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Suspended for Minny game.
Dale will beast, he'll keep job, Urb will be mad that the captain got into this situation, Dale will lead to another championship.
Right?
Everything is good.
Kneel Down And Kiss The Ring:2015 The Ohio State Buckeyes National Championship Title Defense Thread
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Everything is good.
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Suspended for Minny game.
Dale will beast, he'll keep job, Urb will be mad that the captain got into this situation, Dale will lead to another championship.
Right?
Dale better BALL OUT against Minny if he wants to keep the starting job.
The offense has moved better with JT and I hope we don't get another crude reminder of that fact against Minny
JT had a little taste, got behind the wheel. Nothing to see here
QuarterCenturyLegend
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The press is about to have a field day 
I have to give it to Bill. He went in 
Livingston didn't even use Vaseline
I have to give it to Bill. He went in The odds-on favorite among most fans to be the Ohio State quarterback who would screw up off the field or on it was Cardale Jones.
Instead, it was coach Urban Meyer's wise-beyond-his-years redshirt sophomore captain, J.T. Barrett, one of the "10 percent" of players about whom Meyer raves in his new book "Above the Line."
Those are the players who possess innate drive and natural leadership gifts. Barrett was supposed to be the example-setter, the behavioral template, regaining his starting job just last week against Rutgers and now ready to lead the defense of the Buckeyes' national championship.
A bad "pick-six"
Barrett, however, currently is the quarterback who is under suspension for one game for testing positive for the minimum .08 percent blood alcohol content in an OVI (operating a vehicle while impaired) citation Friday night.
It's not as if Barrett had one Natty Light and blew the foam off another, then got busted. A man weighing 220 pounds (Barrett is listed at 225) would need to work through a six pack to blow a .08.
Many Buckeyes fans rolled their eyes when Jones, nicknamed "12 Gauge" for his powerful arm, would turn his itchy Twitter thumbs to various 140-character salvos, the most famous being about going to Ohio State to play football, not school.
That was in 2012, Jones' distant past.
What few saw were the signs of troubling conduct in Barrett's more recent past.
911 call
Less than three days after Jones, once the third-string quarterback, led Ohio State to a 59-0 blitz of Wisconsin in the Big Ten Championship Game, Barrett, reduced to a cheerleading role after breaking his ankle in the previous game against Michigan, was involved in an altercation with his girlfriend. It involved 911 calls by both and allegations of abuse by the woman that physical evidence failed to substantiate.
That incident faded away.
Still not the starter
Then Barrett, surprisingly, failed to reclaim his starting job in preseason practices.
When it was all set up for him to come in like a knight from the Round Table and vanquish Northern Illinois in the third game of the season, he didn't. Barrett threw a touchdown pass in the game, a 20-13 squeaker, thanks to a great play by Michael Thomas, but it was not enough to displace Jones as the starter.
Jones, the Glenville product, lingered on as the starter all the way through the Penn State game.
"Weenie arm" rant
Barrett became stereotyped as the running quarterback with the popgun arm, compared to Jones' cannon.
It rankled Barrett, as he showed in an out-of-character outburst recently about resenting his reputation of having a "weenie arm."
But when no less than Alabama's Nick Saban, who vies with Meyer to be the alpha coach of the college ranks, marveled at Jones' arm and its influence on the Crimson Tide's loss to Ohio State in the national semifinal, Saban gave instant credibility to Jones.
Questions about Meyer and discipline
Without discounting the seriousness of driving while impaired, it should be said that kids, being kids, do dumb things. Barrett's one-game suspension for the misdemeanor seems appropriate.
Meyer's many critics, however, will bring up what was depicted as a culture at Florida under Meyer that was lenient, or lax, or lawless, depending on the critic's animus to the coach.
Hyde and Hall
Certainly, Meyer's discipline at Ohio State has indicated no more of a goal to win at all costs than the Columbus police department has resembled Tallahassee's see-no-evil police when Jameis Winston was winning a national championship and embarrassing Florida State with bad behavior regularly.
Meyer suspended running back Carlos Hyde for the first three games in 2013, although surveillance videotape was never clear on whether or not Hyde struck a woman in a night club.
Meyer did not officially suspend Marcus Hall after his meltdown of obscene gestures against Michigan in 2013, but the coach did not play the lineman in the Big Ten championship against Michigan State.
Ohio State could have used him, coming up two yards short on the drive that might have beaten the Spartans and put the Buckeyes in the national championship game.
Belisari and Krenzel
Certainly, Barrett's infraction was not that of 2001 quarterback Steve Belisari, whose alarming .22 breathalyzer reading (and sing-song recitation of the alphabet, when requested by police to do so) led Jim Tressel to suspend him for the next game, a loss against Illinois for the Big Ten lead.
Tressel did not play Belisari in the landmark upset at Michigan the week after that.
After Belisari, Tressel found Craig Krenzel as his quarterback and won the 2002 national championship with him.
Barrett and Jones
As for the current Buckeyes' quarterback, Meyer has found Cardale Jones again.
When benched, Jones owned a career starting record of 10-0, with passing figures of 92 of 148 (62.1 percent) for 186.3 yards per game, 12 touchdowns and seven interceptions.
The yardage was down from his 247.3 per game in the postseason, but the completion rate, even in his Buckeyes' savior days last season, was lower (61.3 percent) and his touchdowns-to-interceptions ratio of five to two was not that much better.
In sum, Jones missed Devin Smith adjusting to the deep ball. Otherwise, his statistics say he was basically the same player.
It was Barrett who changed.
Instead, it was coach Urban Meyer's wise-beyond-his-years redshirt sophomore captain, J.T. Barrett, one of the "10 percent" of players about whom Meyer raves in his new book "Above the Line."
Those are the players who possess innate drive and natural leadership gifts. Barrett was supposed to be the example-setter, the behavioral template, regaining his starting job just last week against Rutgers and now ready to lead the defense of the Buckeyes' national championship.
A bad "pick-six"
Barrett, however, currently is the quarterback who is under suspension for one game for testing positive for the minimum .08 percent blood alcohol content in an OVI (operating a vehicle while impaired) citation Friday night.
It's not as if Barrett had one Natty Light and blew the foam off another, then got busted. A man weighing 220 pounds (Barrett is listed at 225) would need to work through a six pack to blow a .08.
Many Buckeyes fans rolled their eyes when Jones, nicknamed "12 Gauge" for his powerful arm, would turn his itchy Twitter thumbs to various 140-character salvos, the most famous being about going to Ohio State to play football, not school.
That was in 2012, Jones' distant past.
What few saw were the signs of troubling conduct in Barrett's more recent past.
911 call
Less than three days after Jones, once the third-string quarterback, led Ohio State to a 59-0 blitz of Wisconsin in the Big Ten Championship Game, Barrett, reduced to a cheerleading role after breaking his ankle in the previous game against Michigan, was involved in an altercation with his girlfriend. It involved 911 calls by both and allegations of abuse by the woman that physical evidence failed to substantiate.
That incident faded away.
Still not the starter
Then Barrett, surprisingly, failed to reclaim his starting job in preseason practices.
When it was all set up for him to come in like a knight from the Round Table and vanquish Northern Illinois in the third game of the season, he didn't. Barrett threw a touchdown pass in the game, a 20-13 squeaker, thanks to a great play by Michael Thomas, but it was not enough to displace Jones as the starter.
Jones, the Glenville product, lingered on as the starter all the way through the Penn State game.
"Weenie arm" rant
Barrett became stereotyped as the running quarterback with the popgun arm, compared to Jones' cannon.
It rankled Barrett, as he showed in an out-of-character outburst recently about resenting his reputation of having a "weenie arm."
But when no less than Alabama's Nick Saban, who vies with Meyer to be the alpha coach of the college ranks, marveled at Jones' arm and its influence on the Crimson Tide's loss to Ohio State in the national semifinal, Saban gave instant credibility to Jones.
Questions about Meyer and discipline
Without discounting the seriousness of driving while impaired, it should be said that kids, being kids, do dumb things. Barrett's one-game suspension for the misdemeanor seems appropriate.
Meyer's many critics, however, will bring up what was depicted as a culture at Florida under Meyer that was lenient, or lax, or lawless, depending on the critic's animus to the coach.
Hyde and Hall
Certainly, Meyer's discipline at Ohio State has indicated no more of a goal to win at all costs than the Columbus police department has resembled Tallahassee's see-no-evil police when Jameis Winston was winning a national championship and embarrassing Florida State with bad behavior regularly.
Meyer suspended running back Carlos Hyde for the first three games in 2013, although surveillance videotape was never clear on whether or not Hyde struck a woman in a night club.
Meyer did not officially suspend Marcus Hall after his meltdown of obscene gestures against Michigan in 2013, but the coach did not play the lineman in the Big Ten championship against Michigan State.
Ohio State could have used him, coming up two yards short on the drive that might have beaten the Spartans and put the Buckeyes in the national championship game.
Belisari and Krenzel
Certainly, Barrett's infraction was not that of 2001 quarterback Steve Belisari, whose alarming .22 breathalyzer reading (and sing-song recitation of the alphabet, when requested by police to do so) led Jim Tressel to suspend him for the next game, a loss against Illinois for the Big Ten lead.
Tressel did not play Belisari in the landmark upset at Michigan the week after that.
After Belisari, Tressel found Craig Krenzel as his quarterback and won the 2002 national championship with him.
Barrett and Jones
As for the current Buckeyes' quarterback, Meyer has found Cardale Jones again.
When benched, Jones owned a career starting record of 10-0, with passing figures of 92 of 148 (62.1 percent) for 186.3 yards per game, 12 touchdowns and seven interceptions.
The yardage was down from his 247.3 per game in the postseason, but the completion rate, even in his Buckeyes' savior days last season, was lower (61.3 percent) and his touchdowns-to-interceptions ratio of five to two was not that much better.
In sum, Jones missed Devin Smith adjusting to the deep ball. Otherwise, his statistics say he was basically the same player.
It was Barrett who changed.
Livingston didn't even use Vaseline
JT is the real thug on the teamThe press is about to have a field day
The odds-on favorite among most fans to be the Ohio State quarterback who would screw up off the field or on it was Cardale Jones.
Instead, it was coach Urban Meyer's wise-beyond-his-years redshirt sophomore captain, J.T. Barrett, one of the "10 percent" of players about whom Meyer raves in his new book "Above the Line."
Those are the players who possess innate drive and natural leadership gifts. Barrett was supposed to be the example-setter, the behavioral template, regaining his starting job just last week against Rutgers and now ready to lead the defense of the Buckeyes' national championship.
A bad "pick-six"
Barrett, however, currently is the quarterback who is under suspension for one game for testing positive for the minimum .08 percent blood alcohol content in an OVI (operating a vehicle while impaired) citation Friday night.
It's not as if Barrett had one Natty Light and blew the foam off another, then got busted. A man weighing 220 pounds (Barrett is listed at 225) would need to work through a six pack to blow a .08.
Many Buckeyes fans rolled their eyes when Jones, nicknamed "12 Gauge" for his powerful arm, would turn his itchy Twitter thumbs to various 140-character salvos, the most famous being about going to Ohio State to play football, not school.
That was in 2012, Jones' distant past.
What few saw were the signs of troubling conduct in Barrett's more recent past.
911 call
Less than three days after Jones, once the third-string quarterback, led Ohio State to a 59-0 blitz of Wisconsin in the Big Ten Championship Game, Barrett, reduced to a cheerleading role after breaking his ankle in the previous game against Michigan, was involved in an altercation with his girlfriend. It involved 911 calls by both and allegations of abuse by the woman that physical evidence failed to substantiate.
That incident faded away.
Still not the starter
Then Barrett, surprisingly, failed to reclaim his starting job in preseason practices.
When it was all set up for him to come in like a knight from the Round Table and vanquish Northern Illinois in the third game of the season, he didn't. Barrett threw a touchdown pass in the game, a 20-13 squeaker, thanks to a great play by Michael Thomas, but it was not enough to displace Jones as the starter.
Jones, the Glenville product, lingered on as the starter all the way through the Penn State game.
"Weenie arm" rant
Barrett became stereotyped as the running quarterback with the popgun arm, compared to Jones' cannon.
It rankled Barrett, as he showed in an out-of-character outburst recently about resenting his reputation of having a "weenie arm."
But when no less than Alabama's Nick Saban, who vies with Meyer to be the alpha coach of the college ranks, marveled at Jones' arm and its influence on the Crimson Tide's loss to Ohio State in the national semifinal, Saban gave instant credibility to Jones.
Questions about Meyer and discipline
Without discounting the seriousness of driving while impaired, it should be said that kids, being kids, do dumb things. Barrett's one-game suspension for the misdemeanor seems appropriate.
Meyer's many critics, however, will bring up what was depicted as a culture at Florida under Meyer that was lenient, or lax, or lawless, depending on the critic's animus to the coach.
Hyde and Hall
Certainly, Meyer's discipline at Ohio State has indicated no more of a goal to win at all costs than the Columbus police department has resembled Tallahassee's see-no-evil police when Jameis Winston was winning a national championship and embarrassing Florida State with bad behavior regularly.
Meyer suspended running back Carlos Hyde for the first three games in 2013, although surveillance videotape was never clear on whether or not Hyde struck a woman in a night club.
Meyer did not officially suspend Marcus Hall after his meltdown of obscene gestures against Michigan in 2013, but the coach did not play the lineman in the Big Ten championship against Michigan State.
Ohio State could have used him, coming up two yards short on the drive that might have beaten the Spartans and put the Buckeyes in the national championship game.
Belisari and Krenzel
Certainly, Barrett's infraction was not that of 2001 quarterback Steve Belisari, whose alarming .22 breathalyzer reading (and sing-song recitation of the alphabet, when requested by police to do so) led Jim Tressel to suspend him for the next game, a loss against Illinois for the Big Ten lead.
Tressel did not play Belisari in the landmark upset at Michigan the week after that.
After Belisari, Tressel found Craig Krenzel as his quarterback and won the 2002 national championship with him.
Barrett and Jones
As for the current Buckeyes' quarterback, Meyer has found Cardale Jones again.
When benched, Jones owned a career starting record of 10-0, with passing figures of 92 of 148 (62.1 percent) for 186.3 yards per game, 12 touchdowns and seven interceptions.
The yardage was down from his 247.3 per game in the postseason, but the completion rate, even in his Buckeyes' savior days last season, was lower (61.3 percent) and his touchdowns-to-interceptions ratio of five to two was not that much better.
In sum, Jones missed Devin Smith adjusting to the deep ball. Otherwise, his statistics say he was basically the same player.
It was Barrett who changed.
Livingston didn't even use Vaseline
. Every successful team always have one on the roster. Keeps everybody in check if they start to act up.
We good.
Minnesota
and even if it was a felony, Illinois
Minnesota
and even if it was a felony, Illinois
QuarterCenturyLegend
Stoopid Life
On another note, I know y'all significant others are happy as hell we don't have a game today. Old lady said she's upset she had to go out of town for business during a bye week 
I'm not going to judge or shyt on him because I'm not a saint myself and there have been times where I have drove home while under the sauce
. Thank God that I never got pull over or did something much worse. It just that he is in the spotlight and cannot make the same mistakes as a regular 20 year old at OSU. It going to suck to rock those yellow plates for six months because of this citation 
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