• Follow us on Twitter @buckeyeplanet and @bp_recruiting, like us on Facebook! Enjoy a post or article, recommend it to others! BP is only as strong as its community, and we only promote by word of mouth, so share away!
  • Consider registering! Fewer and higher quality ads, no emails you don't want, access to all the forums, download game torrents, private messages, polls, Sportsbook, etc. Even if you just want to lurk, there are a lot of good reasons to register!

Game Thread #2 tOSU at #3 Oregon, Sat. Oct. 12, 7:30 pm ET, NBC

Jump to latest Follow Reply
Sort by date Sort by votes
Mike80 said:
I could be wrong but...

When I went to the Marshall game a few weeks ago, and it's been a few since I've been there but I had a feeling even then in 2021, but it's too corporate of an atmosphere there now. It felt, frankly, off, I guess.

The machine that is Ohio State is a money machine. It's a money machine because they will reliably win 10+ games per year, get so many millions in sponsorships, ticket sales, concessions, etc etc.

2002 had an angry edge to it. It was a feeling you felt from the first snap of the first game, through the last snap of the scUM game and into the MNC game against Cryami.

Urban's teams always had that feeling with the exception of 2018. And that year the defense was one of the worst in Ohio State history.

But there were other years where the atmosphere is more, well, not relaxed but kinda exepcting like everyone will roll just by showing up. There's an energy in the stadium that seems to permeate everything - even the announcements and the presentations during TV timeouts and quarters seem to be all about the show and not about the go. Maybe I need to go again to compare but it felt like this....

Is it on the coaches? I don't know. The administration? Maybe? Again, I don't know.

It could also be that this team isn't nearly as talented as we, the fans, want them to be, and, coupled with an atmosphere where everything is expected to be easy, it's created a monster. Guess we will see what the rest of the season holds.
Click to expand...

Unfortunately I think your final paragraph is the true answer. You can bring as many starters back as you want, but when they're not elite, it's not gonna make a difference.
 
Upvote 0
HenryMuto said:
How important was all that time blown when they had no idea the clock was running ? That is the real problem ending of this game we needed just another second or two and we blew about 20.
Click to expand...
7 seconds wasted there after OPI. And Howard starting the drive wasting 20 seconds tripping over himself instead of throwing it away.

And then it ends with him sliding inbounds.

Actually pretty LOL funny if it wasn’t so infurating. Just a comedic way to go out.
 
Upvote 0
ORD_Buckeye said:
No, Oregon was simply the better (barely) team at home tonight. Deal with it. Have a drink. Hug your dog. It's just a fucking foosball game.
Click to expand...
But you said that two of those teams were cheating and the other one was a generational team that we almost beat. I was just wondering if there was any cheating scandal about Oregon because I've never seen any news related to that. I know Oregon was better I really don't care much about anything other than beating ttun (at least this year of course).
 
Upvote 0
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top