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Game Thread Southern Cal 18, at tOSU 15 (Sept 12th, 8 pm, ESPN)

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1) The comment came across exactly like something xrayrandy would say. He'll outrun em all and is much more nimble... that's the kind of thing you expect when OSU is toying with Troy or Minnesota, not USC.

2) I think Pryor is faster, but I don't think he'll outclass them considerably in the agility department.
You. Cannot. Be. Serious.
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You missed the 'uh' to start it off.
Too bad you slept through about a dozen moves where he totally out-juked defenders, and that's not counting the dozen or more stiffarms...guess you were busy changing out memory cards in your camera.
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But there's the old trusty camera jokes.

What do stiff-arms have to do with agility? I never said he was a frail, hapless runner. He just braces a bit when he has defenders closing in on him. It appears more mental than physical to me.

He is explosive, fast & is tough to bring down. He glides effortlessly and bounces outside with the best of them. He has room to improve when he operates within traffic.


As far as times, from ken norton jr
New year, new faces…
Malcolm Smith, Michael Morgan and Chris Galippo seek to fill the three starting spots • “When you’re dealing with people, everybody’s different. Mike will do things differently than Cush did — Michael just ran a 4.3 40, while Cush could never do that. Cushing was really tough, and we don’t know about Michael yet. Rey did things differently than Chris Galippo will do them. And same thing with Malcolm and Kaluka. Everybody’s different, but they’re going to be doing similar things. They’re all great athletes and great players. It’ll be fun to see Malcolm step up and be vocal, to see Galippo be the leader and heart and soul and see Michael be the tough guy and make plays off the edge. They’ve been waiting for this, they’ve been real eager. They couldn’t wait for the three to leave so they could play. Those three were so good that they never came out of games, so this next group of guys has been waiting eagerly.”
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Will they play as fast and disciplined? That's yet to be seen, but Pryor will have his hands full with their athleticism.
 
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jwinslow;1506065; said:
1) The comment came across exactly like something xrayrandy would say. He'll outrun em all and is much more nimble... that's the kind of thing you expect when OSU is toying with Troy or Minnesota, not USC.
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xrayrandy said cosmically-stupid shit like "even our LBs can outrun Ted Ginn". Conversely, Pryor is expected to faster than any LB on any team...maybe not by much, but still faster--and nimbler.

As for Ken Norton Jr.'s comments about Morgan running a 4.3 40, if you believe that, I've got a bridge to sell you. Now, USC indeed has some of most athletic LBs in the country, but even they aren't such that Pryor wouldn't be able to hold his own rushing the ball when need be. I'll bet we'll still see some designed runs by Pryor against USC, and if our blocking is even decent, those runs will be successful.
 
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MililaniBuckeye;1506120; said:
Now, USC indeed has some of most athletic LBs in the country, but even they aren't such that Pryor wouldn't be able to hold his own rushing the ball when need be. I'll bet we'll still see some designed runs by Pryor against USC, and if our blocking is even decent, those runs will be successful.
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I figure SC will "sell out" to prevent Pryor from running because the perception is that running is his primary weapon whereas his skills as a passer are his weakness. As a consequence, I'd expect designed runs to fail to produce much of anything. Now, that said, I agree with you that Pryor has the skills to gain yards even when the D knows what's coming, and the better the blocking the better the chances (as you mention). But, the point I'm making is that SC is probably thinking "Lets make him beat us with his arm" and if Pryor runs in to a buzz saw that's specifically looking for him all day long, OSU is in trouble.
 
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USC has always had some of the best blitzing packages in college football. Didn't they just get a brand new D Coordinator? Wonder how that will impact those blitzing packages and what not.

Aside from the pending uncertainty at both right and left tackle, our receivers need to really step it up this August. Ray, Flash, and Taurian all need to do big things. I fully expect Posey and Sanzo to be ready for action.

A lot of my nerves for this game will be either calmed or heightened after the Navy game.
 
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southcampus;1506379; said:
USC has always had some of the best blitzing packages in college football. Didn't they just get a brand new D Coordinator? Wonder how that will impact those blitzing packages and what not.
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Pretty sure he was their LB coach for a while now, and just got promoted to DC.
 
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