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2025 scUM Shenanigans, Arguments, etc.

The game 2022 absolutely was stolen, theres no way you can’t convince me of that.

That said, we didn’t have that problem this year and still lost. Makes 2024 even more mind blowing

I haven't watched The Game sober in probably 20 years. Considering I just turned 36... I suppose I should feel like a scum bag. :rofl:
It's the one day a year I just cut loose. Take off the coaching/analyst cap, let the emotion drive me and feel that spiritual connection to not only Buckeye football; but all of those who shared that mutual connection, both still with us, and those dearly departed. (RIP Grandma, she was the football matriarch of the family)

When the news broke, I had a lazy, errand filled weekend a couple months later. Ended up putting on The Game 2022, the first time I had watched any footage of it since the loss. I don't discount some of the coaching blunders as early as the 2nd drive from Day. A grab bag of plays on that 2nd drive, not being setup by previous calls or setting up future calls. But even with that, the Bucks were still driving and it was pretty clear when they hit the 30 yard line that scUM started panicking about the possibility of being down 14-3 early.

Going back to chart some plays, the blown up Z-return escort was the first poker 'tell' of the game. Everything from the backside run fit integrity not being maintained, the single high safety not keying run despite zero high hat, scUM seemingly allowing a run-side light box count and the weakside LB barely scraping off his tackle stack and letting 2nd level guards just run by him....

Very next play, scUM dials up a zero cover and sends the house. That same playside DB who wasn't triggering to a play-side run read was crashing hard pre-snap. A hard crash against a team that had hit that bubble RPO on them a couple times in the first series for gains. Leaving the scum CB's 1 on 1. After scUM went 3 and out the next drive, it only got worse from there. I believe I charted the entire first half, it's on my desktop somewhere? But I mean it was so bad at one point I remember watching corners with zero safety help squat on routes that you're all but handing a walk-in touchdown too if you're even remotely wrong on guessing. So much your position coach and DC would have pulled you the moment the whistle blew just to chew your ass out.



I can promise you this, had I been on the straight and narrow when it was live, I would have rushed to BP to call bullshit on *something*. What? I'm not sure. But it looked funky as hell the moment the scum suckers started getting down early and needed to keep themselves from a multi score hole.



Does this absolve Day & Co for their blunders? No. I remain cautiously guarded about our coaching staff. And they did themselves absolutely no favors in 2022, the biggest getting away from the running game. Something that cost CJ his Heisman and this team a better playoff seeding. But I saw a ton of white light this post-season - a ton of soul searching. But the key in this game is consistency. Otherwise you're Larry Coker. I'm hoping we see more consistency with Coach Day, especially the last Saturday of November.
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2025 scUM Shenanigans, Arguments, etc.

Re: Graduates of the United States Naval Academy (Annapolis) incur a minimum active duty service obligation of five years in the Navy or Marine Corps.

Just sayin': He did his 5 year obligation and got out to pursue something different. He already had 2 promotions, i.e. 2nd LT to 1st LT and 1st LT to Captain. Typically it is 2 years as a 2nd LT and 2 more years as a 1st LT. Noting that he got an "honorable" discharge, he wouldn't have been in nearly long enough to know he wouldn't be promoted to Major.
Bullshit. There isn't an officer on the planet who gets to Captain who doesn't want to be a Major, especially an ambitious one and Stallions is certainly that.

At the 5 year mark, he absolutely was provided an assessment with this OPR for that year of his chances of making Major and I can virtually guarantee you he was told he was at minimum a longshot and/or (more likely) that it wasn't going to happen. I want to note that he wasn't a line officer and was a logistics officer, climbing the ladder is a lot harder in that arena because there are fewer slots available.
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Cleveland Guardians (2025 Season Thread)

Cleveland selected power hitting OF prospect Jace Laviolette out of Texas A&M #27 in the 1st round

Needless to say our luck with "power hitter" prospects has been very bad lately. Hopefully we finally get one who can break that trend. Good value at 27 though as a lot of mocks had him 20th or 21st. Was projected to go much higher before having a down year in his Junior year this past season.

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2025 scUM Shenanigans, Arguments, etc.

So he performed well. Yet he was so eager to cheat he left at the first chance.

Hilarious that now it’s over in flames.

I can’t wait for the penalties to come out, largely because FUCK them but also because I will think of this clown when it all goes down.

The pain he’ll feel knowing he’s responsible.

Re: Connor Stalions attended the U.S. Naval Academy, graduating in 2017, where he served as a student coach for the Navy Midshipmen football team.

Yeah, that's about it. Needless to say, Navy has a much higher standard (i.e. like zero tolerance) when it comes to cheating than Michigan.
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Game Thread Texas at tOSU, Sat. Aug. 30th, 12pm ET, FOX

I have a feeling we are going to beat these guys worse than what’s expected.

I don’t believe they’ll be able to handle JJ et al and I especially don’t think they’ll know what to do with our defense that’s going to be a mystery to them (benefit of having a new coordinator).
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Earle Bruce (OSU HOF, CFB HOF, R.I.P.)

Just sayin': His 1st year as head coach was undoubtedly his best year. With Woody's players he went 11-0 (#1 in the AP) during the regular season and probably lost a National Championship to USC in the Rose Bowl 16-17. After that he turned into "9-3 Earl".

I know.

I still liked him.
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2025 scUM Shenanigans, Arguments, etc.

Re: Graduates of the United States Naval Academy (Annapolis) incur a minimum active duty service obligation of five years in the Navy or Marine Corps.

Just sayin': He did his 5 year obligation and got out to pursue something different. He already had 2 promotions, i.e. 2nd LT to 1st LT and 1st LT to Captain. Typically it is 2 years as a 2nd LT and 2 more years as a 1st LT. Noting that he got an "honorable" discharge, he wouldn't have been in nearly long enough to know he wouldn't be promoted to Major.
So he performed well. Yet he was so eager to cheat he left at the first chance.

Hilarious that now it’s over in flames.

I can’t wait for the penalties to come out, largely because FUCK them but also because I will think of this clown when it all goes down.

The pain he’ll feel knowing he’s responsible.
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2025 scUM Shenanigans, Arguments, etc.

What @cincibuck said - if anything, getting out after 5 years as a Naval Academy grad and as a Captain indicates he was told in no uncertain terms he wouldn't be getting his field grade lobotomy and advancing to Major.

Officers don't just quit for no reason.
Re: Graduates of the United States Naval Academy (Annapolis) incur a minimum active duty service obligation of five years in the Navy or Marine Corps.

Just sayin': He did his 5 year obligation and got out to pursue something different. He already had 2 promotions, i.e. 2nd LT to 1st LT and 1st LT to Captain. Typically it is 2 years as a 2nd LT and 2 more years as a 1st LT. Noting that he got an "honorable" discharge, he wouldn't have been in nearly long enough to know he wouldn't be promoted to Major.
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2025 scUM Shenanigans, Arguments, etc.

Just sayin': Stalions has a degree from the Naval Academy and is a retired Marine Corp Captain as a logistics officer; I would think that he could qualify for some decent job not related to college football.

Retired as a captain? A rimgknocker should be a/an LTC by 20 years, even if most of his time were in the reserves. So if he put in 20 and only made captain, he must be a one-trick dud.
What @cincibuck said - if anything, getting out after 5 years as a Naval Academy grad and as a Captain indicates he was told in no uncertain terms he wouldn't be getting his field grade lobotomy and advancing to Major.

Officers don't just quit for no reason.
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2025 scUM Shenanigans, Arguments, etc.

Came here to post this. One was The Game 2022. This fucking weasel goes on to say they lost 3 because they didn't tackle well and Georgia was "historically good".

Then professor dickwad says they won the other 4 because - " we dominated the line of scrimmage & tackled well. Blocking, ball security, tackling, run fits & coverage tools".

Well no fucking shit, Charlene. You can be be ultra aggressive and sound to run fits when you know the God damn play. And "coverage tools"...? Once again, It's simple to adjust alignments and overplay route concepts with leverage when You. Know. The. Fucking. Play.


This hack couldn't cut it as a high school DC, knows fuck all about the game of football beyond signal deciphering, and somehow thinks using these types of lines explains their performance?

Anyone who has so much as set foot on the field at any point in their lives will read through this bullshit and roll their eyes. He's an analytics geek who wanted to get into coaching by swinging on weasel nutsack. Only he never learned anything about coaching because he was too busy turning football into a game of ' I spy'.

I usually don't condone needless violence. But the fact nobody swung on this dude after the scandal broke is an absolute travesty.
The game 2022 absolutely was stolen, theres no way you can’t convince me of that.

That said, we didn’t have that problem this year and still lost. Makes 2024 even more mind blowing
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