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FB/LB Curtis Terry (Official Thread)

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i was pouring through a box of miscellaneous tapes and i ran across my 2003 cleveland glenville tape. man did ted ginn put on a show that game. one of his scrambles is just insane to watch (and available in the video archive). anyways i watched this tape with an eye out for any curtis terry highlights. i never knew who he was at the time so my camera wasn't focused on him at all on defense (my lens was looking for freddie lenix and curtis smith and ted ginn on D). anyways i was able to pull off two clips of curtis and post them on the net if anyone wanted to see some realy brief video of him.

these are not highlights like the ginn highlights. one of the terry clips is him rushing the passer and being held the other one is him rushing the passer and getting there a little late but forcing the early throw. like i said not hilights for sure but it is some film and some is better than none. curtis terry is number 99 in the clips.

terry does have very legit d-end size. i saw he was listed around 205 or something like that on signing day and he looked much bigger in my tape. his speed was legit and he seemed like a tough guy on the end. he didn't get in on any tackles as massillon perry ran right up the gut nearly every run play which was away from terry and curtis smith but right at freddie lenix. probably a good strategy honestly. anyways he didn't look like a reach of an athlete but he didn't make many football plays either the game i saw curtis terry play.

anyways here is the link to the archive below.

<a href="http://www.imagestation.com/album/?id=4291265709">http://www.imagestation.com/album/?id=4291265709</a>

if that link above isn't working off of this message board again for some reason you can copy and paste the link into your address bar and just hit enter. i know the site works but for some reason the links off of this board haven't for me and i know it isn't my html. weird. anyways below this is a quick FAQ i wrote on how to download my film if you need the help.

<a href="http://vanilla-gorilla.tripod.com/videofaq.html">http://vanilla-gorilla.tripod.com/videofaq.html</a>

anyways i need to get some beauty sleep big time. enjoy.
 
signing up for anything on the internet takes me some time but ever since CLTbuckeye talked up imagestation to me i have been a big fan of them.


they give me free webspace (15 minutes of video max) and they allow unlimited bandwidth. this allows me to share my film on the net with the buckeye nation without me (or the buckeye nation) having to spend a dime. they don't even spam the email address i gave them to sign up.

not that sony needs the help, but i do use a sony still camera and a sony camcorder and all that and their products have treated me well, as does imagestation.

as for curtis terry, he is athletic for sure and i think the 205 number had to have been a typo that has been copied by all the sites. that guy looks more like 220ish to me. i remember reading some of his track times and they were impressive for a tall guy that isn't rail thin. he definitely has that glenville speed. if you put probably another 40 pounds on him and tons of technique he is a will smith type of defensive end. as is he is a poor mans derrick harvey. good pick up for sure.
 
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Actually, the 205 pound thing puzzled me. Not sure you can start out at that weight and expect to play DE in the Big Ten although I'm sure some can do it(Not sure how big the DE from Wiscy this year was but he couldn't have been much bigger than 225). I guess if you have faith in the coach's decisions your a blind follower but I'll defer to them until a bunch of the players they recruit don't materialize.

I liked the video on Ringer. I've seen him a few times and your video has convinced me we need to land him. Thanks again for the link.
 
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another picture. i just got done watching his film at bsb, should be an interesting player to look out for, it sounds like he's had a tough road to get to where he is now....i wish him all the luck in the future.
 

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Curtis Terry

I was reading over on the Ozone and thought this was interesting....

"When he came out to practice the first day I thought he looked like (former OSU defensive standout) Cie Willie (Grant). We'd like to get him to where Cie was, only a little bit quicker," said Snyder.​
I thought for sure he would red shirt. He was a late addition IIRC but coach Ginn swore up and down he was a player.​
If he can bring the skills Grant broght but only quicker... yikes he would truly be the diamond in the rough in this class.​
I for one was very pleased with Grants speed... shows you how much I know.​
 
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BN article on Curtis.

scout.com


Bucknuts Mag Excerpts: Overcoming The Odds

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Curtis Terry

By Bucknuts.com Staff

Date: Oct 7, 2005

All of Ohio State's players have taken different and interesting paths to get where they are today, but perhaps none has been more fascinating than that of linebacker Curtis Terry. After beating the odds throughout high school, Terry is in his second year as a Buckeye with high hopes for the future. In this week's Magazine excerpt, we go back to the May 2004 issue to revisit Terry's journey to Ohio State.

Headline: Overcoming The Odds
Gary Housteau
There are success stories in life, and then there is Curtis Terry of Cleveland Glenville High School.
Nearly against all odds, Terry signed a letter of intent on Feb. 4 to become a member of Ohio State's 2004 recruiting class, and he hasn't stopped pinching himself or preparing for his future since.
"Things have really been going great for me, man," Terry said. "I'm glad that it's behind me now and I know that I have somewhere to go. I'm just going to class now, and I'm trying to stay on the right path so I could be ready to go down there."
Terry, who verbally committed to OSU coach Jim Tressel on the last Sunday in January just days before signing day, is on track to graduate in June and then he'll make his way to Columbus, where he'll begin to work out with his future teammates.
"This is a dream and I'm just happy to be here. I'm just going to go down there and give it 110 percent," Terry said. "The first thing is to get my education and then if I get a shot to go to the NFL, I'll take it. But if it doesn't work out like that, at least I'll have my education."
His future wasn't always as certain or as promising as it now. Terry had family problems as far back as middle school but everything really came to the forefront around the time that he entered Collinwood High School in Cleveland.
"First my mother moved and I had to live with my father and he wasn't stable. We had problems," Terry said. "So I bounced around in my first year of high school."
Then his aunt took him in for a while in his sophomore year and Terry nearly became an honor roll student for the first quarter at Collinwood. He was also the starting quarterback for the Railroaders that season. But his life around him still wasn't very stable. Things really started to get bad for Terry in the second half of his sophomore year.
"I was homeless and I didn't have anybody to look after me and my grades dropped, drastically," he said. "I really didn't care anymore. I was like, 'Don't nobody else care so why should I?' "
His mother was in prison and his dad was in Texas at the time so Terry went to live in Texas, where he tried to enroll in high school there. But he wasn't able to.
"(Collinwood) said that they couldn't release my transcripts without a parent coming up to the school," said Terry, who stayed in Texas from August of what would have been the start of his junior year until he was back home in Ohio by Halloween. "My mother was incarcerated and my father was in Texas. So I couldn't get in school down there and I had to come back."
Terry took refuge with a friend, Corritha Wells, when he returned to Cleveland. By that time he missed the first half of that school year completely and didn't play any football at all, but he returned to Collinwood for the remainder of that year and then for the following school year as well.
"She took me in and was very helpful. Without her, I don't know what I would be doing right now," Terry said. "She already had seven kids but she treated me no different than the others. She kept clothes on my back, food in my mouth and a roof over my head."
However, it was when he was staying with the Wells' family that Terry's personal life really hit rock bottom.
"I can tell you the exact point," he said. "My lowest point was when my I lost my grandfather. He was the only one consistent thing in my life and I felt that I was so alone without him. I felt like the world had just ended. I really didn't even want to go on. It was so hard. My father wasn't around, my mother was still in jail and there was really nobody that I could turn to."
But Terry persevered and entered his senior year, and he was back on the gridiron again. As luck would have it, Terry played about a game and a half before he suffered a high ankle sprain that kept him out for the rest of the season. But that injury turned out to be a blessing in disguise.
"As soon as I messed my ankle up, my godfather, William Montoya, wrote a letter to the OHSAA commissioner and sent in my transcripts and Clair Muscaro granted me a half-year eligibility," Terry said. "Later in the year when I was at the Collinwood-Glenville game, I had seen Coach (Ted) Ginn walking on the field and I gave him the paperwork and told him I was coming. He said, 'OK.' "
Terry was supposed to go to Glenville coming from middle school but he knew a teacher at Collinwood that knew that Terry was a decent athlete and that teacher asked him to come there.
"I used to catch the bus every morning when I was in middle school to come to Glenville and lift weights with the team," he said. "I tried to transfer several times over the years, but every time I tried to transfer I wasn't able to get in."
In hindsight, Terry wishes he could have been at Glenville the entire time. But he doesn't regret the alternate route he took in any way.
"Everything has seemed to work out for the best," he said. "Through all of my trials and tribulations, I feel that all of that stuff I've gone through has helped me and it will come in handy in life."
Nonetheless, he's thankful to Ginn for being there when he needed him the most.
"I owe him the world," Terry said. "Without him, none of this would be possible. He accepted me at Glenville with open arms and treated me like I had been with him for four years. I feel very fortunate and lucky. I'm just happy to be here."
At so many different times along the way, he could have very easily gone the wrong way but didn't. Terry has friends that have died, friends that got shot doing the wrong thing and friends that are in jail, and yet he has managed to walk the straight and narrow.
"I have friends that smoked or drank but they would never let me get into that," Terry said. "Not that I wanted to, but they wouldn't let me go out with them. They told me, 'Stay at the house, you're going to make it.' They wouldn't let me go out with them or hang with them, nothing."
To be able to come from where he's been to where he's at now, Terry feels like he's destined for greatness in some way.
"I hope so. I want to go to the NFL. I've been through all of this, so why stop now," he said. "But if that doesn't work out, I want to be involved with some type of big brother organization or get involved in rec centers so kids can have somewhere to go or somewhere to be instead of out in the streets. I know it's hard with no parents. It's real easy to get turned on to the wrong things."
After going through life so aimlessly at one point, Terry can now see the light at the end of the tunnel in his own life.
"I definitely can see it. It always was there but it just took some work to get to it," Terry said. "But I haven't arrived yet and I'm just trying to work hard."
His future is keenly focused on football and getting a good education while he's at Ohio State.
"I just want to help the team in any way," he said. "If it turns out that I become one of the top players, then I'll gladly accept that role. I feel like I'm a leader. I have a lot to offer."
And he still has a lot to prove to both himself and others who might be wondering how he even ended up at Ohio State.
"A lot of people say that I'm not even supposed to be there and the only reason why I'm going is that it's a favor to Coach Ginn. Well, I'm going to show them," Terry said. "I can't do anything else but show them that I deserve to be there."
Obviously, Tressel thought he belonged at Ohio State because he was the one who personally offered Terry a scholarship when he went there for his official visit late in the recruiting season.
"The highlight for everything was when I had breakfast with Coach Tressel and he told me that we weren't getting up from the table until I decided what number I was going to wear," said Terry, who was joined there by Tressel's wife and Coach (Mel) Tucker. "That was probably the single greatest moment in my life. So we started going down the list to see what numbers were open until we decided on No. 44. I was just stunned. I didn't know what to think or what to say."
But Terry did know the first person that he needed to call after got the offer.
"I called Coach Ginn, of course, and talked to him," he said. "Then everybody just kept calling me and said they heard the news. I just was stunned."
And ever since that time his confidence has grown and his own ambitions and expectations have changed.
"At first, I thought I would come down there and just sit on the sideline and learn the system," Terry said. "But I've been down there a couple of times and I've met the players and I feel like I could play. Even if it's just like rushing the passer on third downs or being on special teams, I feel like I can get on the field probably."
He's continued to train hard to prepare to make the most of his opportunity at Ohio State.
"Since the last football game I've gained about 20 pounds," said Terry who stands 6-2 and weighs in now at 211 pounds and runs a 4.48 40-yard dash. "I lift weights every day and I run a little bit to stay in shape and I'm doing drills with the track team here to stay in shape."
Terry has lived with his dad since the beginning of the school year and his mom could be released from prison anytime between June and December, so Terry naturally has dreams of some kind of family reunion at some point. But in the meantime, he dreams about his future at Ohio State.
"I just think about how grateful I am to have this opportunity and how I don't want to mess it up," Terry said. "I just keep thinking of ways to get better. Everybody wants to go to Ohio State and I'm one of the lucky few that actually gets to. If I go down there and I mess up, it's just going to mess it up for the next kid that is in my situation who is borderline and was working hard.
"So I feel like I have to set the example and show them that I can do the work, and I can come down there and not be a problem and do what I have to do so the next kid can have a chance."
 
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4/20/06

OHIO STATE SPRING FOOTBALL Terry

<H1 class=red>Glenville grad to turn versatility into a field day

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Thursday, April 20, 2006

Doug Lesmerises

Plain Dealer Reporter

Columbus- Glenville grad Curtis Terry is the ideal player for the Scarlet and Gray Game.

"He's very versatile, and that's the thing we love about him," said defensive lineman David Patterson, the senior spokesman for the Scarlet squad that selected Terry on Wednesday during the Buckeyes' annual draft to determine the spring game rosters. "He can play all three linebacker positions, he can play [defensive end], he can fill any of the gaps where you might be short and he's a great special teams player."

Those factors helped Terry go ahead of projected starter James Laurinaitis when it came time to select strong side linebackers. But Terry's con tributions won't end Sat urday.

In the crowded line backer competi tion for the three open starting spots, Terry had been plugged into the role Bobby Carpenter assumed last season as a hybrid linebacker/defensive end. Terry, who will be a junior in the fall, and Chad Hoobler sometimes leave their linebackers drills to work with the defensive ends. It's a return to his roots for Terry, who was a pass-rushing defensive end for the Tarblooders his senior season.

And it should get him on the field.

"He's a little bit like Carpenter," defensive coordinator Jim Heacock said of Terry's pass rush skills. "He's very instinctive."

His teammates noticed. Enough pride rides on the Scarlet and Gray Game each year that the seniors saddled with drafting the two sides don't just pick their friends.

"You can definitely say picking these guys is based on what we saw in the spring," said offensive lineman T.J. Downing, one of the Gray captains.

So what could be gleaned this year after the two sides for Saturday's game at Ohio Stadium were selected?

Well, the Scarlet team chose to make punter the first position drafted, so incumbent A.J. Trapasso, the No. 1 overall selection, must be far ahead of the alternatives. Defensive end Lawrence Wilson from Akron's St. Vincent-St. Mary, the Gray team's initial No. 1 selection, must be ripping people up.

Despite his demotion after a DUI, tackle Alex Boone, the first offensive lineman taken, still has the faith of his teammates. Running back Erik Haw must have admirers, because he was the first running back chosen, with Mo Wells second, Chris Wells third and starter Antonio Pittman out of the game while still recovering from a hamstring pull.

The seniors already were assigned to teams; Troy Smith will quarterback the Scarlet, though by Jim Tressel decree he'll play only the first quarter.

Rob Schoenhoft will back him up, while the running backs will be Haw and Chris Wells, the starting receivers Anthony Gonzalez and Brian Hartline.
Quarterback Justin Zwick, also playing only the first quarter, will lead the Gray, with Todd Boeckman behind him. The running backs are Maurice Wells and Joe Gantz, the leading receivers Ted Ginn Jr., Roy Hall and Brian Robiskie.

That means Terry, 6-2, 234 pounds and still listed second team on the depth chart, will chase to start the game, a preview of what he hopes to come.

"Bobby [Carpenter] was so great, and he knew everything," Terry said. "That's what I got from him - learn everything, because you never know what you can be called upon to do."

To reach this Plain Dealer reporter:

[email protected], 216-999-4479
 
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