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Game Thread Game One: #1 Ohio State 35, Northern Illinois 12 (9/2/06)

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OnionBag said:
so you run a pro style offense..thank you. that's all you had to say. you run a pro style offense, meaning you will hand the ball to your RB the entire game or throw the ball to him. that's all you had to write.
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We don't end up throwing the ball to Wolfe very often. We might do it a little more this year, but usually we throw to the WRs and TEs. No team can afford to be that one-dimensional.
 
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OnionBag said:
what type of offense does Northern Illinois run? Pro? Spread? If not's spread and rely's heavily on the RB, then you are dunzo. You will be served and still be in shock when you play OU.
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I wouldn't call NIU's offense a strictly "spread offense" however NIU does have a large number of 3 WR sets that force the opponents D coordinator to have to cover a large part of the field which opens running lanes up for the backs.

Unlike most other MAC teams, NIU doesn't throw as many short 5 yard passes and hope for additional yards after the catch by breaking tackles. NIU averaged 8.6 yards per pass and 12.5 YPC last year. Throwing longer range passes in multiple WR sets spreads out our opponents. NIU also runs double TE sets which not many MAC teams do.

Field position has been a large part of the offense's success as last year NIU's kickoff team led the MAC with a 22.6 ypr #23 nationally.
 
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Northern Illini

While THE OSU always respects an opponent, I think the Buckeyes are getting too carried away about NI. This NI team is a paper tiger. They haven't won a MAC title and haven't been to a bowl since the early 80's. Their offensive line lost key people. Doug Free is the only guy on the OL to concern ourselves with. Garrett Wolfe is a 5'7" back who posts eye-popping stats against mid major competition but is a dime a dozen guy in the BCS conferences. Let him get 150 yards and it won't really much matter. THE OSU has way, way too much team speed and size on the lines to make me worry about this game. A good ol' fashion blowout. Too bad we aren't going up against the best the MAC has to offer in Toledo, Akron or that Central Michigan program.

OSU: 46
NI: 10
 
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Nope

The Silicon Valley Classic is now extinct and nothing more than a scrimmage between a marginal Sun Belt vs. MAC team in its last rendition. That thing hardly counted as a bowl, even a mid-major bowl. I just looked it up. The last bowl NI was in was the California Bowl in 1984. They won it. Former Indiana coach Bill Mallory was the head man at NI at the time. That program was in the toilet for 15 years after he left. Only recently have they become a modest success. But how good can you be when you haven't won a mid-major conference title and can't get invite to one of the 27 or 28 bowls? Again, I shall respect this NI program and give them their props. But the game on 9/2 is little more than a scrimmage for us. Tressel and the boys will take it seriously. But it will be an absolute blowout. We have way too much talent, size and speed for NI to have any hope of competing against us. Let their tiny running back run wild. It won't matter.
 
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BigTenMan said:
The Silicon Valley Classic is now extinct and nothing more than a scrimmage between a marginal Sun Belt vs. MAC team in its last rendition. That thing hardly counted as a bowl, even a mid-major bowl. I just looked it up. The last bowl NI was in was the California Bowl in 1984. They won it. Former Indiana coach Bill Mallory was the head man at NI at the time. That program was in the toilet for 15 years after he left. Only recently have they become a modest success. But how good can you be when you haven't won a mid-major conference title and can't get invite to one of the 27 or 28 bowls? Again, I shall respect this NI program and give them their props. But the game on 9/2 is little more than a scrimmage for us. Tressel and the boys will take it seriously. But it will be an absolute blowout. We have way too much talent, size and speed for NI to have any hope of competing against us. Let their tiny running back run wild. It won't matter.
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Uhhhh...the SVC featured Michigan State, Georgia Tech, UCLA, and Fresno State in its brief history, so it was hardly a "scrimmage". And it's funny you say you will "give them their props" and then call the game a scrimmage...but keep talking...your ignorance is becoming quite clear.
 
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BigTenMan said:
The Silicon Valley Classic is now extinct and nothing more than a scrimmage between a marginal Sun Belt vs. MAC team in its last rendition. That thing hardly counted as a bowl, even a mid-major bowl. I just looked it up. The last bowl NI was in was the California Bowl in 1984. They won it. Former Indiana coach Bill Mallory was the head man at NI at the time. That program was in the toilet for 15 years after he left. Only recently have they become a modest success. But how good can you be when you haven't won a mid-major conference title and can't get invite to one of the 27 or 28 bowls? Again, I shall respect this NI program and give them their props. But the game on 9/2 is little more than a scrimmage for us. Tressel and the boys will take it seriously. But it will be an absolute blowout. We have way too much talent, size and speed for NI to have any hope of competing against us. Let their tiny running back run wild. It won't matter.
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So, Mike, does Mr. Van Cleve know that you are fucking around on his computers when you should be working?
 
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BigTenMan said:
While THE OSU always respects an opponent, I think the Buckeyes are getting too carried away about NI. This NI team is a paper tiger. They haven't won a MAC title and haven't been to a bowl since the early 80's. Their offensive line lost key people. Doug Free is the only guy on the OL to concern ourselves with. Garrett Wolfe is a 5'7" back who posts eye-popping stats against mid major competition but is a dime a dozen guy in the BCS conferences. Let him get 150 yards and it won't really much matter. THE OSU has way, way too much team speed and size on the lines to make me worry about this game. A good ol' fashion blowout. Too bad we aren't going up against the best the MAC has to offer in Toledo, Akron or that Central Michigan program.

OSU: 46
NI: 10
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You are full of it. We are among the best teams in the MAC, if not the best.
 
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