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Jim Tressel (National Champion, ex-President, Youngstown State University, CFB HOF)

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The special teams right now may send him into early retirement. It's his bread and butter, and if they keep up the same play they are now, it's going to cost us a game. I'm sure he'll turn it around, and quick hopefully.
 
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BuckeyeMac;1769242; said:
The special teams right now may send him into early retirement. It's his bread and butter, and if they keep up the same play they are now, it's going to cost us a game. I'm sure he'll turn it around, and quick hopefully.
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I hope your right, however I think a big problem for us is kick distance, we don't have a guy on kickoffs that can put it into the end zone consistently. Our coverage teams could be a little more sound but it's really trouble if we just don't have a leg that can boot the ball the way it needs to be booted
 
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The kick distance is an issue I agree. We do need someone with a bigger leg, especially on kickoffs. But that doesn't mean the kick coverage should give up TD's, just means the receiving team should have better field position, which yesterday in the first half, Miami couldn't move the ball (which if we tackle the return man, how the game was being played, we would have held Miami).
 
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JBaney45;1769267; said:
I hope your right, however I think a big problem for us is kick distance, we don't have a guy on kickoffs that can put it into the end zone consistently.
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Did Barclay put it in the end zone at all?

I thought it was pretty cool that between Barclay's six FG attempts and three PAT's he hit the flag pole so many times.
 
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JBaney45;1769267; said:
I hope your right, however I think a big problem for us is kick distance, we don't have a guy on kickoffs that can put it into the end zone consistently. Our coverage teams could be a little more sound but it's really trouble if we just don't have a leg that can boot the ball the way it needs to be booted
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Kick coverage has been the problem this year. More kick distance would be nice, sure, but the coverage has been awful. "Coverage teams could be a little more sound" is probably the understatement of the century to this point. Kick distance isn't why teams return TDs. People not making tackles, getting out of position, over-pursuing, being behind the returner when he catches the ball (this happened yesterday, WTF?!?!), etc..
 
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MightbeaBuck;1769329; said:
Did Barclay put it in the end zone at all?

I thought it was pretty cool that between Barclay's six FG attempts and three PAT's he hit the flag pole so many times.
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Don't believe so, he didn't put it in the end zone during the Rose Bowl either, I think we've been spoiled a bit with the big legged guys we've had under Tressel (Pettrey, Houston, Nugent).

The issue isn't just the distance portion of it it's the hang time, when you kick line drives it makes it hard for the return team to get down there. You don't want to give speedy guys more time to find and exploit lanes. This was an issue during the Rose Bowl (remember Pettrey couldn't kick off). Obviously the tackling needs to be better but you've got to be able to help them out a little bit by putting a kick into the end zone.
 
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JBaney45;1769360; said:
Don't believe so, he didn't put it in the end zone during the Rose Bowl either, I think we've been spoiled a bit with the big legged guys we've had under Tressel (Pettrey, Houston, Nugent).
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Not to take anything away from Huston / Nugent, but I believe kickoffs were moved from the 35 back to the 30 (maybe 2007) to introduce fewer touchbacks.
 
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briegg;1769583; said:
Not to take anything away from Huston / Nugent, but I believe kickoffs were moved from the 35 back to the 30 (maybe 2007) to introduce fewer touchbacks.
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Right, but Pettrey was still successful in getting it into the end zone on kicks, and Nugent/Houston were kicking it out of the back of the end zone
 
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Andrew Sweat a game time decision vs OU, per Coach Tress on The Jim Tressel show today.

J. Newsome will get the nod at SAM...keeping Sabino's redshirt intact. (for now) He also stated Moeller is capable to play the position when in the game too.

Sorry, I missed what the injury (or whatever it is) is.
 
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