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Game Thread BCS National Championship Game: tOSU 24, LSU 38 (final)

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jwinslow;1050292; said:
1) I wasn't aware teams swapped practice facilities during bowl prep.

2) Is the turf different? If so, that seems strange considering the saints own both.
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It is the same turf, but many opponent teams have commented on the strangeness of the lighting on the superdome. Probably no big deal. FYI, the SAINTS do not own the superdome, that is a state owned.
 
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Lockup;1050296; said:
I believe the general accepted reason was either because JT figured it was easier to stay away from distractions or because Stoops said he thought LSU spied on them when they practice in the dome.
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Oh GEEZE, did LSU spy on him at the Fiesta Bowl the past two years. Seriously, if LSU wanted to spy, it is LOUISIANA. OSU would need to practice out of the state.
 
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AP: Most Ohio State players content to avoid temptations of French Quarter

Most Ohio State players content to avoid temptations of French Quarter

The Associated Press
Friday, January 4, 2008

NEW ORLEANS: Just a few blocks from Bourbon Street, where partying was perfected, the Ohio State Buckeyes are getting primed for their national championship date with LSU by staying in their hotel and staying out of trouble.

It's almost like they're in a monastery. No, wait - that happened almost 40 years ago.

So that his players were walled off from all the distractions - or, as some would put it, fun - of going to a bowl game, coach Woody Hayes used to make his Buckeyes spend the nights before their Rose Bowl games in a monastery.

"Have you ever been to one?" laughed Rex Kern, the Buckeyes quarterback in 1968 when Hayes first conceived of putting his linebackers in with the monks. "It's really peaceful, which is obviously why Woody wanted us there. I remember walking among the olive trees, all the shrubbery and the landscaping - it was great for meditation."

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sluTiger;1050319; said:
Oh GEEZE
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Have to laugh at Stoops pulling a Woody on this, swearing he was being spied on.

Tressel kept his boys at home for longer too. He said somewhere that he thinks it's better to keep them away, that he felt going to Tempe so soon was a distraction. So I like that theory, the distractions one.
 
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sluTiger;1050315; said:
... many opponent teams have commented on the strangeness of the lighting on the superdome...
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looked weird to me too, watching recent games, but i just attributed the depressing lighthing to my tv. definitely not the bright and beaming aura of noontime kickoffs in the shoe.
 
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