AKAK said:

Somewhere I posted about all that warriner shit. His daughter worked with my wife for a while.... Wooooo

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The video of him walking into the FG (and getting blasted in the face) is one of the better ones I have ever seen.

Welp.

Good for him. I hope he gets paid and has a great, healthy career.

RB room is going to be a huge batch of new and inexperienced faces next year.

"I can't keep defending you bro"

The combined kicking-the-door down and beating some ass way we started the Tennessee and Oregon games takes the cake for me.

We started the Tennessee game with a 191 to -6 yards advantage. Then followed that up against Oregon by outgaining them 170 to 10 to start the game.

Coming out of the gates a combined 361 yards to 4 against two playoff teams is some outright ass kicking the likes of which we may never see again.

Ryan36_1 said:

????

I mean if you want to go back to prior years I would agree to a a point, but this defense didn't rank #1, #2, #3,etc. for the entire season in all of those categories based on a "4 game heater". Even in his worst game wasn't THAT bad if you look at what the Ducks did to everyone this season outside of sleepwalking through Wisconsin.

I guess you can be frustrated with the vanilla first possession defensive strategy we had in the regular season. But that's a tough complaint IMO when you look at how dominant they played after that.

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I was going more by general year by year. He had some thing sin 22 obviously, got better in '23 but there were get off the field when it mattered close and late issues. '24 was dominant during the regular season but got lit up pretty good against the only really good offense they played.

People can drill into the details of that and have a conversation and disagree but the narrative that he's the GOAT has a lot of recency bias in it.

Next year (assuming he stays) he will have Downs and 3 years of installing his system for the next wave of guys. They can't possibly avoid some letdown given all the experience lost. Feels like a better baseline of where he really is on the spectrum.

Are we always going to have a '22 kind of year if the defense isn't extremely experienced? Was '22 driven more by poor safety play (youth being a big part)? That is what I am interested to see.

calibuck said:

Lady Bucks made some MD players money last night. Cannot believe that a shorter, stouter forward could collect so many rebounds (offensive as well!). Even Eboni couldn't get that girl out of the paint! Good win, with an asterisk as two of MD's better players were absent. Must have been asleep with my eyes open, as went from 8 down to up 5 before I recognized the score....guess was finally seeing Ohio State basketball in front of my eyes. What was not working, all of a sudden was working, I guess. Great game, no quit. Anyone got a B10+ work around? Go Bucks!

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Winning that game without Sellars should have happened but we shouldn't have had to play from behind. Not developing Bigs is the MO around here and it's beyond annoying. Lemmila is producing but she's freaking 6'6" and should be dominating. The coaching staff is constantly doing a disservice to our girls with any kind of size whatsoever. I don't know who is the coach who is supposed to be coaching them up but McGuff hasn't gotten it right ever.

LovelandBuckeye said:

This all may be true. However, the Irish started 2-0 against the Buckeyes when @BB73 was like 32 years old and they had a really good time consuming drive in the national championship. Did you ever consider that?

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I'm fuzzy on the details but I think @BB73 said he was at the game and that same year the duchess of Malfi was performed globe theater in London and Pocahantas had gotten married and some crazy person claimed to have invented the decimal mark. I dunno

This kid has a vision for his future. He's done everything the right way so far. I don't see anything changing except his stats.

NFBuck said:

So, we've had "Shugarts!" for false starts for years. Should DPI be "Iggy!" going forward?

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Seconded.

Bestbuck36 said:

Still undefeated and in the Top 5 I see. Isn't that a bit of overachieving so far from where everyone thought we would be this year?

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No. We haven't wrestled anyone yet.

I don't think those 2 got along there at the end.

I'll be back home in Cbus in April, after the thaw.

Until then I'm going down from Glendale to the ASU games. I'll try to give some kind of old man's insight into the experience

Still cheaters...

RB07OSU said:

Best of luck and hope he does well back in his home state, but it is a bit of a bummer as a recruitnik...really thought he would be a good one here. Figured he would make a run at a starting job with all the DB talent that is graduating. That said, there is going to be a lot of talent in the CB room still and we don't know where the pecking order was other than Mathews seeming to have a spot pretty much locked up.

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Feel the same. Thought this would be the year he and Mathews took over the reigns and balled out but it looks like some guys with more size are ready to go. I think he starts at Baylor and he'll have a good run in the Big XII

Gizmo said:

O Fortuna was a great choice

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That song rips my soul to the edge physical being.
O Fortuna: The comments for the lyrics are "whether you know that song from the choral number- Carmina Burana (nope), or the X-Factor song (gtfoh)..." That's from Excalibur motherfucker!!!

And yes, it's perfect for this video.

Bestbuck36 said:

you will always get @BuckeyeNation27 support in this kind of statement lol

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that post made me

Powair7s said:

Isn't the problem, the programs aren't the ones paying? The school/program rakes in millions of dollars annually and doesn't have to spend a dime on player "salary". It's a crazy situation where the people making all the revenue don't have to pay the employees.

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Good call, you're absolutely right, but I think the revenue sharing starting in February. And yes, that's wild they can earn millions and not have to pay any of the people actually doing the work. There's not an industry in America that allows that.

Thank you for seeding! just need iowa akron and western michigan lol