Captain Buckeye said:

What I gather is Cig is a full steam ahead kind of guy. He knows which players he wants and he showed that by locking up 7+ guys on the first day or two.

What’s underrated about IU is Cigs culture. These players are going to buy in. I heard about their brutal winter workouts etc. most off season programs are hard but from what I’ve heard IU has a very tough one.

I have to say, Coach Cig seems to have a better grasp on who he is and what he wants to do compared to even Ryan Day who’s one of the best out there.

You haven’t seen Cig make wild over over corrections based on previous issues. He just continues within his process and on he goes.

We’ll see how he does without his coordinators one day, without his JMU players, and with continuous turnover but so far he’s been aces every single time.

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Funny thing is, I think if IU brought in the TE that OSU did, people would be losing their minds and wondering why OSU didn't pursue the TE from OU. Its all perception at this point. Cig prefers the Portal to HS recruiting, but he's not pursuing top, high star guys(outside of Marsh). The TCU QB is not a player that OSU would be interested in, none of the IU WRs would OSU be interested in, Zen Michalski was cast off from OSU and was a running joke of recruiting OL failures, and now he could win an NC as their starting OL. Roman Hemby is their starting RB, but no one would even want him over CJ Donaldson or James Peoples let alone Bo.
Cig is also playing with house money with the IU job. He literally has nothing to lose. If he loses out on a recruit it doesn't matter, he's only at IU, if a transfer doesn't pan out, oh well fans will look forward to basketball season. If Ryan Day doesn't get every single 5star, and win every game by 40pts, the fan base turns on him. Cig has next to no pressure from his fan base or their donors. He can get blown out by Oregon and it won't matter that much, they're just happy to be there. OSU fans are up in arms over losing twice this season, imagine if Day said he was going to stop really recruiting HS talent in place of transfers. Every OSU site would explode

Me waiting for paczki season to begin!

Here are those who have won more than 1 Upset Contest, Regular Season and Bowls:

2 Reg, 1 Bowl - @BB73
1 Reg, 2 Bowl - @buckeyemania11
1 Reg, 1 Bowl - @sears3820
1 Reg, 1 Bowl - @osugrad21
1 Reg, 1 Bowl - @808 Buck
1 Reg, 1 Bowl - @gracelhink
1 Reg, 1 Bowl - @Wadcutter
0 Reg, 2 Bowl - @Piney
0 Reg, 2 Bowl - @AuTX Buckeye
0 Reg, 2 Bowl - @Jake
0 Reg, 2 Bowl - @TampaBuckeyes

Congrats to @Wadcutter, the winner of this year’s Bowl Upset Contest.

Here are the final standings:

24.5 - Wadcutter
22.5 - Oregonbuck
22.0 - HineyBuck
21.0 - muffler dragon
21.0 - Drubuck
20.0 - gracelhink
18.0 - JCOSU86
17.0 - Bborg140
16.5 - brodybuck21
14.5 - Wingate1217
13.5 - Brutus1
13.0 - BB73
13.0 - AuTX Buckeye
13.0 - TampaBuckeyes
11.0 - buckeyemania11
11.0 - MD Buckeye
11.0 - CMic
10.5 - osugrad21
10.0 - WoodyWorshiper
09.0 - iambrutus
07.0 - Best Buckeye
06.5 - Fungo Squiggly
06.5 - buckeyboy
06.5 - heisman
03.5 - Bestbuck36
03.5 - 808 Buck
00.0 - Mike80
00.0 - @BuckeyeNation27, knew he’d finish below @osugrad21 anyway, so he didn’t submit picks.

RhodeIslandBuck said:

Oh I'm with you, I understand my viewpoint is completely selfish, irrational, and based on unfounded fear of the future. Still my viewpoint though.

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It was mine as well before last year.. smarter people than me said after the shadow payments were neutralized it’s not coming back. I only w concern myself with the Bucks a loss to Alabama Georgia or Indiana or Miami is still a loss.

Onebuckfan said:

We won a natty beat scUM. Did players leave because of playing time or development. I don’t think the staff was surprised by anyone that left even if fans and ‘insiders’ were. TOSU will field a competitive team next year. The handwringing after last year was overdone.,Pretty damn good reloading year.

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Oh I'm with you, I understand my viewpoint is completely selfish, irrational, and based on unfounded fear of the future. Still my viewpoint though.

Onebuckfan said:

We won a natty beat scUM. Did players leave because of playing time or development. I don’t think the staff was surprised by anyone that left even if fans and ‘insiders’ were. TOSU will field a competitive team next year. The handwringing after last year was overdone.,Pretty damn good reloading year.

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competitive won’t cut it
we need to win the B1G

As disappointed as we are right now, if you had told me we would beat TSUN and lose in the second round of the CFP before the season, I would have taken it. Hopefully Matty P can do it again next year, but the offense should be light years better. Maybe, rather than playing slow to stay fresh, play fast and roll in more players to get a similar number of reps per player as playing slow.

RhodeIslandBuck said:

I mean, as a fan of a blue blood, you're right, and you can count me into that group as well.

Fuck parity, I wanna see the historical giants go at it, and the fact that it benefitted my favorite team more than others is absolutely part of that. Nothing could possibly interest me in natty between ole miss and Indiana.

For the record, all the changes that allowed this parity shift were absolutely needed, and college football is better for it in principle.

Doesn't change the fact that I hate what it's done to OSUs position.

Was looking forward to Scott contributing on a high level next year. But such is life.

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We won a natty beat scUM. Did players leave because of playing time or development. I don’t think the staff was surprised by anyone that left even if fans and ‘insiders’ were. TOSU will field a competitive team next year. The handwringing after last year was overdone.,Pretty damn good reloading year.

buckeyemania11 said:

Love how we will get to hear for weeks about how overrated Ohio State was but you won't hear a peep of the same about Georgia who just got beat in their own backyard by a team that had a coach who was coaching his 2nd ever game as a head coach.

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your point is loud and clear.
but that game was in New Orleans, so not really UGA's backyard.

jwinslow said:

I saw someone mention that Tulane was once an SEC team.

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a really long damn time ago, yes.

My understanding is that Bengals management "generally" lets a coach play out their contract rather than firing them and paying the rest of their deal and the compensation for a new coach.