TDG said:

Not my job. I read this same nonsense in the Chris Holtmann thread for years. The fans don't have a great idea who to replace him with, oh ACTUALLY ohio state isn't all that accomplished historically in this sport so we should all just feel lucky we have someone running a clean program... the gap between OSU and your average cfb program is massive. There's dozens of guys in the sport who could take our massive resources and go 10-2 every year, lose to michigan every year, and lose every post season game not played during a pandemic.

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TDG said:

Not my job. I read this same nonsense in the Chris Holtmann thread for years. The fans don't have a great idea who to replace him with, oh ACTUALLY ohio state isn't all that accomplished historically in this sport so we should all just feel lucky we have someone running a clean program... the gap between OSU and your average cfb program is massive. There's dozens of guys in the sport who could take our massive resources and go 10-2 every year, lose to michigan every year, and lose every post season game not played during a pandemic.

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Mike80 said:

Ok smart guy....WHO are you going to replace him with?

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TDG said:

Or, stop letting this guy learn on the job six years in. Hiring somebody who had never been a head coach was always a risk and sure enough, this guy is lost any time he doesn't get to play on easy mode.

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Mike80 said:

Well then shit, Ohio State should just forfeit then...

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TDG said:

This guy loses every single game we play against a team with even 85% as much talent as us, and pretty in the exact same way. This has been going on for years now. It's not the coordinators, it's not the refs, it's not the players. I genuinely feel bad for the players who care about the program and will never be held in the same esteem as Tressel and Meyer era players because their coach doesn't put them in a position to succeed. He's a horrible game manager and Ohio State won't win anything of consequence the remainder of his tenure.

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CMic said:

Heard he’s also out for the year???

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buckeyemania11 said:

Yep. If we can't manage to land these types of guys out of HS, there is absolutely zero reason we should not be able to go find a at least capable kicker through the portal.

If Day and Staff are looking at what we have and saying "yea thats good enough" then that's a major problem.

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AuTX Buckeye said:

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The amount of kickers in the nfl making 50+ look like 30 yarders is just insane, if there are this many in the nfl there should be triple the number in college that make 50+ look like 40+yds.

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BUCK3YE5 said:

Here's the thing - you run the ball with Howard twice, lets say you get 3 yards each time (and that's being generous to Oregon). Now you're at the 22 yard line and it's a 39 yard field goal.

Earlier that quarter he absolutely nailed a 40 yarder, right down the middle, at the top of the uprights....

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buckeyemania11 said:

Exactly. The "its hard to find a good college kicker" excuse is old and tired out. scUM also never seems to have trouble these days either finding a kicker who can constantly blast 50+ yarders. Why can't we?

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RugbyBuck said:

I'd feel a lot better about our end of year prospects and Day breaking free of the can't win the close ones narrative had we not lost Simmons. It's still all there to be won and this was one that I think we could get back in the B1G game. Like the uga game, we weren't blown out or outclassed, we just didn't get it done. No prizes for that, but the point is that I'd be ok with our prospects in the rematch and think there's an argument to be made that mighty ducks played about as well as they could and losing 32-31 with a chance to fix our problems makes a win next time out more than feasible... except, you don't (or at least we don't) sub in a starting left tackle and keep rolling. The OL was becoming dependable, if not a strength and looked like it would continue to improve as the season went on. This, though, re-sets that table.

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