Written by Brent Yarina, BTN.comWisconsin has “Jump Around,” and now Ohio State has “Quick Cals.” Urban Meyer and Ohio State created the new Ohio Stadium pregame activity, which will debut prior to the season opener Sept. 1 against Miami (Ohio). Here’s how it works: 23 minutes before every home kickoff, in the south end zone, the players will do Quick Cals – think pregame exercises – and ask for student participation.
“We want to start a new tradition, to show the relationship between our student body, the best student body in America, and our football team,” Meyer says in the video.
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Looks interesting. It’s Ohio State, so there’s no doubt this loyal fan base will accept a new tradition, much less one implemented by a two-time national champ like Meyer. Other than that, it’s hard to say much more about this until we see it for the first time next weekend.
Here’s another look at what you can expect to see this fall at Ohio Stadium:
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Very lame.
Looks stupid
This is ,”The Ohio State University”, not a playground next to the,”Horseshoe” !!! This is crazy and ragher childish. Remember this is not any school from down South. Have Faith. Go Bucks !!!!
As long as Gene Smith doesn’t get his goal of making the band completely obsolete (they just installed a new sound system), I could care less about this peripheral stuff.
Probably need to account for the fact a portion of those students will be intoxicated 23 minutes prior to kickoff (after tailgating).
You can’t really call something a tradition if it has not even been done once. Try “hope to establish a new pregame tradition…”
Since this drill is going to activate both sides of the brain by following crisscross patterns, I love it. Urban Meyer doesn’t do anything without good reason and this pre-game drill is going to fire up the team while getting their young minds ready to execute the game plan.
I hope the URBAN MYTH goes away soon!!!
boring !!!!
This is just part of the pre-game warm ups not the take the field moment. I’m sure they will still do the hive when they take the field.
looks stupid
prefer entrance where the team locks arms and sways
The “Hive” is a Tressel thing, so i don’t think the team will be doing that anymore.
The students seemed to have fun with this thing Saturday evening (Aug. 25) during the student warm-up thing at Ohio Stadium.
Lol, bwahahahahahah , what is this little league football?