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NittanyWhiteOut: Jared Odrick is Big Ten DPOY; PSU Players honored
Zombie Nation - Penn State football blog: Odrick, Penn State rake in the All-Big Ten honors
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Big Ten Awards: http://bit.ly/8WUHph. Yayyyy @thrilla90 :) (via @ashers1513) thanks 11/24/2009 |
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RT @OhioStFootball: KirK Ferentz (Iowa) was named the B10 Coach of the Year. Full Awards Here: http://bit.ly/8WUHph 11/24/2009 |
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Complete listing of 2009 All-Big Ten honors. http://www.bigten.org/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/112309aag.html #pennstate #fb 11/24/2009 |
Jared Odrick is Big Ten DPOY; PSU Players honored
NittanyWhiteOut —
... With the Big Ten prematurely ending its season–only Illinois has not yet finished their regular season–they also become the first conference to release it’s end of year awards. And it’s beyond obvious the respect and admiration that the coaches and media members have for some of Penn State’s players. ...
Odrick, Penn State rake in the All-Big Ten honors
Zombie Nation - Penn State football blog —
... TEAM: Dennis Landolt DEFENSE COACHES FIRST TEAM: Jared Odrick, Navorro Bowman COACHES SECOND TEAM: Sean Lee, Jeremy Boone MEDIA FIRST TEAM: Navorro Bowman MEDIA SECOND TEAM: Jared Odrick, Josh Hull, Sean Lee, Jeremy Boone HONORABLE MENTIONS COACHES: Josh Hull, Andrew Quarless MEDIA: Drew Astorino, Jack Crawford, D'Anton Lynn, Derek Moye, Ollie Ogbu, Andrew Quarless Link: Big Ten Release ...
Top Five All-Big Ten Football Team Errors
The Only Colors —
The picks are here.
And here are the travesties:
5. Jared Odrick, Coaches' Defensive Player of the Year. There's no doubt that Odrick was one of the top five or six defensive linemen in the conference. However, here were the other All-Big ten first team defensive linemen named by the coaches: Adrian Clayborn, Brandon Graham, and O'Brien Schofield. If I gave you those names, where would you rank Odrick? Third? Fourth? And he's the one the coaches named defensive player of the year?
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Big Ten announces All-Big Ten teams
The Daily Gopher —
Big Ten announces All-Big Ten teams
Coaches Selections
First Team - Eric Decker
HM - Lee Campbell, Simoni Lawrence, Traye Simmons
Media Selections
HM - Eric Decker, Lee Campbell, Eric Ellestad, Nick Tow-Arnett, Traye Simmons
Spartans Take Umbrage With Odrick
Black Shoe Diaries —
... to award Jared Odrick the Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year by listing him three times on his top five errors made by the coaches. ...
Alternate Reality Heisman: Making the case for Brandon Graham
Dr. Saturday —
The most interesting aspect of the Heisman Trophy is always the players it excludes as a matter of course. With the field of favorites rapidly narrowing down the stretch, Alternate Heisman Reality looks at some of the more deserving candidates off the beaten path. Today: Georgia Tech quarterback Josh Nesbitt.
Generic Profile. Former five-star, all-world recruit turned two-time All-Big Ten pick at a high profile powerhouse and likely first-rounder in next April's draft.
By the Numbers. ...
Buckeyes: Buckeye Leaves
Ohio Sports Report —
... with Wisconsin leading the pack with five first-teamers, and Iowa and Penn State with four each. One thing that still has me scratching my head is how Michigan (1-7 in Big Ten play, if you'll recall) placed three players on the writers' first team (the very deserving Brandon Graham, the questionable Donovan Warren, and the overworked punter Zoltan Mesko) while the outright conference champs had but two. You figure it out. See the lists for yourself at the official Big Ten site here . Rivals.com managed to select an ...
We Hardly Knew Ye: Arrelious Benn's potential is taking the next step
Dr. Saturday —
... to his erratic freshman self and was benched by midseason as the Illini lost their first six games against teams that weren't Illinois State. Amidst the chaos at quarterback, Benn's production shriveled from 67 catches for more than 1,000 yards in 2008, the second-best number in the conference, to just 38 grabs for 490 yards this fall, dropping him behind such luminaries as Damarlo Belcher, Aaron Valentin and Graham Zug on the conference list. From there, he was lucky to earn an honorable mention nod on the All-Big Ten team, which seems more like a nod to the ...
Postmortem: Hope holds the line at Purdue
Dr. Saturday —
... in both catches (91) and yards (1,100), putting up six 100-yard games and landing on the media's first-team All-Big Ten ballot as the latest in a long line of dreaded Purdue possession receivers. ...
