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B1G CCG: #1 tOSU vs #2 Indiana in Indy, Sat. Dec 6th, 8 ET on FOX

We can think whatever we want - we're just fans. I can promise you Ryan Day doesn't think he's infallible.

If Sayin is the player we all think he is, he'll take this in stride as part of his growth as a QB. As good as he's been, as you said, he's just a freshman in experience. And it was about time SOMEONE pushed him to make adjustments, even TCUN didn't do that.
I 100% agree Day doesn't think Saying is infallible. Day basically took sayings mind out of the game in the second half. Most plays they cut the field in half for him, or he literally had 1 read. ( he could have also run, which would have won us the game....)

You don't run like 5 or 6 boots for the first time all year, with 1 maybe 2 reads if you don't think your qb is a little out of his league. Why the fuck they ran those single read plays ( I actually think they were run/pass options and if Sayin runs on the second one we win) on 3rd and 1 in the red zone, I honestly have no idea.

Like you said, now Saying is no longer a heisman candidate that is this freshman sensation, he is a imbattled QB with a chip on his shoulder. The rest of CFB better watch the fuck out, cause Day, Saying and Smith are coming for blood.
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OC/WR Coach Brian Hartline (National Champion, HC at USF, Buckeye OC for this postseason)

I’m in the “Thanks for everything, good luck at USF” camp.

Indiana may have had an advantage in game prep last night since they had Purdue the week before when we had The Game, and they may have had less distractions during the week.

We’ve got 24 days to get ready. I’d prefer the same full-time group concentrate on aTm and Miami, with some GAs assembling film study and analyzing tendencies for future possibilities UGA, Indiana, Oregon, and Texas Tech. And the winner of Ole Miss and Tulane after that game happens.
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2025-2026 Ohio State Men's Basketball

Reporters covering this team need to be really focusing on NIL, getting more info about where the resources are being allocated and how, and exactly what happened this past offseason. That's the real story behind the story of this team and its struggles, but Jake Diebler is going to take all the flack for it. Did OSU's hesitance to use collectives hold back this team with NIL? I think that there may be some truth to OSU having one hand behind their back compared to other programs, but we don't get much info on that.

Whatever they spent, it would make no sense if there was not a major decrease in the amount allocated on this team overall. They lost four guys that they had to commit significant NIL funds to (Meechie, Bradshaw, Stewart and Parrish) and added guys who mostly would not command much NIL (Cupps, Noel ... Tilly I believe as a non-American-born player was not eligible for substantial NIL anywhere). Ojianwuna had a season-ending injury and was obviously going to have a delayed start to this season, so it's doubtful there was any kind of bidding war for him. Bynum is the only guy that they brought in that might be getting some decent NIL, but even he was not a super high profile recruit. Where is the money? Is it all going to football? Did the impending Commission cause OSU to go overboard and prevent substantial NIL from being used? Clearly if they are investing in this team, it does not appear to be managed well at all. IMO, only Bruce Thornton and Devin Royal are worthy of high NIL deals, and everyone else should be getting near the minimum or not very much above it.

We may have to wait until next year to see if OSU is actually committed to using substantial NIL in basketball.

It's possible for two things to be true here. The NIL Issue and Diebler just not being very good overall as a basketball coach. He's yet to show us anything to give confidence that he's not just a continuation of holtmann
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2025 tOSU Offense Discussion

I feel like Hartline trying to be two places at once is going to backfire massively...

But what other choice do they have? Day focusing on all the play calling could be just as bad.
Tom Herman handled it well enough.

Most weeks won't be as tumultuous as this week was for him even if doing a little of both. A few of the things that likely ate into his free time this week won't be an issue as long as he remains here.

Plus - if he's the coach we all think he is, he'll likely feel like he owes all those kids in the room his best efforts.
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Cleveland Browns (Factory of Sadness)

Just read this is the 27th season since they came back. It will also be the 19th season they have had at least ten losses in a season. 70% of their seasons have been abject failures.

You have to admit that level of consistent suckitude is impressive and maybe why the state elected officials are giving them so much of our money.

If you can’t be rewarded with a Super Bowl trophy for being good then be so bad they give you a monetary reward instead of.
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K Jayden Fielding (All B1G, National Champion)

Those years I posted were under Tressel. And almost all were statistically worse than Fielding from inside 50. I didn’t even addressed all of the missed XPs over those years.

Hell, the only clutch field goal I can even remember since Nugent was the OT winner against Iowa in 2009, I think.

Tresa gets a lor of revisionist history on ST thanks to Nuge and Ginn. I’ll certainly grant that punting was much better under him. Thank god since we ended up punting so much more often than we do now.

I’m not giving him a pass on blowing those field goals, but what kicker since Nuge has been better? It feels like he’s getting the OSU treatment here — when OSU wins, no big deal, it wasn’t a “big game”. When OSU loses, “look, they still can’t win the big game!”. He gets no credit for making both his kicks against PSU and Oregon and Indiana last year and those kicks in the playoffs — those obviously weren’t “big kicks” since he made them. They sure would have been important if he’d missed them, though.
I was at the Marshall game when he drilled a 54 yard field goal to win it at the end of regulation
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Georgia Bulldogs (2021-2022 National Champions & Excellent Drivers)

Something tells me this kid isn't representing himself, and he probably has some big city lawyers himself. I mean he had a deal for $500k
He will spend 75-100k of that on lawyers if they can settle quick.

He goes into a 2-3 year drawn out fight and it’s gone (because remember he lost at least 1/3 of it to taxes)
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Big Ten and other Conference Expansion

Since a certain South Bend based university needs to join a conference, I would still kick the tires of bringing them into the fold. However, the B10 powers can’t be bending the knee for them. They need a conference more than our conference needs them.
I think they will most certainly be part of a new football only organization/league that will be created soon as the CFP expands.

The big boy/premier league if you will.
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QB Lincoln Kienholz (National Champion)

I feel like he should be a weapon.

Sure can’t figure out what else they want to do on short yardage - run middle, run wide, big back/small back, pass short, pass long, sneak.

No identity for years now. Just a random play generator and hope. I know it’s hard to take Sayin off the field but I’m up for new options.
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