Buckeye Blogger NetworkIt’s that time of the year again… Football is back! On this week’s edition of The Buckeye Battle Cry Radio Hour, we’ve got plenty story lines, predictions and performances to talk about after Saturday’s annual Spring game, held at Paul Brown Stadium on Saturday for the first time in school history.
Helping us do so is the great Jeremy Birmingham of Eleven Warriors. Birm brings us his perspective from the game, as well as breaks down who he though had a solid showing in the game and what can be taken from the scrimmage.
He also breaks down his thoughts on Braxton Miller, Urban Meyer’s second year, and the depth surrounding this Buckeye team.
Then we go from the Gridiron, to the Hardwood. Former Buckeye Wide Receiver Roy Hall joins us, to talk about the Driven Foundation’s basketball game for charity coming up on Friday. The Driven Foundation president also talks about his relationships with fellow Buckeyes Maurice Clarett and Antonio Smith — as well as what his foundation has been able to accomplish over the last few years.
That’s all jam packed in another addition of tBBC Radio Hour! Enjoy!
A bit of a different version of WDYWTSOS, since we all want to see the same thing- Awesomeness and no injuries.
So, we’ve polled our staff of experts for their predictions on the following aspects for “Getting Down At Paul Brown”- let’s see how much everyone’s been paying attention to the Spring Practice Updates:
Bombs Away
What player scores the first points of the game?
WVa: Braxton Miller will score first and it will be on a long run.
Ken: Devin Smith on a long pass play from The Brax
Jason: Rod Smith. My bet is they limit Hyde and with Brax wearing the black shirt his running is cut out.
Janelle: Devin Smith on a deep ball from Braxton
Eric: Might as well ask what your favorite color of M&M is based on the taste. I’ll go with Michael Thomas on a nice Brax pass.
Dexter: I’m going to go with Evan Spencer on a Bomb downfield from Braxton Miller. That is my favorite color M&M.
Charles: To be a bit different, I’ll go with Drew Basil
Mali: The obvious answer is Drew Basil.
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A big time showdown with the Indiana Hoosiers on the hardwood. Spring practice has started on the astro-grass. The weather must be warming up (soon?) in Columbus, Ohio. It’s Wednesday, let’s rumble!
Upset in B-Town
With the conference tournament and eventually the NCAA tournament still on the horizon, it can be tough to put a ton of stock into the importance of a regular season game these days in college basketball. There’s seemingly always tomorrow or another shot to fix what you have done wrong. Last night’s game in Bloomington, Indiana against the 2nd ranked Indiana Hoosiers was one of those exceptions, and the Buckeyes rose up to the challenge.
Deshaun Thomas and Lenzelle Smith feeling good in Assembly Hall
| Today, the results of this year’s 6AM draft for Saturday’s Spring Game were announced… here’s what the teams will look like.
Team Scarlet
Team Gray
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Thursday’s cup of Mulligatawny, carefully crafted for the best damn fans in the land… since you know how to ask. Fingers crossed for good weather on Saturday!
Mr. Romance, That's Me.
Buckeye 411
We continue our overview of Buckeye spring practice with Joe’s look across the positions. As always HUGE thank you to Josh Winslow for his photos- be sure check out all of his Spring Game shots.
The Future? or The Present?
QB’s- IMHO the position should go to Braxton Miller for the first 5 games. He finished off an up and down spring with a great showing in the spring game. He can make all the throws, has escapability and the ability to get some first downs with his legs. Obviously he is the youngest but him graduating HS early and coming in for the spring was a great decision.
Taylor Graham, Kenny Guiton, and Joe Bauserman all had their moments this spring. Bauserman makes a great backup with the ability to save a game for us if the starter goes down. Graham and Guiton will have their say come fall, but Graham lacks the ability to win with his legs, and Guiton doesn’t provide the greatest ability with his legs.
I really like what was said about Pryor and him stepping up and being a leader/coach for the 4 QB’s vying for the starting job.
RB’s- Talk about an embarrassment of riches with Hall, Berry, Smith, Hyde, and Herron.
The best thing about the news out of spring and the spring game was not the number of rushing attempts these guys got or the talent they all have running the ball, but the number of receptions they received out of the backfield. Hall and Berry split out provides the offense a lot of versatility.
Look for Berry to continue to be explosive in the return game as well.
FB’s- Zach Boren is one of the best all around fullbacks we have seen at Ohio State, and David Durham transition to the position adds a great player for the future.
The switch over to the new (old) site has set us back a little bit. So here are a bunch of links for your browsing pleasure.
The usual suspects check in once again with practice reports and various other updates.
First up, the practice reports.
Ken Gordon from the Dispatch has his usual notes from Tuesday’s practice.
The good folks over at ElevenWarriors.com were lucky enough to make some observations from Tuesday’s practice as well.
Finally, Tony Gerdeman from theozone.net continues their fantastic coverage of spring ball with his observations from Tuesday.
And for a summary of the summaries, Vico over at OurHonorDefend.com does a fantastic job breaking everything down and highlighting the most interesting bits.
At the end Vico talks a little bit about the recent stir concerning Ohio State ‘stealing’ Oregon’s signals in the Rose Bowl. Other folks have reported on this as well.
My thoughts? If Oregon is too stupid to disguise or change their offensive signals enough over the course of the season so that other teams can’t pick them up from watching game film, that is their problem. Also, what Vico said.
Everything else:
Ken Gordon has a report on Duron Carter and his status this spring.
TheOzone.net has: an article on waiting your turn to play at Ohio State, Etienne Sabino and his progress this spring, Tressel Talks Pryor’s Spring Progress, and Sanzenbacher and his thoughts on the passing game.
Whew, TheOzone.net bringing it strong like usual.
ElevenWarriors.com has a transcript from the Big Ten spring teleconference (at least the Jim Tressel parts of it).
Finally, our very own Jeff Seemann checks in with a boatload of material from Fox Sports Ohio.
I think that about does it. Sorry if I missed anything. Hopefully now that the move is over we can stay on top of this a bit more and provide our loyal readers with some original material instead of just links.
Stay tuned!
