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To me, Michigan has NEVER mattered more than it has after Harbaugh and cheating and Ono and Mullings. I have never hated them more.

I was kind of take the Bucks or leave them in college. I lived overseas in the 90s, and didn't really get wrapped up in the Cooper years. I returned to Columbus for a couple of years and then Chicago for the last 20 Those years made it easy to take The Game casually. Right now, it's never meant more and I've never hated them more.
Oh I agree completely. But in the corporate world of upper university management, I don’t think it mattered much, if at all. It’s a different world now, everyone wanted a big playoff and players to get paid…well here y’all go.
 
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Heart breaks for the seniors. Especially on defense. They gave it their all. It wasn't a question of effort. Just a fucked up vibe and mental block after the last 3 years.

I really like Day. Great guy, great coach. He's someone you want recruiting and running a program. Unfortunately I don't think anything less than a total reset is going to fix whatever is fucked mentally with him and the team.
Yeah I don't get how this and the man who let it all hang out vs Clemson and Georgia is the same man
 
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The end of the Ryan Day era will unmask several issues inherent with the current environment at Ohio State. It has been a creeping thing since the end of the Urban era, really.

The environment is too corporate. So long as it's going well, everything is great. When that first real bump hits, when the talent level alone can't carry the day, it gets rocky to the point of not being able to settle down and just play. Expectations are one thing but it's deeper than that.

Tressel teams had that fire in them but it was business as usual on gameday. Urban's teams did and they never ever talked about how they had it. Maybe they would end up losing, but the fight was always there except in certain cases.

Day's teams talk about it, but you only see it in spurts. It's like the focus is always on "toughness" and "passion" and "fire" to the point where they don't develop the actual acuity for those things - that they just show up when you need them. That's now how it works. Ever. You either have it or you don't.

This team doesn't. Really the end of the Urban era didn't have all that fire part either but they were so talented and tough it, it carried them through for the most part. They would have some of those odd, flat, nothing works type games.

Day hasn't had those games for the most part, and if his team did, like say, nebraska, they still found a way to win it. Until today. In a game that you shouldn't be flat or not having things that don't work. They didn't find a way to win the game, they found ways to lose it.

It was his first loss to an unranked team. That shows two things: Remarkable consistency and remarkable consistency.

Remarkable consistency in that his teams are always able to bring enough to the table to beat all of the clearly inferior teams, usually handily and without much fanfare.

Remarkable consistency in that his teams are always good enough (usually) to hang with anyone on the field, but they always lack that extra push at the end of to get the job done.

Today is just a microcosm of an environment (I think it exists in the basketball program too to a certain extent) where, in the end, it lacks any type of edge. Killer instinct. Whatever you want to call it - this group lacks it.

And Booger McFarland can go fuck himself.
This
 
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I’ll be really interested to see the 40 times in the columbine in April. I think we’ll be shocked. I expect Storm Klein numbers from JTT and Sawyer. I’m sorry, but this D, as good as they played today, is still much slower than what I’m accustomed to.
 
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I agree, he’s like Fickell with no college experience. I love the guy for what he did here…but doesn’t mean he’s HC material any more than Archie Griffin is.
Not to mention he's said numerous times that he has no interest in coaching in college, even at OSU. He doesn't like recruiting or the current NIL climate. I actually expect him to be the next Browns coach if they fire Stefanski after this season.
 
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If you arent from Ohio or coached here or your experience is Big XII/PAC you need not apply. Im fucking tired of people coming in here not knowing what we're about. You won't learn it in a decade if you haven't lived it. Period.

No more excuses.
 
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When’s the last time we legit just handed a game away like that? Michigan State in 98?

Way worse even it feels like. Btw, sorta a newbie here, haven't been able to get on here as much as I would have liked over the season.

But count me fully on board the Fire Day train. The excuses are 100% over now.

Bringing back some childhood memories today of back in 1996. I was too young to fully grasp all the ins and outs of the game plans and all that at the time, but my dad was lacing into old Cooper that day. And I mean he was like the last person ever who would hurl loud insults at the HC through the TV, but on that day he let him have it like nothing else.

Go figure 28 years later and almost the exact same score and same type of game. We.unfortunately had to put up with 4 more years of his garbage before we tossed him. Day had better not get anywhere near that kind of rope.
 
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That Game should have been a pretty easy victory fot OSU. Jeremiah was single covered quite a bit when not targeted. Throw him open...

Something always happens to Day's teams in huge games... terrible officiating, Will's shoulder might be injured, OL injury,... and lack of an ability to adjust.

Even Cooper never lost 4 straight to those fuckers.
 
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