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DE Vernon Gholston (Official Thread)

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george_allen;1044396; said:
that's a great start - it would also be a great end-of-discussion if the fact is he's been tested and hasn't failed.

thank you for the response.
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Ohio State Buckeyes football players likely to get caught if they use drugs

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The Big Ten began testing this year and will test 800 conference athletes over the course of the 2007-08 season. The NCAA, which started testing in 1986, visits each Division I school at least once a year and is looking at ways to increase the number of visits. The NCAA also conducts tests at championship events. According to the latest figures available, the NCAA conducted 11,610 steroids tests during the 2004-05 school year.

But that's not enough. It is the 2,000 drug tests Ohio State gave its roughly 1,000 athletes in 2007 that provides the most successful deterrent, Smith said.

"How do we help our kids? You give them an easy way out to be able to say, I can't do that because I may be tested tomorrow,' " Smith said. "You give them a crutch to say no.' "

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According to records from Ohio State's drug-testing program requested by The Plain Dealer, over a 13-month period from July 2006 through July 2007, OSU football players were administered a total of 357 drug tests by the school on 21 separate occasions. That included weekly tests of about 10 players at a time during the 2006 season.

According to the records, no players tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs, but three tested positive in that span for what the school called "drugs of abuse." Additionally, Oman said no football player had tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs on any OSU tests this fall.
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Soft-spoken Gholston Buckeyes' sack machine

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Vernon Gholston isn't a player seething with anger and violence, who can't wait to stomp onto the field and cause bodily harm to anyone in a different-colored jersey.
No, what the Ohio State defensive end does on the field doesn't quite jibe with the real person.
"I go out there and try to play hard within the scheme of the defense," Gholston said carefully. "I try to play with my teammates and win games. That's most important to me. Whether I have 13 sacks or one sack, if we win every game I am happy."

Does that sound like one of the most intimidating players in all of college football?

At 6-foot-4 and 260 pounds, the mere sight of Gholston is enough to send opposing players scurrying in the other direction. His upper arms appear about the same circumference as telephone poles and his body could have been hammered out of granite.

Yet the voice and the convictions don't match up with the appearance. Gholston is as introspective and reasonable as anyone who has ever laced up cleats.

During the week of the Michigan game - a time when many of the more fervent Ohio State partisans reveal their blind enmity to the "team up north" - Gholston showed what sets him apart.



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Gholston, female roommate just friends

Ohio State defensive end shares a two-bedroom apartment with a woman he first befriended as freshman but never tried to date


By Doug Harris
Staff Writer

Friday, January 04, 2008

Ohio State defensive end Vernon Gholston and former OSU student Kamillya Herring see nothing wrong with a guy and girl living together as friends, although they know not everyone around them is comfortable with their relationship.
The two share a two-bedroom, two-bath townhouse in Gahanna outside Columbus, and the arrangement works well for both of them ? at least most of the time.



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Bill Livingston: OSU's Gholston an unstoppable force
Posted by Bill Livingston
Plain Dealer Columnist
January 05, 2008

New Orleans - Vernon Gholston, Ohio State's 6-4, 260-pound junior defensive end, looks like he was carved by a chisel and runs like he was hurled from a thunderhead.

He is a second-team All-American. He was first-team All-Big Ten. Mike Vrabel, a linebacker with the New England Patriots who was among the best defensive linemen Ohio State ever produced, has schooled him in techniques for the hand-to-hand battles that rage up and down the line of scrimmage.

Maybe most of all, in this city, which lives by the French slogan Laissez les bon temps roullez! ("Let the good times roll!"), Gholston has the proper attitude for the business-like approach Ohio State's players, in the wake of last year's national championship game embarrassment, are taking for this year's version against LSU.

When Gholston himself gets rolling, the only recourse for the opposing quarterback might be the final gun. He deals in pain.
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"I guarantee that you won't see any lineman out there [Monday night] who's faster than Vernon Gholston or Lawrence Wilson," said running back Beanie Wells, who is as tired as most of the Buckeyes of hearing about the superiority of LSU in everything from fan support to mascots, but most of all in speed.
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first - my condolences to buckeye nation. and best of luck next year.

so how did everyone see vernon's performance last night?

i thought he looked good. brought pressure. strung out the sweeps. contained some runs. looked fluid back in coverage. took on double teams. i went through the "ok - so who's fault ist thread" and was glad to see no one was blaming him.

a question for the osu defensive scheme experts -
it look to me that vernon would usually "hang back" on run plays to the side opposite where he lined up - getting into the periphery of the play by the end of it but not attacking the runner. i saw it suggested that it's something schematic as the other defensive supposedly did the same thing-
is it vernon "relaxing" a little when run plays go the other way, or is that his role in the scheme on those plays?
 
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george_allen;1060316; said:
a question for the osu defensive scheme experts -
it look to me that vernon would usually "hang back" on run plays to the side opposite where he lined up - getting into the periphery of the play by the end of it but not attacking the runner. i saw it suggested that it's something schematic as the other defensive supposedly did the same thing-
is it vernon "relaxing" a little when run plays go the other way, or is that his role in the scheme on those plays?
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He is holding his BCR responsibility.
 
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I thought he played pretty well. He applied some pressure on the QB from time to time and he definitely contained the many option attempts. Unfortunately, he didn't get a whole lot of support from the LB's and DB's once the back went inside and turned upfield.
 
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osugrad21;1060356; said:
Bootleg, cutback, reverse...depends on the D call but it would be the DE or OLB slow to flow.
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and against a team with a good running game (LSU) the cutback can kill you. Backside is a definite important position. His lack of sack power was more due to heady play by a smart QB.
 
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