tresselballer;906893; said:I've never seen a site where it's so acceptable to excoriate somebody with a different opinion. Where I'm from, a mods bounce your your ass yesterday for calling somebody an idiot, especially a new person who isn't just like, "OMGzoRZZZ, YSU teh suXxx!!11!!" The mods did step in, but I've seen it in other threads, too. As long as I'm allowed to fight fire with fire, it's cool, but I'll never start a name-calling session. I end 'em. ;^)
Odds are, if you're a fuckstick, you don't need me to tell you, anyway.
martinss01;907061; said:
I guess that depends on what you consider to be running up the score. Remember when OSU beat Kent St. 51-17 in '02? Sure, some of those points came off of turnovers, but that's usually the case in very lopsided games. And that goes to the point: even if it's true that Tressel actively wants to avoid laying a shellacking on YSU, there's only so much he can do to prevent it. He's not going to tell his third stringers to stop trying. If the Penguins are unable to slow the down the Buckeye second or third-string offense, and if the Penguin offense isn't able to avoid turnovers, both of which were at least partially true of Kent State, then they will get waxed. Badly. Regardless of Jim Tressel's tenderness for Youngstown.Yertle;906577; said:
schwab;906912; said:
Just some no-name freshman who probably never amounted to much.MililaniBuckeye;907270; said:Who's this Hawke guy?
Probably true, but it was touching when, at the end of the '03 Fiesta Bowl, Hawke stood up on the Buckeye bench, faced Mike Doss, and said "Oh Captain, my Captain."OH8ch said:
If I remember correctly your backups didn't come in until about halfway through the 4th in our game last when. When Wolfe scored are one and only TD with about 12 minutes left in the 4th, the first string D was still in, and I don't remember Zwick coming in until the middle of a drive with about 6-7 minutes left in the game.Yertle;907392; said:
I'm not sure what you mean by "keeping the throttle down". Do you think that when the game's within a couple of scores and the first-team offense is in, that Tressel won't have them trying their damnedest to score touchdowns? Of course they won't have the same sense of urgency as they would if the opponent were Michigan, but they will be trying to get into the endzone by means of their normal offensive approach. As far as the comparison to Spurrier, your point's probably true, but Spurrier is known as an outlier in terms of actively trying to lay huge, lopsided scores on inferior opponents - which is of course why you chose him as your example. Tressel, like most elite-program coaches when facing inferior opponents, gets the game well in hand with a three-to-four-score lead, and then inserts the back-ups (depending somewhat on time remaining, and bearing in mind that occasionally the "inferior" opponent puts up a serious fight).Yertle;907392; said:
That partially goes to the parenthetical point above. NIU is generally a superior team to YSU, and the Huskies are not a mid-major team that the high majors can routinely steamroll from the outset and then go into practice mode. Even though the outcome of the game was never seriously in doubt, the Bucks needed to play the starters for the majority of the game in order to maintain the clear upper-hand. If OSU's first-string had simply blown NIU out of the water on both sides of the ball from the outset, and established a four touchdown lead early in the third period, the subs would have come in en masse. But NIU was good enough to prevent that from being the case. Will YSU be good enough to prevent that from being the case? It's possible, but I'd tend to doubt it.G-FORCE;907552; said:
