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Tressel convinced Dustin Fox to reject Penn State
CantonRep.com staff report
Posted Oct 03, 2011

Following in his brother Derek?s footsteps and playing football for Joe Paterno at Penn State looked good to Dustin Fox as a GlenOak High School senior.

Then Fox heard Jim Tressel speak soon after Ohio State hired Tressel as its football coach. It wasn?t long after that Fox was committing to Ohio State.

Fox shared that story and others Monday as the speaker to the Pro Football Hall of Fame Luncheon Club at Tozzi?s on 12th.

Fox let the club in on a ?little secret? when he said he had verbally committed to Penn State ?for about three days.?

But once he heard Tressel talk at halftime of an Ohio State men?s basketball game about wanting to beat Michigan, Fox was ?blown away? by it and started rethinking his decision.

Soon, after a phone call from Tressel, the All-Ohioan at GlenOak changed his mind and would become a Buckeye.

Fox started for four years at Ohio State, helping the Buckeyes win a national title in 2002. He then played five years in the NFL. Today, he co-hosts the afternoon drive talk show on WKRK-FM Sports Radio 92.3.
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http://www.cantonrep.com/sports/x824875313/Tressel-convinced-Dustin-Fox-to-reject-Penn-State
 
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Dustin also testified of his strong love and loyalty to the Scarlet and gray.
Despite recent rumors, Fox avowed that he was going to do all he can to get another Glen Oak player into OSU, legally of course.
 
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Most Interesting People 2012: Dustin Fox
Dustin Fox
Radio host, 92.3 FM The Fan, 29

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/ Why he?s interesting / Fox co-hosts the weekday afternoon sports-talk radio show Bull & Fox with Adam ?The Bull? Gerstenhaber. The Canton GlenOak star was a member of Ohio State?s 2002 BCS National Championship team and a third-round pick in the 2005 NFL draft.

/ Family tradition / Four of Fox?s uncles played football at Ohio State, including Tim, a 12-year NFL veteran. His brother, Derek, starred at Penn State and spent two seasons in the NFL. ?Everything surrounding my life was football.?

/ Tough love / After a youth football coach told 10-year-old Dustin he wasn?t tough enough, Derek, who was five years older, took him out in the front yard in his football gear. ?He started wailing on me,? Fox recalls. ?Stuff like that makes you appreciate having a sibling.?

/ On his former coach / Fox was part of Jim Tressel?s initial recruiting class. ?I really believe he?s a good man and we did things the right way. ... There was no greater experience than playing for Ohio State.?

/ Bad break / Drafted by the Minnesota Vikings, Fox broke his arm in training camp and missed his rookie season. ?My career was derailed primarily because of that.?

/ @DustinFox37 / Twitter has allowed Fox to show off his personality off the air, whether he?s talking football or horror flicks. ?When you have something to say, you can put it out there at any moment.?

/ Scare tactics / Fox, who sported an image of Halloween terror Michael Myers as his Twitter profile picture in October, got hooked on scary movies from his dad.

/ Three scary movie favorites / 1. The Halloween series. ?It?s classic.? 2. The Shining. ?Jack Nicholson is so good in that movie.? 3. The Exorcist. ?The devil stuff is always scary. It?s not like it?s a guy stalking a baby sitter; it?s the devil.?

/ On Urban Meyer / ?It?s the splash they needed. Urban Meyer is going to bring a lot of offense to Ohio State, but the biggest thing he?s going to bring is recruiting.?
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http://clevelandmagazine.com/ME2/di...19&tier=4&id=77396AD905CD4F8FB35DAD3409D62879
 
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7 honorees will join Stark greats in hall of fame
Todd Porter
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Updated: Saturday, December 31, 2011

DUSTIN Fox

The NFL is a league Fox knows well. He was a third-round draft pick by the Vikings after a successful career at Ohio State, where he played cornerback. At GlenOak, Fox played both ways and rarely came off the field. He was a running back for the Golden Eagles, first for Fred Thomas and then Jack Rose.

He picked off 12 passes, rushed for more than 1,300 yards as a senior, and had nearly 3,000 career yards.

He is the brother of 2010 inductee Derek Fox, and the two have a rivalry that exists today. Fox is the fifth member of his family to be enshrined with uncles Ken Kuhn, Tim Fox, and Mark Stier previously inducted.

?Of course there was a rivalry with Derek. He?s five years older and while we never competed against each other, I always knew I wanted to do what he did,? Fox said. ?We played different positions. It wasn?t like I was going to have more stats than him ... but I knew I wanted to play Division I football and go to the NFL.?

Derek played at Penn State. Dustin went to Ohio State and won a national championship. Derek spent time with the Colts in training camp as an undrafted free agent.

Dustin saw how difficult it was to make an NFL roster as an undrafted player. He grew up in a talented family where success on the field seemed to come naturally.

?My mom and dad breeded us, without question,? Dustin Fox said. ?The Kuhns were from Louisville and they were animals. They were linebackers and tight ends. My uncle brought that to us. The Foxes is where the jumping and speed came from. They bred us into these white boys who could jump, and run and hit.?
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http://fridaynightohio.com/news/7-honorees-will-join-stark-greats-hall-fame
 
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Gladiators Name Dustin Fox as Radio Color Analyst
March 21, 2012

CLEVELAND (92.3 The Fan) ? The Cleveland Gladiators are pleased to announce that former Ohio State Buckeye and local radio talk-show host Dustin Fox will join Doug Plagens in the radio booth, serving as a color analyst for all Gladiators home games on Sports Radio 92.3 The Fan.

Fans can catch the game this Friday, March 23th as the Gladiators host the Kansas City Command in the home opener at The Q!

Fox prepped at Canton?s Glen Oak High School where he was a First Team Division I Associated Press All-Ohio selection during his junior and senior seasons. He also participated in the U.S. Army All-American Bowl game in 2000.

As a defensive back with the Ohio State Buckeyes, Fox was a four-year starter and won the 2002 BCS National Championship in the 2002 Fiesta Bowl. He graduated from OSU with a communications major.

Fox was drafted in the 3rd round (80th overall) of the 2005 NFL draft by the Minnesota Vikings. He also spent time with the Philadelphia Eagles and Buffalo Bills during his professional career. He currently serves as co-host of ?The Bull and the Fox? from 2 pm ? 7 pm weekdays on Sports Radio 92.3 The Fan.
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http://cleveland.cbslocal.com/2012/03/21/gladiators-name-dustin-fox-as-radio-color-analyst/
 
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Dustin Fox tweeted last night that he was in an auto accident after the basketball game and ended up in the ER with a blow to the head. He later tweeted that he had suffered a concussion and lamented that even after leaving the game, he can't avoid the hits.
 
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Dustin Fox returns to Stark County to talk football

By MIKE KEATINGThe Review Published: February 19, 2013

CANTON TWP. -- Dustin Fox first made his mark as a high school football player at GlenOak and later started at Ohio State and played briefly with the Philadelphia Eagles and Buffalo Bills.

Trading in the cleats and uniform for a microphone, Fox now works as a Cleveland radio talk-show host, discussing sports instead of participating.

On Monday, Fox discussed sports at a different venue at the Pro Football Hall of Fame Club's weekly luncheon at Tozzi's restaurant.

"I still live in Stark County, but I work in Cleveland," Fox said. "It's not really a job, it's fun."

Fox, who turned 30 last October, elicited some opinions and also engaged in two-way conversation with a few members of the audience, which included Jack Rose, his high school football school during his junior and senior seasons.

Rose replaced Fred Thomas, who previously was head football coach at Alliance from 1989-91, at GlenOak. Fox was good enough to earn a starting job as a sophomore for Thomas and became an impact player as a defensive back and running back for Rose.

Fox was recruited by Jim Tressel, the incoming Ohio State head coach in 2001, to play cornerback and he became a starter on the 2002 team, which won the national championship.

Reflecting back to the recruiting process and with his former high school head coach to vouch for his talent, Fox sounded like he would have loved to have been given a shot to play offense.

"My true spot was running back, right coach Rose?" Fox queried, chuckling. "I loved running back, but I earned my scholarship playing defense."

Fox remains connected to Ohio State football, even though Tressel is no longer head coach. It didn't take much for him to gravitate to Urban Meyer, the current Ohio State head coach who guided Florida to two national championships and led the Buckeyes to a 12-0 season last fall.

"There's a different feel at practice with Urban than it was with coach Tressel," Fox opined. "There's more of a military type of atmosphere with Urban."

Fox also noted a distinct different philosophy between Tressel and Meyer.

"Coach Tressel used to say that the most important play in football is the punt, but I don't think Urban ever wants to punt," Fox quipped. "I think he'd prefer to go for it every time."

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It's actually amazing just how rare a white cornerback has been in the NFL in the 2000s. Dustin Fox gets some mentions in this SI piece about the phenomenon.

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Dustin Fox would disagree with that assessment. Though his size and his stats suggested that cornerback was Fox’s natural position, the NFL insisted it was not. “I started at corner for four years at Ohio State [from 2001 through ‘04], won a national title, was named All–Big Ten—and I get to the NFL and suddenly I’m a safety,” he says. “At 5' 11", 185 pounds. After I ran a 4.43 at the combine. Why?”

Fox’s position coach at Ohio State was Mel Tucker. “I’ve never worked with a coach at any level for whom [race among cornerbacks] mattered,” says Tucker, a black man raised in a predominantly Jewish section of Cleveland who is now the defensive coordinator at Georgia. Tucker said this as he sat watching tape of DBs. “There’s no sound on these clips,” Tucker says. “All I’m looking at is jersey numbers and physical movements and reactions. This has nothing to do with white or black.”

Try telling that to Fox, who arrived at the 2005 combine expecting to find his name listed among the cornerbacks (“right above Domonique Foxworth’s”) but instead finding it among the safeties, none of whom were smaller than Fox’s 191 pounds. That sudden demotion—and it was a demotion (a ’11 study in the Journal of Strength & Conditioning Research concluded that cornerback is the most challenging of football’s 15 positions; it’s also paid, on average, the sixth-highest, whereas safeties are paid tenth-highest)—was softened by the strange praise Fox heard from several NFL coaches that week. Having observed him only from the nosebleed All‑22 angle, these coaches told Fox, wide-eyed as they shook his hand, “We thought you were black.”

Fox’s defensive coordinator with the Vikings in the summer of 2006, Mike Tomlin, called his little-used safety “the American Dream Dusty Rhodes,” after the white professional wrestler from the 1970s who fought on behalf of the working man. Fox laughed at the joke, but by the time his four-year career reached its last stop, in Buffalo, it was slightly less funny.

“Why didn’t I come into the league as a cornerback?” asks Fox, 34, who today cohosts a popular radio sports talk show in Cleveland. “My measurables were better than half the corners in the league. I made plays at Ohio State. Started [37] college games. I can’t even get a shot? I vertical-jumped 40 inches. [Actually, Fox’s vertical at the 2005 combine was 43 1/2 inches—not only second best among safeties that year but second best among corners and fourth best among all players.] I’m telling you right now, I was as good as or better than half the cornerbacks in the NFL. They got the opportunity, I didn’t. ... The NFL was great. But I always felt like I never got a fair shake playing the position because I was white.”
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https://www.si.com/nfl/2017/04/26/white-cornerbacks-jason-sehorn-kevin-kaesviharn-donny-lisowski
 
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