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Game Thread tOSU at Texas, Sat. Sept 12, 7:30 pm ET, ABC

Buckeyefrankmp
Poe McKnoe said:
I’ve spent years posting Toonces the Driving Cat when James Franklin’s Penn State teams took the lead in high profile games, only to find Ohio State with similar outcomes:

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Hopefully this team doesn't collapse like State Penn did last year after their loss to Oregon.
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Game Thread tOSU at Texas, Sat. Sept 12, 7:30 pm ET, ABC

buckeyemania11
Poe McKnoe said:
I’ve spent years posting Toonces the Driving Cat when James Franklin’s Penn State teams took the lead in high profile games, only to find Ohio State with similar outcomes:

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This very well could be Day's full conversion into James Franklin moments. A pretty close mirror to Ped States 2nd half gag job against us in 2017.

Day isn't the type to write the ship on his own. He needs a push. I doubt the team this year is gonna pull what they did after scUM on 24. I also don't think Smith or Patricia are gonna step up and give him a coming to Jesus moment. This season completely teeters on that Indiana game. A loss there and kiss they playoffs goodbye, they are absolutely losing at least 1 more at that point.
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Game Thread tOSU at Texas, Sat. Sept 12, 7:30 pm ET, ABC

BuckeyeNation27
buckeyemania11 said:
Technically they can lose another game. But I feel like a loss to Indiana creates a domino effect where they lose at least 1 more if not 2 more.
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I don't understand why you think the team is as fragile as the fanbase. We lost to a garbage Michigan and the team responded by blowing the doors off the rest of CFB.
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Game Thread tOSU at Texas, Sat. Sept 12, 7:30 pm ET, ABC

buckeyemania11
OHSportsFan said:
Woke up and it still felt like a bad dream. “That really happened?”

I’m better about handling losses now but that was disgusting. They were cluess the last hour and a half of real time. Down to Day’s ineptitude under 2 minutes.

The rewatch will be ugly on all sides. I’d be interested in the play chart of what happened and what went wrong but the short version is “everything.”

No margin for error the rest of the year thanks to this choke.
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Technically they can lose another game. But I feel like a loss to Indiana creates a domino effect where they lose at least 1 more if not 2 more.
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Game Thread Kent State at tOSU, Sept. 19th, 12pm ET, FOX

Captain Buckeye
BuckBackHome said:
Time for the Golden Flashes. Buckeyes a 52.5 point favorite.

I do wonder how the team deals with a game that is basically a scrimmage followed by one of the tougher teams in the country and then once again a scrimmage game.

As a graduate of both universities, I do hope Kent brings a bit more to the game than Ball State.
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Shit I don’t lol… I expect a bunch of players to probably be limited based on a very physical game from last night.

Just get up 35-0 and roll the back ups from there. These games need to compensate for no second bye week.
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Game Thread tOSU at Texas, Sat. Sept 12, 7:30 pm ET, ABC

1926Buckeyes
RhodeIslandBuck said:
One thing Im not certain on, is that this team will look that much different in 4 games, OSU will definitely play worse teams and look better. That being said, one of the themes with Day (just an observation by me, I could be wrong) is that whatever issues the team has, typically doesn't get resolved. There's enough talent to pick up 10 wins a year (although this year I'm not so sure), but what has Day done to make you think any of that will ACTUALLY get cleaned up over the course of the season. Every season feels like a fight to out do our deficiencies, not a fight to fix these crippling problems (kicker, OL, playing too tight with bad timing).

I'm NOT in the camp of Fire Day at all, thats ridiculous, he's still learning on the job, but it's possible this is just who he is. The deck is stacked is every year, and we have a surprisingly short amount of national success considering the talent. And for the record, that particular issue is not on Day alone, this is a theme with Buckeye football since I've been watching, both Urb and Tress left a lot of great opportunities unfulfilled.

It's a bit torturous being an OSU fan. ALWAYS in the mix (which is a blessing we as fans likely take for granted), but rarely taking home the big prize (given the talent and the number of chances I mean, OSU has still outperformed everyone besides bama in that regard). Nature of the beast I guess. Good news is, OSU seems to step it up when they're completely counted out. The close calls in 02, the QB mess in 14, and the Michigan L in 24...hopefully we can add last night's conundrum to the list of things we thought would ruin a season.

I believe, but I'm extremely cautious about too much blind optimism.
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You make a lot of good points. Didn't mean to come off as blindly optimistic. I’d say ‘24, ‘17, and ‘14 are the seasons where clear issues got resolved. Tressel had the most transformative teams, but the least talent.

Day’s made a lot of positive changes in his 8 years, but it’s closer to plugging holes in a boat than evolving and shaping his teams as he’d wish. I think that’s the biggest thing holding him back, along with 99% of coaches, especially in the NIL era.

Still, he’s a different type of coach than Tress or Urban, and bucked the trend of having to win an NC in the first 3 years. He’s more flexible and willing to make changes, but also makes more head scratching/face palming decisions as well. I also think he’ll be the first coach since Woody to win multiple NCs. Feels dumb as hell typing that out after last night, but I’ve been thinking it since ‘24 with the way he’s handled play calling, hires, and the portal. Hopefully I’m right.

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On his completion percentage on deep balls.
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I think @inliner311 is right, but that’s not a dig against Sayin. He supplements weaker arm with great accuracy and efficiency. If TSC or Stroud were QB, we’d be seeing a lot more long balls to JJ go for TDs.

You could make the same claim with Howard and he won an NC. Just a different type of QB.
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Game Thread tOSU at Texas, Sat. Sept 12, 7:30 pm ET, ABC

OregonBuckeye said:
"Throw #4 the ball all game"
"No, not like that!"
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LOL yeah I'm not going to get pissed at force feeding the ball to the space alien. Just like I'm not going to get mad about the failed 4th down conversion. People always complain about settling for FGs then want to get mad when it doesn't work. Fact is giving up three long 3 TD drives in the fourth alone, the offense disappearing for a half, AND burning all of that time at the end of the game was coaching malpractice. Only way I feel better about this is if we learned that Vegas sent Day a picture at halftime of trained snipers on his family. Otherwise this was awful.
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Game Thread tOSU at Texas, Sat. Sept 12, 7:30 pm ET, ABC

buckeyemania11
Arch2H said:
That goal line pass to Smith with 4:21 to go went right between his arms...
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This choke was written in the stars the second Sark went for that first 4th down where a lot of coaches punt and they got it. Then you had Texas somehow recovering 2 fumbles where our guys were right there and couldn't secure the ball.....and then yes a couple of very uncharacteristic drops by Smith.

Like I keep saying. Bet your ass at attitude from the coaches in the locker room was that the game was in the bag and we could just go through the motions and play out the W. Zero adjustments outside of the negative adjustment on defense where they went 3 man rush shell most of the 2nd half. Zero fire or energy from the players was likely this attitude from the coaches rubbing off on them.
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Game Thread tOSU at Texas, Sat. Sept 12, 7:30 pm ET, ABC

Buckeyefrankmp
ORD_Buckeye said:
There's no running Day off. Ohio State fans always think they'll get the hottest coach out there, and post-Woody, they've only gotten him once (Urban). Fire Day, and the job becomes as toxic as the Presidency became when Wexner ran off Johnston.
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In a sense, Ohio State got the Curt Cignetti of the 2000s with Jim Tressel. I know that he didn't bring the whole Youngstown team with him the way Cignetti did but they brought a coach up from the lower divisions who had a history of winning championships. Trying to hire the next big thing is always risky. You could get the next "home run hire" with another Cignetti, or the next "the jury is still out" with another Kalen Deboer or Dan Lanning, or the "what were we thinking" with another Billy Napier.
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Game Thread tOSU at Texas, Sat. Sept 12, 7:30 pm ET, ABC

buckeyemania11
ORD_Buckeye said:
There's no running Day off. Ohio State fans always think they'll get the hottest coach out there, and post-Woody, they've only gotten him once (Urban). Fire Day, and the job becomes as toxic as the Presidency became when Wexner ran off Johnston.
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I guess being stuck in an endless cycle of playoff disappointment is better than being saddled with 9-3/8-4 type affairs. At some point you have to take the risk though if Day keeps showing he can't beat other upper level teams more consistently
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buckeyemania11 said:
Not sure how "lucky" it really is. This is the kind of loss that can send a team into a complete tailspin. We have enough talent to scrape by a lot of the remaining schedule on talent alone. But if the mental effects of this choke job aren't quickly dealt with and moved on from, we are losing 3 or 4 games
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You have too much talent to go into a “complete tailspin” but I do agree with you that it could lead to a disappointing season by tOSU expectations
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Game Thread tOSU at Texas, Sat. Sept 12, 7:30 pm ET, ABC

lvbuckeye said:
Sayin is one of the most accurate deep ball throwers in college football history. Tf you talking about?
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I think Sayin is a statistically accurate deep ball thrower because they design around his limitations and he has probably the best WR corp in college football. I don't think he takes the top off the defense at the same level as previous QBs under Day. I personally think he has a limit to how deep he can throw and other QBs had the ability to throw further with more velocity and touch. Sayin has to put everything he has to throw his deep ball, it isn't effortless like Will Howard.

I think the offense is more compressed vertically with Sayin. Even just watching Jeremiah Smith highlights from his freshman year to sophomore year, you can see it. I don't think defenses fear Sayin deep ball but this team should be feared going deep because of our WRs.

While I might be wrong on this, I think at some point Will Howard said he realized he couldn't really over throw Jeremiah Smith when going deep because how fast he is. You see this in the highlights, Howard gets better and better at leading Jeremiah Smith as the season goes on. Too often Smith has to stop or come back for the ball with Sayin when going deep. That's the difference between Smith walking into the end zone vs having to make a contested catch then not getting any YAC.
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Game Thread tOSU at Texas, Sat. Sept 12, 7:30 pm ET, ABC

Buckeyefrankmp
lvbuckeye said:
Cooper blew so many big games that he never built any chachet, so when he started to slide, they immediately shitcanned his ass. I was in B Deck for Sparty in 1998.
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Weather he built up "Chachet" or not, you saw worse things happen to Ohio State. Don't try to rationalize your way around it.

Also, "Winning the 2024 natty is the worst thing that happened to Ohio State in my lifetime." I get it. You live in Bizzaro world where winning National Championships are bad and losing to Michigan and taking away any chance from winning a National Championship is not so bad. I have to ask you something. Were you rooting against Ohio State against Notre Dame in the National Championship game?
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Game Thread tOSU at Texas, Sat. Sept 12, 7:30 pm ET, ABC

ORD_Buckeye
buckeyemania11 said:
Man, you lost me at "still learning on the job"

This is Day's 8th season as head coach. We are well beyond the "learning on the job" claim stage

Day is a great collector of talent but I think he's showing he just doesn't have it to be a great major college head coach. The 2024 run never happens without the players damn near the revolting. That playoff run is looking more and more like a one off than the norm.
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There's no running Day off. Ohio State fans always think they'll get the hottest coach out there, and post-Woody, they've only gotten him once (Urban). Fire Day, and the job becomes as toxic as the Presidency became when Wexner ran off Johnston.
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Game Thread tOSU at Texas, Sat. Sept 12, 7:30 pm ET, ABC

RhodeIslandBuck
buckeyemania11 said:
Man, you lost me at "still learning on the job"

This is Day's 8th season as head coach. We are well beyond the "learning on the job" claim stage

Day is a great collector of talent but I think he's showing he just doesn't have it to be a great major college head coach. The 2024 run never happens without the players damn near the revolting. That playoff run is looking more and more like a one off than the norm.
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I wasn't using it as an excuse, just a factual observation. I'm not using THAT as the justification for not being in the fire Day camp. That was not an attempt to defend him.

I'm definitely in the camp of wondering if 24 was a freak occurrence more than anything. We shall see
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Game Thread tOSU at Texas, Sat. Sept 12, 7:30 pm ET, ABC

buckeyemania11
RhodeIslandBuck said:
One thing Im not certain on, is that this team will look that much different in 4 games, OSU will definitely play worse teams and look better. That being said, one of the themes with Day (just an observation by me, I could be wrong) is that whatever issues the team has, typically doesn't get resolved. There's enough talent to pick up 10 wins a year (although this year I'm not so sure), but what has Day done to make you think any of that will ACTUALLY get cleaned up over the course of the season. Every season feels like a fight to out do our deficiencies, not a fight to fix these crippling problems (kicker, OL, playing too tight with bad timing).

I'm NOT in the camp of Fire Day at all, thats ridiculous, he's still learning on the job, but it's possible this is just who he is. The deck is stacked is every year, and we have a surprisingly short amount of national success considering the talent. And for the record, that particular issue is not on Day alone, this is a theme with Buckeye football since I've been watching, both Urb and Tress left a lot of great opportunities unfulfilled.

It's a bit torturous being an OSU fan. ALWAYS in the mix (which is a blessing we as fans likely take for granted), but rarely taking home the big prize (given the talent and the number of chances I mean, OSU has still outperformed everyone besides bama in that regard). Nature of the beast I guess. Good news is, OSU seems to step it up when they're completely counted out. The close calls in 02, the QB mess in 14, and the Michigan L in 24...hopefully we can add last night's conundrum to the list of things we thought would ruin a season.

I believe, but I'm extremely cautious about too much blind optimism.
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Man, you lost me at "still learning on the job"

This is Day's 8th season as head coach. We are well beyond the "learning on the job" claim stage

Day is a great collector of talent but I think he's showing he just doesn't have it to be a great major college head coach. The 2024 run never happens without the players damn near the revolting. That playoff run is looking more and more like a one off than the norm.
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Game Thread tOSU at Texas, Sat. Sept 12, 7:30 pm ET, ABC

ORD_Buckeye
There was always a chance that we'd lose this game. The nut punch is in losing it by giving up 21 unanswered points in the 4th quarter. One of the most depressing losses I've witnessed in 40 years of being a Buckeye, almost at the level of the Debacle In The Desert or 2024 tsun.

Even the combination of a brandy manhattan, half a bottle of a good Sablet and the meat coma from a NY Strip with a bone marrow & shallot sauce couldn't get me happy for this shit.
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