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2015 All-American Teams and Individual Awards

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Bill Lucas said:
If individual awards won games Ohio State would have been a shoe in for the playoffs. Unfortunately, that's not all it takes.
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The point is that with the shit-load of talent we have, we should not have lost a game. With the possible exception of Alabama, no other team will likely have as many 1st and 2nd team AAs as we do. If you have arguably the most talented team in the country, with arguably the best head coach, then not making the playoffs is pretty disappointing.
 
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No Buckeye player has won a national award since 2008, when Malcolm Jenkins won the Thorpe Award and James Laurinaitis won the Lott IMPACT Trophy. It's a crime, really, considering the amount of talent that has passed through the WHAC since 2008. I hate to say that there's an anti--tOSU bias, but if facts sure seem to suggest that.
 
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LordJeffBuck said:
No Buckeye player has won a national award since 2008, when Malcolm Jenkins won the Thorpe Award and James Laurinaitis won the Lott IMPACT Trophy. It's a crime, really, considering the amount of talent that has passed through the WHAC since 2008. I hate to say that there's an anti--tOSU bias, but if facts sure seem to suggest that.
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Bosa this year probably should have won but outside of him who would you suggest got snubbed? Shazier comes to my mind as a potential but I'm not sure who the other candidates were.
 
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MililaniBuckeye said:
Eight of 22 starters are 1st or 2nd team AAs. No rational reason why we shouldn't be playing in one of the two semi-finals...
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If the media who select AAs also selected the teams to play in the semi-finals, we would be. Since that's not how it works there's your rational reason why we're not playing in either of them.
 
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Bill Lucas said:
I agree with that. When a Fiesta Bowl game against the Domers feels like a consolation (and it does to me) then you know that goals weren't achieved.
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You also know that our expectations are extremely high, perhaps to the point of unreasonableness.
 
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LordJeffBuck said:
No Buckeye player has won a national award since 2008, when Malcolm Jenkins won the Thorpe Award and James Laurinaitis won the Lott IMPACT Trophy. It's a crime, really, considering the amount of talent that has passed through the WHAC since 2008. I hate to say that there's an anti--tOSU bias, but if facts sure seem to suggest that.
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If there's an anti-OSU bias it seems no one told the people selecting the AA teams about it. As for the individual awards themselves let's not give the people selecting them too much credit. Sometimes, they just make lazy, easy choices based on what noise they're hearing the most that week.
 
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OhioState001 said:
Bosa this year probably should have won but outside of him who would you suggest got snubbed? Shazier comes to my mind as a potential but I'm not sure who the other candidates were.
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Jake said:
If the media who select AAs also selected the teams to play in the semi-finals, we would be. Since that's not how it works there's your rational reason why we're not playing in either of them.
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Based on the amount of talent being recognized by multiple sources, along with the fact that our loss compares favorably with the losses suffered by Alabama and Oklahoma, it's pretty rational to believe we could still have been one of the four playoff teams.
 
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OhioState001 said:
Bosa this year probably should have won but outside of him who would you suggest got snubbed? Shazier comes to my mind as a potential but I'm not sure who the other candidates were.
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Bosa for Lombardi, Hendricks, Nagurski, and Bednarik this year and last year.

Shazier for Butkus in 2013.

Roby for Thorpe in 2012 and 2013.

Brewster for Rimington in 2010.
 
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