OSU Cheerleader makes the football team

leroyjenkins · #1 (**permalink**) 02-20-2009, 03:32 PM

My buddy, and my wife's former teammate Josh Springer made the Ohio State Football team as a walk on WR!! Check out the video. Kid is an amazing athlete!

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muffler dragon · #2 (**permalink**) 02-20-2009, 03:39 PM

Congratulations to Mr. Springer.

I guess cheerleaders really are athletes.

leroyjenkins · #3 (**permalink**) 02-20-2009, 03:43 PM

Yeah they sure are, and I WAS (not so much anymore

). I remember when Bobby Carpenter was a freshman, his girlfriend tried out for OSU's cheerleading team, and Bobby came with her. I showed him how to stunt (throw the girls up), and taught him a back flip in 10 minutes. BC said if he ever had to stop playing ball that he would come cheer.

There are definitely worse things than having a front row seat every saturday, and hanging with some of the prettiest chicks on campus!!

manuva · #4 (**permalink**) 02-20-2009, 04:20 PM

Video is on the front page of MSN.com. Pretty cool...

southcampus · #5 (**permalink**) 02-20-2009, 04:57 PM

Very cool story. I must admit, when I clicked this thread I thought it was going to be a girl doing the kicking thing (Like Colorado a few years back) and had the "Oh brother" thought go through my head. Great story, best of luck to the dude!

calibuck · #6 (**permalink**) 02-20-2009, 05:15 PM

Hey, when I was running up and down the hardwood, sweating bullets, getting banged under the boards, kicked, knocked to the ground, elbows to the face, etc. I'd run down the court and watch these guys throwing these pretty ladies up in the air and catching them however they could, hands everywhere.

Thought to myself, hmmmmm, who's got the better of the deal. I got a letter (so did he), but my hands encountered only sweaty male bodies and dirty basketballs, and the male cheerleader's hands encountered ________ (add to your imagination's content).

And SCUM still

Best Buckeye · #7 (**permalink**) 02-20-2009, 06:05 PM

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Originally Posted by calibuck

, getting banged under the boards,

And SCUM still

So tell us about this "getting banged under the board" thing.

muffler dragon · #8 (**permalink**) 02-20-2009, 06:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Best Buckeye

So tell us about this "getting banged under the board" thing.

I knew/know BKB has many personalities. I didn't know Thump did as well.

Buckskin86 · #9 (**permalink**) 03-08-2009, 08:16 AM

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Northmont grad wants to stop cheerleading, start catching passes
By Sean McClelland
Staff Writer
Sunday, March 08, 2009

When Ohio State football coach Jim Tressel called, nobody in the Springer family knew quite what to think.

This was several years ago, long before Josh Springer, then a Northmont High School senior, seriously entertained the idea of making the Buckeyes as a walk-on.

Turns out Tressel had called as a favor to the cheerleading staff, encouraging Springer to choose OSU over Kentucky, which had offered him a scholarship to cheer.

How bizarre and ironic, then, that this 5-foot-11, 185-pound OSU cheerleading captain might be playing for Tressel after surviving a walk-on tryout last month despite never playing a down of football in high school. He wants to be a receiver.

"He's fairly athletic," Matt Springer, a college athlete in the early-to-mid 1970s, said of his son, who opened eyes by running a 40-yard dash in 4.47 seconds. "But it's still pretty surprising."

Especially so considering Josh's primary athletic endeavors in college have involved hoisting and flinging 100-pound females ? fine work if you can find it, but nothing that prepares one for the rigors of the gridiron.

"Has anyone ever hit me? No," Josh said. "I'm assuming that's one of the things I'm going to have to get used to."

Northmont grad wants to stop cheerleading, start catching passes