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Game Thread Ohio State vs TCU (Arlington, TX) - 09/15/18, 8:00PM (ABC)

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https://www.cleveland.com/osu/2018/09/when_the_buckeyes_snatched_awa.html

When the Buckeyes snatched away TCU's coach, and an Ohio State football tradition was born: Doug Lesmerises
Updated 6:05 AM; Posted 6:00 AM

By Doug Lesmerises, cleveland.com

[email protected]

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Ohio State, willing to overpay and keen on beating Michigan, forced out its coach and stole a rising star.

It's a story fit for the modern day, but one that happened 84 years ago, when the Buckeyes snatched away TCU's football coach.

Saturday night, Ohio State and TCU will meet for the first time since 1973, and the sixth time overall, with the Buckeyes holding a 4-1-1 lead in the series since they swooped into Fort Worth and plucked out an offensive genius.

In 1934, in search of a replacement for Sam Willaman, whose departure was seen as a foregone conclusion the moment he lost to Michigan in 1933, though it was the Buckeyes' only loss of the season, The Plain Dealer listed up to 20 names of college football coaches in the running for the job. The coaches at Purdue and the University of Chicago turned down the Buckeyes. No others on the list got the nod.

"In an effort to hire a mentor well-known to Ohio fans," Milton Yelsky wrote in The Plain Dealer on March 11, 1934, "the Texas Christian coach was neglected during early stages of the coach-seeking game."

Yelsky also called Ohio State "skeptical at first at hiring a 'minor league' coach."

Eventually, athletic director Lynn St. John, the namesake of St. John Arena across from Ohio Stadium, got on the phone this man from Texas, and asked the innovative, hard-charging, Nebraska-bred football coach at TCU to take a train to Columbus.

"There is little doubt but that the Ohio State job is considered an advancement," wrote Bill Van Fleet in the Galveston (Texas) Daily News in late February, as the eventual hiring was viewed as a certainty, "for the Buckeyes play in the Big Ten and have 15,000 students behind them. Ohio State was considered one of the strongest teams in the country last fall, and the clash with Michigan held the spotlight over our weekend."

On those same newspaper pages, Francis A. Schmidt was surprised that the Associated Press caught wind of his discussions with the Buckeyes.

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Nigel Tufnel said:
Ok well at least now this thread is getting somewhere. My brisket is dry rub rested for 12 hours or so then a Worcester sauce, salt, pepper, cumin mess thrown on and then low and slow smoked for a similar amount of time. If you don’t like that when it’s done, the problems you have as a person are not correctable and you should immediately place yourself in permanent solitary confinement.

By the way, Bucks by 11 because:

A) Ours go to 11
B) I’m a Buckeye fan, WTF am I supposed to say
C) JK and Weber will pull the safeties in so that receivers can take the top off and while TCU will score on us, we will score more.

Go Bucks!
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That really sounds good. I'm not taking the position of Brisket VERSUS Pork, more like Brisket AND Pork in a Justice League/Traveling Wilburys type super group.

More that a 2 TD win for Ohio State.
 
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OHIO STATE COACH'S SHOW RECAP: RUTGERS POST-MORTEM, TCU'S BUILT-FOR-SPEED DEFENSE, AND STOPPING A MOBILE QUARTERBACK

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Ohio State has its toughest test of the season this week as the Buckeyes head down to Texas to take on No. 15 TCU at AT&T Stadium.

Ryan Day will be the helm as acting head coach one last time before Urban Meyer's return to the sideline next week, and as such, he took over Meyer's weekly radio show on 97.1 The Fan once again this week, with the help of defensive coordinator Greg Schiano.

The two recapped the lopsided win over Rutgers and broke down this weekend's top-15 matchup with TCU.

Here is a recap of some of the highlights from each coach:

RYAN DAY
ON 900 PROGRAM WINS
  • Obviously, you know when you're coming to Ohio State, you're coming to one of the most storied programs in all of America."
  • "I'm just humbled to be a part of it
ON DWAYNE HASKINS' PREPARATION
  • "He's working really hard in his preparation."
  • "As a quarterback, you have to spend so much time preparing for the game, and you only get so many reps on the practice field."
  • Said his preparation comes from time in the meeting room, watching film, talking through it and taking mental reps.
ON THE OFFENSIVE LINE AND HANDLING PRESSURE IN THE PASSING GAME
  • "It does start with protection."
  • Said watching a quarterback throw at 7-on-7 camps isn't a great evaluation. "It's really not football."
  • "We have such a big line, you have to look over the trees."
  • "Rutgers was bringing a lot of blitzes, but we were able to identify them."
COFFEE WITH THE COACH QUESTION FROM FREDDY IN SPENCERVILLE: "HOW IMPORTANT IS CONTINUED PLAYING TIME FOR TATE MARTELL?
  • "I think it's great to get him out there. For the first time, we got to see what he can do in a game."
  • Praised Martell's throwing ability, running ability and toughness to take a big hit and come right back in and score a big touchdown.
  • "He got the wind knocked out of him," Day said. "He wanted to come right in for the next play, and I was like 'Tate, you can't do that. Once you're injured, you have to come out for at least one play.'"
ON THE OFFENSIVE LINE PLAY
  • "The thing you notice the most about the offensive lilne is their size, but they're also really athletic."
  • "They actually move really well."
  • Their communication will be key with all new guys in the guard, center and quarterback spots.
ON TATE MARTELL'S HEIGHT
  • "When you have a quarterback like Tate, you have to look at it a little differently." Day said. "They have to find passing lanes and they always have to know where their escape hatch is."
  • Compared him to Russell Wilson and Doug Flutie
  • "Sometimes your checkdown, when you're that size, is your feet."
ON RUNNING BACKS BLOCKING
  • "In the first game, there were a couple of those speed sweeps where Mike was out in front blocking."
  • They've both been good in pass protection.
  • "It's going to be more of a challenge this week, they're going to be coming faster and harder."
ON TCU'S DEFENSE
  • "They're built for tempo," Day said. "They handle that very well."
  • "We like to play fast."
  • "We have to dictate the tempo, we can't let them dictate the tempo."
  • "They're built for speed."
  • Said a lot of the Big Ten teams are a little bigger and more stout.
ON AUSTIN MACK'S PRODUCTION
  • "Austin is a really good route runner."
  • Expects the X receiver to win one-on-ones
  • "He and Ben are the guys we expect to win those one-on-ones on the boundary."
ON BEING PREDICTABLE ON THIRD DOWN
  • "We're kind of neurotic about that."
  • Said they don't want to get to predictable, but sometimes they overthink it.
  • "There's a fine line between trying to keep it fresh and keep going to what's working."
WHAT IS THE GAME DAY ROUTINE ON THE ROAD?
  • "Not so much rehearse on the road, but we'll talk about it"
  • Some of the young guys tend to look at it as a field trip.
  • The older guys tell them it's a business trip.
  • "Our routine has always been to kind of stay in the hotel."
  • "We'll do a walkthrough to engage them, then let them get back to their room."
  • "We don't want to shoot our gun too early, with an 8 p.m. kickoff."
  • "You have to use that time wisely."
HAVING BEEN IN THIS STADIUM, DOES THAT FAMILIARITY HELP?
  • There is familiarity since they've played and practiced there before.
  • "At the end of the day, it's about execution, it's about playing."
  • Playing the game is what actually matters.
ON THE NEW REDSHIRT RULE
  • They're continuing to monitor who plays when
  • "Those guys want to play, and we're going to need them as time goes on."
  • "We have to get our depth ready to go."
ON DWAYNE HASKINS VISION
  • "When you play quarterback, your eyes always have to be in the right spot."
  • "Looking at the right spots to trigger your first, second and third progressions."
  • "The more you can rehears all that in your mind, the better you can do in the game."
ON CHRIS CHUGUNOV COMING IN:
  • "He's a college graduate, he's an experienced guy."
  • "He's done a great job in the meeting room in such a short time."
  • "We know he's played in these games before."

GREG SCHIANO
ON THE DEFENSIVE LINE'S DOMINANCE
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Entire article: https://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio...eed-defense-and-stopping-a-mobile-quarterback

 
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SKULL SESSION: TCU TO LOAD THE BOX, COACH-IN-WAITING OPTIONS FOR RYAN DAY, AND THE MOVE TO JERRY WORLD

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LET HASKINS SLING IT. If history is any indicator, Gary Patterson is going to try to shut down the run and make the Buckeyes beat him through the air with a young quarterback.



"One-on-one opportunities on the outside" and "Gary Patterson wants to stop the run" are not things I would have been optimistic hearing the past two seasons. But after watching Dwayne Haskins and co. the first two weeks, that sounds like music to my ears.

The best part is, that's the right move defensively. I mean, what else is he going to do, drop back and get gutted by an endless barrage of alternating Mike Weber and J.K. Dobbins punches?

THE MOVE TO JERRY WORLD. Saturday's matchup was supposed to be the first of a home-and-home series between TCU and Ohio State, bringing a heavy-weight fight to raucous crowds on both campuses.

But now that ain't happening. And it's a shame.

From Mac Engel of the Star-Telegram:

The biggest dividing line between the appeal of college football from pro football is the atmosphere, and as we all saw in Clemson’s win vs. the Aggies at Kyle Field, nothing tops the scene or feel of a game on campus.

TCU had the chance to make Saturday all about Fort Worth, its campus, its stadium, its brand, its fans, and its atmosphere. Instead, it made a business decision that while it’s not unique to TCU, hurts college football.

Engel then gave an inside look at how that decision came about, from TCU's perspective.

Basically, Gary Patterson never really wanted to play Ohio State in the first place, responding “So you don’t want me to win a national championship?” when approached with the issue, according to Engel, but ultimately agreed thinking it would be a helpful addition to a non-Power Five conference slate.
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Entire article: https://www.elevenwarriors.com/skul...day-coach-in-waiting-jerry-world-neutral-site
 
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Another article on the Francis Schmidt connection.

https://www.daytondailynews.com/spo...buckeyes-horned-frogs/oXTclNvnXMkadYBk4zSdWJ/

Ohio State-TCU: One Hall of Fame coach left mark on Buckeyes, Horned Frogs
By Marcus Hartman

Other than calling football-mad states home, Ohio State and TCU don’t have a lot in common.

Perhaps the biggest exception is a larger-than-life, profanity-spewing football mad genius named Francis Schmidt.

If you haven’t heard of Francis Schmidt, that’s not surprising.

The man whose quote inspired the creation of the Gold Pants Club at Ohio State passed away more than 70 years ago, a man without a football team anymore who spent his last days at a hospital in Spokane, Washington, in failing health.

Schmidt was still well-known enough his death made the national wire, though, and his legacy lives on today through many football coaches who might have no idea who he was, either.

TCU hired Schmidt in 1929, and he led to the Horned Frogs to an undefeated season that first fall in Fort Worth.

He won two Southwest Conference championships and 46 games — still No. 4 on the school’s all-time list — there in five years before being hired by Ohio State in 1934.

What made OSU director of athletics Lynn St. John interested in Schmidt?

Winning, of course, but also the Nebraska native’s “razzle-dazzle” offense that was known to feature numerous fakes, reverses, multiple laterals in one play and, yes, even more than dozen forward passes per game.

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