pnuts34 said:

True but you’re playing with fire. 3 of these teams will lose a ton of players, and have to fork over even more money or lose more kids to the Portal due to this though. And IU will no longer get the Cignetti discount this off season either. He and IU got to be cheap with a number of small school kids. Those types aren’t going to IU for cheap next year, especially if they win it all

Its a heck of a gamble. But again, I like the approach OSU has had with the mix of HS and Portal guys. Like @jwinslow said, you can’t keep upping the ante. Theres a fine line between LSU and Ole Miss in the Portal. LSU was ranked #2 in the 2025 Portal and Ole Miss #3… Oregon and Miami were #4 and 5. But 6,7, 8 and 9 were: Mizzou, Auburn, UNC and Rutgers. And #10 was the Buckeyes(with the least amount of transfers in the top 10)

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dragurd said:

which one of their sycophant insiders is boob salsa again?

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lvbuckeye said:

Sorry for spamming. It's not the number of plays. Getting out to a lead and then slowing the game down is a LOT different than playing Tresselball with terrible special teams.

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BB73 said:

There never should have been an onside kick.

The clock only ran 3 seconds for a 47-yard FG, and then the clock started late on the kickoff return. Those two plays took about 10 seconds, rather than the 8 that ran off the clock.

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buckeyemania11 said:

I think things may be worse than even they look right now for them. Boob Salsa's message to the people this morning was basically "yes Michigan is currently behind the ball on the portal right now but don't panic because there's definitely a plan" which likely means they didn't see some of these coming and are scrambling for solutions.

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SEREbuckeye said:

Surprising. But this whole thing between Ole Miss and LSU has been super weird.

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Captain Buckeye said:

How the hell would they know…

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Jaxbuck said:

I don't have a clean plays per game source so I looked at the box scores from last years playoff games and just added the pass attempts plus the rushing attempts. If that somehow misses any other plays then forgive me but here is what I found

Team: pass attempts/runs/total

Tenn: 31/33/64
Oregon:57 total plays, I had it backwards.
Texas: 33/24/57
ND: 21/41/62

60 plays per game

The average plays per game in '25 was 64 according to this site and if that's site data is correct, the overall plays per game in 2024 was 62.8.

So not so sure the sped things up from last playoffs narrative holds water. Also, if this data is correct, you guys who are arguing faster = success need to reconcile 2025 being a slightly faster year than 2024.

Unless all of this is way off, the tempo hasn't materially changed.

The outcome did.

EDIT

This site has it easier to find and lists plays per game.

I would also add they ran 59 plays against Miami and 56 against IU.

57.5 plays per game in 2025, against 60 plays per game in 2024 playoffs.

2 plays per game isn't the story folks.

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Jaxbuck said:

I don't equate poor execution by coaches (gameplan) as a condemnation of the efficiency approach as a strategy.

There was a lot Day and company could have done better this year and in the past.

You said it though, my advocacy stops at playing the game in a way that puts the odds in your favor. Once that is done, if you fuck it up then you examine what you fucked up.

I do thing context is important. He's fresh off a NC and everyone was swinging from his nuts all season. Now he had a bad result and people want to chance the approach. Some of these same people were asking if this is the best OSU team of all time mid season so

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