Big Ten Roundtable of Bloggers: Week Five

By Adam Kiefaber

Every week this season a fellow Big Ten blogging site will host the Big Ten Bloggers roundtable of questions.

This week Lake The Posts, which is Northwestern blog, will be the host of the five regular season Big Ten roundtable of the season. Buckeye Lane will play host the week of the Wisconsin at Ohio State game (September 29th through the November 3rd).

Buckeye Lane didn’t take part in last week’s roundtable. The questions came out late in the week and Buckeye Lane struck a deal with Lake the Posts to take over my site and BL would take over LTP.

1. Michigan turned to Russell Crowe (successfully). ND went with Regis (unsuccessfully). Imagine your team is in desperate need of a pregame pep talk (no imagination needed at NU). You can bring in anyone in the world. Who do you turn to and why?

For Ohio State, there are the usual suspects.

Jack Nicklaus, Archie Griffin, Eddie George or any Ohio State alum that went on to have success in the NFL.

That is all fine and good, but I would like to bring in Joe Laurinaitis.

I would tell him, that I don’t want my kids getting soft and too cocky about their win over Northwestern.

The former professional wrestler has seen many athletes fall in love with themselves and die at any early age.

Maybe he could scare the Buckeyes enough that they won’t take anything for granted.

2. What perception about your program is perpetuated to the point where it is your pet peeve? Why does it bother you so much (no, the answer does not have to be an alliteration)?

I think many of the Buckeye blogs will talk about how everyone thinks that the Buckeyes are a bunch of ‘cheaters’.

There were rumors that Jim Tressel wasn’t perfect at Youngstown State. And there was that Maurice Clarett guy, Troy Smith wasn’t a model citizen and there was a claim that players got paychecks for jobs that they didn’t have.

All that can be annoying, but really gets to me is the 2002 BCS National Championship.

The final score was great, but the part that bothers me is the pass interference call.

Every college football with the exception of Ohio State fans believe that it was a bad call.

This video is great - it tries to prove my point and does a great job

I know that I’m not quite the most objective source, however you have to admit that the play was close.

Also, you would have to admit that there was contact.

I just want everyone to watch that play again, instead of using their cloudy memory and then tell me that is was a ‘no doubt about it’ bad call.

3. It is only week 5 of the season, but you’ve been asked to create your team’s highlight reel for the season. You get to choose one song. What is it and why?

This is going to sound terribly wrong, maybe even weird, but I choose the song from the beginning of the show The Wonder Years.

Honestly, I feel as though I’m watching this team grow up before my very own eyes just like how we saw Kevin Arnold.

Take the lyrics - “What would you do if I sang out of tune? Would you stand up and walk out on me?”

No way, Mr. Joe Cocker.

OSU translation - “What would you do if I (Boeckman) got off to a slow start? Would you stand up and give up on me?”

I almost did, Todd.

However, after his four touchdown passes this week in the Northwestern game, I will continue to watch Boeckman grow. He will also continue to get a little help from his friends. Wide receiver Brian Robiskie caught three TDs last week and Chris ‘Beanie’ Wells is a force at running back.

-And-

His defense is pretty good.