The DFBIAs favorite logic is "Well this year's team went 9-3 with Sherrone imagine what they can do with Whittingham"

2025 is a 9-3 season even if they had Whittingham or any other coach this year. Their record was more of a product or being handed a comically easy conference schedule. They were non competitive for the most part against the 3 good teams they played. Things get much much tougher the next 2 years.

Cig about to get paaaaid.

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Clarity said:

Hey everyone who said you’d rather beat Michigan than win a title; how you like these apples?

Joking aside — poop. That is all. Congrats to the Canes, that has to feel /amazing/ over two decades later.

Fun season. Now I really want to know who our next OC is going to be.

Happy end to 2025, all. See ya next year.

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I'm much happier this season. We beat the fucks that we cannot lose to.

I've said it before. I want to win every game obviously.

I NEED to beat TSUN.

Its that simple for me.

lvbuckeye said:

We didn't beat ourselves. We got beat and out-coached.

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Fuckin cry about it.

buckeyemania11 said:

Yes the dude from Ball State, but considering he couldn't beat out Fielding for the job it's hard to have confidence there

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He's in the portal now too right?

SEREbuckeye said:

“Fine” is the perfect word. Not exciting, not optimistic, just… fine. And that’s what it will be for the next 3 years for them until Whittingham is gone. This is Rich Rod, Brady Hoke shit. A medium to get them through darkness without too many losses.

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I don't think Whittingham will tank quite like Rich Rod but it's hard to see them being better than 8-4 in the next 2 seasons unless they get some major player upgrades which doesn't seem to be likely.

cincibuck said:

Things I question: 1. Why Day doesn't give #2 QB any plays/PT, especially in blow outs. 2. Why this team can't develop a consistent running/short yardage/red zone offense. 3. What's going to happen in Bloomington next year.

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I mean what were you expecting to happen with a different QB considering the OL getting annihilated every other snap?

BUCKYLE said:

Noah Roger's? Lol

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It's not Rogers. Terrell Anderson

osuvictory1 said:

Honestly, I think some of their hires seem fine. The big knock on them is not being acquainted for long periods of time with players east of the Mississippi.

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“Fine” is the perfect word. Not exciting, not optimistic, just… fine. And that’s what it will be for the next 3 years for them until Whittingham is gone. This is Rich Rod, Brady Hoke shit. A medium to get them through darkness without too many losses.

Everyone hates him so much

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I dunno, I feel like the only disappointment on the offense was the OL. While I didn't think they'd neutralize Miami's DL at all, I thought it'd look more like the second half than the first. First half they may as well have not even been on the field during passing plays. They were getting absolutely destroyed. Second half it felt like they were winning more battles than they lost. Definitely should've went to Padilla earlier but I assume they were trying to give Van Sickle time to work out the rust given he'd played pretty well against Indiana.

All this talk about offensive philosophy needs to be put on hold until OSU gets an OL that can consistently block and I MIGHT be in the camp that thinks Bowen either needs to be replaced or moved to another position. Ain't no way the OL is supposed to look like that with all of that returning talent.

buckeyemania11 said:

The fluffers have been floating that they are pursuing a "huge portal WR" said WR is apparently a guy who had 600 yards receiving at NC State this year. Shut it down championship confirmed.

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Noah Roger's? Lol

Jaxbuck said:

Totally agree on how they did it but that's an execution thing.

I've watched other teams this bowl season adapt to a fierce pass rush through quick, short passes to the TE's, backs and WR's. They didn't go up tempo, they just stopped dropping their QB deep, rolled him out or whatever.

Listen, if you see a specific team is very vulnerable to tempo because you can run the DL ragged then by all means, but that's just a tactical application of tempo, it isn't an overall strategy. You still have to execute.

I think as the all 22 film starts to come out we will see that Saying had many chances to execute and win vs these teams and defenses. It's not like Day doesn't know how to draw up a quick passing game.

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Well, yeah….

He missed (2) TD throws. Max Klare over the middle after he underthrew Jeremiah Smith on the deep ball (that should’ve been a TD as well but I digress) and he missed Carnell Tate streaking down the middle bc he came off him to early and dumped it the RB instead.

And I’m not advocating going tempo every play…..im advocating for tempo periodically, bc yes, it absolutely gasses a defensive line when they don’t get substitution opportunities. We actually did go tempo in the 3rd quarter, and it worked well. As stated before, it could be argued Miami went soft playing with a lead….but we gained momentum in the 3rd Q while going tempo. And then in the 4th Quarter, we went back to what we’ve done all year, and it felt like we sucked all the energy out of the stadium.

Again, I get playing to the best odds, and how playing efficient makes sense. But all it takes is one game wrecker like Rueben Bain to destroy a gameplan. Or a roster of 5th and 6th year seniors employing an incredible stunt strategy that our guys struggle to pick up.

I feel Day got overly simplistic and missed a relatively easy opportunity to make life harder on Miami. And to be honest, the game plan was there….SMU and Louisville both beat Miami with similar plans. I guess that’s frustrating too….its not like Miami is “that good”….we let them exploit our biggest weakness with their biggest strength. It’s not apples to apples but it feels somewhat like our loss to Michigan last year. From an efficiency standpoint, it never made much sense to continually run it at (2) first RD DT’s. But that was the gameplan….bc efficiency??

Perhaps one lesson is that, despite the player health benefits from running fewer plays, the offense needs to vary tempo during games and drives, so that it is accustomed to uptempo when needed?

Perhaps another lesson is that, when everyone is blowing smoke up your backside about no weaknesses anywhere, fart.

The fluffers have been floating that they are pursuing a "huge portal WR" said WR is apparently a guy who had 600 yards receiving at NC State this year. Shut it down championship confirmed.

Thump said:

Jim Lachey said on the radio today that he would have entered the portal every year if it were around then to get the most out OSU each year.

Just because one enters the portal does not necessarily mean that they want to leave.

Players have all of the leverage and should use it until guidelines are put in place.

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I would encourage every player to look around or at least be clear in what offers they were getting. It gives you intel on the market and how you are doing as a team.

You should be wanting to constantly learn and improve on ways to make your package of comp and culture a place that most guys will not leave.

Turns you into a talent destination, not just a place to work (and I think Day has done a great job of this).

Enough of this..."we run a gauntlet of top teams and don't need to play top teams outside our conference"

The 33% SEC bowl win record is worse than the MAC and CUSA

Conference bowl game W/L records