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BuckBackHome said:

I just realized we are the only game yet to be played this year in the CFP. Obviously that is on purpose and the fix is in.

Note - Since it feels as though it is another 5 months until our next game I need something to BMW about.

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Just no field goal attempts at midnight.

Jaxbuck said:

Laughing at the good memories. Loved those dudes you knew who talked like that.

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I knew a dude in the service that would say "theeeiiittt!"

To the SEC homer conversation earlier with College Football Nerds as the example.

I used to like College Football Nerds but their product seems to have fallen off a cliff this year (and I really haven’t watched them that much).

Earlier this year they came out with the hot take that Sayin can’t throw it deep. Was it that hard to recognize that the coaches were protecting a young QB (against Texas especially) even if you managed not to be exposed to the largest fan base in the country talking about it non stop? That, of course, is now a mark of embarrassment for them that they’ve been referencing for the rest of the year that mean ol’ Ohio State fans won’t let go.

I turned on their Miami game preview and couldn’t get through the first five minutes due to their hot take that Miami’s defense was uniquely positioned to have success rushing four and putting their CBs on islands.

Indiana disguised coverages masterfully, stunted their dline, and varied the ways in which they were bringing pressure and covering in zone to throw Sayin and the oline off early and in the middle of the B1G championship. And Sayin/Ohio State still figured it out but couldn’t finish drives because, due to injuries or a chaotic week that created a really bad game plan, they took their best players off the field and made really bad calls in the red zone.

If Miami just rushes their front four and mans up on the wide receivers it will be a true gift for Ohio State and the best possible scenario for the offense.

Thinking Miami’s key is doing that was such a mind numbingly bad take derived from stupidity or not actually watching games - like I said, I couldn’t continue watching the video after that because it so completely erased any value their opinion would have. Their M/O seems to be to overly rely on their computer model while coming up with gut feeling, often stupid, reasons why the model might be wrong about Ohio State for 30 minutes.

I just fuckin can't with the Letterman jacket. White Santa Ono over here sniffing jocks wtf

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PAWWWWWWWLLLLLL!!!!

DaveyBoy said:

Yes….the kid was named Declan.

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That's a good point. Is there anywhere that remembers the kid, outside of his parents and friends? Does Brian Kelly have a picture of him on his desk at home? Or when he gets a new job, will he put it in his office? Does Notre Dame have any kind of memorial to him? I think it's easy for me to point at Notre Dame and Brian Kelly and say they screwed up because "a kid" died. No - he wasn't just "a kid". He was Declan Sullivan. Notre Dame and Brian Kelly should have to say his name every day. Maybe twice a day: once first thing in the morning and once last thing before going to bed.

ORD_Buckeye said:

Lizzy Seeberg

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And there's another name. Lizzy Seeberg. Brian Kelly may not have ordered the code red. Hell, I'll say that I don't think he did. But someone did. Whoever you are: do you remember her name?

They gave some reliever I never heard of a chance to get back into affiliated baseball.

That was nice of them.

PFF believes Carnell Tate has true No. 1 receiver traits for the NFL​

The Ohio State wide receiver could be a top prospect in the 2026 NFL Draft and PFF outlines why.



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There are many things that make Tate such an enticing pick for any NFL team that chooses to take a chance on him. Not only does Tate have the speed to beat and defender off the line from the snap, but he also has the footwork to break on any type of route to create space on the intermediate throws.

Coming in at 6-foot-3 and 195 pounds, Tate has shown that even with his size, he has the ability to break off the line of scrimmage and burn any defender in front of him. Once he has done that a few times, defenders begin to play a little more off of him so as not to get beaten on the long ball.

The moment a defender gives Tate space, that opens up the short game for him, meaning he has the footwork to make a move on any defender to create space and for a perfect passing window for his quarterback.

Tate has all the tools to make a great NFL wide receiver, and don't be surprised if he goes early in the first round, as there are many teams that could use a difference maker on their team next season.

Predicting three Ohio State transfer portal commits​

With the transfer portal about to open, the Buckeyes could be adding these three players for next season.

The Ohio State football program finds itself in a similar position to last season when it comes to the Transfer Portal. If they beat Miami in the Cotton Bowl, they will continue to prep for games while the portal opens. That makes it tough for them to bring in guys from the portal.

While the Buckeyes are likely going to lose at least two players, they still have to add players to next year's squad if they want to maximize their potential. These three players could be guys that the Ohio State Buckeyes bring in very soon after the portal opens.

1. Chaz Coleman​

2. Amaris Williams​

3. Khmori House​

Just sayin': it is an "interesting read" about his days at IUP.

Rose Bowl: Curt Cignetti's small-school path to Indiana​

WHILE SITTING IN Curt Cignetti's office, Ethan Cooper wasn't certain Indiana University of Pennsylvania was the right fit. Then the offensive guard recruit noticed Cignetti's Alabama national championship ring.

"He took it off and let me hold it," Cooper recalled. "That solidified the deal for me."

Long before Cignetti led Indiana to its first perfect regular season and the No. 1 seed in the College Football Playoff, he built a winner while honing a blueprint for success at his first head-coaching job: Division II IUP.

Cignetti had spent nearly three decades as an assistant, including four seasons (2007-10) under Nick Saban at Alabama, before he got the opportunity to run his own program.

At 49, he went to IUP, where his father, College Football Hall of Famer Frank Cignetti Sr., had forged a Division II power over his 20-year tenure (1986-2005). Cignetti didn't just inherit the program; he rebuilt it his own way, applying the standards he'd learned in Tuscaloosa and elsewhere.

"I remember thinking, either this dude is crazy and it's not going to work, or it's going to work really well," former IUP captain and All-America offensive tackle Byron Dovales said. "He was hard on us. But we won fast. From then on, I was like, whatever this dude says, I'm in."

On New Year's Day, the Hoosiers open their playoff run in the Rose Bowl Game Presented by Prudential against Alabama (4 p.m. ET, ESPN). Nearly a decade after leaving IUP, Cignetti is in position to win his own national title ring as a head coach.

His former IUP players say they saw it coming.

"He had this confidence," wide receiver Walt Pegues said. "You could tell even then that he trusted his process -- and what he was building."

THEN-IUP ATHLETIC director Frank Condino didn't expect to hear from Cignetti when the Crimson Hawks' football job came open after the 2010 season.

"Curt was ready to be a head coach. He had burned his spurs and worked really hard," Condino said. "I'm not sure why he couldn't catch a break at the Division I level. But for us, it was a no-brainer to hire somebody of his caliber, especially with all the family ties at IUP."

IUP had not won the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference since 2006, the year after Frank Cignetti Sr. had retired, and had won just four conference games over the previous two seasons.

Shortly after Cignetti took over, Dovales and a dozen or so other players got an email telling them to meet at the ROTC building on a Tuesday night.

"The team minister was like, 'Cignetti wants me to put you guys through this ROTC leadership course,'" recalled Dovales, who was a sophomore then. "'Don't tell anybody about it. You can accept or decline. But the team captains will be chosen through this program.'"

That winter, in addition to morning football workouts, the selected players -- who would also form Cignetti's leadership council -- carried logs, bear-crawled with teammates on top of their backs, competed in paintball, dove into pools to save drowning dummies and jogged through campus with prop guns.

That ROTC tradition remained throughout Cignetti's IUP tenure. Cignetti picked the players after having his coaching staff rank everyone on the roster, from first to last.

"The most physically taxing stuff I've ever done in my life," Pegues said. "It was a beast. But it made us tougher and really built leaders within the team."

That was only part of it. The entire team had to be at the fieldhouse with their toes on the line by 5 o'clock in the morning three times a week. At the first conditioning workout, the players noticed trash cans lined up everywhere. Cignetti told them they could throw up in them if they needed to. But if they missed a sprint or rep, they'd have to return the following morning and do the entire workout again.

"Our starting safety walked out after one day," Dovales said. "He shook everyone's hand and quit, saying, 'I don't love football this much.' I think we had 12 kids quit before the end of winter conditioning, just from the 5 a.m. workouts."

By spring, players realized Cignetti knew not just how hard to push them, but also when to ease off.

He spent the entire first spring practice simply explaining every drill, so they wouldn't waste time later. Cignetti also cut spring practices in half from the previous season to a little over an hour.

Anyone who made a second mistake was immediately replaced for the day. He made sure in team periods the offense got off three snaps every minute using a timer.

"Everything was so efficient," Dovales said. "Always on a schedule."

Two-thirds of the way through spring ball, the players were getting ready for another practice when Cignetti walked in with a puzzling announcement.

"Dudes are in treatment. My ankles are taped. I got my hands taped. Got everything ready," Dovales said. "He goes, 'We had a great spring ball, guys.' And we're all looking around like, 'What are you talking about?'"

Cignetti canceled the final five spring practices and told them to focus on their grades and be ready to go again in the fall.
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After another 10-win season in 2016, Cignetti left IUP to become the head coach at Elon and then James Madison after that, ultimately propelling him on the path that landed him at Indiana in November 2023. This season, he became the first to win back-to-back AP Coach of the Year awards. Only Brian Kelly, Gary Patterson and Saban have won that award twice since its inception in 1998.

"I'm not surprised one bit by his success," Dovales said. "I saw it from day one -- and he has been the same coach ever since."

Wiltfong said:

I feel good about this pledge to the Buckeyes moving forward.

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Then you should get out of this business, because that's an insanely stupid take for somebody who should know better.

DFBIA are acting like this kid is Kayden McDonald, Arvell Reese and Caden Curry all in one.

Moved a few posts speculating about JTB as OC over to the coaching vacancies thread.