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QB Rod Gerald (Official Thread)

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Rod Gerald Was the QB who followed Cornelius Greene in 1976.
I saw him Play and I can tell you that he was as quick as anyone I have ever seen at the QB position. He had Pete Johnson and Jeff Logan in the backfield with him. Together they led the team to a 9-2-1 record in his first year and a bowl win over Colorado to end the year. They ran out of several backfields including the option and Full backfield.
 
Actually, he got hurt and didn't play in the UM game that year. Came back in the Orange Bowl to ice the victory. He was an exciting player. The QB in the famous OU game with Springs that lost on the final play of the game.
 
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Two things I always think of with Gerald was that he moved to WR as a JR so Art S could start at QB as a true freshman and the role Woody had in his life after football(drug addiction issues).
 
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Awesome story...

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[SIZE=+2]SOC grad exceeds expectations at Yale

[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]08:01 PM CST on Tuesday, November 4, 2008[/SIZE]

When he left South Oak Cliff for Yale in the fall of 2005, Casey Gerald took with him a valedictorian's standing, a thick coat, his father's genes and the expectations of a community.
The expectations came in all types and sizes. The weight of it nearly overwhelmed him.
People told him that a kid from South Oak Cliff going to Yale was "the most amazing thing that ever happened to us."
Old people in church cried at the news. People in the room cried on signing day.
Casey didn't know what to make of the emotions. Until a coach called, he'd never even heard of Yale.
But the people who raised him, mentored him, counseled him, encouraged him, loved him, they knew what Yale meant.
"It was a pretty intimidating feeling," he says now. "I felt that there were so many people who expected this to produce something special .
"And not just for me, but for them."
Of course, there were other expectations for the son of Rod and Debra Gerald, too.
He'll be home before Christmas, one teacher predicted. Doesn't matter if his father was a football star at Ohio State. Rod was a druggie, wasn't he? Debra, too. A crack baby had no chance on that white bread, highbrow campus. No way Casey will play football.

No way he'll ever graduate from Yale.
He'd come back home from that first fall in New Haven, Conn., and people would ask bold questions.
When you coming back home? Where you gonna transfer?
When you gonna drop out?

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He'll graduate in May with a 3.69 grade point average and a degree in political science. A Rhodes Scholar semifinalist, he's been accepted into Harvard's business school. Last week, he found out that, along with Missouri's Chase Daniel and Texas Tech's Graham Harrell, he's one of 15 finalists for the Draddy Trophy, presented by the National Football Foundation to college football's top scholar athletes.
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Casey's intelligence is surpassed only by his wisdom. He holds no bitterness toward the people who didn't believe in him or the parents who deserted him.
"They definitely have their troubles," he says, softly. "I don't really look at them as parents, per se.
"But at the very least, they gave me good genes."
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Looks like this thread should be called the Casey Gerald thread. Great story about him. Sad story about his parents.
 
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CATCHING UP WITH ROD GERALD.

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Former Ohio State quarterback Rod Gerald recently sat down with esteemed 12th Warrior GoBucks2204 to discuss his legacy in Columbus and quest for redemption.

The Rod Gerald Story: Finding Redemption, Part 1
http://www.howfirmthyfriendship.com/2017/10/the-rod-gerald-story-finding-redemption.html

Gerald just underwent his third back surgery on Oct. 12th. If you enjoyed watching him play and are in the position to donate, you can help the old Buckeye with medical bills.
http://akickincrowd.com/projects/rod-gerald1

Entire article: https://www.elevenwarriors.com/skul...io-state-buckeyes-football-penn-state-big-nut

For those that don't remember Rod Gerald, he is mostly remembered for 2 things:

1. having a drug problem....Ohio State lost the 1978 Sugar Bowl 35-6 to Alabama since Gerald couldn't get his "cocaine fix" before the game

Former Ohio State quarterback Rod Gerald opened up to David Briggs of The Toledo Blade in an excellent story that starts with his worst nightmare from facing Alabama in the 1977 Sugar Bowl: running out of cocaine.

Struggling with a bum back and a small fracture in his leg, [former OSU quarterback Rod Gerald] remembers popping three pills of Tylenol with codeine that January night in 1978. But Gerald felt lost without the countering effects of cocaine. By then, he said he needed the stimulant to perform.

He snorted until his nose bled during a trip to Southern Methodist University, then kept the drug in his wristband during the Michigan game. The withdrawal was a nightmare.

“Going to New Orleans, I probably would have taken an eight ball,” Gerald said, using the street name for three and a half grams of cocaine. “I’d have to use it in practice, use it to go in the meetings, use it to go to functions, use it to go to dinner. From morning to night, I would have to use cocaine. Not having it, going down there without it, it was like ... I [remember] just being frightened, afraid that I had nothing.”

Ohio State got waxed in that game, 35-6, by the way.

2. The next season Gerald willingly switched positions from QB to WR so a freshman named Art Schlichter could start at QB
 
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