1. DOMINANCE
b: the property of one of a pair of alleles or traits that suppresses expression of the other in the heterozygous condition (sorry, but my grandson has been teething on my dictionary and that is the only entry I could read)
Did our allele kick IU's allele or what? I was honestly surprised. This is a young team that came in here believing in themselves. They have some decent athletes on "O" and, although I knew we would win handily, I thought they would challenge our "D" on at least a couple of drives. But just when they were about to influence the heterozygous condition, there was the OSU Defense to suppress any such expression.
In a game where your opponents only highlight is a line drive punt that miraculously lands at the one and stops at the two it is hard to come up with an analogy that doesn't involve clubs and baby seals. Until we went into pretty much a prevent D in the 4th quarter their longest drive was 35 yards on 11 plays. That's right, an 11 play 35 yard drive. That has to be some kind of record. And on their lone scoring drive they went zero yards in three plays. Not sure how much of that you can blame on a "D" which once again leads the nation in scoring (tied with LSU).
2. THIS ONE TIME, AT BAND CAMP.....
The real butt whipping, however, wasn?t 44-3. The real butt whipping took place at half time.
I had two kids spend a total of seven years in marching bands in HS. Seven years of Saturday band competitions (and I still never developed a taste for marching band music - sorry). In those seven years I never saw a less inspired performance than the one IU put on at half time Saturday.
On the other hand, TBDBITL did their annual salute to jingoism and it was masterful. Crisp, complex maneuvers and masterful musicianship. Just goes to show you what Jon Woods can do when he has two weeks to prepare.
3. SLOW START
On the one hand I was disappointed in our first two drives. On the other hand I was glad nobody detonated a dirty bomb. So it all worked out.
(BTW - I know there is nothing really funny about a bomb threat, but did anyone notice that some of the threatened stadiums were hosting 1:00 games and others 4:00 games? "Hey Ma, Junior just called. Says he will sell us his Browns tickets cheap, but not to turn on Faux News.")
4. TIGHT ENDS
OK BB73, when is the last time OSU threw three TD passes to Tight Ends in one game?
Oh, and on Ginn's TD pass - I hate to nit-pick, but I thought Nicol should have fair caught the ball.
5. NEXT WEEKS TRICK PLAY
We hand the ball to the full back.
6. NACHO REPORT
Ummm. Only the second time this season I have had my Nachos. But what can I say? Nothing like a big plate of nachos drenched in nutritious cheese-food product and covered with lots of hot peppers on a perfect football Saturday.
I like to let a few chips marinate in the nutritious cheese-food product until they just start to lose their crispness. Not so much so that they are soggy - just enough so that the rich cheese-foody flavor has saturated the chip.
And speaking of saturated - I think better when I eat nachos. The nutritious cheese-food product works first on the blood vessels that leave my brain. That means the trapped blood stays there longer and I get more of the oxygen. (It is always good to know how your body works if you are going to maximize your potential.)
7. SERENDIPITY
: the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for; also : an instance of this
Literally as I am typing my entry about nachos the door bell rings. Who should I find but two young ladies selling candy to support their local school. I may die from the crap I shove in my mouth, but I will not permit myself to feel guilt for so doing. So I sent them away happy in the only way I can please females of any age these days - by giving them money.
And vote No on Issue 3. We don't need gambling to fund education. Just keep on selling those candy bars.
God Bless America!
8. ANOTHER TRESSEL LIE
"In the Big Ten it's a four quarter game every week."
JT said that. It's a lie and I can prove it.
Remember the march to the NC game in 2002? When JT was trying to kill everyone over 50 with a heart attack? It was true then. "Holey Buckeye", the Gamble intercept against PSU, OT in Champaign, last ditch intercept against Michigan, and so on. It took four quarters every week.
Well, this year has been a bit different. Not only have we won every game by 17 or more, but another interesting factoid is when during the game we have scored the "Winning Point". I don't mean the point that put us ahead to stay, I mean the last point we needed to secure the win - after which no further scoring is required. In a 34-17 game that would be our 18th point, whenever we scored it.
So far this season we have scored the "winning point" in the first half of 7 or our 8 games - twice in the first quarter. And the closest thing to a nail biter was when we scored our "winning" point against PSU less than six minutes into the second half.
Other than running time off the clock and establishing field position our Offense has not been needed in the last 24 minutes of any game this season.
These have been anything but four quarter games.
9. ESPN
I really hate to give these guys credit for anything - especially after the ESPNU BS - but if you are not recording College Football Final you are missing the best CFB summary on the air (Mark May not withstanding). It is all about the video clips.
10. NEW FACES
Ballard looks like a keeper. Best TE reception in some time.
And did I read correctly that Aaron "has anybody seen the red shirt I was just wearing" Gant had three tackles?
11. HARTLINE
How long before we move him to LB? Six tackles in two weeks. JT denied him a Tatum Hit of the Week Award for his block earlier this season because he didn't think it was up to the standards of the Assassin. I think this weeks hit (which incidentally put Thigpen out of the game) qualifies.
12. TURF
My wife does not enjoy attending games but I have to get her up there this week. She is always on my butt about our lawn and I want her to see the job OSU does with $100,000,000 at their disposal. It was absolutely as bad in person as it looked on TV. (Then again, I may be speaking out of turn. If they hosted a tractor pull on Friday night I owe the groundskeepers an apology.)
If nothing can be done in terms of short term repair the turf could be a factor in The Game - which would be a real shame.
13. YOW YAO!
I get more fun trying to build arguments for things I don't agree with than the other way around. So I was playing with the argument that Michigan has more talent than we do. My thesis was that we have a lot of 5th year players who are playing as regular starters for the first time. If they were great athletes they should have started as Sophs or Juniors and were only getting a chance now because we did not have great athletes behind them and that coaching had finally gotten these guys to the point they could contribute.
OK, it was weak to begin with, but Yao blew it right out of the water yesterday. In a game where Lewis made most of our D look like they needed a remedial tackling course Yao was playing like an All American.
So let me throw out another question. When we talk about the best walk on players in OSU history, what names would you throw out to compete with Antonio Smith?
14. TROY
I just read that he is being sued by Electronic Arts because they are unable to emulate some of the shit he does.
15. MO WELLS
OK, it was IU and they were tired. But they knew he was coming and he did OK. I have been eagerly anticipating something positive from this kid and I don't want to let the opportunity to congratulate him slip by.
16. SUPPORT THE VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA
This is an excellent organization that does a lot of good work in the local community. They are currently in the middle of a campaign to collect used sofas. These need not be clean, but should be free of bug infestations. These sofas will be treated with Flamex and stored pending distribution to needy students in the campus area beginning the 19th of November.
17. INTERCEPTIONS
Nine different players have intercepted passes this season. That sure seems like a lot.
18. MANAGING BODIES
JT thinks about stuff that never occurs to most of us (have I ever told you I love the guy?).
I listened to an interview early in the season when he was asked what he thought about the new clock management rules. He primarily said he would wait till the end of the season to evaluate it. But he also said that it might counterbalance the 12 game schedule in terms of wear and tear on the players. An interesting comment from a coach who supports a playoff and coached 15 game seasons at a lower division. But also a comment from a coach who knows what it is about.
Yesterday I heard an interview with a near-tears JL Lewis (can it really save your job to have a come back like that when none of your fans are still watching?). He commented on how gutsy his team was and how hard it is to pull a team together when everyone is banged up - but that is what you have to deal with "this time of year".
You do? We don't seem to be having that problem. Granted, we had a big loss in Anderson Russell. Patterson has missed two games and our third team QB just came back. And I am sure there are a lot of little dings that kids are playing with and we don't hear about. But we are not suffering the kind of injury problems that lots of teams are having.
Trust me; I wouldn't be typing this if I didn't have a genuine wood desk to knock on as I did so. But the way JT is running kids on and off the field seems to be paying benefits and may do us even more good as the season progresses. I believe we scored two first half TDs yesterday behind our second team OL. Pittman is required to be anything but a work horse (he has not been over 18 carries in the last three games) and 11 players not listed as defensive starters were credited with 21 tackles yesterday. We even regularly alternate our kickers (I read where Aaron Pettrey was complaining his leg got tired yesterday after 6 kick offs, 6 extra point attempts and a field goal).
And what is truly amazing about the team depth that makes this all possible is that we are doing it essentially without a class of fourth year players. Granted, the eleven 5th year seniors from the class of '02 are a God send. But only four players from the '03 class remain on the team. To survive the loss of almost an entire recruiting class is impressive. To do so and still routinely shuttle players on and off the field while maintaining your status as the #1 team in the country is nothing short of remarkable.
None of this is good news for the three teams who recently have; 1) barely beaten N. Dakota St; 2) blown a 35 point lead and 3) lost to Ohio U.
It is a good time to be a Buckeye.
b: the property of one of a pair of alleles or traits that suppresses expression of the other in the heterozygous condition (sorry, but my grandson has been teething on my dictionary and that is the only entry I could read)
Did our allele kick IU's allele or what? I was honestly surprised. This is a young team that came in here believing in themselves. They have some decent athletes on "O" and, although I knew we would win handily, I thought they would challenge our "D" on at least a couple of drives. But just when they were about to influence the heterozygous condition, there was the OSU Defense to suppress any such expression.
In a game where your opponents only highlight is a line drive punt that miraculously lands at the one and stops at the two it is hard to come up with an analogy that doesn't involve clubs and baby seals. Until we went into pretty much a prevent D in the 4th quarter their longest drive was 35 yards on 11 plays. That's right, an 11 play 35 yard drive. That has to be some kind of record. And on their lone scoring drive they went zero yards in three plays. Not sure how much of that you can blame on a "D" which once again leads the nation in scoring (tied with LSU).
2. THIS ONE TIME, AT BAND CAMP.....
The real butt whipping, however, wasn?t 44-3. The real butt whipping took place at half time.
I had two kids spend a total of seven years in marching bands in HS. Seven years of Saturday band competitions (and I still never developed a taste for marching band music - sorry). In those seven years I never saw a less inspired performance than the one IU put on at half time Saturday.
On the other hand, TBDBITL did their annual salute to jingoism and it was masterful. Crisp, complex maneuvers and masterful musicianship. Just goes to show you what Jon Woods can do when he has two weeks to prepare.
3. SLOW START
On the one hand I was disappointed in our first two drives. On the other hand I was glad nobody detonated a dirty bomb. So it all worked out.
(BTW - I know there is nothing really funny about a bomb threat, but did anyone notice that some of the threatened stadiums were hosting 1:00 games and others 4:00 games? "Hey Ma, Junior just called. Says he will sell us his Browns tickets cheap, but not to turn on Faux News.")
4. TIGHT ENDS
OK BB73, when is the last time OSU threw three TD passes to Tight Ends in one game?
Oh, and on Ginn's TD pass - I hate to nit-pick, but I thought Nicol should have fair caught the ball.
5. NEXT WEEKS TRICK PLAY
We hand the ball to the full back.
6. NACHO REPORT
Ummm. Only the second time this season I have had my Nachos. But what can I say? Nothing like a big plate of nachos drenched in nutritious cheese-food product and covered with lots of hot peppers on a perfect football Saturday.
I like to let a few chips marinate in the nutritious cheese-food product until they just start to lose their crispness. Not so much so that they are soggy - just enough so that the rich cheese-foody flavor has saturated the chip.
And speaking of saturated - I think better when I eat nachos. The nutritious cheese-food product works first on the blood vessels that leave my brain. That means the trapped blood stays there longer and I get more of the oxygen. (It is always good to know how your body works if you are going to maximize your potential.)
7. SERENDIPITY
: the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for; also : an instance of this
Literally as I am typing my entry about nachos the door bell rings. Who should I find but two young ladies selling candy to support their local school. I may die from the crap I shove in my mouth, but I will not permit myself to feel guilt for so doing. So I sent them away happy in the only way I can please females of any age these days - by giving them money.
And vote No on Issue 3. We don't need gambling to fund education. Just keep on selling those candy bars.
God Bless America!
8. ANOTHER TRESSEL LIE
"In the Big Ten it's a four quarter game every week."
JT said that. It's a lie and I can prove it.
Remember the march to the NC game in 2002? When JT was trying to kill everyone over 50 with a heart attack? It was true then. "Holey Buckeye", the Gamble intercept against PSU, OT in Champaign, last ditch intercept against Michigan, and so on. It took four quarters every week.
Well, this year has been a bit different. Not only have we won every game by 17 or more, but another interesting factoid is when during the game we have scored the "Winning Point". I don't mean the point that put us ahead to stay, I mean the last point we needed to secure the win - after which no further scoring is required. In a 34-17 game that would be our 18th point, whenever we scored it.
So far this season we have scored the "winning point" in the first half of 7 or our 8 games - twice in the first quarter. And the closest thing to a nail biter was when we scored our "winning" point against PSU less than six minutes into the second half.
Other than running time off the clock and establishing field position our Offense has not been needed in the last 24 minutes of any game this season.
These have been anything but four quarter games.
9. ESPN
I really hate to give these guys credit for anything - especially after the ESPNU BS - but if you are not recording College Football Final you are missing the best CFB summary on the air (Mark May not withstanding). It is all about the video clips.
10. NEW FACES
Ballard looks like a keeper. Best TE reception in some time.
And did I read correctly that Aaron "has anybody seen the red shirt I was just wearing" Gant had three tackles?
11. HARTLINE
How long before we move him to LB? Six tackles in two weeks. JT denied him a Tatum Hit of the Week Award for his block earlier this season because he didn't think it was up to the standards of the Assassin. I think this weeks hit (which incidentally put Thigpen out of the game) qualifies.
12. TURF
My wife does not enjoy attending games but I have to get her up there this week. She is always on my butt about our lawn and I want her to see the job OSU does with $100,000,000 at their disposal. It was absolutely as bad in person as it looked on TV. (Then again, I may be speaking out of turn. If they hosted a tractor pull on Friday night I owe the groundskeepers an apology.)
If nothing can be done in terms of short term repair the turf could be a factor in The Game - which would be a real shame.
13. YOW YAO!
I get more fun trying to build arguments for things I don't agree with than the other way around. So I was playing with the argument that Michigan has more talent than we do. My thesis was that we have a lot of 5th year players who are playing as regular starters for the first time. If they were great athletes they should have started as Sophs or Juniors and were only getting a chance now because we did not have great athletes behind them and that coaching had finally gotten these guys to the point they could contribute.
OK, it was weak to begin with, but Yao blew it right out of the water yesterday. In a game where Lewis made most of our D look like they needed a remedial tackling course Yao was playing like an All American.
So let me throw out another question. When we talk about the best walk on players in OSU history, what names would you throw out to compete with Antonio Smith?
14. TROY
I just read that he is being sued by Electronic Arts because they are unable to emulate some of the shit he does.
15. MO WELLS
OK, it was IU and they were tired. But they knew he was coming and he did OK. I have been eagerly anticipating something positive from this kid and I don't want to let the opportunity to congratulate him slip by.
16. SUPPORT THE VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA
This is an excellent organization that does a lot of good work in the local community. They are currently in the middle of a campaign to collect used sofas. These need not be clean, but should be free of bug infestations. These sofas will be treated with Flamex and stored pending distribution to needy students in the campus area beginning the 19th of November.
17. INTERCEPTIONS
Nine different players have intercepted passes this season. That sure seems like a lot.
18. MANAGING BODIES
JT thinks about stuff that never occurs to most of us (have I ever told you I love the guy?).
I listened to an interview early in the season when he was asked what he thought about the new clock management rules. He primarily said he would wait till the end of the season to evaluate it. But he also said that it might counterbalance the 12 game schedule in terms of wear and tear on the players. An interesting comment from a coach who supports a playoff and coached 15 game seasons at a lower division. But also a comment from a coach who knows what it is about.
Yesterday I heard an interview with a near-tears JL Lewis (can it really save your job to have a come back like that when none of your fans are still watching?). He commented on how gutsy his team was and how hard it is to pull a team together when everyone is banged up - but that is what you have to deal with "this time of year".
You do? We don't seem to be having that problem. Granted, we had a big loss in Anderson Russell. Patterson has missed two games and our third team QB just came back. And I am sure there are a lot of little dings that kids are playing with and we don't hear about. But we are not suffering the kind of injury problems that lots of teams are having.
Trust me; I wouldn't be typing this if I didn't have a genuine wood desk to knock on as I did so. But the way JT is running kids on and off the field seems to be paying benefits and may do us even more good as the season progresses. I believe we scored two first half TDs yesterday behind our second team OL. Pittman is required to be anything but a work horse (he has not been over 18 carries in the last three games) and 11 players not listed as defensive starters were credited with 21 tackles yesterday. We even regularly alternate our kickers (I read where Aaron Pettrey was complaining his leg got tired yesterday after 6 kick offs, 6 extra point attempts and a field goal).
And what is truly amazing about the team depth that makes this all possible is that we are doing it essentially without a class of fourth year players. Granted, the eleven 5th year seniors from the class of '02 are a God send. But only four players from the '03 class remain on the team. To survive the loss of almost an entire recruiting class is impressive. To do so and still routinely shuttle players on and off the field while maintaining your status as the #1 team in the country is nothing short of remarkable.
None of this is good news for the three teams who recently have; 1) barely beaten N. Dakota St; 2) blown a 35 point lead and 3) lost to Ohio U.
It is a good time to be a Buckeye.
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