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bukIpower
Head Coach
Well I'm not concerned if they play the bend but dont break. Pryor has shown that if you play tentitive with him he'll make things happen. He's struggled mainly when people come after him and force his hand before he's comfortable to do so. Pryor doesn't turn the ball over so the turnover ratio is a mute point I think.
I haven't been around for a couple days so excuse me if its been said. MSU will be the most one demensional team we have until we play Michigan at the end (they're zero demensional). MSU, while having a good ground game, has a pretty poor passing game. Much like OSU, we both run the ball and make sure we don't turn the ball over. In saying that now, which is more prone to make the turnover Hoyer or the True Freshman? Wisdom would say the True Freshman but sadly for Hoyers sake Pryor does a better job at limiting mistakes. Then, who has the better defense to stop the running game? I'll take OSU on that one as well. We will keep Ringer in check as best as we can and we'll win this game 27-17. Ringer will run for around 120, but Beanie/Pryor will go for around 220 combined.
I haven't been around for a couple days so excuse me if its been said. MSU will be the most one demensional team we have until we play Michigan at the end (they're zero demensional). MSU, while having a good ground game, has a pretty poor passing game. Much like OSU, we both run the ball and make sure we don't turn the ball over. In saying that now, which is more prone to make the turnover Hoyer or the True Freshman? Wisdom would say the True Freshman but sadly for Hoyers sake Pryor does a better job at limiting mistakes. Then, who has the better defense to stop the running game? I'll take OSU on that one as well. We will keep Ringer in check as best as we can and we'll win this game 27-17. Ringer will run for around 120, but Beanie/Pryor will go for around 220 combined.
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JXC
17-4 since 2001
We scored enough points in the first few minutes of the game to win it!!!! YOU ARE EXACTLY RIGHT!!!!! Great post. I hate how people just focus on offense. This team is damn good. And this team is growing a lot more than most teams do in a year. And sure there will be growing pains. But the thing with this team is that the growing pains happen during a win, not a loss. Look at Michigan's growing pains. They happen during losses to Utah, and Illinois, and Toledo, and Notre Dame. Our USC loss was a turnaround for this team. Since then we have experienced some growing pains...but they have been during wins. So...if you are having some shakeups on the OL, and a QB that is still growing, and an offense and defense that is still trying to find itself and grow, and you still beat a Big Ten team 16-3...it's a lot fucking better than losing to a MAC team 13-10. And not just a MAC team...but a 1-4 MAC team. It's silly. We are a great team. We really are...and we are SO FUCKING GOOD that we can fix things, and change things, and go through some growing troubles, and still win games. WE ARE WAY TOO LUCKY. We have so much talent. IT IS GREAT TO BE A BUCKEYE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Dispatch
Spartans toughen mental approach
Dantonio prepares players to deal with difficult situations
Wednesday, October 15, 2008 3:22 AM
By Bob Baptist
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
Mark Dantonio
A few weeks ago, Mark Dantonio talked about the balance beam of emotions a coach must walk and the ever-present danger of tumbling off one side or the other. "If I become unglued," he said, "your team responds accordingly."
In his 30th year of coaching football and second as head coach at Michigan State, Dantonio still has his moments. "You've seen me when I have," he said. And his Spartans still have theirs.
But those moments are becoming fewer and fewer as the Michigan State program more and more embodies the tough, no-nonsense ethic of Dantonio, who was hired two years ago to rescue it from the mood swings that marked his predecessor.
Unglued might have been the title of the highlight DVD from John L. Smith's tenure as Michigan State coach. From Smith slapping himself in the face at a news conference to his infamous meltdown after a field-goal fiasco at Ohio State in 2005, Smith's Spartans were never dull but frequently self-defeating.
A year later, after another in a series of late-season swoons, Michigan State showed him the exit and replaced him with his polar opposite in Dantonio, a Zanesville native and former Ohio State defensive coordinator who has a visage fit for Mount Rushmore and a rock-solid approach to go with it.
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buckeyesin07
Veni. Vidi. Vici.
MililaniBuckeye;1292138; said:
National scoring defense rankings:
5. Iowa
13. OSU
I'm just saying that Iowa's defense isn't bad, and is comparable to OSU's--it's not like OSU's defense is light years ahead of Iowa's, which was the original point of my post.
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bucknutt76
Junior
I believe we can win this game, everyone keeps telling me oh you havent scored a offensive touchdown in 7 quarters and what not. But you know what we are still winning. My buddy brought up a good point to me the other day, he said I remember a team in 2002 that went 14 and 0 and just barely won every single game they played, granted they had some very talented players but they still barely scraped by. We still have alot of great players they arent gone this is 95% of the team that we had last year that was running up crazy number scores if they wanted. I just think maybe we need to wake up a little and we will be back in the zone.
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