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Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Buckeyes’ Boone can talk the talk
Reporters love Alex Boone. The Buckeyes’ big senior left tackle knows how to throw out the quotes. I remember that Boone seemed right in his element at Media Day last January, the day before the BCS national championship game.
Boone was working the floor of the Louisiana Superdome. At one point, an Ohio TV station gave Boone a mic and asked him to interview teammates. He obliged, and probably asked some great questions.
I just read an Associated Press story on Boone. The AP’s Rusty Miler chronicles Boone’s loose lips, including how he used the harsher version of “POed” several times in an interview.
Maybe his best quote this week was when he was asked about Dan Herron, who was knocked out of the Wisconsin game last Saturday night.
“I guess when they went up to him he was like snoring or something,” Boone said.
On how he’d grade the offensive line this season: “Being honest? Probably a C-minus or a D-plus. We’re going to get criticism from everybody and we know that. But we need to really step it up. I don’t know how you do that. You just keep going and pushing guys and working.”
Mmm. I detected a little coach-speak in that one.
