BCS Championship Game: The Infamous DVD
Posted January 4th, 2008 by George Thomas
If you've paid attention to today's Buckeyes' notes or tomorrow's for that matter, you will read mention of a DVD that Ohio State Buckeyes' Coach Jim Tressel gave his players to motivate them for their game against the LSU Tigers come Monday night.
In what will be a mystery, a portion of the video made its way to YouTube. You can click here if you want to see it. The DVD was a total of ten minutes long, only the first three appear through that link.
It's essentially ten minute of national media types saying "Hey, Buckeyes: you suck!" I'm sure Camp Tressel would have rather not this been made public, but it's a delicious little tidbit that makes this interesting.
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January 10th, 2008 at 12:23 am
That video clip was pretty accurate. He does well against Michigan, but Tressel is now 0-3 in BCS championship games. I don't count that Miami robbery as a win.
On another Tressel subject, I find it very odd that early in the season, he admitted that he has no two-minute drill. Nothing. He says he has no intention of making one. Never had it, never will. Like those old 7UP commercials. Sees no need for a two-minute offense when time is running out and the game is on the line. What's that all about?
January 10th, 2008 at 9:17 pm
He's won a lot of games in the last minutes without one. Especially that year they 'robbed' Miami.
He should stick with his old, more conservative approach in games against SEC teams. He won't outscheme them and his players sure won't out-athlete them.
Has anyone seen George since the game? He was looking forward to New Orleans a little too much and he might have ended up in some gutter or the clink.
January 10th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
My apologies. I see George has covered a Buckeye's basketball game recently so he must have made it back. I didn't realize the ABJ covered Buckeye b-ball.
January 11th, 2008 at 12:32 am
larry, how can you possibly say they don't need to have a no-huddle offense in the arsenal? There have been several games that Tressel's la-dee-da approach to the fourth quarter has really hurt them.
By the way, George *was* in the clink. But I bailed him out. So no apologies were necessary. And I'm still waiting for George to pay me back.
January 12th, 2008 at 7:59 am
Maybe you're right alan t. I don't know. They need a better qb or it won't matter anyhoo.
January 25th, 2008 at 10:51 pm
I've got an idea that might make this blogging thing more tolerable for you George. Why don't you follow Betty the travel lady's lead and start asking and answering your own easy questions.
Something like–
Does Jim Tressel wear a sweater vest? Yes, Jim Tressel is known for wearing sweater vests and owns at least two. Sometimes he wears a scarlet (or red) vest. Sometimes the vest he wears is gray.
It's really a snap.
January 27th, 2008 at 11:49 pm
Wow. Now I'm really confused. Did Terry Pluto follow Betty the Travel Lady's lead, or did Betty the Travel Lady follow Terry Pluto's lead, and precisely whose lead should George subsequently follow? They both enjoy the "ask and answer your own questions" style even more than Oprah loves baked ham. Or am I posing one of those existential proverbial deep-thinking chicken or the egg types of questions of which there is no tangible answer?
January 31st, 2008 at 9:29 am
Seriously, George. Listen, I realize the editors at newspapers hold their writers at gunpoint and force them to have blogs to drive traffic to their websites, but if you're not going to use it, then why even bother? Your bi-monthly appearances, if that, only call obvious attention to the true underlying purpose of sportswriters' blogs.
Accordingly, if that's the way you're going to be, then just take off your sombrero and tell your Mexican bandit editor that you're every bit as important as McManamon, and that you don't need no stinking badges. Uh, I mean blogs.
January 31st, 2008 at 10:26 am
They only let writers who's regular articles top the 10,000 word count mark skip the blogging, alan. Plus, there's got to be bullets.
February 3rd, 2008 at 6:29 pm
Tomorrow marks the 1 month anniversary of George's last blog post. Here is a list of both traditional and modern gifts, but I see nothing relative to 1 month. http://www.chipublib.org/008subject/005genref/giswedding.html So what do I get the guy? I was thinking of something along the lines of an assortment of Twinkies, Ding Dongs and Devil Dogs stacked in an attractive wicker basket.
February 3rd, 2008 at 7:07 pm
I believe "Traditional" for one month is empty calories and "Modern" is vacuum packed, so your gift seems perfectly appropriate.