to get from a consistency standpoint. There were some outstanding performances. And Andre Amos was selected the special units player. He did a great job on the kickoff cover unit, made a tackle inside the 20. Did a great job on the punt cover unit. Made a tackle inside the 10, and Andre Amos just keeps getting better and better all the time, playing a lot more corner and he's going to be a fine player for us.

Over on the defensive side, Vernon Gholston was the player of the week on defense, and Vernon continues to improve at a very difficult position. It's a position where you go one moment from rushing the passer to the next moment handling the run and the next moment dropping in to pass and he's doing a good job of handling all those goals and made some things happen in the ball game on Saturday. And Troy Smith was the offensive player of the week. He was 17 for 20. A couple of those were dropped. I thought his footwork, his focus on doing just the little things right was really outstanding in the ball game. He graded a winning performance, which is very difficult at that position and did a good job stepping up and running with it when he needed to do that as well, and Troy Smith was the offensive player of the week.

The Jim Parker offensive lineman of the week was Rory Nicol. Rory had his best grade blocking at the point that he's had all year. He continues to improve. Also caught a touchdown and played a very solid game, probably the most consistent game that he's played since the season began, and he was the Jim Parker offensive lineman award winner.

The attack force award winner was Quinn Pitcock. Quinn continues to play well in the middle. We've been talking for a good bit of the season that we think we have an inside tandem that's as good as any in the country, and Quinn certainly has been carrying his end of the bargain, as is David Patterson. Probably won't have David Patterson this week, and so Quinn and Joel Penton and Todd Denlinger and Doug Worthington moving in there a little bit, we're going to have to make up for the absence of David this weekend, but Quinn had an outstanding game and was the attack force player of the week.

We didn't have a Jack Tatum hit. We did have some great scout team play to get us ready. Jonathan Thoma was the special units player and he continues to improve as an outstanding punter, and I think with he and A. J. Trapasso, we have good depth, good solid punting for years to come here, and Jonathan was the scout special units player of the week.

The scout defensive player was Matt Daniels. Matt moved over from fullback to free safety this year for really one reason: Matt wants to be a coach like his dad and he wanted to go over on defense to learn a little more about that side of the ball, and I thought it was a good move for him and he just does a great job playing free safety, which is kind of like the quarterback of the defense, and he did a great job getting people lined up this past week.

And Danny Dye, one of our walk-on offensive linemen from up in Napoleon, Ohio, was the scout offensive player of the week, and did a good job, and anytime you have to spend a couple hours banging against our defensive front every day and no one knows your name, you deserve any kudos you can get, and Danny Dye won that scout team player.

Turning our attention back to the Big Ten is an exciting thing, because while we were playing on Saturday, virtually the rest of the Big Ten was playing and moving toward the final outcome of the league standings, and I know our guys are interested in getting back in the fray. And I think they've known all along that when you look at our Big Ten schedule, the traveling over to East Lansing to play Michigan State was going to be a tremendous challenge.

Just look at the history of Ohio State. We've had some tremendous battles every time we play Michigan State, whether it's here or at Spartan Stadium, and our guys are very aware of that. Our guys are very aware of most of the players that we have playing because as you look at their lineups both offensively and defensively, they're guys we've faced for the last couple years, and they're guys that are very, very talented.

They're guys that, I think Coach Smith mentioned this week in his comments that when you turn the field on and you see things being executed properly, you see as good a team as there is, and I would agree with that. And they've had their share of things like turnovers that have hurt them and penalties and so forth, but you look at the things that they've done extremely well and they're as talented as any group, and our guys are aware of that, need to be aware of that, and know the battle that is there as we get to East Lansing.

When you talk about what's the one thing that is kind of the trademark of their football team, and in my mind, it's number 5, Drew Stanton is special. He's one of those guys that's tough, he never stops playing, he's a kid that Troy Smith happened to room with at Elite 11 high school camp back when they were in there, way into their senior year of high school, and they've kept a strong relationship. And I think they've done that because they're similar kind of people. They're great leaders. They're tough. They're working hard to become good at their trade, and I think he typifies what Michigan State is all about, and they're a very talented, skillful team. They're a team behind the count in the Big Ten play, and any team you face that's behind the count in league play is going to play lights out. So we're looking forward to a tremendous challenge as we go up there.

We need a great week of practice. We need to do a great job of studying who they are and what they do and make sure that we're at the top of our game as we head back on the road, because you have to play flawless football on the road to win this league. Questions?

REPORTER: Jim, could you maybe elaborate on David Patterson? You said after the game, maybe day-to-day this week --

COACH TRESSEL: Yeah, and as of this day, our trainers and doctors have said, not this week.

REPORTER: Any update on Kirk Barton at this point?

COACH TRESSEL: He won't practice today, but we're expecting him to be full speed tomorrow.

REPORTER: After the game, I think you said if Patterson missed, it would probably only be one, is that --

COACH TRESSEL: That's still what we have as a goal.

REPORTER: As you've studied the films of Michigan State, whenever they were ahead of Notre Dame, 31 to whatever, and then since then, Notre Dame came back on them and they've lost the last two weeks, what has happened? What have you seen that has caused their three-game losing streak when they pretty much had things going pretty well up to that point?

COACH TRESSEL: The thing that happened in that particular game, I think, was twofold: They turned it over a couple times, once on their 30-s