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08-05-2008, 08:57 PM
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He is creeping up to the Mendoza average. Basically Devon Torrence has the best paying summer job for a college kid.
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... and I'm sure a lot of great memories. May not always have been fun, but the chance to chase the dream? The chance to play every day? Yeah, he had some good times.
Still glad to have him back in S&G.
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08-05-2008, 09:02 PM
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... and I'm sure a lot of great memories. May not always have been fun, but the chance to chase the dream? The chance to play every day? Yeah, he had some good times.
Still glad to have him back in S&G.
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Agreed. A friend of mine works for a MLB team. He scouted Torrence and said he has talent but is extremely raw. I'm glad with James Scott out that DT is athletic enough to move to CB.  |
08-06-2008, 04:27 AM
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Ahh, this is what I love...
I was very dissapointed when he saw time with the wide receivers, because I really feel he could be an elite cornerback. He's long and very fast.
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08-08-2008, 06:05 AM
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BASEBALL AND TORRENCE Torrence is spending the first part of training camp at cornerback and learning more defense. He knows the offense and is familiar at wide receiver, where he played last year. Head Coach Jim Tressel is experimenting in possibly playing Torrence both ways because of his athleticism. Torrence spent much of the spring and summer playing minor league baseball in the Astors organization for Greenville. He hit .151 in 34 games.
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08-26-2008, 06:08 PM
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JT's comment about Devon at the presser today.
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REPORTER: Jim, in regards to the nickel back, how's the nickel back shaping up and where might Torrence fit in back there?
COACH TRESSEL: Devon Torrence is playing at corner and probably wouldn't have any nickel. We think Devon is coming along and he needs to be in our two-deep and do it well. He needs to be on our special teams. He's a very explosive guy. That's why we kind of took the wide receiver stuff off his plate so he could really get good on defense and special teams, but it will be primarily as a corner. As far as the nickel situation, right now Tyler Moeller and Jermale Hines have probably played the most. Anderson Russell can play it. Those are probably the guys that have played it the most and of which we'll use that a lot this week because we don't know exactly what their spread looks like. We know they have a great tight end, so I don't know that it's going to be a spread that's simply a line up and throw it all over because that tight end, Bush, of theirs is special, so they're going to still do some conventional tight end type things so we may be in some base, may be in some nickel and some dime.
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10-11-2008, 12:47 AM
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I'd like to see Devon get a few KR/ PR reps in.. He seems like he's the explosive guy were looking for back there. |
10-19-2008, 08:24 PM
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Kind of surprised noone has given him any props for his forced fumble that led to that Hines TD against Mich St.
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10-19-2008, 08:49 PM
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Agreed. He has been a very solid special teams performer--he deserves some props.
Torrence has kind of gotten lost in the shuffle so far--which boggles my mind in light of how good of an athlete this guy supposedly is. Is it baseball that is holding him back from his football potential?
I would like to see him at KR.
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