Go to the game!!!! Don't watch on TV...especially this one. Every Buckeye fan to try and make it out to IU. It's amazing with all the fans. Hoeppner was pissed off that there were so many Ohio State fans...so I say, next time we go there, lets just send even more. Heck...it's about 60 bucks to go to an OSU home game...offer any IU fan 60 bucks for their tickets, and they'll sell them to you. Just kick all the IU fans out, and fill the whole stadium with scarlet and grey.
On another note...the offense is what it is. I don't know what more people want out of them other than the perfect game. Troy Smith isn't going to morph into this completely awesome QB with great vision and feel of the pocket overnight...but he IS getting better, and dammit he did go thru progressions during this game, I saw it. He hit Holmes after looking at Ginn and then Gonzo on one pass. He still telegraphed some, but he looked better, more comfortable. TS didn't fumble!!! We never fumbled...you can't consider the raping Ginn took a fumble...and Smith threw 1 bad pass, which I thought was PI, but maybe I just saw something...if it wasn't PI, then Holmes fell down when it looked like he had the inside position when the ball was thrown, and usually he makes the play, so I don't think it was as bad of a pass as it looked. The line blocked well...I don't know why all of a sudden we decided to clip...other than the clipping though, what more do you want? We are what we are on offense, we aren't going to go out there and average 2 minute scoring drives like 2001-2002 cryami.
And if a good offensive performance against IU is like fools gold...then what about MSU or Iowa? Our offense has looked pretty good in Big 10 play except against a great Penn State defense on the road. I think we are getting better...everybody.
Sometimes I just get so annoyed with the complaints. Like today...we are up 31-10...and we run the ball on first down, and the guy next to me goes (in a negative way) oh great, here comes Tresselball. WTF? You aren't suppoed to run on first down in the 4th quarter with a 3 TD lead? Especially the way we ran the ball? So what if we only got 2 yards on the play...I don't know of ANY team that gets 5+ yards a carry on EVERY rushing play...SOMETIMES, you get stopped...EVERY team gets stopped sometimes...but it seems like whenever it happens to us, no matter if it's the first time or whatever, it's bad playcalling, the offense sucks, and we need a offensive cordnatior.
I would have liked to see Tressel never call a passing play, and just run draws, options, and isolations the whole game...and still win (like we would have) just to piss off the guy next to me. I love running the ball. I love when we do it. I love when I KNOW we are going to do it, and most of the time, ESPECIALLY today, we still get 5+ yards. We are VERY creative with the run...Tressel always has been. Okay, i'm done.