osubartender23
Purple Nurple King
Pass for me. He’s no longer the hot commodity he once was and Iowa St is just an average team at best.
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ORD_Buckeye
Wrong glass, Sir.
How the hell did we not go after the Groza winning Fredo kicker that ended up at Bama. Have we decided to play nice with those motherless fucks?
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Poe McKnoe
Head Coach
If I had my own blog, I’d probably title this “Same Shit, Same Day” or something cleaner like “Nice Guys Finish Second.”
By all accounts, Ryan Day has said and done the right things year in and year out. Great speaker? Check. Great representative for OSU off the field? Check. Embraced former coaches and players? Check. Fired underperforming staffers? Check. Replaced them with the biggest names in CFB with the biggest salaries? Check. Stepped back to be the CEO? Check. Recruit blue chips up and down the roster? Secure top transfers? Build one of the biggest NIL funds? Check, check, check. Somehow there must be a rounding error in there somewhere, because it’s not adding up to 100% - we’re stuck on 99.99999%.
By all accounts, Ryan Day has said and done the right things year in and year out. Great speaker? Check. Great representative for OSU off the field? Check. Embraced former coaches and players? Check. Fired underperforming staffers? Check. Replaced them with the biggest names in CFB with the biggest salaries? Check. Stepped back to be the CEO? Check. Recruit blue chips up and down the roster? Secure top transfers? Build one of the biggest NIL funds? Check, check, check. Somehow there must be a rounding error in there somewhere, because it’s not adding up to 100% - we’re stuck on 99.99999%.
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Exactly. The "its hard to find a good college kicker" excuse is old and tired out. scUM also never seems to have trouble these days either finding a kicker who can constantly blast 50+ yarders. Why can't we?
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OL still wins games, and they've recruited at a MSU level far too often at the position.
They had a pretty darn good one vs UGA and they won the battle against an elite UGA front.
Now they have a pretty average OL in terms of upside. They didn't have two true OTs before Saturday, now they have zero. They also do not have a third guard, which is not nearly as hard to recruit/develop. Frye now has to coach better than any OL coach in OSU history to keep his job. Zen actually did fine and might be able to play, but neither spot is ideal as of today.
They can find a way to rally, but for all of the talk about $20M and elite talent, they had a blue collar McLaughlin, an underachieving DJackson and an unheralded portal gem in Simmons (which they no longer have).
You do not have to land 5 star OTs to be good upfront, but you cannot lean heavily on your backup targets. You need to have some mid-range signees, as well as imperfect guys with a lot of upside (like Simmons or Dawand Jones).
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RugbyBuck
Our church has no bells.
I'd feel a lot better about our end of year prospects and Day breaking free of the can't win the close ones narrative had we not lost Simmons. It's still all there to be won and this was one that I think we could get back in the B1G game. Like the uga game, we weren't blown out or outclassed, we just didn't get it done. No prizes for that, but the point is that I'd be ok with our prospects in the rematch and think there's an argument to be made that mighty ducks played about as well as they could and losing 32-31 with a chance to fix our problems makes a win next time out more than feasible... except, you don't (or at least we don't) sub in a starting left tackle and keep rolling. The OL was becoming dependable, if not a strength and looked like it would continue to improve as the season went on. This, though, re-sets that table.
1926Buckeyes
Head Coach
The more I think about the loss of Simmons and the unreliability of the defense, the more I realize they probably won't make it to the semis if they can get in the playoffs. Another year, another devastating injury quickly exposing a flawed roster.
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"Not getting it done" has been a theme in big games like this under Day, that's the problem
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AuTX Buckeye
Founder & Pres of the Flemming/Holtmann Fan Club
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Former Game Champion
The amount of kickers in the nfl making 50+ look like 30 yarders is just insane, if there are this many in the nfl there should be triple the number in college that make 50+ look like 40+yds.
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Yep. If we can't manage to land these types of guys out of HS, there is absolutely zero reason we should not be able to go find a at least capable kicker through the portal.
If Day and Staff are looking at what we have and saying "yea thats good enough" then that's a major problem.
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AuTX Buckeye
Founder & Pres of the Flemming/Holtmann Fan Club
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I do find it interesting he was rather ruthless with McCord at QB and recruiting over him/making him fight for his job, but he doesn’t wanna upset the kicker? It’s like Fleming got fired but he agreed not to release whatever incriminating evidence he has
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Can't be more than 3 coaching jobs that demand you be fired for losing an away game to #2 by 1 point... kinda funny really
Maybe we're spoiled
Maybe we're spoiled
TDG
Message Board Poster
This guy loses every single game we play against a team with even 85% as much talent as us, and pretty in the exact same way. This has been going on for years now. It's not the coordinators, it's not the refs, it's not the players. I genuinely feel bad for the players who care about the program and will never be held in the same esteem as Tressel and Meyer era players because their coach doesn't put them in a position to succeed. He's a horrible game manager and Ohio State won't win anything of consequence the remainder of his tenure.
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