As a member of the recently formed Big Ten Bloggers, it is time for the weekly “round-table” in which bloggers from around the Big Ten come together to share their immense knowledge, amazing insight and all around ability to B.S. in a head to head, mono et mono analysis of three, count them three questions of immense importance to the future of College Football and specifically, the Big Ten.

This week’s round table is being hosted by Around the Oval. Sean at Around The Oval wrote this week’s questions and and links to all responses can be found there.

Without further adieu, let the round table begin:

1. Which player from your own team are you most looking forward to watching?

I would love to be amazingly insightful and predict the breakout player of the year but I’m going to go with the Little Animal, James Laruinaitis.

Laruinaitis; Little Animal, Ohio State Buckeyes

He surprised a lot of us last year at Texas and went on to lead the Buckeye defense with 115 tackles. This season is building up to be a great year for some good old fashioned Tresselball and I’m looking forward to seeing Laruinaitis put the fear in more than a few quarterbacks.

2. Which player from another Big Ten team are you most looking forward to watching?
I’m probably doing this for all the wrong reasons but I’m going to have to go with Chad Henne. Face it Michigan, he’s the Brady Quinn of 2007. Michigan is getting loads of hype this year and Henne is a big part of that hype. And like Quinn, what has he done to deserve this respect? Win bowl games…ahh…nope. Beat Ohio State…nope, missed out there also. There is a ton of pressure on Henne this year and yeah, I’m going to enjoy watching him choke.


3. If your team was an action movie star, who would it be?
OK, this one took some thought. I’m going with Mark Wahlberg. Although not really an action hero yet, there are qualities there that I like. The most obvious of course is his role in Invincible. For those of you who haven’t seen Invincible, it is the story of Philadelphia Eagle Vince Papale. Papale is a hometown boy who tried out for the Eagles in an open practice, made the team and actually had his moment in the sun. Nobody believed in him and he proved himself through dedication, determination and talent.

That’s this year’s Buckeyes. They are not getting much respect in the media, at least not the type of respect they are used to getting. Like Papale, they are going to surprise a lot of people. And I’m sure that like in 2002, when they make it to the big show we will be sure to hear the cries that they shouldn’t be there.

That of course is the G rated version.

The real reason I picked Mark Wahlberg is his debut role as Dirk Diggler in Boogie Nights. With cajones like that…yeah, he’s a Buckeye.