Odrick Named Big Ten Defensive Player Of Year
by Run Up The Score on Nov 23, 2009 9:06 PM EST
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Yaaaaaaaaaay and gradulations:
The All-Big Ten football team was announced tonight live on the Big Ten Network. Penn State's six first team honorees were tied with Iowa for first among all conference schools. The Nittany Lions' nine overall honorees were second to the Hawkeyes' 11.
Four Nittany Lions were selected to the first team offense: Clark, senior tackle Dennis Landolt (Burlington, N.J.), junior tailback Evan Royster (Fairfax, Va.) and junior center Stefen Wisniewski (Bridgeville). Royster and Wisniewski were second team all-conference in 2008. Odrick was selected to the first team defense for the second straight season, as was junior linebacker Navorro Bowman (District Heights, Md.).
Three Penn Staters earned second team All-Big Ten honors: senior punter Jeremy Boone (Mechanicsburg), senior linebacker Josh Hull (Millheim) and senior linebacker Sean Lee (Pittsburgh). Boone earned first team all-conference accolades in 2007, while Lee was a second team choice two years ago. The 2009 co-captain missed last season with a torn ACL.
Six Nittany Lions earned honorable mention all-conference recognition, five of whom will return for the 2010 season: sophomore safety Drew Astorino (Edinboro), sophomore defensive end Jack Crawford (Longport, N.J.), sophomore cornerback D'Anton Lynn (Celina, Texas), sophomore wide receiver Derek Moye (Rochester), junior defensive tackle Ollie Ogbu (Staten Island, N.Y.) and senior tight end Andrew Quarless (Uniondale, N.Y.).
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gradulations
Because it's a Bowl Game!!
-My wife when asked why she didn't tell me she was having contractions Jan. 1 2007
Sweet
Good for Odrick, he’s an absolute monster.
Also, huge props to Josh Hull. For all the headaches he gave us last year, the guy has really been impressive this year, especially for being a walk-on linebacker at LBU and deserves every bit of those second team honors.
Gradulations to everyone!
Wiz is first team center? Wasn't expecting that
Pisses me off that JO isn’t a finalist for any other major awards.
"I don't know. I don't know. [waves hand dismissively] First, you'd have to tell me what a 'BCS' is. I don't know."
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It doesn't matter if you "won't remember them" years from now because we'll probably all be dead years from now.
What pisses me off more
is that Brandon “Eye-gouge” Spikes and Terrance “Rip my helmet off before the game is over and jump up and down so my gigantic man boobs are replayed bouncing up and down on ESPN ten times an hour” Cody are finalists for the Bednarik award.
This...
But you know, its mostly because Terrance Cody has OMG ESS EEE CEEEE SPEED and is faster than Chaz Powell.
"Every player we have, someone-maybe a parent, a grandparent, someone-poured their soul into that young man. They are handing that young man off to us. They are giving us their treasure, and it's our job to make sure we give them back that young man intact and ready to face the world."
-J.V.Pa.
Odrick wasn't even a first-team pick by the B10 media, btw.
Twitter: @scrappled
"When it’s third-and-10, you can take the milk drinkers and I’ll take the whiskey drinkers every time" - Max McGee
by Run Up The Score on Nov 23, 2009 9:54 PM EST reply actions
But of course
"I don't know. I don't know. [waves hand dismissively] First, you'd have to tell me what a 'BCS' is. I don't know."
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It doesn't matter if you "won't remember them" years from now because we'll probably all be dead years from now.
by ReadingRambler on Nov 23, 2009 9:57 PM EST up reply actions
THAT'S SO WEIRD
that the media picked Greg Jones, who — and this is obviously just a coincidence — was the same guy THE MEDIA PICKED IN THE PRESEASON OH MY GOD YOU GUYS ARE SO AWESOME AT SELF-FULFILLING YOUR OWN PROPHECIES WHAT WILL WE EVER DO WITHOUT NEWSPAPER SPORTS WRITERS and can’t even do this anymore.
BSD
by KevinHD on Nov 23, 2009 10:04 PM EST up reply actions 2 recs
Sean Lee or Edds or one of the guys from OSU > Greg Jones
NO ONE DENIES THIS
"I don't know. I don't know. [waves hand dismissively] First, you'd have to tell me what a 'BCS' is. I don't know."
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It doesn't matter if you "won't remember them" years from now because we'll probably all be dead years from now.
by ReadingRambler on Nov 23, 2009 10:40 PM EST up reply actions
THIS IS THE GREATEST TEAM NEVAH TO MAKE THE BCS! THE CLAHKSTAH IS A MIRACLE WORKAH! HE DEFINES HEAHT! YOU GOT NO CLASS, YOU COHN FARMEHS! JUST WATCH, THE NFC EAST IS NEXT!
(puts head in microwave)
by gumbercules on Nov 23, 2009 11:12 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
+1 for "Clakstah"
"I don't know. I don't know. [waves hand dismissively] First, you'd have to tell me what a 'BCS' is. I don't know."
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It doesn't matter if you "won't remember them" years from now because we'll probably all be dead years from now.
by ReadingRambler on Nov 24, 2009 10:41 AM EST up reply actions
the media continues to prognosticate rather than report
worst of all, they have influence over our beloved sport. a terrible cocktail.
by Mr. Rosewater on Nov 24, 2009 12:46 AM EST up reply actions
Media has to go for hype
Coaches go for production.
"Every player we have, someone-maybe a parent, a grandparent, someone-poured their soul into that young man. They are handing that young man off to us. They are giving us their treasure, and it's our job to make sure we give them back that young man intact and ready to face the world."
-J.V.Pa.
Was suprised to see 3 Meechegan players on the first team defense
"No, Donny, these men are nihilists. There's nothing to be afraid of"
I don't see this
And frankly, about shite a brick, before going over to see for myself. I said to myself ‘Self, if there’s anybody other than Brandon Graham on that list I’ma bumrush next spring’s Big Ten meeting and acost every single coach in an unflattering way.’ Sure enough, only Brandon Graham. I will not count Zoltan as defense.
The real weird one for me is the absence of Heyward on the first team. Not having seen Wiscy, I can’t comment on Schofield, tho I’ve read plenty about him. Odrick gets voted DPOTY, an honor I thought Graham had every right to. Clayborn, too, for that matter. There’s just a boatload of talent at Dline if Cameron Heyward isn’t in the top four.
"For me the game wasn’t grounded in reality. It was about the uniform you put on that turned you into a warrior. It was about the mythology of the battle, the victory, the defeat, the struggle." - Mike Reid, PSU '69
Schofield is real good, but Heyward should be there
"I don't know. I don't know. [waves hand dismissively] First, you'd have to tell me what a 'BCS' is. I don't know."
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It doesn't matter if you "won't remember them" years from now because we'll probably all be dead years from now.
by ReadingRambler on Nov 23, 2009 10:33 PM EST up reply actions
Gerg should have won it all
A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.
Bill Cosby
I'd argue that Johnson-Koulianos has been better than Blair White, but whatever
And Eric Decker? Who’s been out for weeks?
"I don't know. I don't know. [waves hand dismissively] First, you'd have to tell me what a 'BCS' is. I don't know."
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It doesn't matter if you "won't remember them" years from now because we'll probably all be dead years from now.
by ReadingRambler on Nov 23, 2009 10:03 PM EST reply actions
but if we're gonna give people awards based solely on what they "could have done this year"
why not give arelious benn 1st team honors. he’ll probably go higher than decker in the draft.
We decide when you hear the snap count...
Or give Sean Lee 1st team honors
since he likely would have gotten at least 40 more tackles if he didn’t get injured again. And while were at it, give him the honors for last year too even though he didn’t play.
I fear Benn got ZOOKED, hopefully it didn’t kill his draft stock, that would suck for him.
I was about to say this...
Lee was RIDICULOUS when fully healthy. But he only had that blessing for like 2.5 games.
"Every player we have, someone-maybe a parent, a grandparent, someone-poured their soul into that young man. They are handing that young man off to us. They are giving us their treasure, and it's our job to make sure we give them back that young man intact and ready to face the world."
-J.V.Pa.
You really have to feel bad for Lee
Imagine the season that he could have had?
I kinda feel like we got gypped
"God is great, beer is good, and people are crazy"
At first I was kind of surprised to see him on there
b/c he had a very under the radar season, but then I looked at the rest of the LB’s in the Big 10 and his pick was definitely warranted.
by Screen Name 20 on Nov 24, 2009 11:36 AM EST up reply actions
One thing is fo sho though, he won't get drafted high
but whoever takes him is going to get a bargain for a fantastic LB
Not looking at the stats
Although, I’m surprised at how underwhelming DJK’s stats are – I thought he was being more productive than he actually was. Not a knock on him, just surprising.
Decker, surprisingly (or not, depending on how you look at it), still finished the season in the top 10 in the conference in most/all of the major receiving categories. In 4 fewer games, that’s quite the accomplishment, and likely why he got the nod.
I know they were on losing teams, but Tanden Doss and Keith Smith probably deserved 1st team honors.
"In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
Oddly enough, the media peoples agree with me
but that’s about the extent of their (the media peoples’) worth.
"In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
DJK
I’m wondering if it’s just because his name was always mentioned in Iowa highlights but if you were watching an Iowa game his name was drowned out by STANZIBALL, STANZIBALL, STANZINBALL!!!!
Congrats
Hell yeah !!! one and all…some surprises, but so typical of the B11…maybe Pryor will win pre-season again next year and the next year and…
I always knew.....
those days of him showing up late for class and sleeping all the way through it would pay off one day…. keep it up big guy! you make us proud! haha
For the Glory of Old State
Oh, and plus 1 for Tribe!
Love me some Phife Diggy.
"For me the game wasn’t grounded in reality. It was about the uniform you put on that turned you into a warrior. It was about the mythology of the battle, the victory, the defeat, the struggle." - Mike Reid, PSU '69
Juice won a sportsmanship award
Probably for not going postal after being benched.
A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.
Bill Cosby
Can we gloat a little about Pryor not being 1st team?
or 2nd team?
Just a little?
It’d feel even better if he wasn’t going to the Rose Bowl, but still . . .
Do I know what rhetorical means?
I'd wait until we beat him again to gloat
but by all means, take every pleasure you can out of his failures.
btw, I love how the coaches didn’t even give him an honorable mention nod, while the media did.
but but...preseason POTY
who woulda thought that handing the preseason POTY award to someone who had yet to showcase his skills at his main profession (perhaps everyone thought he would move over to WR after the Fiesta Bowl last year, and predicted he’d have a monster season?), and that the prediction would turn out incorrect, and the QB(s) who actually showed talent and production last year and returned this year would actually win it….odd indeed.
by The JuggerNitt on Nov 24, 2009 10:51 AM EST up reply actions
BHGP:
Okay. While we’re quite happy that Bulaga got such high accolades for the season, we can’t be alone in thinking that he was hardly the best lineman in Iowa City, much less the Big Ten. He was either on the sidelines or out of sorts for the majority of the season, and we still haven’t seen the elephant-tusk-covered road grader from last season on display. He totally would have deserved a preseason OL of the year, but his performance over 2009 didn’t merit such superlatives.
This is hardly a new development from these postseason lists, however; generally, the lists are crafted off of the preseason lists, and anybody whose knee blew out with more than four games left was excised and replaced by someone else. After all, Bulaga was only a second-team All-BXI player last season, even though he was by far the best lineman on the team in 2008. Seth Olsen, meanwhile, had the good fortune to be a first-teamer to start the year, so he was on the first team after 2008, despite a relatively blah senior campaign; we’d have put him about fourth on the list of Iowa linemen for 2009, behind the two bookends at tackle and Rob Bruggeman at center.
Essentially, Bulaga won the award in 2009 for his play in 2008.
At the end of the day, this comes down to stats; there aren’t any for linemen, despite the ill-fated attempt to get the “pancake” introduced about a decade ago (for this, we blame Orlando Pace). It’s assumed that linemen are sure things, and that as long as they stay healthy, the narrative has stayed true. After all, without stats, most scribes have no time (or no idea) how to watch linemen individually.
Frankly, though it’s a subjective stat, we’d love to see how linemen grade out per play (remember that Blake Larsen famously graded at 100% during his senior season at Atlantic; lord, had those knees survived…) Without having the means to undertake such an activity ourselves, we’d imagine that if you graded each Iowa offensive lineman, Kyle Calloway or Dace Richardson would probably be at the top.
If they’re not, which is possible, then it would probably be the guy who didn’t even get an honorable mention: Riley Reiff. He was stout in relief of Bulaga—hell, we’re pretty sure O’Brien Schofield would not have batted Reiff around like a catnip mouse, unlike some Iowa linemen—and he basically forced his way into the starting lineup even before Big Dace went down. But since he wasn’t even a projected starter, to say nothing of a preseason honoree, Reiff didn’t have much of a chance for postseason mention. Shame, really; dude is legit, and he hasn’t even filled out his frame yet.
"I don't know. I don't know. [waves hand dismissively] First, you'd have to tell me what a 'BCS' is. I don't know."
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It doesn't matter if you "won't remember them" years from now because we'll probably all be dead years from now.
This explains a lot
like how two of our O-line got chosen.
by PSUisMyHeart on Nov 24, 2009 12:26 PM EST up reply actions
congratulations...
…to Josh Hull. He had a great year. Don’t forget he had to keep together a revolving door platoon of linebackers on either side of him all year.
Congrats to all the guys that made all-conference. The Wiz selection has me scratching my head a bit though.
Mesko is dirty
I have a tough time arguing with that pick.
"I'm colonel cool! And I'm the captain on this rocket to the stars!"
by psuphiman80 on Nov 24, 2009 10:47 AM EST up reply actions
He didn't have that great of a year, honestly.
Twitter: @scrappled
"When it’s third-and-10, you can take the milk drinkers and I’ll take the whiskey drinkers every time" - Max McGee
by Run Up The Score on Nov 24, 2009 10:48 AM EST up reply actions
I thought had a pretty good year
though Mesko is Mesko. Also, Boone had the misfortune of being on by far the worst unit on the team, and perhaps in the conference.
by The JuggerNitt on Nov 24, 2009 10:55 AM EST up reply actions
Probably from the blocks...
blown assignments or not, those stick out to some voters I’m sure. Plus the blocks worked against his average, so to voters that didn’t enter that into the equation, they just see a lower average.
next year
doesn’t this make everyone take a step back off the ledge, particularly when considering the defense?
We’re returning x (4?) defense players that got all conference honors in ‘09, though probably not any linebackers, which would be a problem if we didn’t have unbelievable linebackers every year regardless of their accolades coming out of high school (e.g. Hull). I just don’t see how the defense is ever the reason to worry about PSU football, particularly for next year.
Now, the qb is a different story….
I wouldn't trust old rooster me neither.
Any list that has
Scarecrow and Traffic Cone listed as “First team all Big Ten” is totally bogus.
I say let's rock the Orange Bowl, because nobody will remember in five years anyway.
I'm shocked.
There isn’t a better left tackle in the Big Ten than Landolt?? He’s the most solid guy we’ve got up front for sure, but the whole conference?! The Big Ten usually have a 1st rounder in there somewhere…things must really be down right now
We're reloading in the secondary, so there's that
I’m not too worried about the defensive line. They won’t be as good as this unit, but Stanley, Ogbu (unless he goes pro), Crawford, and Still are a solid front four and LJ should have plenty of depth.
Linebackers will have some growing pains. Stupar needs to learn how to tackle again.
"I don't know. I don't know. [waves hand dismissively] First, you'd have to tell me what a 'BCS' is. I don't know."
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It doesn't matter if you "won't remember them" years from now because we'll probably all be dead years from now.
by ReadingRambler on Nov 24, 2009 10:36 AM EST up reply actions
At LBU
We don’t worry about linebackers.
by smashtheguitar on Nov 24, 2009 11:11 AM EST reply actions
Funny
because every year we seem to freak out about LBs, only to be completely pleasantly surprised and realize, “Oh, that’s right, we’re LBU!” after someone steps up and blows us away a la Bowman 2008, and I guess Hull 2009
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