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OHIO STATE NATIONAL CHAMPIONS

Posted on 01/03/2003 9:20:40 PM PST by ItsBacon

Edited on 01/03/2003 9:27:16 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

31-24 after 2 overtimes


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; US: Florida; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: buckeyes; nationalchamps
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To: dubyaismypresident
Agreed
341 posted on 01/04/2003 8:01:12 PM PST by StAthanasiustheGreat
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To: anncoulteriscool
My next point? - I lost zero money on this game. I am a fan of neither team. Neither team was anything to write home about.

It was a good championship game overall, I must admit, and the Buckeyes are to be congratulated. I don't personally like any Florida teams, especially the "Noles". Bobby Bowden is a thug protector. He got Warwick Dunn out of a robbery charge hearing two days before the national championship game a few years ago. He should have NOT been allowed to play in that game. Influence and money talks and B.S. walks, however.

342 posted on 01/04/2003 9:12:06 PM PST by SlightOfTongue
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To: timestax
Whooooooohoooooooooo!!!!
343 posted on 01/04/2003 10:19:37 PM PST by timestax
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To: RedWing9
The second reply the showed, from behind the play and concentrating on the right side, showed clearly that the two players hands were all over each other, beginning at the line of scrimmage and continuing throughout the play. Their contact never ceased.

That seemed to be the case as I viewed it, too. Earlier in the game some of these were not called, this time it was. I'm not an expert on collegiate rules, but it seems to me that if the defender impedes the receiver's route to the ball, it constitutes interference. Its a judgement call, I guess, and it went the Buckeyes' way and against the 'Canes. That happens, and you have to deal with it. Its hard to write off an entire game on the basis of one play and one call when there were so many others.

The one Miami coach stated he told his players to "get in the faces" of the receivers. IMO, giving the benefit of doubt, this doesn't mean he was telling them outright to foul, but to play aggressive defense. Well, when you play aggressive defense on passing downs, you always run the risk of being called for a penalty. The refs aren't stupid, they're watching more closely on those kinds of downs then they might otherwise. In this case, Miami got bit. Again, it happens.

344 posted on 01/05/2003 8:00:07 AM PST by chimera
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To: lepton
The Miami, Fla. sports writers have it right when they said no team could have beaten OSU, that they had close games merely because of the type of football they play.

OSU would have handily beaten Southern Cal. I'm very disapponted at the way Palmer and his team catered to O.J. While Plamer surely is a very talented football player, he is lacking in ethics. And so is the coach Pete Carroll.

Maurice Clarette likewise showed at best a lack of maturity. His comments surely were distracting. The funeral was of a drug dealer. It's this kind of "friends" anyone should stay away from.

345 posted on 01/05/2003 8:16:07 AM PST by Dante3
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To: cactusSharp
Keith Jackson was vintage as usual but Fouts was way too biased for Miami. Coulda been worse I guess,coulda been Costas.

On THE play (4th and 3) in overtime, Fouts said over the air what play the Bucks were going to run. The microphone and camera was peering over the shoulders of the players and coaches during the timeout as they diagramed the play.

The idiot Fouts (who was blantantly rooting for Winslow the son of his former teammate) blabbed over the air the play with more than 15 seconds before the play took place. Plenty of time for a coach monitoring ABC to relay the info to the defense squad.
346 posted on 01/05/2003 2:31:32 PM PST by tang-soo
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To: RedWing9
I agree their hands were all over each other. That's legal as long as the ball's not in the air at the time. "Holding" is just that - grabbing hold of the player and there was no replay showing that.
347 posted on 01/05/2003 5:58:07 PM PST by lasereye
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To: tang-soo
Congrats on a great victory for your team--been a while. From your profile, you must have seen lots of great games at OSU, up close and personal, contributing a great deal too.

I grew up watching the ball-handling magician Rex Kern against USC in Rose Bowl matchups (last national title for you), and always liked the Buckeyes:
--I always loved watching the tuba guy "dot the i"
--Laughed my ass off many years back when the camera was panning the student section at a OSU-Michigan game on the banner "F*CK MICHIGAN"
--Envied them for the buckeye stickers awarded for great plays--wished we had something like that at Nebraska
--I remember Oklahoma (the Husker's nemesis at the time!) kicking that clutch FG that Keith Jackson referred to, beating you guys in Columbus in 1977 (kicker was Uwe von Schauman, an All-American who played several years in the pros)
--I remember Woody whacking that Clemson player

ESPN Classic just had a great tribute to Woody and the program a few nights ago, filmed in 1977 (my senior season at Nebraska), and man it was like being there.

OSU has a storied, proud program, and this year they just never quit--no mega-stars like the Canes. I'll take that over the smartass superstar Canes anytime. Besides, anytime I can see Warren Fat-ass Sapp get beat, it makes me happy--Huskers finally beat the Sapp-led Canes in 1995 for our first since 1971, so I know how it is to wait a long time. I'll always remember Sapp taunting Tom Osborne to his face in the 2nd quarter of that game, and watching him get plastered ino the Orange Bowl turf for the rest of the game!!! I'll always feel like I got something on them.

I played against and beat the Canes in 1976 before they were the modern "Canes", but they did have some great players--just as trash-mouthed then as they are now.

348 posted on 01/06/2003 12:16:25 AM PST by Husker8877
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To: lepton
Excellent point.
349 posted on 01/06/2003 6:39:48 AM PST by Dante3
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To: Husker8877
Interesting post. I was absolutely thrilled with the OSU victory. However, the injury dampened the joy.
350 posted on 01/06/2003 6:43:57 AM PST by Dante3
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To: Husker8877
Congrats on a great victory for your team--been a while. From your profile, you must have seen lots of great games at OSU, up close and personal, contributing a great deal too.

I grew up watching the ball-handling magician Rex Kern against USC in Rose Bowl matchups (last national title for you), and always liked the Buckeyes: --I always loved watching the tuba guy "dot the i" --I remember Oklahoma (the Husker's nemesis at the time!) kicking that clutch FG that Keith Jackson referred to, beating you guys in Columbus in 1977 (kicker was Uwe von Schauman, an All-American who played several years in the pros)

ESPN Classic just had a great tribute to Woody and the program a few nights ago, filmed in 1977 (my senior season at Nebraska), and man it was like being there.

Thanks for the cool remarks. yeah, it was a great game and I also remember Rex Kern, Otis, Stillwagon ... back in 68. The super sophomores. Not to pander, but I also liked Nebraska - always like Osborne. I think he has a PhD if I remember correctly.

And yes, I remember the kick. Until Friday night I thought the OSU OU game in 1977 was the best game I ever witnessed even though we lost. I still remember all the details. OU scored a touchdown with less than 30 seconds left to pull within 2. I think it was something like 31-29. OU went for 2 point conversion but OSU was called for defensive holding. OU again went for 2 and failed. Woody put his 'Hands players' on the return team for the expected on sides kick. Mike Straheen (spelling?), a third string quaterback had to fall on it, but instead tried to run and funbled. I think OU ran one play to set up the winning kick. I was in the band (2nd year) then and probably only a 100 people closer to the action than me. It was a great and exciting game, but too bad we lost.

That ESPN broadcast you saw was probably the one filmed by the BBC in 1977 and included a lot of footage of the band. I remember the brits following us (the band) around all season. That footage also shows Woody in a classromm setting, not teaching football, but a class on public speaking and vocabulary. Woody spent a lot of time grooming his players for life, not just running a football. I miss him. I work with his niece who was also in the marching band and we've shared many discussions about Woody. By the way, we beat Miami 10-0 that season opener in 1977 but that was just before they reached their current status.

So you played for the Huskers? that's awesome - great program. I remember back in the 70s every year the Neb and OU games were the best.
351 posted on 01/06/2003 7:41:04 AM PST by tang-soo
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To: RedWing9
Now, dont' misunderstand my intent here. I'm glad the Big Ten got the respect they did with Ohio State winning.

I'm, also, not trying to put an 'asterisk' on OHU's National Championship. They most definately deserved to win that game.

Furthermore, from the get go on this thread, I made the statement that you must simply accept that you have to take the good calls with the bad calls and the 'no' calls in Football. That's simply the way it is.

But I tend to be a stickler on the details.

So, don't interpret my continued insistance that this was a bad call as a desire to claim OSU is an illegitimate National Champion. They are not.

As an example, you will remember in the Michigan/OSU game a couple of months ago, that M's touchdown was waved off due to offensive pass interference. The replay clearly showed Gamble, I think it was, tripped on his own. There was NO pass interference. It was a bad call. It could have certainly cost Michigan the game in which case this conversation would never have happened. Nonetheless, OSU truly did win that game.

"As I argued earlier, holding is part-n-parcel of pass interference."

Yes, a receiver can be held and it would be Pass Interference. This would only be the call if the ball was in the air while the pass receiver was being "held".

Now, I'd love to see the play again, but I'm finding very few people are still showing the play. I'm certainly open to seeing if the OSU receiver was held while the ball was in the air. If so, case closed -maybe (see next post).

However, the actual penalty of "Defensive Holding" of the receiver is a different call with different standards. If the defensive player "holds" the receiver before the ball is thrown, then it is NOT "pass interference", but "defensive holding". Not that there would have been any effective difference if this were the penalty, but... For some reason, many on this thread have simply cismissed "the commentators" "opinion" that there was no Pass Interference.Hall of Fame Quarterback Dan Fout's comments are certainly something to take into consideration.

He knows of what he speaks. And he is correct about one thing. There was NO CONTACT at the moment the receiver was about to catch the ball. Yes, it initially "looked" like the Miami defender was "all over him", but the replay clearly showed he didn't touch him at this point.

Again, I'm open to looking at the replay to see if the defender had made interfering contact while the ball was in the air (that is the key). I know there was NO CONTACT as the ball was in it the latter part of its journey to the receiver, but was there contact at the time the QB released the ball and shortly thereafter? I'd have to see the replay.

"And it occured well after the 5 yd buffer..."

I learned something from a couple of my friends who are former NCAA Div 1 players.

In College football, there is no 5 yard buffer zone. You can jam the guy all you want if the ball is not in the air. Even if you're 50 yards down field and the QB hasn't thrown the ball, you can stuff him. When the ball is in the air, you can't 'stuff' him anymore.

You cannot, however, "hold" him during this time. Again, I'd be open to looking at the replay to see if there was "holding" before the ball was in the air.

But, that was NOT the penalty that was called. That would be a "defensive holding" penalty.

Jean

352 posted on 01/06/2003 10:20:52 AM PST by Jean Chauvin
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To: RedWing9
"The second reply the showed, from behind the play and concentrating on the right side, showed clearly that the two players hands were all over each other, beginning at the line of scrimmage and continuing throughout the play. Their contact never ceased."

So, then, if the Offensive Receiver had his "hands" "all over" the defensive player, it then becomes a question of OFFENSIVE pass interference.

We all know that this kind of contact is common in games. You can put your hand "on" the defender or receiver, but you cannot "interfere".

So, is the Offesive Receiver just as guilty (as you seem to be admitting) of "interference"?

If your criteria to determine "pass interference" is that the defender had HIS hands "all over" the offensive receiver and IF, as you admit, the offensive receiver ALSO had HIS hands "all over" the defender (which would be just as illegal), couldn't this have also been OFFENSIVE "pass interference"?

Furthermore, I'd be interested to look at the rest of the game to see if this same type of contact was TOLERATED during the game. We both know that this kind of contact frequently is tolerated.

Remember, also, the end of the first half in the M v Florida game when Loyd Carr was talking with the Official regarding what Carr thought was "Interference" on the last Hail Mary play. What did the official tell Carr ON CAMERA -that the offensive player would have to get "Outright MUGGED" in order for there to be that call at the end of the half or at the end of the game.

If we use the standards that the Officials from the M v Florida game used, there simply was NO mugging.

Jean

353 posted on 01/06/2003 10:29:46 AM PST by Jean Chauvin
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To: Jean Chauvin
But I tend to be a stickler on the details.

No shi-ite sherlock. It's apparent from the completely overdone 2 posts, each of more than 500 words (guess-timate, in case you want to be a stickler again). :op

I could care less at this point, especially since I despise OSU as much as a Georgia fan despises an Alabama fan. Big-10 or not.

Apparently I was wrong on the 5-yd buffer, and I accept my mistake. However, the Miami player was all over the OSU player from scrimmage until just before the ball arrived, as was apparent to anyone willing to watch the replays immediately following, and not only the ESPN 2-second clips during Sportscenter. I stand by my assertion.

Good day...

354 posted on 01/06/2003 4:44:03 PM PST by RedWing9
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To: RedWing9
"Apparently I was wrong on the 5-yd buffer, and I accept my mistake. "

I didn't know this either until last night.

"However, the Miami player was all over the OSU player from scrimmage until just before the ball arrived, as was apparent to anyone willing to watch the replays immediately following, and not only the ESPN 2-second clips during Sportscenter. I stand by my assertion."

Tonight, on my local radio sports talk show, the host was talking with current Cowboy Wide Receiver and former Buckeye Ken-yon Rambo. Rambo admitted it was a bad call -and it was.

Jean

355 posted on 01/06/2003 7:03:08 PM PST by Jean Chauvin
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To: jragan2001
Last night's game proved one thing: Offense sells tickets, but defense wins championships.

Actually OSU football sells tickets... did you SEE that stadium?? It was Mini-Shoe! :)
356 posted on 01/07/2003 10:00:47 AM PST by smith288
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To: Physicist







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357 posted on 01/07/2003 10:02:46 AM PST by smith288 (here is your holds.....)
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To: smith288
bookmark bump - pictures of holds.
358 posted on 01/29/2003 9:07:39 AM PST by lepton
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