Seattle has no incentive to take any chances on offense until NE scores.

buckeyebri said:

I know a lot of folks don’t want to acknowledge what @buckeyemania11 is saying, but he is spot on IMO. There’s no reason why the Buckeyes can’t field a solid Bball team.

I agree Diebler was a lazy hire by the AD. There are good coaches who would love to coach at t OSU. There’s no reason we can’t be successful in both football and basketball. We have been before and can be so again. If there was a bad hire it started with hiring Bork.

I agree we need to let Diebler finish the season. Anything outside of an NCAA seeding means time to move on and do a real coaching search .

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I think a lot of the Diebler hire defenders think everyone "hating" on him is expecting Ohio State to be an annual national title contender. This is not true. That is unrealistic but I don't think making the tourney without having to hope to back in more often that not is an "unrealistic" expectation at all. Ohio State should not be a "learning on the job* type place and that's exactly where we are at with Diebler. You are basically hoping he figures it out after 3 or 4 years and that's a lot of hoping.

Bucklion said:

9 is likely to be sufficient. Drake Maye looking like Maggie Maye behind this OL

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Probably more like Rod getting kicked in the head and out of bed

9 is likely to be sufficient. Drake Maye looking like Maggie Maye behind this OL

I know a lot of folks don’t want to acknowledge what @buckeyemania11 is saying, but he is spot on IMO. There’s no reason why the Buckeyes can’t field a solid Bball team.

I agree Diebler was a lazy hire by the AD. There are good coaches who would love to coach at t OSU. There’s no reason we can’t be successful in both football and basketball. We have been before and can be so again. If there was a bad hire it started with hiring Bork.

I agree we need to let Diebler finish the season. Anything outside of an NCAA seeding means time to move on and do a real coaching search .

OregonBuckeye said:

I mean, both defenses were excellent in the regular season. I think it's fair to give them credit

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Could, and likely, is a bit of both

OregonBuckeye said:

@Tomateaux Quinoa Gumbeaux @Nutriaitch

Come get your boy Will Campbell

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Doesn’t put tomatoes in his gumbo

Bring on the Bunny!

Darnold has missed JSN twice for possible TDs

NFL replay is mind boggling bullshit

CMic said:

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Yepp. Lame

buckeyemania11 said:

Is it? I got the "is this great defense of just bad offense" battle going on. I guess at least it's not a blowout

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I’m enjoying the fuck out of it. Let me tell you why. No KC/Mahomes. No Hurts/Eagles. High profile Buckeyes. Solid strategy between offense and defense

morbitzerker said:

I'd like to know where Jim Tressel is right now!

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Probably trying to get the digits of Seattle's punter

I'd like to know where Jim Tressel is right now!

buckeyemania11 said:

Is it? I got the "is this great defense of just bad offense" battle going on. I guess at least it's not a blowout

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I mean, both defenses were excellent in the regular season. I think it's fair to give them credit

@Tomateaux Quinoa Gumbeaux @Nutriaitch

Come get your boy Will Campbell

Booooooring

buckeyebri said:

Helluva game so far

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Is it? I got the "is this great defense of just bad offense" battle going on. I guess at least it's not a blowout

cincibuck said:

advertisers will come to their senses and realize that spending enormous sums “for 30 seconds of (mostly ignored) exposure is a bad investment.”

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He's giving way too much credit to advertisers.

cincibuck said:

The second requires more teasing out, but to put it simply: Horse racing receded from the American imagination, he writes, because people lost their close everyday connection to horses. Something similar will happen to football. We are already losing our organic connection to it.

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This is more plausible. I think we already see it in CFB with the changes of the past few seasons.

And the NFL has been...off for some time. I think a lot of the gambling and focus on fantasy teams have done it for me personally. Maybe others feel the same or will soon. It's not about the teams but random players performances that most discourse on the NFL centers around these days. I don't play fantasy football and have no interest in it. I imagine that I'm not the only one who feels that way, while I'm sure there are many others who only are interested in football because of fantasy. So it may be a wash in the short term but how much do those fans who only became fans due to fantasy leagues will really stick with the sport like those who just like the game?

Helluva game so far

Zurp said:

Maybe. But I think it's the NFL's joke on us.

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I’ll give you that.

I suppose forces higher up in the University could be the real sabatogers here. Bjork seemed to have zero problem with obnoxious excessive spending at Texas A&M but now all of a sudden it's a problem?

DZ83CK said:

When Thad had good teams playing good opponents, the crowds were good

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Occasionally.
For big games.

. It's hard to quantify how the arena deadened the crowd, but I think that matters in this analysis. He scheduled like 10 guarantee games every season, so naturally fans got tired of seeing non-competitive gimme Ws, but at the end Thad wasn't winning so why would you expect the fans to keep showing up?

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I'm talking about the Thad five to sullinger years. It was alright at best from a support perspective.

Surrendering an amazing home court advantage was a major blunder (to build the second best music venue in town)... but that was a secondary factor. It's a filler sport in Ohio.

It shouldn't be when they're outclassing Indiana and Kentucky basketball ( and frankly OSU football after 06), but it was.