CAUTION: THIS POST IS FILLED WITH SOPHOMORIC AND OFFENSIVE HUMOR.
Well, maybe not completely filled, but I did my best.
1. THE GAME
Watching my Buckeyes struggle is so painful that I have developed a defense mechanism for extreme situations. Kind of like the doofus in the movies who is about to get pummeled and repeats the mantra "find a happy place, find a happy place".
For me it is morphing from an OSU fan to a more generic CFB fan. I started to do that Saturday half way through the third quarter as I was having a flashback to MSU in 1998. On that day I walked out of the Stadium with a half-smile on my face because I knew I had just witnessed one of those games that make CFB so great. Any team on any given Saturday can elevate their game. A prepared and motivated team with the right game plan and right adjustments can beat anybody. And when that sort of team is playing like a great team for that stretch of time they ARE a great team. And if you aren't watching through scarlet, or maize, or crimson glasses it is a beautiful thing to see. We want desperately to believe we are different. Somehow immune. But we aren't.
So here was a Wisconsin team shredding the nation's best D. Stifling an O that was unstoppable only a week before. Giving every indication that the virus which had infected every other highly ranked team this season had spread to the Shoe.
And there I was mentally drafting a post about how OSU Football isn't nearly as important as we all make it and how we ought to spend more time with our families and should fill our lives with more meaningful things.
So when the Badgers tied the game I already felt like we were behind. And only minutes later we were.
But only a few plays after that I knew we were going to be OK - and all that stuff about families was just so much drivel. Because that was when I saw the Badger DL getting back to their feet absolutely sucking wind. That was when our OL started taking command and Beanie sent the message that he had seen quite enough, thank you very much. That was when the fear of God filled the Buckeyes and they smote the Philistines!! Sorry, got carried away.
2. THE TEST
But the truth is that when they had to OSU did kick it up a notch in a game that simultaneously validated and disapproved the pundit's assertion that OSU would crumble when they met a 'real' team.
Because once again we saw what makes CFB so wonderful. Every week every team can be a different team.
The App ST team that beat Michigan was not the same team that lost to Wofford.
The Kentucky team that beat LSU was far from the Kentucky team that was crushed by Miss St.
And the SFU team that tripped Auburn on the road has been appearing on milk cartons ever since.
But when these teams show up prepared, motivated and with the right game plan they ARE Michigan, LSU and Auburn.
So it was that Saturday a different Wisky team - the pre-season top 5 rated Wisky team - appeared. They arrived following OSU's first drive and carried the game well into the third quarter. And for that stretch they were not the team that was destroyed by PSU or struggled against the Citadel. They were the team the pundits were crying for.
And we whipped them.
But wait, the skeptics cry.
In the end didn't the Wisconsin team that played so well for over 30 minutes disintegrated before our eyes? Not only were they spent, but by the end of the first half one of their receivers was wearing a leg brace and another player was on crutches. In the second half two more left on carts to join their starting tailback on the Do Not Disturb list (which is to take nothing from the leg churning Zach Brown).
So in the end Audrey Pleasant had to quit flapping his arms, no longer taunting the OSU crowd to become louder still. And Wisky left with their heads down.
But as tired as they were, we wore them out. As injured as they were, we delivered the blows. And as disappointed as they were with the whipping they took - we were the ones who whipped them.
We WERE tested. And we passed.
3. LATEST GET RICH SCHEME
Camera turf.
You replace the existing field turf with billions of optical fibers. On the tip of each you place a teeny-weenie HiDef camera.
Questionable call? Especially one of those where the ball is cradled against the turf and you can't get a good camera angle? Replay it from an infinite number of angles and get it right.
Expensive? Not at all. Simply tax the public. It can't cost more than universal health coverage or the war in Iraq - and this is something we would all benefit from. ('er, 'from which we would all benefit')
4. AYACHE
If you are ever in France, David Ayache makes a mean instrument.
5. PLAYER OF THE GAME?
19 tackles for Laurinaitis
4 Sacks for Gholston
Incredible catch by Robiskie
But Beanie. Wow.
6. QUARTERBACK CONTROVERSEY
Well, Batman has gone back to his bat cave, Superman is back at the Daily planet, and Spidey has taken off the tights.
Don't get me wrong. Adam West, Clark Kent and Peter Parker are all competent and constructive contributors to society. And I fully expect to see more footage of the Scarlet and Gray Caped Crusader. But Saturday he was just Todd Boeckman - mild mannered quarterback of the Ohio State Buckeyes. A damn solid college QB (two TDs, a win and a QB rating of 134), but not quite the stuff of which Heisman's are made.
Although we did see a new dimension. Boeckman the runner ('scrambler' would be a stretch).
Honestly, didn't he look just a bit like Troy Smith?
OK, maybe Troy in a three legged race. But still, four runs of 7 yards or more was a nice addition to the game films Lloyd will be studying.
And did anyone else's heart stop when he looked a bit gimpy after being hit at the end of one of those runs. Where do we turn if the only QB who has taken a snap in the past three games goes down? Jimmy Olsen?
Certainly not to Antonio Henton, who spent his SIXTH straight game IN purgatory and OUT of uniform. There has to be more to this issue than has hit the press.
7. BEILHARZ
Rainer Beilharz is the man to see in Australia for all your stringed needs.
8. YES SIR, YES SIR, TEN SACKS FULL
Ten sacks - and Robert Rose and Lawrence Wilson were in street clothes.
9. BECKUM
Stud.
10. LSU
Let me get this straight. The same coach who last week bypassed a game winning field goal to try a risky pass that could have lost his team the game, this week purposely had his team practice a play that is, by rule, a penalty (simultaneous shift of multiple OL which is 'simulating a snap' for those who missed it). Then used said play in a critical situation that ended up costing his team 7 points.
Did this guy cut a deal with the devil? Because he is sure living on borrowed time. I can't recall a team that had so many close calls and was still in contention for the NC.
Well, yeah, I guess I can. But JT deserved it.
LSU may have the most athletic players in the country. But they are certainly not the best - and are far from the most disciplined - football players.
Can we PLEASE get this guy to Michigan?
(BTW - I don't know who came up with it first, but 'a new Carr with Les Miles' is the funniest thing I have heard in a while - except it may be an insult to Carr.)
11. DISAPPOINTING D?
I love to spout off stats. Talk about how few touchdowns we have given up and the meaningless situations in which they were scored.
It takes a little wind out of my sails when our D gives up 14 points on two fluke-less drives in the span of 8 minutes. Points that counted. Points that put us behind in the second half for the first time this season.
But if this season goes where we are all hoping it goes, I think we will look back at those scores as a springboard to where we need to be.
I remember last year's finish. And I have been watching this year's LSU. A team that allowed seven points in the first three games and who SEC fans will still tell you has the best D in the nation despite giving up 125 points in their last four games.
So as long as this D steps up when it needs to step up - as it has in every game except one of the last 22 - the only numbers that matter are 13 and 0.
12. DA BAND
There is usually one performance each year that stands out - and Saturday was the day.
Crisp execution of some outstanding formations (OK, this is where I got the super hero analogy), climaxed by a bow and arrow pointing to a large 'W'. Then pulling the string and letting it fly. Awesome bandimation.
This is what happens when you give Jon Woods two weeks to prepare.
13. BELLIDO
Nobody beats Gustavo Bellido for an Argentine fiddle.
14. KICKING GAME
Am I alone in my concerns?
Saturday we had fewer net average punting yards than our opponent
Only one of seven kickoffs went for a touchback
Our average kickoff was only 59.3 yards
We had one hesitant and ill advised kickoff return from the end zone
We had five punt returns for six yards
We had our second blocked field goal in three weeks and third on the season
And we are one of only a handful of Div 1A teams who have given up two TDs on kickoff returns this season
Although Pettrey is back and two of his three kickoffs were solid, our kicking game overall is not at the level we are accustomed to. (I mean, of course, 'the level to which we have become accumstomed'.).
.
15. BAN THE ELEVATORS!
I have a solution to one of my pet peeves. Stop operating elevators to C Deck. If the fatties can't get up there I can quit counting to figure out how many extra people have found their way into my row.
16. SIDELINE WARNING
Late in the game OSU was called for a sideline warning. Only thing I can guess is that Beliema had gotten all the way over to our sideline and the refs had gotten confused.
Rarely have I seen a coach given so much latitude to carry on his antics.
17. BURNING UP THE DVR
I am not sufficiently evolved. Saturday afternoon when I got back from the Shoe I started watching the games I had taped and the games that were live and I didn't catch up till almost midnight.
When I first got a DVR I couldn't understand why anyone would need a device that could record two shows while you watched a third. Turns out it isn't enough. When the 2nd, 3r,d 4th and 5th ranked teams in the country are playing simultaneously in three different games it isn't enough. ND and Michigan looked like afterthoughts in the tv guide, but were near classics instead. I suppose I could do some sort of daisy chaining, but at some point I guess you just have to say 'enough is enough'.
After 9 sacks (Beckum took the 10th) Donovan may be feeling some aches and pains - but he's got nuthin' on my thumb.
18. THE NFL VERSUS CFB
Tons of hype this week about New England versus Indianapolis. Never before have two undefeated NFL teams met this far into the season.
Only one problem with that game. Unlike an overrated Boston College versus an unranked FSU or a lower level Appalachian St versus mighty Michigan or countless other CFB games that are played every season - it doesn't really matter who wins.
19. ACCELERATE YOUR LIFE
I want to leave them alone. I really do. But they won't let me.
I'm not a ND hater by nature. It is CW who gets under my skin (ironic for a man who barely fits in his own). He is the arrogant rock star that grates on my nerves. Watching him lose is like sitting in on a Brittany Spears custody hearing. It is bad for the kids - but ain't it great when bad things happen to bad people?
Last week I was celebrating NDs record setting failure to qualify for a bowl game when it hit me - this means they won't be able to extend their record setting streak of consecutive bowl losses!
Bummer.
Well, at least now I know what Domer Nation is referring to when they say 'Wait till next year.'
And this week we again got to see what happens when you give CW two weeks to prepare. He sends his seniors home early so he can prepare for next year. Then ends the most positive streak ND still has going for them. The last time Navy beat ND Roger Staubach was the QB and John Paul Jones was his go-to receiver.
A record setting consecutive loss streak. One win in 11 games.
And what does he do in the post game presser? He brings up Robert Hughes.
If you win - fine. Give the kid a tribute. But to imply - however subtly - that this loss was related to team emotions related to Hughes losing his brother was an absolute disgrace. The most classless act yet from a very classless man.
Even if it was true. Even if that were the entire reason. Do not hang that on one of your kids. Don't even put the thought out there. That was not the time.
The loss had nothing to do with his choice to forego a FG attempt. Nothing to do with his inability to develop athletes (can anyone really argue that ND has less talent than Navy or that it is harder to get into Notre Dame than the US Naval Academy?) Nothing to do with wasting this week's practice getting ready for next year's games.
It was the death of a player's brother who brought ND to its latest nadir.
Pathetic.
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21. QUTOES OF THE WEEK
A. PSU DB Lydell Sargeant after last week's game:
'They didn't run anything we were used to or saw on tape. We adjusted to things in the second half, but they ran plays that we could not pick up on. Pretty much everything they ran, we had never seen before.'
Ninth week of the season and pretty much everything we ran had not been on tape. Remarkable.
B. I needed my heart pills after this one as Rory Nicol described how JT uses the past to motivate:
'There are things everywhere - even just the word 'remember' and some videos we'll see this week'.. kind of like my marketing teachers says: we see about a thousand marketing things a day, and we only remember two.'
Think about it.
A college football player quoting something he had learned - in the classroom. Almost makes you want to put the hyphen back in 'student-athlete'.
C. And finally, from CW:
'The Service Academies better have their fun now....'
22. A NOTE TO THE PRUDES
If you didn't click the free porn link, give it a try. It actually takes you to the Recruiting Planet. A new effort spearheaded by members of this site. It may look like a fledgling, but it is already ahead of where the Buckeye Planet was when most of us old timers first got involved here just a few short years ago.
This is a project from many of the folks who are the true backbone of this site - not clowns like me who just muck around with a thesaurus an hour or two on a Sunday morning.
It is worth a look or two - and a bookmark for return visits as it grows.
23. TRAP GAME
I have been saying since before the season started that Illinois was the trap game. Nothing has changed my mind.
Williams, Mendenhall and Benn are a three headed beast to rival Henne, Hart and Manningham. They don't have the supporting case, but neither do they have our attention the way Michigan does.
If they come motivated, prepared and with the right game plan - we best do the same.
24. BECKER
If you are every in Chicago and need a new bow, Carl Becker and his boy....
... oops, my bad. Please ignore.
25. SUPPORT GROUP
As you can tell, I have done my best to avoid any reference to domestic violins in this thread.
But I was given a good suggestion this week. If I really want to make a difference, why not start a support group?
More I thought about it, the more I liked the idea. Truth is, I am much more likely to get violent if I have been drinking. And when I have been drinking I can't hit shit.
So wouldn't it be great if I could call up a couple of buds and they could come on over and do my wailing for me?
26. EXCUSE ME PAPA
Papa - let's just dispense with the silly word spellings, OK?
Some times you aren't so funny.
I don't think it would be funny if my Daddy hit my Mommy. But some Daddy's do hit Mommy's. Or they yell at them really mean and make them feel bad about themselves. They even do it to little kids like me. I'm five Papa. Would it be funny if somebody hit me?
I was reading one of my Eric Caryle books and it said:
A. On the average, more than three women are murdered by their husbands or boyfriends every day.
B. 4 million American women experience a serious assault by a partner during an average 12-month period.
C. 37% of all women who sought care in hospital emergency rooms for violence-related injuries were injured by a current or former spouse, boyfriend or girlfriend.
D. For 30% of women who experience abuse, the first incident occurs during pregnancy.
E. Between 50% and 70% of male abusers also abuse their children
F. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see?
I don't know what all those numbers mean, but except for that last one, those seem like pretty sad things to say. Domestic abuse isn't funny Papa and the people who do it ought to get some help.
27. NACHO REPORT
I had this storyboard all worked out for the season and this was the week where the Cheese Bitch was going to again deny me service and I was going to strangle here with my Buckeye Necklace.
Now I have writer's block.
And I'm hungry.
Well, maybe not completely filled, but I did my best.
1. THE GAME
Watching my Buckeyes struggle is so painful that I have developed a defense mechanism for extreme situations. Kind of like the doofus in the movies who is about to get pummeled and repeats the mantra "find a happy place, find a happy place".
For me it is morphing from an OSU fan to a more generic CFB fan. I started to do that Saturday half way through the third quarter as I was having a flashback to MSU in 1998. On that day I walked out of the Stadium with a half-smile on my face because I knew I had just witnessed one of those games that make CFB so great. Any team on any given Saturday can elevate their game. A prepared and motivated team with the right game plan and right adjustments can beat anybody. And when that sort of team is playing like a great team for that stretch of time they ARE a great team. And if you aren't watching through scarlet, or maize, or crimson glasses it is a beautiful thing to see. We want desperately to believe we are different. Somehow immune. But we aren't.
So here was a Wisconsin team shredding the nation's best D. Stifling an O that was unstoppable only a week before. Giving every indication that the virus which had infected every other highly ranked team this season had spread to the Shoe.
And there I was mentally drafting a post about how OSU Football isn't nearly as important as we all make it and how we ought to spend more time with our families and should fill our lives with more meaningful things.
So when the Badgers tied the game I already felt like we were behind. And only minutes later we were.
But only a few plays after that I knew we were going to be OK - and all that stuff about families was just so much drivel. Because that was when I saw the Badger DL getting back to their feet absolutely sucking wind. That was when our OL started taking command and Beanie sent the message that he had seen quite enough, thank you very much. That was when the fear of God filled the Buckeyes and they smote the Philistines!! Sorry, got carried away.
2. THE TEST
But the truth is that when they had to OSU did kick it up a notch in a game that simultaneously validated and disapproved the pundit's assertion that OSU would crumble when they met a 'real' team.
Because once again we saw what makes CFB so wonderful. Every week every team can be a different team.
The App ST team that beat Michigan was not the same team that lost to Wofford.
The Kentucky team that beat LSU was far from the Kentucky team that was crushed by Miss St.
And the SFU team that tripped Auburn on the road has been appearing on milk cartons ever since.
But when these teams show up prepared, motivated and with the right game plan they ARE Michigan, LSU and Auburn.
So it was that Saturday a different Wisky team - the pre-season top 5 rated Wisky team - appeared. They arrived following OSU's first drive and carried the game well into the third quarter. And for that stretch they were not the team that was destroyed by PSU or struggled against the Citadel. They were the team the pundits were crying for.
And we whipped them.
But wait, the skeptics cry.
In the end didn't the Wisconsin team that played so well for over 30 minutes disintegrated before our eyes? Not only were they spent, but by the end of the first half one of their receivers was wearing a leg brace and another player was on crutches. In the second half two more left on carts to join their starting tailback on the Do Not Disturb list (which is to take nothing from the leg churning Zach Brown).
So in the end Audrey Pleasant had to quit flapping his arms, no longer taunting the OSU crowd to become louder still. And Wisky left with their heads down.
But as tired as they were, we wore them out. As injured as they were, we delivered the blows. And as disappointed as they were with the whipping they took - we were the ones who whipped them.
We WERE tested. And we passed.
3. LATEST GET RICH SCHEME
Camera turf.
You replace the existing field turf with billions of optical fibers. On the tip of each you place a teeny-weenie HiDef camera.
Questionable call? Especially one of those where the ball is cradled against the turf and you can't get a good camera angle? Replay it from an infinite number of angles and get it right.
Expensive? Not at all. Simply tax the public. It can't cost more than universal health coverage or the war in Iraq - and this is something we would all benefit from. ('er, 'from which we would all benefit')
4. AYACHE
If you are ever in France, David Ayache makes a mean instrument.
5. PLAYER OF THE GAME?
19 tackles for Laurinaitis
4 Sacks for Gholston
Incredible catch by Robiskie
But Beanie. Wow.
6. QUARTERBACK CONTROVERSEY
Well, Batman has gone back to his bat cave, Superman is back at the Daily planet, and Spidey has taken off the tights.
Don't get me wrong. Adam West, Clark Kent and Peter Parker are all competent and constructive contributors to society. And I fully expect to see more footage of the Scarlet and Gray Caped Crusader. But Saturday he was just Todd Boeckman - mild mannered quarterback of the Ohio State Buckeyes. A damn solid college QB (two TDs, a win and a QB rating of 134), but not quite the stuff of which Heisman's are made.
Although we did see a new dimension. Boeckman the runner ('scrambler' would be a stretch).
Honestly, didn't he look just a bit like Troy Smith?
OK, maybe Troy in a three legged race. But still, four runs of 7 yards or more was a nice addition to the game films Lloyd will be studying.
And did anyone else's heart stop when he looked a bit gimpy after being hit at the end of one of those runs. Where do we turn if the only QB who has taken a snap in the past three games goes down? Jimmy Olsen?
Certainly not to Antonio Henton, who spent his SIXTH straight game IN purgatory and OUT of uniform. There has to be more to this issue than has hit the press.
7. BEILHARZ
Rainer Beilharz is the man to see in Australia for all your stringed needs.
8. YES SIR, YES SIR, TEN SACKS FULL
Ten sacks - and Robert Rose and Lawrence Wilson were in street clothes.
9. BECKUM
Stud.
10. LSU
Let me get this straight. The same coach who last week bypassed a game winning field goal to try a risky pass that could have lost his team the game, this week purposely had his team practice a play that is, by rule, a penalty (simultaneous shift of multiple OL which is 'simulating a snap' for those who missed it). Then used said play in a critical situation that ended up costing his team 7 points.
Did this guy cut a deal with the devil? Because he is sure living on borrowed time. I can't recall a team that had so many close calls and was still in contention for the NC.
Well, yeah, I guess I can. But JT deserved it.
LSU may have the most athletic players in the country. But they are certainly not the best - and are far from the most disciplined - football players.
Can we PLEASE get this guy to Michigan?
(BTW - I don't know who came up with it first, but 'a new Carr with Les Miles' is the funniest thing I have heard in a while - except it may be an insult to Carr.)
11. DISAPPOINTING D?
I love to spout off stats. Talk about how few touchdowns we have given up and the meaningless situations in which they were scored.
It takes a little wind out of my sails when our D gives up 14 points on two fluke-less drives in the span of 8 minutes. Points that counted. Points that put us behind in the second half for the first time this season.
But if this season goes where we are all hoping it goes, I think we will look back at those scores as a springboard to where we need to be.
I remember last year's finish. And I have been watching this year's LSU. A team that allowed seven points in the first three games and who SEC fans will still tell you has the best D in the nation despite giving up 125 points in their last four games.
So as long as this D steps up when it needs to step up - as it has in every game except one of the last 22 - the only numbers that matter are 13 and 0.
12. DA BAND
There is usually one performance each year that stands out - and Saturday was the day.
Crisp execution of some outstanding formations (OK, this is where I got the super hero analogy), climaxed by a bow and arrow pointing to a large 'W'. Then pulling the string and letting it fly. Awesome bandimation.
This is what happens when you give Jon Woods two weeks to prepare.
13. BELLIDO
Nobody beats Gustavo Bellido for an Argentine fiddle.
14. KICKING GAME
Am I alone in my concerns?
Saturday we had fewer net average punting yards than our opponent
Only one of seven kickoffs went for a touchback
Our average kickoff was only 59.3 yards
We had one hesitant and ill advised kickoff return from the end zone
We had five punt returns for six yards
We had our second blocked field goal in three weeks and third on the season
And we are one of only a handful of Div 1A teams who have given up two TDs on kickoff returns this season
Although Pettrey is back and two of his three kickoffs were solid, our kicking game overall is not at the level we are accustomed to. (I mean, of course, 'the level to which we have become accumstomed'.).
.
15. BAN THE ELEVATORS!
I have a solution to one of my pet peeves. Stop operating elevators to C Deck. If the fatties can't get up there I can quit counting to figure out how many extra people have found their way into my row.
16. SIDELINE WARNING
Late in the game OSU was called for a sideline warning. Only thing I can guess is that Beliema had gotten all the way over to our sideline and the refs had gotten confused.
Rarely have I seen a coach given so much latitude to carry on his antics.
17. BURNING UP THE DVR
I am not sufficiently evolved. Saturday afternoon when I got back from the Shoe I started watching the games I had taped and the games that were live and I didn't catch up till almost midnight.
When I first got a DVR I couldn't understand why anyone would need a device that could record two shows while you watched a third. Turns out it isn't enough. When the 2nd, 3r,d 4th and 5th ranked teams in the country are playing simultaneously in three different games it isn't enough. ND and Michigan looked like afterthoughts in the tv guide, but were near classics instead. I suppose I could do some sort of daisy chaining, but at some point I guess you just have to say 'enough is enough'.
After 9 sacks (Beckum took the 10th) Donovan may be feeling some aches and pains - but he's got nuthin' on my thumb.
18. THE NFL VERSUS CFB
Tons of hype this week about New England versus Indianapolis. Never before have two undefeated NFL teams met this far into the season.
Only one problem with that game. Unlike an overrated Boston College versus an unranked FSU or a lower level Appalachian St versus mighty Michigan or countless other CFB games that are played every season - it doesn't really matter who wins.
19. ACCELERATE YOUR LIFE
I want to leave them alone. I really do. But they won't let me.
I'm not a ND hater by nature. It is CW who gets under my skin (ironic for a man who barely fits in his own). He is the arrogant rock star that grates on my nerves. Watching him lose is like sitting in on a Brittany Spears custody hearing. It is bad for the kids - but ain't it great when bad things happen to bad people?
Last week I was celebrating NDs record setting failure to qualify for a bowl game when it hit me - this means they won't be able to extend their record setting streak of consecutive bowl losses!
Bummer.
Well, at least now I know what Domer Nation is referring to when they say 'Wait till next year.'
And this week we again got to see what happens when you give CW two weeks to prepare. He sends his seniors home early so he can prepare for next year. Then ends the most positive streak ND still has going for them. The last time Navy beat ND Roger Staubach was the QB and John Paul Jones was his go-to receiver.
A record setting consecutive loss streak. One win in 11 games.
And what does he do in the post game presser? He brings up Robert Hughes.
If you win - fine. Give the kid a tribute. But to imply - however subtly - that this loss was related to team emotions related to Hughes losing his brother was an absolute disgrace. The most classless act yet from a very classless man.
Even if it was true. Even if that were the entire reason. Do not hang that on one of your kids. Don't even put the thought out there. That was not the time.
The loss had nothing to do with his choice to forego a FG attempt. Nothing to do with his inability to develop athletes (can anyone really argue that ND has less talent than Navy or that it is harder to get into Notre Dame than the US Naval Academy?) Nothing to do with wasting this week's practice getting ready for next year's games.
It was the death of a player's brother who brought ND to its latest nadir.
Pathetic.
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21. QUTOES OF THE WEEK
A. PSU DB Lydell Sargeant after last week's game:
'They didn't run anything we were used to or saw on tape. We adjusted to things in the second half, but they ran plays that we could not pick up on. Pretty much everything they ran, we had never seen before.'
Ninth week of the season and pretty much everything we ran had not been on tape. Remarkable.
B. I needed my heart pills after this one as Rory Nicol described how JT uses the past to motivate:
'There are things everywhere - even just the word 'remember' and some videos we'll see this week'.. kind of like my marketing teachers says: we see about a thousand marketing things a day, and we only remember two.'
Think about it.
A college football player quoting something he had learned - in the classroom. Almost makes you want to put the hyphen back in 'student-athlete'.
C. And finally, from CW:
'The Service Academies better have their fun now....'
22. A NOTE TO THE PRUDES
If you didn't click the free porn link, give it a try. It actually takes you to the Recruiting Planet. A new effort spearheaded by members of this site. It may look like a fledgling, but it is already ahead of where the Buckeye Planet was when most of us old timers first got involved here just a few short years ago.
This is a project from many of the folks who are the true backbone of this site - not clowns like me who just muck around with a thesaurus an hour or two on a Sunday morning.
It is worth a look or two - and a bookmark for return visits as it grows.
23. TRAP GAME
I have been saying since before the season started that Illinois was the trap game. Nothing has changed my mind.
Williams, Mendenhall and Benn are a three headed beast to rival Henne, Hart and Manningham. They don't have the supporting case, but neither do they have our attention the way Michigan does.
If they come motivated, prepared and with the right game plan - we best do the same.
24. BECKER
If you are every in Chicago and need a new bow, Carl Becker and his boy....
... oops, my bad. Please ignore.
25. SUPPORT GROUP
As you can tell, I have done my best to avoid any reference to domestic violins in this thread.
But I was given a good suggestion this week. If I really want to make a difference, why not start a support group?
More I thought about it, the more I liked the idea. Truth is, I am much more likely to get violent if I have been drinking. And when I have been drinking I can't hit shit.
So wouldn't it be great if I could call up a couple of buds and they could come on over and do my wailing for me?
26. EXCUSE ME PAPA
Papa - let's just dispense with the silly word spellings, OK?
Some times you aren't so funny.
I don't think it would be funny if my Daddy hit my Mommy. But some Daddy's do hit Mommy's. Or they yell at them really mean and make them feel bad about themselves. They even do it to little kids like me. I'm five Papa. Would it be funny if somebody hit me?
I was reading one of my Eric Caryle books and it said:
A. On the average, more than three women are murdered by their husbands or boyfriends every day.
B. 4 million American women experience a serious assault by a partner during an average 12-month period.
C. 37% of all women who sought care in hospital emergency rooms for violence-related injuries were injured by a current or former spouse, boyfriend or girlfriend.
D. For 30% of women who experience abuse, the first incident occurs during pregnancy.
E. Between 50% and 70% of male abusers also abuse their children
F. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see?
I don't know what all those numbers mean, but except for that last one, those seem like pretty sad things to say. Domestic abuse isn't funny Papa and the people who do it ought to get some help.
27. NACHO REPORT
I had this storyboard all worked out for the season and this was the week where the Cheese Bitch was going to again deny me service and I was going to strangle here with my Buckeye Necklace.
Now I have writer's block.
And I'm hungry.
