Fake Buckeye Alert: Craig Krenzel
From Sporting News Radio this morning, Krenzel didn't exactly shower Tressel's funeral pyre with flowers:
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“Coach Tressel has to look in the mirror,” Krenzel said. “He has to hang his hat on it. Our football coach got caught holding a smoking gun in his hand.”
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“He was obviously flawed,” Krenzel said. “Maybe he wasn’t as good or perfect, especially that Buckeyes fans wanted him to be or pictured him to be.”
- “People are disgusted, disappointed. Frankly we’re embarrassed by it more than anything.”
- “I do think it is going to get worse,” Krenzel said. “This situation is ugly and it’s going to get uglier.”
Good for you, Craig. Now run and hide.
http://eye-on-college-football.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/29532522/29716205
He is from Michigan, so this was probably just the last straw for the Buckeye fanbase.
They'll clearly be calling them a Closet Wolverine any minute now.
It's quite evident Krenzel wasn't born and raised in Ohio as a Buckeye fan.
Good for him. I'm glad to know he's embarrassed and disgusted by Tressel's actions and not afraid to say so.
I went to the same high school as Krenzel, he's a very smart smart and approachable guy, not surprised at all to hear him say this. At least there is one clear thinking Buckeye, probably because he's from Michigan.
Kraig must have been hanging out with Ray Small recently. /s Either that or being from Michigan finally made him "see the light." /s
Edit: WAY too slow with my "state of Michigan" comment.
Not the truth, because frankly, they can't handle the truth.
"It'll get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it"
/sorry i've been reading the edsbs message boards too much lately
Seriously.
My personal Run & Hide favorite ( won't let me embed)
Fake as hell.
I hear Nashville is lovely this time of year.
For having morales hes fake? No think this makes him a stand up guy.
I think the post you're responding to has a subtle dose of impersonative sarcasm lingering just beneath the surface.
Jose Morales?
clearly he was referring to former Michigan longsnapper George Morales:
Credit to Krenzel for having the courage to call things the way he sees them. One question, though. Why does Tressel have to hang his hat on the mirror?
He's holding a smoking gun. Obviously.
This thread appears to take the view that Krenzel has finally turned on OSU and is condemning Tressel. I'm not at all sure that that is a fair characterization.
On Tressel:
“The person I had the opportunity to spend a lot of time with was not the man that people see right now.”
As for the descriptive "disgust":
Krenzel said he didn’t think Ohio State fans were necessarily angry at Tressel or quarterback Terrelle Pryor.
“I think it’s more disgusted,” Krenzel said. “People are disgusted, disappointed. Frankly we’re embarrassed by it more than anything.”
But Krenzel does lay into the Tat 5 & Company:
Krenzel said the current players deserve blame for what has happened.
“It’s a different generation,” Krenzel said. “What was a great opportunity at Ohio State … that’s all been forgotten. In my opinion, it’s turned into coming in as a freshman [and thinking] ‘what can I get?’ It’s disappointing to see all around the country, not just Ohio State, what college football is turning into.
“Guys come in with this sense of entitlement and a screwed up set of priorities. Part of the blame is on them.”
And finally, Krenzel does NOT say that he predicts more allegations, etc.:
Krenzel said he doesn’t believe any more allegations will surface at Ohio State, but that doesn’t make the future outlook any better.
“I do think it is going to get worse,” Krenzel said. “This situation is ugly and it’s going to get uglier.”
I've tried to support you. I really have. But you've lost me. Not everything is an example of people ripping things out of context to go all William Randolph Hearst-meets-Snidely Whiplash on a poor unsuspecting target. Fisk fisking? Fisk fisking:
As for the descriptive "disgust":Krenzel said he didn’t think Ohio State fans were necessarily angry at Tressel or quarterback Terrelle Pryor.
Did you read the part before the Pryor part? He was talking about both Pryor AND TRESSEL.
But Krenzel does lay into the Tat 5 & Company
I never said he did. So while he did say that the players deserve part of the blame, he also blames Tressel. This is unlike many Bucknuts, who seem to think that this was ALL about the players, and that Tressel was the poor escape goat.
Krenzel does NOT say that he predicts more allegations, etc.
Where did I say he did? All I was suggesting was that, unlike many in Buckeye Nation, he does not think the resignation will result in happy times, free candy, and attractive strippers for all.
It's a special day when we get a visit from the Escape Goat!
How I love a good escape goat...
When Section 1 was a wee lad, his pappy advised him "never let an opportunity to be contrarian go to waste, even if you have to manufacture a nonexistent dispute." And good golly, he has lived his life in accordance with pappy's advice!
Krenzel is not a fake buckeye for saying how he truly feels about the situation. He was the starting qb on a NC team but you have to remember he was a Cooper recruit, none of them seem to high on Tressel.
do you?
Does this guy always talk like the writer of a Steven Seagal movie??
Hope he doesn't have to join Herbstreit in Nashville.
Krenzel is one of the smartest Buckeyes to play there in the last 20 years, maybe longer.
I liked him before this, like him more now. Refreshing to hear this versus the standard party line of what a great man Tressel is from people like Herbie/Spielman.
by the way listen to their voices, you can hear it, they don't really believe the BS their saying themselves, just playing the party line.
I'm listening to Krenzel on WBNS FM Columbus via TuneIn Radio right now.
He just said he'd be shocked if more players don't come clean and take their medicine.
Now he just got done debunking "but everybody does it" meme. This guy is making too much sense. You can tell that he spent his formative years in the Great Lakes State.
So you're saying that these guys weren't taught how to make sense?
those guys are grown men.
KILL IT WITH FIRE!
Which Star Trek race is this again? The Andorians? The Benzites?
I've heard him several times, and he never pulls any punches. He was extremely disturbed by Tressel not suspending either Boone or Worthington for their DUIs. He was very critical of him for basically setting a precedent that if you're a starter, DUIs don't really matter.
I've always sensed that OSU faithful were always a little annoyed that the QB for their NC-winning squad was a Michigander, and my guess is that they'll use this as an excuse to redirect the hate train. What he said is all true, and I agree with him that kids will start to come clean once the media starts digging deeper into just what memorabilia was found at those tattoo parlors.
If Buckeye fans turn on Krenzel, that's just sick! The guy helped lead them to a national title, and while he was mostly a game manager, he did have some pretty big plays that lead them to the national title. The pass against Purdue, and at one point, I think he had as many yards in the NC game as Clarrett did running the football.
Glad to see some of the former Buckeye players call the situation as it is.
How did Krenzel get away? Did we not offer him?
I know he is part of the same class ('99) as Navarre and, um, Mignery.
He wasn't that highly regarded. He was basically supposed to be a "filler" recruit in between Bellisari and Justin Zwick.
I don't think that's true. He was higher regarded as a recruit than Navarre was. Rivals only goes back to 2002, but I'm just curious if we offered him or not. If we didn't, that makes no sense.
Krenzel wasn't really highly recruited out of high school. There was also some guy named Henson on our roster who had Carr promise not to really recruit any studs before or after him.
Krenzel was initially third team that year, but someone either got injured or quit (I think it was the latter), and then Bellasari decided to pick up a DUI and that gave Craig the starting job against Michigan.
In the end, John Navarre beat him in Ann Arbor in 2003.
The "Lloyd's Promise" meme is often cited incorrectly. Lloyd promised Henson he wouldn't recruit another quarterback in his recruiting class, NOT that he wouldn't recruit another quarterback while Henson was around.
Carr also promised not to recruit any QBs in the class ahead of Henson's, so there would be no one only one year older than him in the program.
You really want to reduce their careers to one game? Krenzel was far more accomplished than Navarre.
He actually was a better quarterback than he was given credit for. When asked to be more than a game manager, he could sling it around the field. In 2003, Tressel didn't take the wraps off his offense until we were up 21-0. I seem to remember Krenzel being very productive from that point until he got hurt.