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Post by oujour76 on Dec 6, 2015 14:32:35 GMT -5
Thought there was still a limit of 2 per conference in the big bowls? If not, I stand corrected.
There is.......but the play-off bowls don't count towards that limit. Not often will a conference have 2 12-1 teams, and a 11-1 team. Guessing Got it. Didn't realize the playoff bowls didn't count against the limit.
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Post by Mickey34jb on Dec 6, 2015 20:46:32 GMT -5
Battlefrog Fiesta Bowl___I cant believe its no longer Tostitos.
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Post by Mickey34jb on Dec 6, 2015 20:57:49 GMT -5
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BattleFrog, a new and relatively obscure host of obstacle course events, is taking over the corporate sponsorship of the Fiesta Bowl, at least for a year.The Florida-based company that began in late 2013 figures to introduce itself to a much wider audience through the nationally watched Jan 1 game at University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale. For the Fiesta Bowl, BattleFrog is the second sponsor in as many years after Tostitos ended its nearly two-decade relationship with the game in early 2014.
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Post by Buckeye Dale on Dec 6, 2015 23:24:33 GMT -5
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Post by bamorin on Dec 7, 2015 19:56:26 GMT -5
Richard C. "Dick" Larkins (April 19, 1909 – April 7, 1977) was the athletic director at the Ohio State University from 1947 to 1970. Larkins also played tackle for the Ohio State Buckeyes football team in the late 1920s/early 1930s and served on the Ohio State faculty as a professor of physical education.
In one of his first acts as Ohio State athletic director, Larkins hired his old teammate, Wes Fesler, to take over as Ohio State's football coach.[1] Larkins also became involved in a public feud with legendary coach Paul Brown in 1948. A story in the Minneapolis Times quoted Larkins as saying: "Brown has started a terrific drive in Columbus and all around Ohio to return as football coach at Ohio State. Brown is not happy in the pro atmosphere. He has a good bank account and wants to coach college kids again."[2] Larkins was also quoted as saying that Brown has been "stealing football players off our campus by the dozen" and that Brown had "done everything in his power to hurt Ohio State."[2] Brown accused Larkins of conducting a smear campaign, and Larkins claimed he had been mis-quoted.[2]
He is also remembered as the Ohio State athletic director who made the decision to proceed with the historic Snow Bowl game against Michigan in 1950. Despite extraordinarily inclement weather, Larkins decided to play the game "due to the number of people who attended, and the mess it would have created to refund the tickets."[3] Ohio State lost the game 9-3.
Larkins drew national media attention for his comments in 1951 criticizing big-time college football as a Frankenstein monster. In the remarks, Larkins said:
"Football is being ruined. It's getting completely out of hand. It's a Frankenstein, a monster. Football is killing itself. ... College football is too big for its breeches. ... These 80,000-90,000 Roman holidays are not good for college athletics. They're killing it. You'll never know the pressures on us in this coaching situation. The outside pressures, the outside interference! It's just terrific. I don't know how much longer educators can put up with this stuff. We're educational institutions, we're not the New York Yankees or Chicago Bears."[4]
However, Larkins is best remembered as the driving force behind the 1951 hiring of Woody Hayes as Ohio State's football coach. Ironically, Larkins' decision to hire the little-known Hayes, over former Buckeyes' coach Paul Brown, led to petitions being circulated on campus calling for Larkins' removal; the petition claimed that Larkins "has lost confidence of the Ohio State student body" over his opposition to Brown's return as football coach.[5] Larkins became Hayes' strongest supporter at the university and protected Hayes after numerous clashes and against efforts by university administrators to fire him.[6] Larkins and Hayes became close friends; in 1979, Hayes recalled: "My greatest friends are always people that I fight with. Bo (Schembechler) was one of those. .... That was true with Dick Larkins (former athletic director at Ohio State). We were always arguing but agreed on everything."[7]
In 1970, Larkins became the fourth recipient of the James J. Corbett Memorial Award, presented by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics "to the collegiate administrator who through the years has most typified Corbett's devotion to intercollegiate athletics and worked unceasingly for its betterment."
Larkins Hall on the Ohio State Campus was named for Dick Larkins. The building served as the recreation and physical activity center for a number of years. It was torn down in the early-2000s to build the new Recreation and Physical Activity Center (RPAC). The Richard C. Larkins Plaza was named after the completion of the RPAC. The Plaza is located at the conjunction of the four physical education buildings on campus.
If you're wondering why I posted this........the wife and I are in the process of decorating the Christmas Tree. Two of the ornaments we have are old OSU themed bulbs given to us by Dick Larkins' daughter. These were always on his tree..
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Post by Buckeye Dale on Dec 8, 2015 0:58:30 GMT -5
Richard C. "Dick" Larkins (April 19, 1909 – April 7, 1977) was the athletic director at the Ohio State University from 1947 to 1970. Larkins also played tackle for the Ohio State Buckeyes football team in the late 1920s/early 1930s and served on the Ohio State faculty as a professor of physical education. In one of his first acts as Ohio State athletic director, Larkins hired his old teammate, Wes Fesler, to take over as Ohio State's football coach.[1] Larkins also became involved in a public feud with legendary coach Paul Brown in 1948. A story in the Minneapolis Times quoted Larkins as saying: "Brown has started a terrific drive in Columbus and all around Ohio to return as football coach at Ohio State. Brown is not happy in the pro atmosphere. He has a good bank account and wants to coach college kids again."[2] Larkins was also quoted as saying that Brown has been "stealing football players off our campus by the dozen" and that Brown had "done everything in his power to hurt Ohio State."[2] Brown accused Larkins of conducting a smear campaign, and Larkins claimed he had been mis-quoted.[2] He is also remembered as the Ohio State athletic director who made the decision to proceed with the historic Snow Bowl game against Michigan in 1950. Despite extraordinarily inclement weather, Larkins decided to play the game "due to the number of people who attended, and the mess it would have created to refund the tickets."[3] Ohio State lost the game 9-3. Larkins drew national media attention for his comments in 1951 criticizing big-time college football as a Frankenstein monster. In the remarks, Larkins said: "Football is being ruined. It's getting completely out of hand. It's a Frankenstein, a monster. Football is killing itself. ... College football is too big for its breeches. ... These 80,000-90,000 Roman holidays are not good for college athletics. They're killing it. You'll never know the pressures on us in this coaching situation. The outside pressures, the outside interference! It's just terrific. I don't know how much longer educators can put up with this stuff. We're educational institutions, we're not the New York Yankees or Chicago Bears."[4] However, Larkins is best remembered as the driving force behind the 1951 hiring of Woody Hayes as Ohio State's football coach. Ironically, Larkins' decision to hire the little-known Hayes, over former Buckeyes' coach Paul Brown, led to petitions being circulated on campus calling for Larkins' removal; the petition claimed that Larkins "has lost confidence of the Ohio State student body" over his opposition to Brown's return as football coach.[5] Larkins became Hayes' strongest supporter at the university and protected Hayes after numerous clashes and against efforts by university administrators to fire him.[6] Larkins and Hayes became close friends; in 1979, Hayes recalled: "My greatest friends are always people that I fight with. Bo (Schembechler) was one of those. .... That was true with Dick Larkins (former athletic director at Ohio State). We were always arguing but agreed on everything."[7] In 1970, Larkins became the fourth recipient of the James J. Corbett Memorial Award, presented by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics "to the collegiate administrator who through the years has most typified Corbett's devotion to intercollegiate athletics and worked unceasingly for its betterment." Larkins Hall on the Ohio State Campus was named for Dick Larkins. The building served as the recreation and physical activity center for a number of years. It was torn down in the early-2000s to build the new Recreation and Physical Activity Center (RPAC). The Richard C. Larkins Plaza was named after the completion of the RPAC. The Plaza is located at the conjunction of the four physical education buildings on campus. If you're wondering why I posted this........the wife and I are in the process of decorating the Christmas Tree. Two of the ornaments we have are old OSU themed bulbs given to us by Dick Larkins' daughter. These were always on his tree.. GO BUCKS!!!! Make sure the story gets handed down with the ornaments... Nothing like Christmas to stir the memories, and remember our histories. I don't recall which ones, but I do remember my grandma giving Sharon & I a couple decorations that she said were her grandma's...
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Post by mscott59 on Dec 8, 2015 8:10:22 GMT -5
Richard C. "Dick" Larkins (April 19, 1909 – April 7, 1977) was the athletic director at the Ohio State University from 1947 to 1970. Larkins also played tackle for the Ohio State Buckeyes football team in the late 1920s/early 1930s and served on the Ohio State faculty as a professor of physical education. In one of his first acts as Ohio State athletic director, Larkins hired his old teammate, Wes Fesler, to take over as Ohio State's football coach.[1] Larkins also became involved in a public feud with legendary coach Paul Brown in 1948. A story in the Minneapolis Times quoted Larkins as saying: "Brown has started a terrific drive in Columbus and all around Ohio to return as football coach at Ohio State. Brown is not happy in the pro atmosphere. He has a good bank account and wants to coach college kids again."[2] Larkins was also quoted as saying that Brown has been "stealing football players off our campus by the dozen" and that Brown had "done everything in his power to hurt Ohio State."[2] Brown accused Larkins of conducting a smear campaign, and Larkins claimed he had been mis-quoted.[2] He is also remembered as the Ohio State athletic director who made the decision to proceed with the historic Snow Bowl game against Michigan in 1950. Despite extraordinarily inclement weather, Larkins decided to play the game "due to the number of people who attended, and the mess it would have created to refund the tickets."[3] Ohio State lost the game 9-3. Larkins drew national media attention for his comments in 1951 criticizing big-time college football as a Frankenstein monster. In the remarks, Larkins said: "Football is being ruined. It's getting completely out of hand. It's a Frankenstein, a monster. Football is killing itself. ... College football is too big for its breeches. ... These 80,000-90,000 Roman holidays are not good for college athletics. They're killing it. You'll never know the pressures on us in this coaching situation. The outside pressures, the outside interference! It's just terrific. I don't know how much longer educators can put up with this stuff. We're educational institutions, we're not the New York Yankees or Chicago Bears."[4] However, Larkins is best remembered as the driving force behind the 1951 hiring of Woody Hayes as Ohio State's football coach. Ironically, Larkins' decision to hire the little-known Hayes, over former Buckeyes' coach Paul Brown, led to petitions being circulated on campus calling for Larkins' removal; the petition claimed that Larkins "has lost confidence of the Ohio State student body" over his opposition to Brown's return as football coach.[5] Larkins became Hayes' strongest supporter at the university and protected Hayes after numerous clashes and against efforts by university administrators to fire him.[6] Larkins and Hayes became close friends; in 1979, Hayes recalled: "My greatest friends are always people that I fight with. Bo (Schembechler) was one of those. .... That was true with Dick Larkins (former athletic director at Ohio State). We were always arguing but agreed on everything."[7] In 1970, Larkins became the fourth recipient of the James J. Corbett Memorial Award, presented by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics "to the collegiate administrator who through the years has most typified Corbett's devotion to intercollegiate athletics and worked unceasingly for its betterment." Larkins Hall on the Ohio State Campus was named for Dick Larkins. The building served as the recreation and physical activity center for a number of years. It was torn down in the early-2000s to build the new Recreation and Physical Activity Center (RPAC). The Richard C. Larkins Plaza was named after the completion of the RPAC. The Plaza is located at the conjunction of the four physical education buildings on campus. If you're wondering why I posted this........the wife and I are in the process of decorating the Christmas Tree. Two of the ornaments we have are old OSU themed bulbs given to us by Dick Larkins' daughter. These were always on his tree.. GO BUCKS!!!! Mr larkins died about 4 mos before I began my freshman year. The expanded larkins hall had just opened the year before. Spent a lot of time there, and I'm glad he was able to see it completed and enjoyed by Osu students faculty and staff. Thanks Marc for posting. Especially re ornament. Because our tree fell last night about 20 min after we finished decorating it. About 10 ornaments got busted, but luckily just one of them had sentimental meaning, a crystal glass piece given to us by my parents. Wife was pretty upset about it. They do have meaning, those things you hang on the tree.
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Post by Lee The Locksmith on Dec 8, 2015 8:15:27 GMT -5
Taken from an Arizona newspaperBattleFrog, a new and relatively obscure host of obstacle course events, is taking over the corporate sponsorship of the Fiesta Bowl, at least for a year.The Florida-based company that began in late 2013 figures to introduce itself to a much wider audience through the nationally watched Jan 1 game at University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale. For the Fiesta Bowl, BattleFrog is the second sponsor in as many years after Tostitos ended its nearly two-decade relationship with the game in early 2014. I'm not sure ANYBODY south of the mason/ Dixon really cares whether it Tostitos or Frito Lay corn chips.....I think the main focus will be the game itself. I don't know what the spread is, but I'm pretty sure there is a large contingent that would like to see Notre Dame emerge victorious. This obviously would be devastating to the Ohio state booster's New Years day party.....I see bowls of Tostitos being thrown at the big screen TVs
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Post by Buckeye Dale on Dec 8, 2015 9:54:23 GMT -5
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Post by mscott59 on Dec 8, 2015 10:02:52 GMT -5
you know, i think i posted on another thread about how osu's scoring margin of +21/game was 2nd amongst the playoff contenders heading into the ccg/final week. this year osu went 11-1, outscoring its opponents by 252 points (420-168), exactly +21. everyone thought osu underperformed throughout the year, seeing only how the offense was less efficient, ignoring the vast improvement on the other side of the ball.
i just went thru last year's first 12 games. osu went 11-1, scoring 529 and allowing 275. better offense, weaker defense in '14 as compared to this year. point differential? 254. or 21.17 pts/game. virtually identical to this year. amazing how so many people saw it differently. but it was a year with much less expectations, til the end of the season. plus the 1 loss, when it happened and who it was to, obviously mattered. this year it kept osu out of the ccg, and left any possible selection up to fate. in the 3 post-season games last year, the collective score was 143-55.
just thought that was interesting.
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Post by mscott59 on Dec 8, 2015 10:16:02 GMT -5
very nice. and the headline for terrelle pryor joining the browns was a pepsi thru the nose moment this morning, and jeez did i need a laugh. "pryor brought in to rearrange deck chairs on titanic, clean hindenberg bathrooms, etc" while we were finishing up hanging the ornaments on our own christmas titanic tree last night, i heard rod smith's name mentioned on the cowboys-redskins game and turned around. isn't that amazing? you've got two guys, smith and nate ebner, neither of whom was a starter on either side of the ball. one was seen as a future star, the other a grinder who walked-on at osu. both ended up playing more on special teams than any other unit. and both are in the nfl among the 31 ex-buckeyes on rosters sunday (3 of whom are injured and out for the season, in addition to pryor being inactive). sometimes life can be an unusual path. and nick mangold's tweet, upon hearing that ebner won a bet w/tom brady on the osu-um game, forcing brady to wear osu gear the monday after the game, was classic; 'it's probably the best he's ever looked'
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Post by beuycek on Dec 8, 2015 10:26:07 GMT -5
you know, i think i posted on another thread about how osu's scoring margin of +21/game was 2nd amongst the playoff contenders heading into the ccg/final week. this year osu went 11-1, outscoring its opponents by 252 points (420-168), exactly +21. everyone thought osu underperformed throughout the year, seeing only how the offense was less efficient, ignoring the vast improvement on the other side of the ball. i just went thru last year's first 12 games. osu went 11-1, scoring 529 and allowing 275. better offense, weaker defense in '14 as compared to this year. point differential? 254. or 21.17 pts/game. virtually identical to this year. amazing how so many people saw it differently. but it was a year with much less expectations, til the end of the season. plus the 1 loss, when it happened and who it was to, obviously mattered. this year it kept osu out of the ccg, and left any possible selection up to fate. in the 3 post-season games last year, the collective score was 143-55. just thought that was interesting. Agreed. After the close call with IU on 10/5, our wins were pretty dominant score-wise and stat-wise. I am certain the perception would be significantly different without the loss to Sparty but isn't it interesting how a certain narrative, when repeated enough, becomes the reality for a lot of people? One of the keys, as you said, is the expectations that were thrust upon us because of the talent we had returning. Living up to those once again proves challenging for a defending champion.
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Post by Buckeye Dale on Dec 8, 2015 11:07:06 GMT -5
you know, i think i posted on another thread about how osu's scoring margin of +21/game was 2nd amongst the playoff contenders heading into the ccg/final week. this year osu went 11-1, outscoring its opponents by 252 points (420-168), exactly +21. everyone thought osu underperformed throughout the year, seeing only how the offense was less efficient, ignoring the vast improvement on the other side of the ball. i just went thru last year's first 12 games. osu went 11-1, scoring 529 and allowing 275. better offense, weaker defense in '14 as compared to this year. point differential? 254. or 21.17 pts/game. virtually identical to this year. amazing how so many people saw it differently. but it was a year with much less expectations, til the end of the season. plus the 1 loss, when it happened and who it was to, obviously mattered. this year it kept osu out of the ccg, and left any possible selection up to fate. in the 3 post-season games last year, the collective score was 143-55. just thought that was interesting. Agreed. After the close call with IU on 10/5, our wins were pretty dominant score-wise and stat-wise. I am certain the perception would be significantly different without the loss to Sparty but isn't it interesting how a certain narrative, when repeated enough, becomes the reality for a lot of people? One of the keys, as you said, is the expectations that were thrust upon us because of the talent we had returning. Living up to those once again proves challenging for a defending champion. Add on top of that, the different standard that 'some teams' were held to...If you haven't followed that on the main board, who you lost to, having an FCS team on the schedule...mattered to some, not to everyone.
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Post by Mickey34jb on Dec 8, 2015 22:15:15 GMT -5
Taken from an Arizona newspaperBattleFrog, a new and relatively obscure host of obstacle course events, is taking over the corporate sponsorship of the Fiesta Bowl, at least for a year.The Florida-based company that began in late 2013 figures to introduce itself to a much wider audience through the nationally watched Jan 1 game at University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale. For the Fiesta Bowl, BattleFrog is the second sponsor in as many years after Tostitos ended its nearly two-decade relationship with the game in early 2014. I'm not sure ANYBODY south of the mason/ Dixon really cares whether it Tostitos or Frito Lay corn chips.....I think the main focus will be the game itself. I don't know what the spread is, but I'm pretty sure there is a large contingent that would like to see Notre Dame emerge victorious. This obviously would be devastating to the Ohio state booster's New Years day party.....I see bowls of Tostitos being thrown at the big screen TVs Nope, nobody cares but it made me google Battlefrog__And yep, a large contingent and Regis Philbin would like to see Notre Dame emerge victorious but they can always cuddle up with some popcorn and watch 'Rudy' after the bowl loss. <g>
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Post by Mickey34jb on Dec 8, 2015 22:28:13 GMT -5
you know, i think i posted on another thread about how osu's scoring margin of +21/game was 2nd amongst the playoff contenders heading into the ccg/final week. this year osu went 11-1, outscoring its opponents by 252 points (420-168), exactly +21. everyone thought osu underperformed throughout the year, seeing only how the offense was less efficient, ignoring the vast improvement on the other side of the ball. i just went thru last year's first 12 games. osu went 11-1, scoring 529 and allowing 275. better offense, weaker defense in '14 as compared to this year. point differential? 254. or 21.17 pts/game. virtually identical to this year. amazing how so many people saw it differently. but it was a year with much less expectations, til the end of the season. plus the 1 loss, when it happened and who it was to, obviously mattered. this year it kept osu out of the ccg, and left any possible selection up to fate. in the 3 post-season games last year, the collective score was 143-55. just thought that was interesting. The Buckeyes flying under the radar in '14 worked well for them__I feel Oklahoma is doing the same this season
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