Sugar Bowl: OSU vs Arkansas

[bucksfan76]

Team shop and buckeye corner should have them soon!

Thanks for the Info. I appreciate it

Go Bucks!

[GoBuckeyes2786]

I seen them just a moment ago on eBay, along with the sugar bowl champions shirts

[Charge]

The 1978 Orange Bowl was played between #6 Arkansas and #2 Oklahoma. Entering the game, the Hogs were twenty-one point underdogs against the Sooners.[13] Arkansas had four offensive starters suspended for the contest, which also led fans to believe the Sooners would roll.[14] Roland Sales of Arkansas rushed for 205 yards on 23 carries, setting an Orange Bowl record. Sales would hold the record until Ahman Green carried for 206 yards in 1998, beating Sales by a single yard.[15] He came in relief of star running back Ben Cowins, who the Hogs left in Fayetteville for a violation of team rules. Sales bagan the scoring on a one-yard run after a Billy Sims fumble. Hog QB Ron Calcagni would score next, after a fumble by Oklahoma fullback Kenny King. Steve Little completed a field goal to give the Hogs a 17-0 cushion in the third quarter. Sales scored on a four-yard run to stretch the Hog advantage to 24-0. Oklahoma would score on an eight yard touchdown pass, but the Hogs would stop the two-point conversion. Barnabas White would tack on another Razorback touchdown, getting the ball from a young Houston Nutt playing quarterback for the Hogs.

After firing head coach John Cooper following a loss to unranked South Carolina in the 2001 Outback Bowl, the Buckeyes were looking for a new head coach to revive the program. After a lengthy search, Ohio State chose Tressel to replace Cooper as head football coach. While addressing the Ohio State community during halftime of a basketball game just after being hired as head coach, Tressel declared, "I can assure you that you will be proud of your young people in the classroom, in the community, and most especially in 310 days in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on the football field.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDOXwSwv ... F&index=75



At Hayes' funeral on March 17, 1987, former president Richard Nixon delivered the eulogy before a crowd of 1,400, acknowledging the friendship that had begun between the two during his second term as vice president. Having met Hayes at a reception following a Buckeye win over Iowa in 1957, Nixon recalled, "I wanted to talk about football and Woody wanted to talk about foreign policy. And you know Woody, we talked about foreign policy."



Clane, I hope this shows you what I was talking about.

[mohawkbaseball#1]

that same Lou Holtz also said many times about the current situation that he wouldn't suspend the 5 for the bowl game

[seofan_via_dublin]

The same Lou Holtz that everytime he left a university, that school was investigated and sanctioned.

We blast Calipari for this, he's just pulling a Holtz!

[Charge]

The same Lou Holtz that everytime he left a university, that school was investigated and sanctioned.

We blast Calipari for this, he's just pulling a Holtz!

Show me the facts where the schools were sanctioned. And your statement about Woody is stupid that Ohio St. would be SMU. You weren't even bored when Woody coached and you are going to tell us about Woody.

[seofan_via_dublin]

Show me the facts where the schools were sanctioned.....

From gogamecocks.com:

an unpleasant chapter in the Gamecocks' history book that cost one athletics department official his job and increased to three the number of schools former USC coach Lou Holtz left on NCAA probation.

From Lou Holtz's wiki page:
Minnesota

the NCAA placed Minnesota on two years probation for 17 rule violations, two of which were committed by Holtz during his tenure.

Notre Dame:

Following an investigation in 1999, the NCAA placed Notre Dame on two-years probation for extra benefits provided by a representative of the university to football players and one instance of academic fraud. The NCAA found that Holtz and members of his staff learned of the violations but failed to make appropriate inquiry or to take prompt action, finding Holtz's efforts "inadequate.

South Carolina:

In 2005, the NCAA imposed three years probation and reductions in two scholarships on the program for ten admitted violations under Holtz, five of which were found to be major. The violations involved improper tutoring and off-season workouts, as well as a lack of institutional control.

[seofan_via_dublin]

Woody's players were paid by boosters, were employed by boosters and couldn't even tell you where the office was,
Archie couldn't sign his own name and was given grades, Woody paid his own guys, cops didn't give tickets because the drivers were players, and there's plenty more.

These things were very widely ignored all through out his era, all across the country.
Combine the booster coruption with Woody's temper, that made Bobby Knight look calm, and mix in the intense media coverage and national media hate of the Buckeyes, and you would have the recipe for a monumental butt whipping of OSU by the NCAA.

[Orestes]

All but Boom Herron had already decided to come back before the suspension issue arose. After the suspensions, all of them were leaning toward leaving in order to avoid the 2011 suspensions.

Tressel had three options:

1. No suspension for the Sugar Bowl and no pledge to stay for 2011

2. Suspension for the Sugar Bowl and no pledge to stay for 2011

3. No suspension for the Sugar Bowl but use the Sugar Bowl as a bargaining chip to receive a pledge to stay in 2011.

Option 1 is the most lenient. The players could avoid the entire suspension. Option 2 is the second most lenient, as it suspends the players for one game, but they can avoid the 3-5 game suspension in 2011. Option 3 attempts to ensure that the players sit out 3-5 games and is potentially the most severe.

It is only "potential" because there is a chance that the players could leave. However, it would not serve non-elite NFL talents well to publicly lie to their teammates and coaches, and they could be entering the NFL without a recommendation from their coaches.

Finally, an Option 4 does not exist. There is no "Suspend for the Sugar Bowl and get them to pledge to return in 2011" as the players would have certainly jumped ship and would have no incentive to promise anything to the team or coaches. The Sugar Bowl was Tressel's bargaining chip.

As for the game, it reminded me of the 2001 Michigan game and the 2004 Fiesta Bowl against KSU. Ohio State got up big, then sat on the ball to win close. The plan would have been perfect if not for the worst safety call in history, the fumble from a RB that never fumbles, and a blocked punt. Without those factors, OSU wins 31-21 or something similar.

Also, once again, a team dropped lots of passes against this year's OSU team. Odd that it happened so often against them. Methinks OSU has something to do with it. Anyway, OSU would have matched further scoring anyway if needed. They scored at will when the game was still tight and the clock wasn't a factor.

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[boilermaker]

I think they (NCAA) will drop 1 game ,and let OSU play their full big ten schedule at full strength.