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Ohio State Football: The Brotherhood

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Just an interesting 11W story:



“Buckeye for Life” proved to be more than just a slogan at last month’s Ohio State pro day.

Amir Riep, Jahsen Wint, Marcus Hooker, Sam Wiglusz, Ryan Batsch and Darryl Sinclair didn’t finish their college football careers at Ohio State, but all of them were back at the Woody Hayes Athletic Center on March 20 to work out for the contingent of NFL scouts who came to Columbus for Ohio State’s annual draft prospect showcase.
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Other Ohio State transfers with hopes of being drafted as potential late-round picks include linebacker Dallas Gant, who like Wiglusz became a two-time All-MAC player after transferring to Toledo; linebacker Craig Young, who totaled 101 tackles in two seasons at Kansas after three years at OSU; and wide receiver Jaelen Gill, who finished his college career with a 516-yard, six-touchdown season at Fresno State in 2023 after two years at OSU and three years at Boston College.

OHIO STATE TRANSFERS IN 2024 NFL DRAFT
POS PLAYER YRS AT OSU WHERE THEY TRANSFERRED NFL DRAFT PROJECTION*
CB RYAN WATTS 2020-21 TEXAS (2022-23) #20 CB (6th-7th round pick)
DE JAVONTAE JEAN-BAPTISTE 2018-22 NOTRE DAME (2023) #25 EDGE (7th)
LB DALLAS GANT 2018-21 TOLEDO (2022-23) #28 LB (PFA)
LB CRAIG YOUNG 2019-21 KANSAS (2022-23) #41 LB (FA)
WR SAM WIGLUSZ 2018-21 OHIO (2022-23) #77 WR (FA)
S AMIR RIEP 2017-19 LINCOLN (2023) #48 S (FA)
S MARCUS HOOKER 2018-21 YOUNGSTOWN STATE (2022-23) #61 S (FA)
WR JAELEN GILL 2018-19 BOSTON COLLEGE (2020-22), FRESNO STATE (2023) #132 WR (FA)
S JAHSEN WINT 2016-19 MARSHALL (2023) #199 S (FA)
CB DARRYL SINCLAIR 2017-20 AUSTIN PEAY (2021), OHIO DOMINICAN (2022-23) #162 CB (FA)
LB RYAN BATSCH 2018-21 MURRAY STATE (2022-23) #169 LB (FA)
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Please move this post to the appropriate thread if needed my fellow mods. I was trying to funnel this hatred into the right thread. I'm quite sure I did it in the wrong one, so sorry in advance.

Fuck that team up north and if we can throw up 100 on them, do it. Go for 3 if we can. I'm so damn sick of arrogant ttun fans that don't know their place after 3 years. I want to absolutely dismantle them by the farthest margin possible and not even consider sportsmanship. If they send a deaf dog out on the last play on offense, decleat it with our biggest LB at full speed.

I'm joking (I'm not) but I'm pretty sure Day is thinking like me here. There will be no mercy.
 
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thoughts on Boren's comments?

BOREN GOES SCORCHED EARTH. In an appearance on THE Podcast this week, former Ohio State fullback and linebacker Zach Boren sounded off on the Buckeyes for their lackluster performance in a four-point win over Nebraska.

While Boren expected the Nebraska game to be Ohio State’s chance to turn the page following a one-point loss to Oregon two weeks ago, he said the lack of emotion and pure leadership the Buckeyes showed on Saturday makes him want to “sound the alarms even more” for his alma mater’s Big Ten and national championship hopes in 2024.

Here’s the video for Boren’s appearance on THE Podcast, as well as a transcript of his issues with Ohio State’s efforts this past weekend:


The Opening​

“I thought sitting here this morning, all the feelings that have accumulated in my head for the last two weeks after the Oregon game would be gone, and we’d be turning the page like the old Bob Seger song. You know, turn the page, and we’re moving on. … The performance (on Saturday) makes us almost sound the alarms even more. The issues that occurred against Oregon, which we know have been issues for a while now, are starting to show their face, and you would think against an inferior talent like Nebraska that those glaring holes or those glaring issues wouldn't show their face, but again, they did.
"Now you’re going on the road to Penn State. You still have an Indiana team that’s riding high – and I’m not saying from a talent standpoint that they’re great, but confidence is a very real thing in team sports and especially in college football because there’s an aura in the locker room that you start feeling when you go on a roll, and Indiana has that. Then you also have the big one at the end of the year that we have failed to win the last three years. No matter how Michigan is playing at that point, there’s going to be a lot of pressure going into that football game.”
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Issue No. 1​

“Here’s where I have issues (with Ohio State’s performance). No. 1 is, normally, in those close games, there’s an anomaly. Things don’t go your way. There are some turnovers. There are some swings of emotions. The offense is normally clicking on all cylinders, but they have a bad day. The issue is the things that are arising with this football team that made the game close yesterday are the same issues that they’ve been battling all year long. They’re the same issues that came up against Oregon. You would think after losing a game against Oregon that, ‘Hey, guess what? We’re going to focus on those things.’ Ryan Day was very outwardly that there was a focus on certain things they consider their weakness, but again, those weaknesses reared their head against Nebraska.
"So if it was just a, ‘Hey, the ball didn’t bounce their way that day, but they found a way to win.’ That’s a completely different conversation than their inability to make explosive plays on defense, get after the quarterback in four-down sets and run the football – like we saw the inability to do in the second half against Oregon – those are real things that showed up against Nebraska. They’re real things that are going to be issues for the rest of the year. It’s not an anomaly. I don’t want people to watch this and think, ‘Oh, my God. They think every game should be a blowout.’ No. You need to find ways to win games, but those issues can’t keep coming up. They can’t be repetitive things."
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Issue No. 2​

"No. 2 is – and this is the biggest issue I’ve had for the last four years – the lack of emotion, the lack of pure leadership and the lack of killer instinct are all major concerns for me. In a game like that on Saturday, when you’re playing Nebraska and you know you should be blowing them out, there should be guys holding dudes accountable on the sideline, on the field, grabbing them and telling them to get their s— together. There should be some emotion from that standpoint. On Saturday, there was nothing. I was at the game and looked at the sidelines. It was like a funeral. There was no emotion at all. Guys were moping around, kind of holding their heads. There was no one to grab someone and tell them, like, ‘Let’s go.’
You see guys make plays on the field, and they celebrate and do all that stuff, but where’s the accountability for guys not doing their jobs? Where’s the accountability for Will Howard – and I love Will Howard – in that situation to go over to the O-line and tell them to get their you know what out of their you know what? Where is that? From the defensive standpoint, where are the linebackers going to the D-line and being, like, ‘Dudes, you got to go.’ There is no emotion from that standpoint and no pure leadership because everyone is scared to hurt each other’s feelings. When you’re in the 60 minutes of a game – whether that be in the locker room at halftime, on the sidelines, whatever that might be – you need to hold each other accountable.
"There we so many guys in my era that were on that team that there were times that we wanted to kill each other during the game because we were so pissed off at one another. But that night, we’re having beers together, and it’s the greatest and we’re singing Kumbaya, and it’s the greatest thing in the world. You need to have that on-off switch. These guys are so sensitive that they can’t have that."
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The Closing​

“When this team goes out, it shows zero emotion, shows zero fight, shows all these things, especially after getting beat on national television in arguably the biggest game of the year on your schedule in the regular season. You follow that up with a dud performance. That’s what frustrates me. It’s not the not executing. It’s not even the inability to run the football. It’s not the inability to make explosive plays on defense. In my opinion, that stuff will come if you have the right mindset, you hold each other accountable and you say, ‘Hey, listen. Let’s go fight our asses off.’ You don’t feel that within this locker room. You don’t feel that within the program. I think a lot of needs to be looked at with the coaches. I’m not talking about Ryan Day. I think there are some assistant coaches who get paid a lot of money – seven-figure assistant coaches – that need to look at themselves and the kind of perception they’re giving their position rooms when they go out. When you act a certain way, your position groups and the guys who play
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thoughts on Boren's comments?

BOREN GOES SCORCHED EARTH. In an appearance on THE Podcast this week, former Ohio State fullback and linebacker Zach Boren sounded off on the Buckeyes for their lackluster performance in a four-point win over Nebraska.

While Boren expected the Nebraska game to be Ohio State’s chance to turn the page following a one-point loss to Oregon two weeks ago, he said the lack of emotion and pure leadership the Buckeyes showed on Saturday makes him want to “sound the alarms even more” for his alma mater’s Big Ten and national championship hopes in 2024.

Here’s the video for Boren’s appearance on THE Podcast, as well as a transcript of his issues with Ohio State’s efforts this past weekend:


The Opening​


Issue No. 1​


Issue No. 2​


The Closing​

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