Sorry for the long post ahead but I just need to vent, I'm a new member here, and the truth is I wasn't born in an American Football country, in fact I was about 14 by the time I fell in love with your (American) football. At that time there was a channel named ESPN America that played all the major American sports league games, and ncaa football and basketball games, and for some reason one day the scarlet and gray were on TV. It was love at first sight, and I can't really explain to you why, maybe it was the Block O, maybe it was the tradition, maybe it was The Vest, or maybe it was Terrelle Pryor's quarterbacking style, but ever since then I barely lost an Ohio State football game. Bare in mind that I've been through a lot of heartbreak, like the MSU B10 conference championship loss, the Penn State lost 2 years ago, both Clemson losses, but also experienced a lot of joy, like only seeing the Bucks lose to TTUN once, and obviously the Playoff games in '14, I actually pulled an all nighter just to watch the Oregon game, but man the next day it didn't event matter I was so happy I barely skipped a beat.
But with that being said I have to express just the absolute void left by both losses to Purdue and of course to Iowa. How is it that a team so freaking talented can lose both those games in that fashion, without fighting, being out coached, its just so embarrassing. I love Urban, but his nepotism is costing our program, big time. You can't have guys like Zach Smith, Bill Davis or Studrawa coaching our guys just because you've got a personal attachment to them. The WR's were trash, and you didn't even need the scandal to have an excuse to fire Smith, the LB's are pathetic, and the OL has gone from having gritty players to soft, mentally unprepared guys. How is it that we keep getting multiple top 3 recruiting classes, but for some reason that metric isn't being evidenced on the field of play. Has Urban lost his edge ? I don't know, he's been a great coach for our program, but with the amount of talent we're having on our rosters every year we've been under performing. You can't lose to MSU in '15 because you didn't want to hand the ball to one of the best RB's The Ohio State has ever seen, you can't keep Barrett in the game while getting your asses handed to you by Clemson, etc... That's why Saban is Saban, he doesn't give a f****, he'll fire you, he'll pull you out of a game, and f***ing embarrass you just to win.
I see people saying just beat TTUN, and win the Big 10, but with the amount of talent we have, its not enough, it just isn't, its always good to beat TTUN and win the conference, but we should be in the playoff every single year, we should be in the final every single year, and we aren't because of the amount of wrong and incomprehensible coaching mistakes by guys who have multi-million dollars wages.
Like I said I love Urban, and I believe that a fired up Urban, a willing Urban, an Urban Meyer with that edge, is the best coach we can ever have, but this Urban, the one that keeps shooting himself in the foot, that Urban, i'm not so sure....
