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Yeah, let's not talk about White/Slaton here, because that's just not true. Those are two fast kids running an option every down because when Pat White ran up the middle he broke his wrist. This is more like...the defense will have to be ready for the sheer strength and vision of Beanie, the...

What I really enjoyed seeing this week against Troy was, not just that Brandon caught some passes (which is unheard of in Ohio State football these days), but that he caught them focused on the catch, and then fought for extra yardage. In other words, he didn't see himself as the last option for...

Take it in some context here. This is preseason. This crowd is a bunch of alumni who get a ticket to the game and think "Oh, nice, let's have a picnic." It's called a wine and cheese crowd for a reason. Starting next week, 15,000 students will be packed in either endzone, and that will have a...

I didn't bother to get through all 48 pages of the thread that I missed, but I saw some concern over the empty seats. South stands, in the upper part, is a lot of visitor seating. Troy returned a large number of tickets. The empty seats may just be those.

How frustrating is it to be executing your game plan well, and just have some events (the pick-six, the missed field goal, crucial false starts and holding penalties) keeping you down so far? Having outgained USC at the half, we were down by 18 points. It still boggles my mind, and it seems at...

Chris Wells is the true captain of the offense. No offense to the fine seniors, but at times Beanie's fiery nature just takes over and he makes the game his, and leads by example. I would like to see him, whether he plays or not, take that into consideration. He needs his RB corps - yes, his -...

Exactly! We're no passing team, why concern ourselves with the pass rush? All we need is Todd to throw a few quick passes every now and then to keep USC honest. We're a running team. And with Beanie back, and our stable of man-beasts (and a Jamaican, which if you follow track and field is the...

The media likes to stampede, that's all. They see Ohio State struggle one week looking ahead (as people have pointed out, we usually do)...and people see USC roll against a BCS conference opponent (again, as people have pointed out, UVA may not be very good at all)...and they come to the...

I'd say go 3 wide with the TE, with TP and Beanie. The reason for this is because it's much more believable that you're doing a run/pass option (or just an straight-up option) if you keep 3 wideouts. But you're right, if they're attacking, we need to let Pryor out to scare them into thinking...

Unfortunately, that's what I'm afraid of. See Antonio Pittman in the 2006 NCG. almost 6 ypc and not nearly enough touches.

I look for Chris to be used at the beginning of this game the same way he was used at the beginning of the LSU game. Give them something to think about and flex some power. Power O left, and break a huge run to get his momentum going. Beanie seems to run out of those plays very well, and if he...

Well, you are on an Ohio State message board. The people here tend to be quite open-minded, but do you honestly for a minute believe any of us will lie down and simply agree, "Oh hey, our Buckeyes feel like going to the Chinese Theater, maybe eat at Roscoes, and head over to the Coliseum to get...

Yeah. I won't make excuses, but OU really did do a good job "feeling out" the refs and using it to their advantage. Jim Davidson has a great picture up of Lawrence Wilson's jersey pulled a good 7 inches off his back. So maybe it's not entirely necessary to claim the sky is falling down...

He went Beanie out there, I'm thinking the Wisconsin game last year. We needed something on the ground, and he forced his way through. He was fired up and took matters into his own hands. And we sat him.

Troy is much more the giantkiller than OU, which scares me a little bit. However, I'm not too worried. We have a tendency to look ahead more than have letdowns. Although, as much as I think our players do a good job at respecting lesser opponents, I sometimes wonder if the seniors especially...

I figured you guys could appreciate this. My girlfriend is in her second year of real Buckeye fandom, since it's her second year here at the university. So, needless to say, she doesn't know the workings of football as well as I, let alone most of you. Some of the basic things that a football...

As it is, USC gets an extra week to prepare for us. Keeping Beanie out and staying mum on his injury means during all that preparation, they don't know what's going to happen. The way I figure, it's better that our opponents have to predict two game plans, one with Beanie and one without, than...

Well clearly you have to wonder if USC's blowout vs Virginia was due to great USC play, or terrible UVA play. I can say with some certainty (as highlighted above) that UVA played pretty badly. There were a lot of mistakes that are typically caused by coaching and not by lack of talent. Namely...

Precisely. When the Big Ten Network announcers have some insight, you know it's obvious. We don't have the incredible cast of receivers we have in years past, so the receivers we have now have to work harder to get open, and it seems at times they just aren't willing to. With how high on...

I prefer to think of it as building depth at various positions lending more ability to rotate offensive linemen and wide receivers, meaning fresher legs in the second half. But it's all semantics.