| Buckeye Football Ohio State football, moderated. Consider this the general community forum, but with a theme. Completely off-topic chatter should start at, or move to, the Open Discussion forum. |
08-22-2008, 05:49 AM
|
 |
Capo Regime
Administrator
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Feb 2004
Posts: 38,820
Points: 13,520,943.37
Bank: 0.00
Total Points: 13,520,943.37
|
|
BSB$-- Buchanan enjoys first kick scrimmage
Buchanan in the title, but the article has discussion from all of the specialists.
__________________
Oderint dum metuant.
|
08-22-2008, 11:44 PM
|
 |
Senior
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Feb 2004
Posts: 236
Points: 130,211.88
Bank: 120.66
Total Points: 130,332.54
|
|
|
In all the discussion of what went right in 2002 to win that MNC and I think the most forgotten thing is how good the kicking was that year. If tOSU has an average PK and P that year, there probably would be no MNC. Anyhow, with all the blustering and gushing about the other two sides of the ball, I am surprised that more people here aren't discussing what could be Ohio State's weakness this year: kicking. Borderline performances in one kick scrimmage aren't exactly enough to raise a big alarm, but it is something to keep an eye on.
__________________
|
08-23-2008, 12:03 AM
|
|
Banned
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 80
Points: 128.99
Bank: 0.00
Total Points: 128.99
|
|
Im pretty confident with ryan and AJ comming back. From what i remember they seemed to do a good job last year.
rivals ranks aus as #2 in the kicking category
Code:
http://ohiostate.rivals.com/content.asp?SID=917&CID=834109
|
08-27-2008, 09:27 PM
|
 |
5 IN A ROW!!!
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Jul 2007
Posts: 2,835
Points: 2,298.35
Bank: 0.00
Total Points: 2,298.35
|
|
PR - Ray Small, Brian Hartline
KR - B Saine, Boom Herron
PK - Pretorious
KO - Pettrey
P - Trapasso
H - Thoma
LS - McQuaide
Discuss
Last edited by BuckeyeMac; 08-28-2008 at 09:10 AM.
|
08-27-2008, 09:34 PM
|
 |
Legend
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Nov 2004
Posts: 3,711
Points: 183,656.81
Bank: 7,353.18
Total Points: 191,010.00
|
|
|
I like Saine and Herron in a sense that they will improve field position. Saine has the home-run threat. I'd imagine most kicks will go to Boom.
One of the things Tressel stated the other day was that the off-returner wasn't doing a good enough job of blocking last year. The attributes he likes best about the starting combo is that the off-returner will be capabale of providing solid blocking for the reurner.
I think of Boom as a Maurice Hall type returner. Solid returns but little home-run threat capabilties. Not a knock, becuase Maurice Hall ended up being the record holder in return yards and he didn't posses a home-run reputation either.
Just improve the field position from last year on kick-offs. It was borderline embarrassing last year.
|
08-28-2008, 09:16 AM
|
|
5 IN A ROW!!!
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Jul 2007
Posts: 2,835
Points: 2,298.35
Bank: 0.00
Total Points: 2,298.35
|
|
|
I agree, as long as we can improve upon the Kick Off returns to get us better field position, I think we can be happy. I'm not having my expectations of Ginn back there, but hopefully they can do something of close to that magnitude. I am looking forward to seeing BSaine and Boom back there. Two quick guys that if they break a tackle or hit the hole, they could be gone. I also like Small and Hartline back there for punt returns. Hopefully Hartline can have another decent year returning punts and with Small's speed, he can also open things up a bit.
|
08-30-2008, 06:33 PM
|
|
5 IN A ROW!!!
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Jul 2007
Posts: 2,835
Points: 2,298.35
Bank: 0.00
Total Points: 2,298.35
|
|
|
Special teams looked near perfect today. Return game was consistent and provided good field position. The kicking game was also done well. The only gripe I had was the 1 kickoff that went to the 10-15yd line on a low line drive.
|
08-31-2008, 06:02 PM
|
 |
Assistant Coach
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Nov 2003
Posts: 6,835
Points: 427,847.64
Bank: 0.00
Total Points: 427,847.64
|
|
__________________
Anonymous Donor
|
09-14-2008, 04:58 PM
|
 |
Carolina Buckeye
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Jun 2007
Posts: 1,505
Points: 180.69
Bank: 0.00
Total Points: 180.69
| | |
