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Jim Tressel National Signing Day Press Conference
Courtesy: OhioStateBuckeyes.com
          Release: 02/06/2008
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COACH TRESSEL: Thank you so much. An exciting day for the Buckeyes. We have a lot in store for you here in the next hour and we have quite an array of folks here in the room. There's a bunch of good folks from the university that were very impactful in hosting and helping and arranging our recruiting class and of course our coaching staff did an extraordinary job and there are even some parents here, which is a little unusual, this being a dead period right now in recruiting, but it just so happens that two of the leaders in this class are enrolled right now, so their parents are no longer the parents of recruits, but they're the parents of current players.

And you're going to have a chance to hear from two of the leaders of this class here at the podium. And you may even hear from their parents because I understand that one of them has volunteered to speak on behalf of the parents' association as the newest members and we'll have a chance to hear from John Peterson, our recruiting coordinator, who's going to talk a little bit about the class.

We thought one of the things we would do a little different is we have a brief highlight film put together that has a couple shots of each of the guys and we're just going to let it run a little bit, talk over the video as we look at it and talk a little bit about the class as a whole, it's an extraordinary class and we're excited about it, and then of course have a chance to answer questions. Our coaches are here. We'll have a chance to break out at the end to talk about how they feel about this group.

So if Quiz is here -- are you ready, Quiz? I'll step back here and pretend we're in a team meeting and I've got the clicker. Please turn off your cell phones.

We talk about special units. We're lucky to have an outstanding young guy in Ben Buchanan, great field goal, extra point man, great punter, you can see the ball get up there in a hurry. That was a 60-yarder and he can really hit the ball. And he's from right here at Westerville Central. Great punt. If your eyes are better than mine, you can see it's a high spiral, as discussed on the film. I can't see that, but it looks like it's going a long way as far as they're running, so I guess it was a long punt. And Ben Buchanan, outstanding student, never had a PAT blocked. Does a great job getting the ball up in the air. Outstanding kicker/punter.

Mike Adams from right here at Dublin Coffman High School, outstanding offensive lineman, powerful guy, athletic guy. He'll be enrolling in March, so he'll have a chance to learn the system and see if he can help out this group at 6'8", 300 and some odd pounds, and he does a heck of a job playing up front. We talk about the fact that you better be good up front with your football team and with Michael Adams and J.B. as our leaders, putting this class together, these guys have done a great job of getting us much improved in the trenches as we certainly have to be. He moves well for a big guy, hustles down the field and played on a great football team.

Michael Brewster, who you'll hear from this afternoon, Number 79 there, also a guy who can move in space. Great finisher. Jim Bollman recognized him three or four years ago as an outstanding football player, and he probably had as much impact on this recruiting class, not just with his talents, but with his leadership as he was an early commitment and just did a great job of putting together a great group of peers, developed great relationships and Michael did a heck of a job there.

Nic DiLillo, tight end from over at Madison. The nice thing that we were able to do in this recruiting class was just get a little bit of everything, almost put together an entire team. It's a 19-person class, almost have one of everything, and Nic is the tight end in the class and really an outstanding athlete, good basketball player, outstanding student. As well as all those guys out there, can stretch out and play in space as well, and Nic DiLillo is excited to be a Buckeye. It's the first school I've been in -- there are firsts every year, the first school I was ever in that when we came on our school visit, they had the marching band march down the hallway and play Hang On Sloopy. The folks at Madison are excited that Nic is a Buckeye. We never have a microphone at meetings. Okay, thanks, I didn't see.

Jermil Martin is a guy that played both fullback and tailback. He's a big back guy and he wants to wear Number 41 like Keith Byars. He's a Glenville Tarblooder. We graduate three fullbacks so he'll have a chance to come in and battle for some playing time there and just a great young man. He's one of twins. His mom -- we knew he had great genetics. His mom has twins who are 17 and twins who are four. So if he's half as tough as his mom, we've got a chance. For a big guy, he moves good in space and we think he'll be a good addition to that offensive unit.

DeVier Posey, from Cincinnati LaSalle, excellent return man, outstanding young man, excellent speed, good burst. He'll come in and compete for playing time not only out wide but in the return game. Excellent track man. As we went around talking to high school coaches, many of them talked about the fact that he was such a difference maker as they played against him. Has a great burst. Heck of a good football player. Even moved them in in the "shot Ginn" formation there and played them a little bit there. Just a versatile guy. Excellent speed. Going to be competing in track this year and has goals in the state track meet.

J.B. Shugarts who you'll hear from today as well, outstanding offensive lineman from Klein High School, and you know that's the high school of Ashton Youboty as well, and I think Coach Snyder had Ashton's brother, John Youboty is going over to be part of the Thundering Herd. He'll do great job. Doing a good job this winter in the weight room and he and Michael are doing a good job learning and learning so they can come in during the spring and really take a big step. J.B. runs pretty good for -- he's an official too. Good job, J.B.

Jake Stoneburner, young guy from right here at Dublin Coffman. Big receiver. Heck of a football player. Has the ability to go up and make things happen. Does a great job with their screen game. Runs a lot of the jailbreak screen-type things and very versatile. That was probably the lead play that Dublin Coffman ran in the course of the last two years and Jake made many a big play on that. He will enroll in March as well. That's a big guy running pretty fast.

Lamaar Thomas, another guy that can play out wide. He can play in the back field. Outstanding youngster from Friendly High School over in Maryland. His goal this spring is to break the Maryland state record in the 100 meters. He has the indoor dash state record and his goal is to run 10.236 this spring. He's run 10.38 in the past, and he can really go with the football, outstanding return man as well. Can play in the back field. You can throw it to him. You can hand it to him. He's a dynamic playmaker. He's the type of guy that can play that position a little bit like Teddy where you can swing him out, throw it to him, hand it to him. Outstanding team. Comes from a great program.

Next is Zach Domicone, and Zach we recruited as a defensive player. Some of his highlights here with his hands on the ball, it shows you his athleticism, big, strong guy. Again, speed. We always talk about speed as the key to every great recruiting class and Zach can really run. He ran in the 4.4 range in our camp, 4.4, 4.5 that type of thing. You talk to the people down in that great conference, he was a one-man crew at Beavercreek. They had one of their finest years in the history of their school playing against the likes of Centerville and Wayne and that whole group down there and a lot of it was because of what Zach could do on both sides of the ball. Again, we're always looking for guys with speed. Defensive coaches felt he would be an outstanding guy in the secondary. Smart football player and very, very versatile.

Next, Garrett Goebel, young guy out of Montini Catholic in the Chicagoland area. Outstanding defensive lineman. Top ranked wrestler in the state. Returning state champion. Heavyweight in the State of Illinois. Great power explosion from a very, very good football team. What's nice about this group is so many of them are from outstanding teams and they know what it takes to play their assignment, to do what it takes to excel.

Next is Travis Howard. One of two guys from Dr. Krop High School. Here you'll see Travis make a big pick, excellent speed, big playmaker, also a return man. Guy making the block right there at the end is his teammate that's coming here, Etienne Sabino. Travis covers a lot of ground, has good range, good height in the secondary. Our guys in the secondary feel like he's a dangerous guy as a return man as well.

Next is Orhian Johnson. Orhian, too, was a both-sides-of-the-ball player. Played quarterback for his team. Played in the defensive secondary. Again, good range, 6'2", 6'3" kind of guy that can play out in space. He was trying to decide in recruiting whether he wanted to go on and be a quarterback, which many schools recruited him, or if he wanted to play defense and he decided that he wanted to play defense and we were fortunate to have Orhian come aboard from down in St. Petersburg, Boca Ciega High School. Good basketball player as well. Versatile athlete. Playmaker. He'll be able to do a lot of things.

Next Willie Mobley from up at Eden Prairie High School, state champions up in Minnesota. Again, another good football program, good quickness, defensive front. Can't get enough of those guys that can put pressure on the quarterback. He's used to chasing after helmets like that. Outstanding burst. Good quickness inside. Good play inside. Good play end. Good power. Going to be a good football player.

Next is Shawntel Rowell. His nickname is Shaq, and he's a 310-pound guy with good burst. Played both offense and defense for Glenville. We think he has that kind of quickness to be an inside run stop type of guy and he's done a great job training his body. He lost about 40 pounds and just did a great job with his power and quickness. And you need those big guys in the middle, big run stopper guys that have enough quickness to rush the passer. Again from a program that's used to winning and understands what it takes to win.

Etienne Sabino also from Dr. Krop High School. You've seen this play before. You saw the interception. He's the guy that caused it as he smacked the quarterback and as Travis carried it back for a touchdown, he's the guy that got the final block and just a good football player. He'll be coming in March to be a part of spring practice and just a heck of a good football player at the linebacker position. Great explosion as he hits you. Smart football player. Excellent speed.

Andrew Sweat, linebacker from over at Trinity High School in Washington, PA. He'll be enrolling in March as well. Good range. Good speed at the linebacker position. Outstanding baseball player. He has kind of foregone his senior year of high school baseball, but he was a great baseball player, great hitter at linebacker. Good speed. He probably has the best arm on our team. I've seen him throw a football like 80 yards. I don't know what that does for you at linebacker, but he's a heck of an athlete. Loves to play the game. Always got a smile on his face. Outstanding student. Going to be a good one.

Next is Keith Wells from down in Gainesville, Georgia, the home of the Red Elephants, and big, 6' 5". What did you say he weighed today, Luke? 238? And big, long pass rushing kind of guy off of the edge. Heck of a football player. Only been playing the game two years and a little bit like when Vernon came in, Vernon had only played two years and Keith is going to be a special player coming off that extra Coach Heacock up front there.

Nathan Williams, we think, can be a linebacker, defensive end, big strong guy, real versatile, excellent speed for a 240-pound guy. Think he can do a lot of different things from there at Miami Trace. Real powerful guy. We had him in youth camp. Does a lot of things well from a skill standpoint. Good quickness. Loves the game. He must have called us three or four times today after he signed his letter and talked about how excited he was to be a Buckeye.

And so that gives you a little look at the range of what we have. We wanted to get, like we do every year, a little bit of everything so we've got a good offensive front and it all starts with those guys up front and they're not only going to be the kind of guys that will do a great job in the offensive trenches, but they happen to be the ones that kind of spearheaded the momentum of this recruiting class, Mike Brewster, J.B. Shugarts, DeVier Posey are those guys that made early decisions and really made a tremendous impact on a lot of the other guys visiting. They really created good relationships and did a good job because of their passion for becoming Buckeyes.

So it started with those guys on that offensive front. Our defensive front guys, we think, are very, very explosive and can come on and give us that ability to roll in seven and eight guys at a time during the course of a game.

The linebacker corps, we think, is going to be a good one. Obviously we're going to be losing some good linebackers after next year and they'll have a chance to progress and get prepared to see if they can step in and fill some big shoes. You never have enough defensive backs, we feel, because they spend so much time on special teams, they do so much running, they do so many things, we are in nickel and dime defenses so much, that it was great to get some good guys there in the secondary.

Obviously out wide, you never have enough guys out there that can make plays and do things like Lamaar and DeVier and Jake will be able to do for us. As we mentioned, we lost those fullbacks. We thought it was important to get a big power guy to come in and jump in that fullback derby to see if we could get some guys leading those good tailbacks we have. And you never have enough tight ends. Never know if you're in a one tight end, two tight end, whatever it happens to be, and Nic will come in. If you look at the whole class and you talk about the fact you've got to have the great specialists with Ben and so forth, we feel as if it's exactly what we needed. We felt as if we could fit 20, maybe 21 was going to be tight. Right now we have 19.

We're still recruiting as we speak and that's about all we're allowed to say about that. I guess we're allowed to say we're still recruiting at the quarterback position. I think that's allowable. Can't go much beyond that. So we think this is an extraordinary class. Our coaches did a great job. As we said over the years, our guys do a good job of cross-recruiting. Our guys do a good job of being unselfish. Everyone would like to have four more of this and three more of that and so forth, but they do a good job of sitting down and saying, what does the team need, what are the types of things that we're going to be graduating, where do we need to upgrade ourselves, where do we need to create a little bit more depth. So our guys in the recruiting office there with Greg Gillum. And John Peterson and Amy Burgess and that bunch that works hard in recruiting, they did a good job in laying out a plan for us and we're excited about this particular group.

To get a little bit of viewpoint before we go into a whole bunch of questions, since the guy was kind of like the unofficial captain of this recruiting class, Michael Brewster, I'm going to have Michael come up and just give you opening comments as to what he sees. He didn't know he was coming up here like this, but that's all right. Get used to it. Michael is from Edgewater High School in Orlando and he did a great job as kind of our designated leader of this group and we'd like to have him just share with you a little bit about this 2008 group from his perspective. Michael?

MICHAEL BREWSTER: How are you guys doing today? I think this is a real good class, pretty diverse. We've got a lot of needs. There's going to be -- after next year we'll graduate quite a few offensive linemen, so we've got three real good ones coming next year. D line, we've got five, I saw, which is real good. We've got some inside guys, speed rushers. Travis Howard, I think, was the steal of the class because no one really knew about him, but after seeing his film, he's definitely a special player, good guy.

We've got some good linebackers. I mean, I just think this class -- everyone talks about, you know, these classes with 27, 28 guys being the Number 1 classes, but I think if you go player for player, talent, you know, person, character, that this class is probably, you know, a special one, one of the top ones that has came through here in a while, because I know there has been some great classes. But I'm real excited about next year and about getting the guys up here this summer, the guys coming in March. So we're going to have a lot of hard work, but it will all pay off, so thank you.

COACH TRESSEL: Want to introduce your sidekick, have him give some thoughts?

MICHAEL BREWSTER: My roommate and workout partner, and we came out here early, J.B. Shugarts from Klein, Texas. I didn't know we were doing this.

J.B.SHUGARTS: Hi. I'm J.B. But I couldn't agree with Michael more. We have a great class coming in. Not only great players, but these are great people, but just the fact that we already know each other and we're already coming together as a family, that's what sets us over the top with all these other schools like USC and Florida, so I think it's going to be really special and you can get prepared for a lot of National Championships.

COACH TRESSEL: Easy, J.B.

MICHAEL BREWSTER: Forgot to mention one thing, Jake and DeVier, we have some great receivers coming in, should put that down. Those guys are about as good as they come. I didn't want to forget about that.

COACH TRESSEL: Is it true that your mom is going to introduce the parents? Do you want to introduce her?

MICHAEL BREWSTER: I hope not, but --

COACH TRESSEL: Introduce her.

MS. BREWSTER: Michael, I know nothing would make you happier than to have me get up and speak, but I'll save it.

MICHAEL BREWSTER: If my mom gets up and speaks, she's going to start crying, and you don't want that. I've got my family here, my brother Billy, my parents, my sister and Patrick and their two kids. So it's been a good day, it's good to see them, but I'll turn this mic back over to Coach.

COACH TRESSEL: Kathy, are you sure you don't want to represent the parents?

MS. BREWSTER: He's probably right. I'd probably start crying because I'm so happy. I don't want to embarrass him.

COACH TRESSEL: What do you think, J.B.? Should your dad represent the parents then? Okay. Let's have Brett Shugarts come up. He's all the way up from Houston, Texas to enjoy this day.

MR. SHUGARTS: Thank you, it's great to be here. It's unexpected for me too, so I'll keep it brief. I'm very honored and proud to have J.B. up here as a Buckeye and I think that this team and this coaching staff and this whole university is second to none and it's a great honor for him to come from Texas, a lot of people thought it would never happen, but he was a Buckeye all the way and there was never any looking back. I'm looking forward to a great four years of having him up here. So thank you, Coach Tressel. I appreciate it greatly.

MS. BREWSTER: Coach, can I say one thing then now for the moms?

COACH TRESSEL: Pass the mic. You guys don't have a deadline, do you?

MS. BREWSTER: I want to say, I want to copy what Brett just said. He sounded like he was going to get choked up, so I thought, okay, I can get up here. We are so excited to be Buckeyes. We're so happy for Michael and for all the -- he's looking at me because my voice is quivering -- we're just thrilled, and not only is the class a great class of young men, the parents are amazing. We're having a great time together. We've all gotten to know each other through this whole process and it's just a dream come true and we're so happy to be here. Mom, stop crying. See, it runs in family. But I just want to thank you, Coach Tressel, and the whole coaching staff. This whole process has just been such an honor for our whole family. Almost! Almost made it!

COACH TRESSEL: Coach Peterson, how about a couple thoughts before we go to questions?

JOHN PETERSON: Thanks, Coach, appreciate the parents for their kind comments and the thing that really sticks out is the real emotion and the real relationships that these kids have built. One thing the coach hasn't mentioned, stat-wise when I look at this class, he talked about range, but the thing that jumps out is height. There's not one person listed on this list that's under six foot, so I know Coach Tressel talks about height, so he'll be looking up at everybody, which is a good thing. But it is a special class and it's been a long time building this class and we've got a special group with our coaching staff that's put a lot of time, Greg Gillum and Amy Burgess do a phenomenal time in travel plans and recruit weekends, and do a ton of behind the scenes work and we greatly appreciate that because every time a young person comes on campus, they get exposed to great faculty. They get exposed to great support staff in our academic area. Every time they come on to our Ohio State campus is excellent, from the academic trainers, the doctors, the coaches, so we're very privileged and honored to have great people at Ohio State and I think these guys are going to benefit from being around those kind of people.

COACH TRESSEL: We're going to move on to the next phase, but again, it's a privilege to have a tremendous class that has great diversity on the field, great diversity in the classroom, and we're looking forward to getting them on campus here shortly.

Coach Gillum, correct me if I'm wrong, but we only had 25 guys officially visit.

COACH GILLUM: 26.

COACH TRESSEL: 26 guys officially visit. So if you think about it, the people in the room must have done a great job of presenting Ohio State because you're allowed 56 official visits, and to have 19 signees at this point with only 26 official visits, that shows you we've got quite a product to sell and the product begins with the people and of course we're blessed with great facilities and great leadership with Mr. Smith and the entire athletic administration. So this is a special group.

And what we'll do is I'll field questions here for a bit and then we'll break out in one-on-ones with the coaches -- I hope that's all right, Shelly -- with the coaches and with J.B. and Michael and you can even do one-on-ones with the families, however you'd like to do it, but let me throw the floor open for questions.

REPORTER: Jim, how many of these guys or can you name a few that you think might make an impact their first year?

COACH TRESSEL: Well, they're all going to make an impact in different ways. It's always hard to know who the ones are going to be that are going to be obvious on the field to play on Saturdays. What typically happens over the years is about half of them end up playing and half of them end up redshirting. This is a pretty talented bunch. We've told all of them that we hope that their mentality is that they want to come in and play right now, and if they'll do that and if they can push the next guy and the next guy gets better and stays ahead of them or maybe doesn't and they get past, it's so difficult to tell, we don't know what the injury situation is going to be, we don't know what certain things guys will be able to do.

We tell the story all the time, we brought Teddy in here to be a corner and he started at receiver. We brought Gonzo in here to be a safety and he started at receiver. We brought Chris Gamble in here to be a receiver and he started at corner and receiver. So you never know.

But I think the fact that two of the guys got to come winter quarter, four of the guys get to come for spring quarter, all six of those guys have a chance to be in spring practice, that certainly gives them an opportunity to be mentally ready from an assignment standpoint and a concept standpoint and then their talent will take over and so we'll just have to see. I think it's going to make us a better team. This 19 guys is going to make us a better football team.

REPORTER: You mentioned the early enrollments, is that something you encourage, discourage, or let the kids decide? Is that an issue for you in the recruitment process?

COACH TRESSEL: I think early on, I was one that somewhat discouraged that, and then I grew to learn what the kids that are interested in doing that, what their makeup is. This is a highly motivated group of kids. They felt as if they'd accomplished what they would like to accomplish in high school. They're academically so sound, they're so good, they're so far ahead, they took so many classes. They were ready. They had enough academic preparation. Our guys that have come in early over the years have been pretty successful. From the Donte Whitners to the Chris Wells, Steve Rehring, Marcus Freeman, we've had a lot of guys come and do a good job.

So I've kind of grown a little bit towards encouraging it a little bit more because I know how motivated they are. And I think the recruiting world has changed so much that you get to know them so young, I feel like that Michael and J.B. are sophomores by now because we've known them for so long and we've watched them and they've prepared so hard. So I've kind of moved the other direction a little bit.

Now, you can't always fit them, and we purposefully a year ago didn't take as many guys hoping we would be able to fit some midyear guys this year because we knew how outstanding some of them were. So it was kind of a calculated thing for us to be only at 76, 77 scholarships with the thought that maybe we'd be able to bring in some of these outstanding guys early in the next year and it worked out for us.

REPORTER: How rare is it to find specialists like Ben to potentially be able to handle punting and kicking and having one guy on scholarship instead of having two scholarships out on specialists?

COACH TRESSEL: We're always going to have multiple scholarships out on specialists because they're critical. We're going to have multiple kickers, if a guy can do two things, instead of having five guys on scholarship we'll have four, that kind of thing. Ben is an unusual guy that did both so well so consistently, but he's really a focused guy. He works at it and he'll come in and he'll compete, and I think that will make everyone else better and we'll see if he can step in and take over or step up and push and that type of thing, but just an outstanding guy, and unusual. I had one, Jeff Wilkins, who I had him 14 years ago and he's still playing in the NFL and only doing one of them there, but he did both, and he was extraordinary, but it is unusual.

REPORTER: Jim, how much stock do you put in the recruiting rankings as far as the national perspective for like future recruits and how would you rank this class being that maybe it fit all your needs or your qualifications for a ranking like that?

COACH TRESSEL: Well, James Laurinaitis was in my office yesterday and reminded me that he and Malcolm were two star guys because we were talking about recruiting and he said, are we going to have a good class? I said, yeah, I think it's going to be a good class, and he said, remember, Malcolm and I were only two-star guys.

How much stock do you put in it? I think we have great guys. I don't care how many stars they have. Michael brought up Travis. I don't know how many stars Travis has, but I'm with him, I think Travis is a good one. So I guess we talk about the recruiting rankings for about 48 hours, and then we start talking about spring practice, but I think this group is going to be ranked pretty high.

REPORTER: Jim, you mentioned you're still recruiting, how unusual is this to still be in this situation, especially considering the fairly large piece to the puzzle is still tout there?

COACH TRESSEL: I'm not sure since we've been here if we've had a guy that has gone after -- you know, how unusual it is for a guy to play 16 football games and then 16 basketball games in three weeks or something, so it is unusual, but it is what it is, and we press on.

REPORTER: On that topic, if you bank on having a scholarship available for that player, if they were not to use it, how would you go about using that scholarship? Would it be something you would put back into the team for this year? Would you kind of bank that for the following recruiting class?

COACH TRESSEL: Probably one of those two things. Many times like to reward walk-ons who have been here and have gotten themselves in the lineup. I think of guys like Marcus Williams who's been on a lot of special teams, whoever becomes our long snapper maybe. We've got some old -- Andrew Moses, who's been a kid who's been in our two-deep, so we have some needs still. On the other hand, do you hold one or two back for a midyear to next year? Although Stan Jefferson tells me that the fact that our senior class next year is so big, we have so many guys that will be graduated in December and/or March, that we may have enough there. So it's a little bit of a juggling act, but I think being at 19 or 20 is right where we wanted to be and if we would have ended up at 21, I think we would have been a little bit nervous that we wouldn't have some of those things available for the folks in need, so 20 would be just right.

REPORTER: With your current roster, would it be a setback if you would not get a quarterback, you want one tailback also or more than one running back?

COACH TRESSEL: In this class?

REPORTER: Right.

COACH TRESSEL: There's one running back and he's really a fullback, but then there's a wideout who's a pretty good running back, and there's a guy that redshirted this year named Danny Herron who's pretty good. Brandon Saine is pretty good and Mo Wells and Chris Wells. So we feel we're okay there, as long as we don't get a rash of injuries, but we looked at all that, number-wise, and we decided we didn't need to take a tailback only, we needed more of a fullback/tailback.

REPORTER: Would you, in a perfect world, regardless of who the quarterback is, would you like to have a quarterback in this class no matter what, just so you've got somebody that you're bringing along?

COACH TRESSEL: I think we had planned on having a quarterback in this class and so, yeah, in a perfect -- let's make a perfect world, let's get a quarterback in this class, and our plans would be further along.

REPORTER: Coach, speaking in generalities, in a situation like this, what is the format, what are the rules, will coaches from your staff be going to visit players that are in this situation on a weekly basis? What is the strategy? What's allowed?

COACH TRESSEL: Right now we're in a period where we have unlimited phone calls and all we're allowed to do starting Friday is call people once a week and we're not allowed on the road at all.

REPORTER: Jim, other than Robbie Schoenhoft, have any other players left the program since the National Championship game?

COACH TRESSEL: We've had a couple guys that are planning to graduate that we've talked about. I'm not sure, Shelly, if it's been, released, Alex Barrow, Albert Dukes, and Devon Lyons are all planning to graduate, but we haven't had anyone leave, have we? I don't believe.

Well, let's do this, I've got a 5:00 radio show, so we've got to make sure that we get our coaches. Why don't we have the offensive guys on this side maybe.

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Ice Hockey   |   Lacrosse   |   Pistol   |   Rifle   |   Soccer   |   Swimming/Diving   |   Tennis   |   Track & Field
Volleyball   |   Wrestling
Women's Sports
Basketball   |   Cross Country   |   Fencing   |   Field Hockey   |   Golf   |   Gymnastics
Ice Hockey   |   Lacrosse   |   Pistol   |   Rifle   |   Rowing   |   Soccer   |   Softball   |   Swimming/Diving
Synchronized Swimming   |   Tennis   |   Track & Field   |   Volleyball
About Ohio State Athletics
The Ohio State University Department of Athletics sponsors 36 fully funded varsity teams – 17 for women, 16 for men and three co-educational. The department is committed to providing its more than 1,000 student-athletes with the finest in academic and athletics support in order to ensure a quality and life-enhancing experience. The Department of Athletics is completely self-supporting and receives no university monies, tax dollars or student fees. In Fiscal Year 2009-10, the Department of Athletics will transfer back to the University more than $29 million in assessments, including $14.5 million in grant-in-aid costs.