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Okruch wowed by Grant and Turay

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May 19, 2011
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Nice to see Turay getting some props. Hope he has a healthy and productive year. Quotes from Coach Okruch:

http://www.app.com/story/sports/col...cheming-janarion-grant-kemoko-turay/79022730/

Vince Okruch just left the land of premier athletes at Ohio State, but the opportunity to work with two particular Rutgers football stars is enough to make him salivate.

“Having coached against (Rutgers) for a couple years, Janarion is a guy we were always concerned about,” Okruch said. “You wanted to make sure that if you kicked the ball to him the hang time was always such that he couldn’t hurt you.”
“The first thing we’ll do from a return point is enhance that,” Okruch said. “He doesn’t need much to get going. He’s got great foot speed. He’s elusive. We’ll make beyond normal effort to find a way to get him going.”

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“Our half says, ‘Let’s make their life miserable. Let’s scare the punter and make him kick a bad punt.’ We’re going to be on the aggressive side of things.”

Enter the 6-foot-6, 240-pound Turay
“Great kid, smile on his face, the kind of guy that blocks kicks,” Okruch said. “Kind of crazy about it. Wants to do it. This is an area of the football team that for the most part has been pretty good. Now if we can get a little bit better at it, that’s going to be our goal.”

"My job as a coordinator is to be an aggressive unit. Once the kids have the opportunity to experience it, we’re going to have a lot of fun. We’re going to be up-tempo and aggressive.”
 
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We have a history of good special teams and we just might be even more effective. Teams might go for it on fourth down because they are afraid to punt next year...lol
 
Very vanilla .
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That is very high praise. These two guys are going to be positioned to maximize their talent and they both will be super stars.
 
Did I mention that our OC last year was bad? Why did we not run an option once in a while and pitch it out to Grant? Maybe that is what Plumb meant when he said very vanilla. He was talking about last year's OC.
 
No plum was talking about the article . What do you expect the new special teams coordinator to say ? Of course those two guys are good .
 
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