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Game Thread Indiana at tOSU, Nov 23, 3:30 ET, ABC/ESPN2

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It's hard to hit IU's QB's. Shotgun snap and the ball is gone in 2 sec. Need deflections and tight coverage on short routes. And the Silver Bullets have to defend the infernal screen game. If the D does those things, we'll castrate them.

Not sure about 641-7. I'll have to take IU and the points. :biggrin:
 
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The days of the 25¢ program are long gone:

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lvbuckeye said:
Wtf is a Hoosier?
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I had to look it up:

For well over a century and a half the people of Indiana have been called Hoosiers. It is one of the oldest of state nicknames and has had a wider acceptance than most. True, there are Buckeyes of Ohio, the Suckers of Illinois and the Tarheels of North Carolina -- but none of these has had the popular usage accorded Hoosier.
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But where did Hoosier come from? What is its origin? We know that it came into general usage in the 1830s. John Finley of Richmond wrote a poem, "The Hoosier's Nest," which was used as the "Carrier's Address" of the Indianapolis Journal, Jan. 1, 1833. It was widely copied throughout the country and even abroad. Finley originally wrote Hoosier as "Hoosher." Apparently the poet felt that it was sufficiently familiar to be understandable to his readers. A few days later, on January 8, 1833, at the Jackson Day dinner at Indianapolis, John W. Davis offered "The Hoosher State of Indiana" as a toast. And in August, former Indiana governor James B. Ray announced that he intended to publish a newspaper, The Hoosier, at Greencastle, Indiana.
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Among the more popular theories:

  • When a visitor hailed a pioneer cabin in Indiana or knocked upon its door, the settler would respond, "Who's yere?" And from this frequent response Indiana became the "Who's yere" or Hoosier state. No one ever explained why this was more typical of Indiana than of Illinois or Ohio.
  • That Indiana rivermen were so spectacularly successful in trouncing or "hushing" their adversaries in the brawling that was then common that they became known as "hushers," and eventually Hoosiers.
  • There was once a contractor named Hoosier employed on the Louisville and Portland Canal who preferred to hire laborers from Indiana. They were called "Hoosier's men" and eventually all Indianans were called Hoosiers.
  • A theory attributed to Gov. Joseph Wright derived Hoosier from an Indian word for corn, "hoosa." Indiana flatboatmen taking corn or maize to New Orleans came to be known as "hoosa men" or Hoosiers. Unfortunately for this theory, a search of Indian vocabularies by a careful student of linguistics failed to reveal any such word for corn.
  • Quite as plausible as these was the facetious explanation offered by "The Hoosier Poet," James Whitcomb Riley. He claimed that Hoosier originated in the pugnacious habits of our early settlers. They were enthusiastic and vicious fighters who gouged, scratched and bit off noses and ears. This was so common an occurrence that a settler coming into a tavern the morning after a fight and seeing an ear on the floor would touch it with his toe and casually ask, "Whose ear?"

Entire article: http://www.in.gov/history/2612.htm

Re: Suckers of Illinois

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ORD_Buckeye said:
I'll go ahead and say this now. I may very well Elvis my television if I have to listen to non-stop drivel about how Baylor, Oregon, aggy and Auburn should all jump us.

Fair warning, Dude.
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Already been talked about on Gameday this morning. The talking heads split on who should be #3.

Needless to say the Buckeyes need a win that mirrors the game against PSU and I think they get that.

Im calling a 62- 14 game in the Shoe today. The team is focused. Carlos Hyde gets 3 TDs and over 150 yards rushing today to close out Meyers first 1000 yard season. Braxton bounces back this week with a few TDs, over 250 in the air, and over 100 on the ground. Today is about the seniors and I think they close out big time for their final game in C-Bus. Indiana will put up yards, but stymied in point total. Just enough stats to keep ESPiN taking smack on the Bucks.

Big thank you to the seniors who have made the last two seasons very special for all of us fans.
 
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