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THIRD-STRING TO STARTER
MARK BATKE / Photo editor
OSU redshirt-sophomore quarterback Cardale Jones (12) carries the ball as Michigan sophomore defensive back Delano Hill (44) defends during a Nov. 29 game at Ohio Stadium. OSU won, 42-28.
Meyer, team stay confident as OSU looks toward Big Ten Championship JAMES GREGA, JR. Asst. sports editor grega.9@osu.edu The Ohio State football team has lost more Heisman candidates than games this season. Now it must prepare for a game that cost OSU a shot at the BCS national title game a year ago. The Buckeyes will enter the 2014 Big Ten Championship Game this weekend with their third-string quarterback Cardale Jones leading the offense after redshirt-freshman J.T. Barrett broke his ankle during a game against Michigan on Saturday afternoon. Barrett initially replaced senior Braxton Miller after the incumbent starter tore the labrum in his throwing shoulder during fall camp. OSU coach Urban Meyer said Sunday afternoon during the Big Ten title game teleconference that Barrett’s scheduled Sunday surgery was successful. “I have not seen him yet. His surgery is done, it went well,” Meyer said. “His father is in town, he (Barrett) is going to stay the night in the hospital. We have practice and
meetings today, but at some point I will go see him.” With Barrett now out of the picture, the Buckeyes will turn to Jones to lead them to their first outright Big Ten championship since 2009. Jones has appeared in seven games this season, completing 10 of 17 passes for 118 yards and two scores to go along with 206 yards rushing on 26 carries. The redshirt-sophomore from Glenville High School in Cleveland has never started a game as a member of the Buckeyes, but that doesn’t seem to discourage Meyer. Jones split time with Barrett in spring practice while Miller sat out after shoulder surgery, something Meyer said helped Jones tremendously. “He was the No. 1 quarterback behind Braxton leaving spring practice. He had a very good spring,” Meyer said Sunday. “The Spring Game if I remember wasn’t great, but his transition from being a guy that sat and watched Braxton and Kenny Guiton play a year ago, to a functional quarterback, he is a very talented guy.” Jones finished the previously mentioned 2014 Spring Game 14 of 31 passing for 126 yards adding 28 yards on the ground.
CHELSEA SPEARS / Multimedia editor
Redshirt-freshman quarterback J.T. Barrett (16) is carted away after suffering a right ankle fracture during the 4th quarter of a game against Michigan on Nov. 29 at Ohio Stadium. OSU won, 42-28. Sophomore running back Ezekiel Elliott echoed Meyer after the win over Michigan and said it is not just the coaches who have confidence in Jones. “He got a lot of reps in the spring, he got plenty of reps this fall, I think he is ready,” Elliott said. “I don’t think there will be a drop off.”
Jones’ career at OSU is welldocumented, as the quarterback’s infamous tweet concerning his dislike for college classes went viral in 2012, his freshman season. Meyer said however, that Jones has
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Missing football player found dead, OSU adds staff; remembered for his passion, work ethic expert criticizes faculty-staff ratio
AMANDA ETCHISON Senior Lantern reporter etchison.4@osu.edu
Kosta Karageorge was passionate — a great friend and teammate, a hard-worker. His teammates and coaches described him with all of those words after Karageorge went missing Wednesday. His body was found Sunday near East Sixth and Courtland avenues at about 2:30 p.m. in a dumpster, and tattoos confirmed his identity. It was unclear how long his body had been there, Columbus Division of Police Sgt. Richard Weiner said in a press conference at the scene Sunday evening. Karageorge was a redshirt-senior defensive lineman on the football team and had been missing since Wednesday at about 2 a.m. He appeared to have died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. A handgun was found near the scene. Weiner said the body would be taken to the Franklin County morgue for more tests. He also said the investigation into his death was ongoing. His sister, Sophia Karageorge, told The Columbus Dispatch on Thursday that he was last seen at his apartment on East 7th Avenue before he left to take a walk. Kosta Karageorge joined the football team in August as a walk-on, and was a member of the OSU wrestling team since 2011.
“I have known him for four years now ... There is really only one word (that comes to mind). That is passion. Absolute passion in everything he did, whether that was wrestling or football, or his friends and family.” - Matthew O’Hara, a fourth-year in accounting and Karageorge’s teammate on the OSU wrestling team Shortly before he went missing, Kosta Karageorge had reportedly sent a text message to his mother: “Sorry if I am an embarrassment, but these concussions have my head all (expletive) up.” His sister told The New York Times he had suffered a concussion in September and had sustained at least four or five over time. OSU’s Department of Athletics issued a statement after Kosta Karageorge was identified, saying the department was “shocked and saddened” to learn of his death.
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There are nearly 2,000 more staff than in 2012 ALEX DRUMMER Oller reporter drummer.18@osu.edu “It’s almost like every student has his own staff person, you know, like a personal butler.” That was what Richard Vedder, an economist and director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity and professor at Ohio University, said about the number of individuals Ohio State employs. The company he works for is a nonprofit in Washington, D.C., that researches and analyzes problems facing higher education institutes. OSU employs 44,434 people, 6,807 of which are faculty, as of an annual Sept. 30 headcount, said OSU spokesman Gary Lewis in an email. This number includes regional campuses and the medical center, and 14,491 of those employees are students. The numbers are “startling,” Vedder said. “I find the numbers breathtakingly large.” “Usually at a school with (50,000) to 55,000 students, you need
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