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trainedloser;1849731; said:
Sweater definitely watched the Bama game and knew what to do... and boy did it work. Great plan by a stand up coach IMO.

Good team, and from all my friends in NOLA, nice fans. I thought the momentum swung after that safety(which was a disturbingly bad call) but honestly, the right team won.

Good job buckeyes, i'll blame this loss on the birds.
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Thank you. Arky didn't quit when it was 28-7 and it would have been very easy to do so. They deserve a ton of credit in making this probably one of the best bowl games in years.

I agree with you take on the call and I'd rep you for it but I can't right at the moment.
 
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trainedloser;1849731; said:
Sweater definitely watched the Bama game and knew what to do... and boy did it work. Great plan by a stand up coach IMO.

Good team, and from all my friends in NOLA, nice fans. I thought the momentum swung after that safety(which was a disturbingly bad call) but honestly, the right team won.

Good job buckeyes, i'll blame this loss on the birds.
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I can't be too sure that one of these teams was truly better than the other. I think if they played 10 times, it's 5-5 at the end.

Sometimes it's nice to know where you stand. Neither team is quite national championship caliber, (at least not a run-away NC contender), but both are solid top 10 teams.
 
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trainedloser;1849731; said:
Sweater definitely watched the Bama game and knew what to do... and boy did it work. Great plan by a stand up coach IMO.

Good team, and from all my friends in NOLA, nice fans. I thought the momentum swung after that safety(which was a disturbingly bad call) but honestly, the right team won.

Good job buckeyes, i'll blame this loss on the birds.
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Yeah, but Man--you guys gave us one helluva game! Bravo!

:gobucks3::osu2::gobucks4:
 
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osugrad21;1849852; said:
Arkansas fans were great fun all week. Definitely a great fanbase.

Best wishes next year.
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You are with that gorgeous lady you introduced me to - in romantic New Orleans - and you are sitting here typing????? :shake:

Then again, there are lots of steps from the Superdome to Poydras Street, so it is possible that he fell and hit his head. :paranoid:
 
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Gatorubet;1849875; said:
You are with that gorgeous lady you introduced me to - in romantic New Orleans - and you are sitting here typing????? :shake:

Then again, there are lots of steps from the Superdome to Poydras Street, so it is possible that he fell and hit his head. :paranoid:
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I dunno--could be a multi-tasker! :tongue2:

:gobucks3::osu2::gobucks4:
 
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Gatorubet;1849875; said:
You are with that gorgeous lady you introduced me to - in romantic New Orleans - and you are sitting here typing????? :shake:
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He's just checking to see who flipped out and got banned in the 4th quarter.
 
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props, and grats on getting the SEC monkey off your back

just got back from the game. i counted three OSU fans in our section, other than the area around the band, not many other sections fared very much better, so this was in effect a road game for you guys.

my analysis...

a) the hurry up was smart. good scouting, arkansas needs to dial up edge pressure with corners/safeties to contain mobile QBs, i don't think our coaching staff expected OSU to run hurry up after first downs.

b) mallett, not a very good game. getting pressure with 4 is a problem, he tried to aim off balanced throws too much and wound up putting them high or in the dirt. heyward is the real deal.

c) dropped passes. too much nerves on the part of our receivers. first play should have been an arkansas TD, a junior receiver with 4.3 flat speed running untouched drops it. on the flip side OSU receivers made smart plays and great catches all night.

d) losing containment on pryor. our defense struggled with this all year, linebackers are sub par except for one that's a converted safety. then again OSU's linebackers seemed subpar as well and struggled with knile davis, which we expected. this, i think, was a wash.

e) not-very-smart plays. arkansas made three huge mistakes. losing the fumble on the goal line to two guys running into each other. losing a pick to two guys running into each other. not running in the blocked punt. OSU on the other hand didn't make many mistakes, other than those three plays which turned out in their favor or at least, not as costly. to have only one false start in such a hostile and loud environment is very good. the dome was as loud as it is for saints games (i'm a new orleans transplant, i know).

f) your replacement secondary was better than ours. we lost our #1 corner a few weeks back, OSU lost theirs in this game. the OSU backups played well, i didn't see many major breakdowns, one or two 25+ yard completions but no long TDs. arkansas' replacements for ramon broadway, not so much. they gave up two 20+ yard TDs.

bottom line, the team that made the least mistakes won, in a very even matchup. on the plus side i think arkansas demonstrated that they are now a legitimate top 10 program, as long as petrino can keep the offensive recruits coming in.

the OSU fans both at the game and around the city we met were all classy folks, great trip overall.

congrats on getting over that SEC hump, tressel deserves it, he had your team well prepared and well schemed.

i was in section 140 if that was any of you i shook hands and talked with after the game, you know who you are if so :wink:.
 
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It was a great game - I'm sure Buckeyes enjoyed the first half and the final minute more than the Hog fans did, but most of the 2nd half was nerve-racking as the Razorbacks made a gutsy run.

The crowd from Arkansas have been a good group. I hope that a few of them stay around.

Best of luck to the Hogs in 2011 and beyond.
 
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Thanks for the congrats, I agree with most of what you said. However, I watched the game on TV, and there were several times where I heard a definitive O-H-I-O following a kickoff, so I'm guessing that there were more than 4 OSU fans per section ;-D

Also, I felt that Mallet played much better than you seem to be giving him credit for. He made passes that a lot of NFL quarterbacks couldn't make tonight, his receivers just couldn't catch them. He has never been a mobile QB, and he has never been able to avoid pressure and make good throws under pressure because of that either, so you can't really blame him for that. Blame your O-Line, or blame Cam Heyward for dominating them maybe? But don't blame Mallet, he played one hell of a game IMO. Who wouldn't make some bad throws under the pressure he was facing? The majority of his throws and decisions were spot-on. Good luck next year to what seems like a (dare I say it?) like-able SEC program.
 
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i would say the total crowd ratio was about 3-1 arkansas to OSU.

the arkansas side of the field was entirely arkansas, except for those 1 or 2 per section OSU fans.

the OSU side probably had about 25%-30% arkansas people in the upper decks.

yeah, mallett makes the big throws, it's the checkdown throws, oddly enough, that he struggles with. he put way too many of them in the dirt, imo. those should be short yardage gains, not zero yard plays. he wound up completing 51% on the night. he's typically a 65% completion QB. he was 66.5% for the year. that's at least a couple of AR drives that stalled, and when you have an opposing running game your defense is struggling with, that's probably one more OSU TD than they would have had otherwise, had the AR offense stayed on the field another time or two.

we play by the same philosophy the saints do. our defense plays for turnovers, blitz + man to man most of the time. we rely on the offense to win, and 51% doesn't cut it. mallett struggled against zone secondaries + pressure in the alabama game and he did the same thing in this game. he can make the throws, no doubt, but on his bad days his zone reads/throws are late. this was one of his bad days.
 
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