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smitty03
Somebody's Heine' is crowdin' my icebox...
I am from the same area Tyson grew up, and his family is indeed a class act. I know several people who are friends with the Gentry family, and have nothing but positives to say about them. The Gentry family name is well respected in the Sandusky area. They are die hard Buckeye fans that bleed scarlet and gray.
Here is to a speedy recovery Tyson!
Here is to a speedy recovery Tyson!
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biobuck
Senior
April 16, 2006 6:35 PM
Football: OSU Head Football Coach Jim Tressel said today that injured wide receiver Tyson Gentry underwent a second surgery yesterday and is continuing to progress. Tressel added that it would be inappropriate to discuss the injury in any further detail and declined to do so.
Tressel also added that those wishing to send well-wishes to Gentry can do so at the following address:
Tyson Gentry
c/o Ohio State Medical Center
410 W. 10th Street
Columbus, Ohio 43210
Tressel also added that those wishing to send well-wishes to Gentry can do so at the following address:
Tyson Gentry
c/o Ohio State Medical Center
410 W. 10th Street
Columbus, Ohio 43210
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crazybuckfan40
Head Coach
Well here is the address. We could put the buckeyeplanet logo on the front and just say our prayers are with Tyson and family and wish him a speedy recovery or something like that and then somenoe can put it in the mail.
I post in the graphics forum to see if anyone is up for making a card.
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DDN
4/18
Prognosis for OSU's Gentry still unknown
Tressel won't discuss severity of injury; says sophomore is getting best care possible.
By Doug Harris
Staff Writer
COLUMBUS | Ohio State coach Jim Tressel said stricken player Tyson Gentry had a successful second surgery Monday for a neck injury he suffered in practice.
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<!-- inset --> <!--begintext--> The sophomore walk-on from Sandusky was tackled on a pass pattern Friday. Linebacker Marcus Freeman told the Dayton Daily News on Friday that Gentry had no feeling from his shoulders down as he was taken to OSU Medical Center.
Tressel, meeting the media for the first time since the incident, wouldn't discuss the severity of Gentry's injuries.
"That would be totally inappropriate," he said. "Obviously, the severity of it is different than taking someone off in a cart with an ankle (injury). I think everyone knows that."
Tressel has made repeated visits to see Gentry, but players have been asked to stay away because he is at risk for infection.
"He and his family certainly appreciate everyone's thoughts and prayers," Tressel said. "It's a day-by-day process, and he's in the best hands he could possibly be in at Ohio State Medical Center."
Tressel wouldn't speculate on a prognosis, saying, "You want to keep optimism, but you want to keep it in check."
"It's tough just seeing what happened," backup quarterback Todd Boeckman said. "You don't want to see a player go down like that. We're definitely feeling for him — our whole team is."
Tressel said fans can send cards and letters to Gentry at OSU Medical Center, 410 W. 10th Ave., Columbus, Ohio, 43210.
Cleveland PD
4/18
Injured Buckeyes player has more surgery
<table class="byln" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="428"> <tbody><tr valign="bottom"> <td class="byln" width="328">4/17/2006, 8:34 p.m. ETBy RUSTY MILLER
The Associated Press</td><td width="3"> </td><td width="97">
</td> </tr> </tbody></table> COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio State walk-on Tyson Gentry, who seriously injured his neck during practice last week, underwent a second surgery Monday.
Coach Jim Tressel declined to discuss the severity of the injury or prognosis, saying Gentry's situation was a "day-by-day process."
"He came through that well," Tressel said of the latest surgery. "He and the family certainly appreciate everyone's thoughts and prayers."
Gentry, a sophomore, is a 6-foot-2, 165-pounder who walked on as a punter the past two years and this spring was also seeing action as a wide receiver. During Friday's practice at Ohio Stadium, he was running across the middle when he was hit by freshman defensive back Kurt Coleman. The hit seemed routine, according to several players, but Gentry landed awkwardly.
His family rushed from their home in Sandusky to see him at the Ohio State University Medical Center, where he underwent surgery Friday. The family requested that no details of his condition be released.
"Ty is alert and in good spirits," his father, Bob Gentry, who played for Ohio State in the mid-1970s, said in a statement.
Tressel ended practice after the injury and gave the players the rest of the weekend off. They reported back to campus and were updated by the coaching staff on Gentry's situation early Monday morning.
"If he doesn't know by now, everybody out there — all 100-plus guys — are behind him," starting quarterback Troy Smith said. "We just want him to recover as well and as soon and as fast as possible."
Linebacker Marcus Freeman said he was told that at first Gentry did not feel anything from his head down but that some feeling returned by the time the ambulance arrived at the stadium.
"It's tough just seeing what happened," backup quarterback Todd Boeckman said. "You don't want to see a player go down like that. We're definitely feeling for him — our whole team is."
Gentry is a psychology major who attended Perkins High School.
"Tyson has been a player, ever since he's gotten here, who been pretty much friends with everybody," Smith said.
Smith said the coaches told the team that doctors were concerned about infections after surgery.
Tressel urged Ohio State fans to send letters and cards to the hospital to Gentry's attention.
"I'm sure he would appreciate that and his family certainly would," Tressel said.
4/18
Prognosis for OSU's Gentry still unknown
Tressel won't discuss severity of injury; says sophomore is getting best care possible.
By Doug Harris
Staff Writer
COLUMBUS | Ohio State coach Jim Tressel said stricken player Tyson Gentry had a successful second surgery Monday for a neck injury he suffered in practice.
<!--endtext-->
<!-- inset --> <!--begintext--> The sophomore walk-on from Sandusky was tackled on a pass pattern Friday. Linebacker Marcus Freeman told the Dayton Daily News on Friday that Gentry had no feeling from his shoulders down as he was taken to OSU Medical Center.
Tressel, meeting the media for the first time since the incident, wouldn't discuss the severity of Gentry's injuries.
"That would be totally inappropriate," he said. "Obviously, the severity of it is different than taking someone off in a cart with an ankle (injury). I think everyone knows that."
Tressel has made repeated visits to see Gentry, but players have been asked to stay away because he is at risk for infection.
"He and his family certainly appreciate everyone's thoughts and prayers," Tressel said. "It's a day-by-day process, and he's in the best hands he could possibly be in at Ohio State Medical Center."
Tressel wouldn't speculate on a prognosis, saying, "You want to keep optimism, but you want to keep it in check."
"It's tough just seeing what happened," backup quarterback Todd Boeckman said. "You don't want to see a player go down like that. We're definitely feeling for him — our whole team is."
Tressel said fans can send cards and letters to Gentry at OSU Medical Center, 410 W. 10th Ave., Columbus, Ohio, 43210.
Cleveland PD
4/18
Injured Buckeyes player has more surgery
<table class="byln" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="428"> <tbody><tr valign="bottom"> <td class="byln" width="328">4/17/2006, 8:34 p.m. ETBy RUSTY MILLER
The Associated Press</td><td width="3"> </td><td width="97">
</td> </tr> </tbody></table> COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio State walk-on Tyson Gentry, who seriously injured his neck during practice last week, underwent a second surgery Monday.
Coach Jim Tressel declined to discuss the severity of the injury or prognosis, saying Gentry's situation was a "day-by-day process."
"He came through that well," Tressel said of the latest surgery. "He and the family certainly appreciate everyone's thoughts and prayers."
Gentry, a sophomore, is a 6-foot-2, 165-pounder who walked on as a punter the past two years and this spring was also seeing action as a wide receiver. During Friday's practice at Ohio Stadium, he was running across the middle when he was hit by freshman defensive back Kurt Coleman. The hit seemed routine, according to several players, but Gentry landed awkwardly.
His family rushed from their home in Sandusky to see him at the Ohio State University Medical Center, where he underwent surgery Friday. The family requested that no details of his condition be released.
"Ty is alert and in good spirits," his father, Bob Gentry, who played for Ohio State in the mid-1970s, said in a statement.
Tressel ended practice after the injury and gave the players the rest of the weekend off. They reported back to campus and were updated by the coaching staff on Gentry's situation early Monday morning.
"If he doesn't know by now, everybody out there — all 100-plus guys — are behind him," starting quarterback Troy Smith said. "We just want him to recover as well and as soon and as fast as possible."
Linebacker Marcus Freeman said he was told that at first Gentry did not feel anything from his head down but that some feeling returned by the time the ambulance arrived at the stadium.
"It's tough just seeing what happened," backup quarterback Todd Boeckman said. "You don't want to see a player go down like that. We're definitely feeling for him — our whole team is."
Gentry is a psychology major who attended Perkins High School.
"Tyson has been a player, ever since he's gotten here, who been pretty much friends with everybody," Smith said.
Smith said the coaches told the team that doctors were concerned about infections after surgery.
Tressel urged Ohio State fans to send letters and cards to the hospital to Gentry's attention.
"I'm sure he would appreciate that and his family certainly would," Tressel said.
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gregorylee
I'd rather be napping!!
I hope and pray, that the family has enough faith in the lord that they can stay positive though this terrible ordeal.
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Posted this in the graphics forum, but wanted to give it some visibility here as well:
Download the picture from this link (high-resolution), not from the sample below:
Gentry Card (High Resolution "Download Link")
Using XP:
1) Load cardstock into your printer (can be found at any office supply store)
2) View the image with 'Windows Picture and Fax Viewer"
3) Click the printer button (to the right of the 'X')
4) Hit next 3 times
5) Under layout selection, scroll down under available layouts:
> Select 4 x 6 cutout prints
6) Hit next and it should print.
Download the picture from this link (high-resolution), not from the sample below:
Gentry Card (High Resolution "Download Link")
Using XP:
1) Load cardstock into your printer (can be found at any office supply store)
2) View the image with 'Windows Picture and Fax Viewer"
3) Click the printer button (to the right of the 'X')
4) Hit next 3 times
5) Under layout selection, scroll down under available layouts:
> Select 4 x 6 cutout prints
6) Hit next and it should print.
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RCollett
Gazillion!
Some video from NBC4i.com here in Columbus.
Tressel talking about Tyson and some practice.
http://www.nbc4i.com/cfoot572/8796565/detail.html#
Tressel talking about Tyson and some practice.
http://www.nbc4i.com/cfoot572/8796565/detail.html#
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HineyBuck
Old newb
Guys, I don't like to be pessimistic at a time like this, but given two surgeries already, along with the limited information coming out, and then considering the comments noted below, I think we'd all better prepare ourselves for the worst. We know it's serious; it's beginning to appear that it could be long term or even permanent. I hope I'm wrong, but I fear I'm not.
Tyson and his family are going to need the entire Buckeye Nation and BuckeyePlanet behind them. As Dubs noted in an earlier post, they epitomize what being a Buckeye is all about. We need to respond in like fashion.
One Buckeye down, all Buckeyes down.
:osu:
From the Ozone:
http://www.the-ozone.net/football/2006/Springball/injuryreaction.htm
Football
Gentry Injury Leaves Buckeyes and Coaches Introspective
By John Porentas
It all looks so simple and elegant from the stands and on television. From that perspective, football is game of routine plays punctuated by big ones. Watch enough of it, and you become numb to the fact that on even the seemingly most mundane snaps, large people are crashing into one another, often at high speeds, and falling to the ground. It is a contact sport whose violence is often forgotten by the sheer repetitive nature of the violence. After all, for the most part, the players almost always get up, and that fact breeds more than a modicum of apathy toward the inherent risks in the game.
The injury to Tyson Gentry this week at Ohio State spring practice drove home the fact that no matter how it looks, football is still a game in which there is risk of serious injury. On every snap, someone can get hurt, or worse.
"The first game I ever coached, one of our players died," said OSU Head Coach Jim Tressel when asked if he had ever been around a serious injury such as Gentry's before.
That event took place in 1975. Tressel was a graduate assistant at Akron University, and in the season opener against Marshall tight end Chris Angeloff collapsed while standing on the sideline and died of cardiac arrest. With that experience in his background, it is small wonder that Tressel acted immediately when Gentry was injured, calling off the remainder of practice and accompanying Gentry to the hospital where he received medical treatment.
Tressel declined to comment on the details of the nature of Gentry's injury, saying it would be "totally inappropriate to do that," but did comment on his own reaction to the injury.
"I think it does make you pause. It's a difficult situation," he said when asked if the injury caused him to look at the game a bit differently.
Ohio State quarterbacks coach Joe Daniels also had a unique perspective. His son, Mat, is currently a walkon at Ohio State, and was on the practice field taking part in drills when Gentry was injured. Daniels said his reaction was more than that of just a coach.
"My son is a walkon here," began Daniels.
"When we broke the first thing I did was find him and just be close to him. It's my kid, I wanted him close to me. It's tough. I guess the older you get the more you think about those things," Daniels said.
Daniels has never had a team member be seriously injured, but recalled signing a high school player while he was at West Virginia who was subsequently injured at an all-star event prior to his enrollment in college. Daniels said he actually was on hand when the player was injured, and that the individual involved is still confined to a wheel chair.
"I look at my own son sometimes and wonder 'Do you really want to do this?' because as a father I'm still looking at the grades and everything else, but he loves it. Those guys love it and that's what they want to do," said Daniels.
Quarterback Todd Boeckman said that the injury made him pause and think, but he has no thought whatsoever of not going back onto the field, though he did admit that going back the first time was a little tough.
"It's tough to get back after something like that, an injury like that," he said.
"Coach Tressel called practice right after that. It's tough to see a player go down. You cringe. You wonder why it had to happen to us, but you just go back out there and do what you can and hope for the best," said Boeckman.
"It was tough. You still have that in the back of your mind where he went down wrong, hurt his neck or back or whatever he did. It's tough going back out there, but you just have to do it and show the coaches that you can do it and prove you have the toughness to go out there and do it."
Like Boeckman, Troy Smith was also reflective, but had no doubts about returning to the practice field.
"Not really," he said.
"I know that deep down in Tyson's heart he wants everybody everybody to do good and be positive out there. If he doesn't know by know, everybody out there, all 100+ guys, are behind him. We just want him to recover as well and as soon and as fast as possible. It was rough though watching that.
"It does make you think you about it, but I think for myself the sheer love for the sport, for the game, keeps you going, keeps you playing. You work hard in the off-season to try and prevent things like that, but sometimes a freak thing like that happen."
Tyson and his family are going to need the entire Buckeye Nation and BuckeyePlanet behind them. As Dubs noted in an earlier post, they epitomize what being a Buckeye is all about. We need to respond in like fashion.
One Buckeye down, all Buckeyes down.
:osu:
From the Ozone:
http://www.the-ozone.net/football/2006/Springball/injuryreaction.htm
Football
Gentry Injury Leaves Buckeyes and Coaches Introspective
By John Porentas
It all looks so simple and elegant from the stands and on television. From that perspective, football is game of routine plays punctuated by big ones. Watch enough of it, and you become numb to the fact that on even the seemingly most mundane snaps, large people are crashing into one another, often at high speeds, and falling to the ground. It is a contact sport whose violence is often forgotten by the sheer repetitive nature of the violence. After all, for the most part, the players almost always get up, and that fact breeds more than a modicum of apathy toward the inherent risks in the game.
The injury to Tyson Gentry this week at Ohio State spring practice drove home the fact that no matter how it looks, football is still a game in which there is risk of serious injury. On every snap, someone can get hurt, or worse.
"The first game I ever coached, one of our players died," said OSU Head Coach Jim Tressel when asked if he had ever been around a serious injury such as Gentry's before.
That event took place in 1975. Tressel was a graduate assistant at Akron University, and in the season opener against Marshall tight end Chris Angeloff collapsed while standing on the sideline and died of cardiac arrest. With that experience in his background, it is small wonder that Tressel acted immediately when Gentry was injured, calling off the remainder of practice and accompanying Gentry to the hospital where he received medical treatment.
Tressel declined to comment on the details of the nature of Gentry's injury, saying it would be "totally inappropriate to do that," but did comment on his own reaction to the injury.
"I think it does make you pause. It's a difficult situation," he said when asked if the injury caused him to look at the game a bit differently.
Ohio State quarterbacks coach Joe Daniels also had a unique perspective. His son, Mat, is currently a walkon at Ohio State, and was on the practice field taking part in drills when Gentry was injured. Daniels said his reaction was more than that of just a coach.
"My son is a walkon here," began Daniels.
"When we broke the first thing I did was find him and just be close to him. It's my kid, I wanted him close to me. It's tough. I guess the older you get the more you think about those things," Daniels said.
Daniels has never had a team member be seriously injured, but recalled signing a high school player while he was at West Virginia who was subsequently injured at an all-star event prior to his enrollment in college. Daniels said he actually was on hand when the player was injured, and that the individual involved is still confined to a wheel chair.
"I look at my own son sometimes and wonder 'Do you really want to do this?' because as a father I'm still looking at the grades and everything else, but he loves it. Those guys love it and that's what they want to do," said Daniels.
Quarterback Todd Boeckman said that the injury made him pause and think, but he has no thought whatsoever of not going back onto the field, though he did admit that going back the first time was a little tough.
"It's tough to get back after something like that, an injury like that," he said.
"Coach Tressel called practice right after that. It's tough to see a player go down. You cringe. You wonder why it had to happen to us, but you just go back out there and do what you can and hope for the best," said Boeckman.
"It was tough. You still have that in the back of your mind where he went down wrong, hurt his neck or back or whatever he did. It's tough going back out there, but you just have to do it and show the coaches that you can do it and prove you have the toughness to go out there and do it."
Like Boeckman, Troy Smith was also reflective, but had no doubts about returning to the practice field.
"Not really," he said.
"I know that deep down in Tyson's heart he wants everybody everybody to do good and be positive out there. If he doesn't know by know, everybody out there, all 100+ guys, are behind him. We just want him to recover as well and as soon and as fast as possible. It was rough though watching that.
"It does make you think you about it, but I think for myself the sheer love for the sport, for the game, keeps you going, keeps you playing. You work hard in the off-season to try and prevent things like that, but sometimes a freak thing like that happen."
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sandgk
Watson, Crick & A Twist
Sad to say, I think HineyBuck has hit the nail on the head. Prepare for the worst, hope for the best.
It is without doubt truly sad when a kid so beloved by his team-mates, who has worked so hard to get time on the squad suffers an injury like this.
Who knows, maybe the steeling which Hiney suggests may turn out to be overly cautious - I certainly hope so.
Till we know Tyler is out of the woods that wonderful piece of work by jwinslow, emblazoned with some carefully chosen words of support and your own John Hancock or screen-name is sure to go a long way to make Tyler realize just how many wish him well.
The hard work is done with jwins artwork.
Now all you need is a stamp and words that come from you.
It is without doubt truly sad when a kid so beloved by his team-mates, who has worked so hard to get time on the squad suffers an injury like this.
Who knows, maybe the steeling which Hiney suggests may turn out to be overly cautious - I certainly hope so.
Till we know Tyler is out of the woods that wonderful piece of work by jwinslow, emblazoned with some carefully chosen words of support and your own John Hancock or screen-name is sure to go a long way to make Tyler realize just how many wish him well.
The hard work is done with jwins artwork.
Now all you need is a stamp and words that come from you.
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