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Favorite Christmas Traditions

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iambrutus said:
Its that time of year again, my daughter came home on Saturday night - she spent the day making her now locally famous hard tack candy. Then it was her idea (she's 20, son is 15) for both kids, her BF, his GF to go see Christmas lights and then back to our place where the "kids" all made gingerbread houses and we played a few card games - it was a great day.

the older i get the more i LOVE this time of year.

She's planning out the Jesus cake today, prepping appetizers to take to my parents on Wednesday

Hope all of you knuckleheads have a Merry Christmas season with family and loved ones
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We make a “Happy Birthday Jesus” cinnamon bundt cake that my wife has picked up making since her grandmother has passed.

It is unbelievable!
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2025 Cotton Bowl: #2 tOSU vs #10 Miami-FL, Wed 12/31 7:30 ET at JerryWorld

Telekinesis
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Ryan Day Taking Over Play Calling As Brian Hartline Balances Upcoming Head Coaching Role With Wide Receiver Coaching Duties

Ryan Day is taking over Ohio State's play calling for the College Football Playoff, though it will remain a "group effort."
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2025 Cotton Bowl: #2 tOSU vs #10 Miami-FL, Wed 12/31 7:30 ET at JerryWorld

Jaxbuck
Telekinesis said:
Got it, makes sense.

This is moving away from the topic at hand and just a general observation:

Unfortunately, we haven’t witnessed good results when dealing with situational applications. Day (or whoever we’re pinning it on this week) seems to end up out of character and doesn’t know how to handle that kind of pressure.
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Well that gets into why i question the speed up idea.

1) if you are already struggling with execution at anything (football, baseball, life) you don't go faster, you'll just make the same mistakes on higher volume.

2) we saw IU speed up a young QB for the first time all year and the results were predictably sub-great. Again, I question the tactical efficacy of that path.

3) Back to strategy and all we have been talking about-Be efficient on your 10 possessions, get your 35 points and in the process only give the other guy his 8-9 possessions and lower his spins of the wheel at your expense.

So I think we haven't seen Day do any of the situational applications of up tempo with the more skilled team because he knows (and only he would know) that the execution risk isn't worth it.

Going back to the IU game, it was execution, not pace that did us in and I'd bet a fair sum that the execution suffered more from Smith being banged up than we will ever know. IU did a great job on Sayin but he didn't have his monster at full strength either.
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2027 tOSU Recruiting Discussion

brodybuck21
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KYBuck4858 20 Dec 2025, 4:02 pm
Cypher had said he wanted to be a peer recruiter this class. He doesn’t have to look very far, and can focus on these 3 guys from his state that we want.
Teammate Top100 Edge Rashad Streets - has a top5 of OSU, Oregon, TN, Bama, and South Carolina. Visited for first time for the PSU game.
DT Nate Kamba - Was LJ’s first offer this cycle. Has an unofficial top2 of OSU and South Carolina. Visited us for June camp and for the PSU game.
LB AJ Randle - One of the hottest prospects in the entire country. Has absolutely blown up. Grew up an OSU fan. Visited us for the first time for the UCLA game.
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2027 NC LB Quinton Cypher is a Buckeye!!!

brodybuck21
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KYBuck4858 19 Dec 2025, 3:57 pm
Birm said Cypher has been described to him from the WHAC as a “Luke Kuechly-type psychopath” on the football field.
KYBuck4858 19 Dec 2025, 4:13 pm
We certainly stole him from UGA:
“It has been so tough,” Cypher said of the decision. “It really was a transition this fall. Last summer, I was 100 percent sure I was going to Georgia. Both schools continued to recruit me hard, and as I took my time, Ohio State started to stand out more. I couldn’t have made a bad decision with Ohio State, Georgia, Alabama or Miami, but Ohio State just felt right at the end.”
“I love the coaching staff at Ohio State. Coach Patricia’s defense is great, and he’s a former NFL coach with Super Bowl rings and so much knowledge. Coach Day is a great head coach — he’s a winner and a great guy. Then, Coach Laurinaitis is one of the best. He played the game, he played at Ohio State, and he knows the game. Playing for a guy like him will help me a lot.”
Laurinaitis, in particular, played a central role in Cypher’s decision.
“I fully trust him. He played in the NFL, he played my position, and I know he can teach, coach, and develop me. He has the best interest in his players and a plan for them. Coach Laurinaitis was a big part of me choosing Ohio State.”
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Favorite Christmas Traditions

iambrutus
Its that time of year again, my daughter came home on Saturday night - she spent the day making her now locally famous hard tack candy. Then it was her idea (she's 20, son is 15) for both kids, her BF, his GF to go see Christmas lights and then back to our place where the "kids" all made gingerbread houses and we played a few card games - it was a great day.

the older i get the more i LOVE this time of year.

She's planning out the Jesus cake today, prepping appetizers to take to my parents on Wednesday

Hope all of you knuckleheads have a Merry Christmas season with family and loved ones
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2025 Cotton Bowl: #2 tOSU vs #10 Miami-FL, Wed 12/31 7:30 ET at JerryWorld

Telekinesis
Jaxbuck said:
It's more like I threw one pitch, right down the middle and the ump called it ball 4, guy walks and we lose.

Don't do the "yeah but you should have never been in that spot" stuff because those were previous events.

On that one event, skill + luck = bad outcome even though your skill was good (what you control).

So obviously in a game that has constraints you can manage to a degree, you don't want to manage in the direction of letting a lesser skilled opponent get more shots at random variance events at your expense.

Back to football, think of June Jones at Hawaii or Mike Leach and those air raid kind of teams. They were built to run as many plays as possible and get random variance to work for them because they knew they were the lesser skilled team.

It's why you never see teams run a hurry up with a lead or why, in the case of those extreme kind of system teams, they are screwed and have to keep doing it even with a lead and can't seem to ever hold those leads.

The best possible outcome for a more skilled team like OSU is a long time consuming drive that ends in a TD. You do that on 5 of your 10 possessions and in the process only let the opponent end up with ~8 possessions and you can see how the boa constrictor chokes out the lesser skilled team and why, back to the point of this conversation, you don't speed up as a general rule. You only do it in situational applications.
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Got it, makes sense.

This is moving away from the topic at hand and just a general observation:

Unfortunately, we haven’t witnessed good results when dealing with situational applications. Day (or whoever we’re pinning it on this week) seems to end up out of character and doesn’t know how to handle that kind of pressure.
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HC Ryan Day (B1G Coach of Year, B1G Champion, National Champion)

Captain Buckeye
Excited for this. Ryan is an excellent play caller and always has been.

To be honest the offense could use the different rhythm or play calling sequence anyway.

Also, I’m sure Ryan Day is thinking “like hell I’m going to chance it” in terms of having a fully focused Brian Hartline.
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