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I Farted in the Elevator (must be Taos)

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Mr. Incredible;959891; said:
You don't get it because you haven't read his garbage all season. He says Ohio State is crap because Michigan lost to App St.
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No, he doesn't. I've read his stuff all season, and have been reading his columns for years, and I don't get what the problem is that people have with him. He made a lame joke in his Week 2 rankings, and it wasn't very funny. That's all.

Ranking teams after two weeks isn't a science. Everybody is guessing after an opening week of cupcakes. Mandel was obviously wrong, that doesn't mean he harbors some sort of resentment towards the Buckeyes. If he doesn't think they're the greatest team in the land this season, than that's his opinion, and he's entitled to it.

Build a fucking bridge and get over it.

Stewart Mandel said:
I've always made it a point to do as much as possible to convey the thought process that goes into my ballot, so I regret that I dropped the ball so badly on that one -- not the decision to drop Ohio State but the lame attempt at humor/rationalization that accompanied it. Let me explain what really happened.

The thing some people don't understand about polls is that inevitably, there are going to be times when a team drops for no discernible reason. Usually it's because another team that was previously below them jumped ahead of them because of something special it did. In the case of this week's ballot, two such teams, Georgia (from 14th to eighth) and Cal (from 20th to 11th) moved ahead of the Buckeyes (previously 11th), but only one team, Michigan, dropped below them. So with Cal taking Ohio State's spot at 11th, that means the Buckeyes had to move down at least one spot to No. 12. But to do that would have also meant bumping No. 12 Rutgers (38-3 winner over Buffalo) and No. 13 Nebraska (52-10 winner over Nevada) a spot as well. I wasn't comfortable doing that, because I feel confident the Scarlet Knights and Huskers are as good if not better than where I have them ranked.

I can't say the same about the Buckeyes. I placed them at No. 11 originally mostly based on the same type of "benefit of the doubt" that caused me to put Michigan at No. 6, despite both teams' obvious shortcomings on paper, and the Youngstown State game provided no real window into whether I was right or wrong. So instead of unduly penalizing all three teams, I felt the best route was to simply move Ohio State to Georgia's old spot. I don't really think it makes that big a difference this early in the season, and if the Buckeyes do prove to be better than expected, it won't take long for them to gain back those three spots and possibly even more than that.
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OSUsushichic;959892; said:
Just tired of people bitching about talking heads. It's like people bitching about Ann Coulter. It only feeds the idiots' fire.

We play better as the underdog. Let people continue to state that we shouldn't be #1. Fuck 'em.
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I want people saying we aren't #1...the more we hear that, the less likely we are to get huge heads (and relive something similar to the 1998 debacle against Saban and Sparty in the Shoe).
 
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Dryden;959955; said:
No, he doesn't. I've read his stuff all season, and have been reading his columns for years, and I don't get what the problem is that people have with him. He made a lame joke in his Week 2 rankings, and it wasn't very funny. That's all.

Ranking teams after two weeks isn't a science. Everybody is guessing after an opening week of cupcakes. Mandel was obviously wrong, that doesn't mean he harbors some sort of resentment towards the Buckeyes. If he doesn't think they're the greatest team in the land this season, than that's his opinion, and he's entitled to it.

Build a fucking bridge and get over it.
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I understand what Mr. Incredible is saying and I do think people have a right to say whatever they want on a message board (provided it isn't about a specific recruit or player), but also, others have a right to respond in kind.

I myself became quite aware of that in the Big 10 Network thread.

Having said that, I have read Mandel's columns and I actually like the guy. He seems to have genuine regard for Jim Tressel and doesn't just blurt out idiotic statements to drive viewership/site hits/ratings (see May, Mark).

Mandel has been critical of tOSU at times, but he also heaped praise on the Buckeyes as well - IIRC, he was gushing about our throttling of ND in the 2005-06 Fiesta Bowl. In summation, he has been fair and usually calls a spade a spade.
 
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osugrad21;959932; said:
Sushi = Mili?
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Indeed.....:lol:

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Ah...

Good old Mandel... funny... I think '03 was the year that he called for the OSU athletics department to impose the death penalty on itself...

Maybe '04... whatever.

At any rate... this last column... yeah... so what?

I mean, seriously.. all the guy is saying is that nobody knows what the hell is going to happen... 3 weeks ago people were worried about having a shit ton of undefeateds.... Usual suspects... USC (Or at least the winner of them and Cal) WVU... Oklahoma.... LSU... Ohio State...

Oops....

The odd thing to me is that I think that the odds were (and the general talking head consensus) that Ohio State would be 8-0 going into Penn State...

Problem of course... is that no one expected them to be the only unbeaten "named" school left... so... yeah, we're number one.

And... that 8-0 was back when all the preseason question marks were still there...

Couple that with the fact that Penn State, Wisconsin, and Michigan have... ummmm... underacheived in the eyes of the world... and... yeah... people are going to question how good we are.

Hell, I question it... and... not to look too far ahead... but... I think in two weeks we're gonna know... one way or the other.... Penn State's best shot at home will still be pretty good... and... that's what we're gonna get.

The other truth, of course... is that the talking heads haven't really been watching us too closely... (but for the Purdue game, where we did start getting some love for the "D") Anyway... weren't we ranked top 5 that year before the Cooper implosion began?

So... screw the "Yeah, they're number one, but who have they played?" morons....

We're number 1.... my message to LSU, USC, Cal, Florida, Oklahoma, etc....

Don't lose.
 
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osugrad21;959932; said:
Sushi = Mili?
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Thump;959933; said:
Must be that type of the month.
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OSUsushichic;959935; said:
type? :slappy:

d'oh, you were too quick with the edit. :biggrin:
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BB73;959952; said:
I think Mili rubbed off on her in Seattle.



No, I don't need to rephrase that. :biggrin:
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And I wake up to this shit? Fucking time difference...
 
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