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Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
I posted something like this before in another thread, just maybe the problems that Ohio State had this past season was not all contributed to Beck's play calling. Meyer is on record as wanting an angry team:
Urban Meyer wants an angry Ohio State team
http://www.foxsports.com/ohio/story/urban-meyer-wants-an-angry-ohio-state-team-081512
The 2015 team was not an "angry team". They were "fat and happy", more interested tweeting, reading their press clippings, and listening to everyone "sing their praises" than they were in striving to get better as a football team, etc. If you actually can have too good of team chemistry, I think they had that too.
Interviews from some of the players substantiate this:
LEARNING FROM 2015's MISTAKES. Observers of the Gregorian calendar tend to use the New Year as a time to make long put-off changes in our lives.
If things go well, vices turn into youthful idiocy and we learn from past mistakes. As the football program turns the page 2016, what can it learn from its errors in 2015?
From dispatch.com:
“There were more egos this year, and complacency, but it happens,” said [safety Vonn] Bell, who like Elliott might be headed to the NFL. “When you taste success, it’s hard to repeat it.”
Ah, yes, complacency, the devil of defending champions. As explained by sophomore H-back Jalin Marshall, complacency is the evil twin of contentment.
“That was one thing about this year: We just wanted to get by and win each game, instead of playing with that hunger and thrive,” Marshall said. “Once you win so much, (Meyer) says, you kind of get bored with winning. And we did. And we got satisfied.”
The candidness of end-of-season interviews from players (likely) headed to the NFL is always refreshing.
But as a man who once went 14-0 in beer pong in a single night against a murder of Marionaires... I too can relate to the burden of winning. You end up drunker than you ever intended, and the hordes of begrudged fiends trying to woodwork you never ends.
Keep rolling the dice and eventually a fiend crow hops from your blind spot and levels you with a sucker punch to the temple. Next thing you know your ribcage is getting splayed open like you're a fallen dictator.
It's brutal stuff that's felled empires, and it's no surprise it happened in Columbus. It's human nature, and it's only a problem if those egos carry over to 2016. Given the final two results of the 2015 season, however, those egos probably died in the tire fire that was the Michigan State game.
Entire article: http://www.elevenwarriors.com/skull...ull-session-offseason-noooooooooooooooooooooo
Ohio State had the talent that against some of the lesser opponents in the first 10 games they should have dominated even if the plays were announced over the PA prior to running them. Just maybe it might have been lack of execution and/or complacency not the actual play calling. Quite possibly Ohio State became an angry team after Sparty kicked their butt and they played much better against scUM and ND. Ed Warinner just may have been in the right place at the right time.
Now Beck (as well as Meyer and the entire staff) are to blame for allowing the team to become complacent, bored with winning, and/or failing to address individual player's egos/personal agendas.
Urban Meyer wants an angry Ohio State team
http://www.foxsports.com/ohio/story/urban-meyer-wants-an-angry-ohio-state-team-081512
The 2015 team was not an "angry team". They were "fat and happy", more interested tweeting, reading their press clippings, and listening to everyone "sing their praises" than they were in striving to get better as a football team, etc. If you actually can have too good of team chemistry, I think they had that too.
Interviews from some of the players substantiate this:
LEARNING FROM 2015's MISTAKES. Observers of the Gregorian calendar tend to use the New Year as a time to make long put-off changes in our lives.
If things go well, vices turn into youthful idiocy and we learn from past mistakes. As the football program turns the page 2016, what can it learn from its errors in 2015?
From dispatch.com:
“There were more egos this year, and complacency, but it happens,” said [safety Vonn] Bell, who like Elliott might be headed to the NFL. “When you taste success, it’s hard to repeat it.”
Ah, yes, complacency, the devil of defending champions. As explained by sophomore H-back Jalin Marshall, complacency is the evil twin of contentment.
“That was one thing about this year: We just wanted to get by and win each game, instead of playing with that hunger and thrive,” Marshall said. “Once you win so much, (Meyer) says, you kind of get bored with winning. And we did. And we got satisfied.”
The candidness of end-of-season interviews from players (likely) headed to the NFL is always refreshing.
But as a man who once went 14-0 in beer pong in a single night against a murder of Marionaires... I too can relate to the burden of winning. You end up drunker than you ever intended, and the hordes of begrudged fiends trying to woodwork you never ends.
Keep rolling the dice and eventually a fiend crow hops from your blind spot and levels you with a sucker punch to the temple. Next thing you know your ribcage is getting splayed open like you're a fallen dictator.
It's brutal stuff that's felled empires, and it's no surprise it happened in Columbus. It's human nature, and it's only a problem if those egos carry over to 2016. Given the final two results of the 2015 season, however, those egos probably died in the tire fire that was the Michigan State game.
Entire article: http://www.elevenwarriors.com/skull...ull-session-offseason-noooooooooooooooooooooo
Ohio State had the talent that against some of the lesser opponents in the first 10 games they should have dominated even if the plays were announced over the PA prior to running them. Just maybe it might have been lack of execution and/or complacency not the actual play calling. Quite possibly Ohio State became an angry team after Sparty kicked their butt and they played much better against scUM and ND. Ed Warinner just may have been in the right place at the right time.
Now Beck (as well as Meyer and the entire staff) are to blame for allowing the team to become complacent, bored with winning, and/or failing to address individual player's egos/personal agendas.
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By the way, everyone, it's "ad nauseam," not "ad nauseum."
I didn't take Latin in High School
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Hstead
Legend
Or maybe the players were so pissed off at the play calling vs Sparty they used that against TTUN and ND? Maybe that was the objective, piss them off by calling some of the sorriest ass plays in the history of tOSU offense?
And it appeared to have worked.
Kind of like reverse psychology.
And it appeared to have worked.
Kind of like reverse psychology.
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Given recent decisions there, it's not as improbable as it may seem on first look.
I would seriously hurt myself laughing if that actually happened.
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Poe McKnoe
Head Coach
http://thelantern.com/2015/01/new-c...s-coach-tim-beck-set-to-make-525000-annually/
Here's the language, if Ohio State wanted to, which doesn't prove anything.
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Fungo Squiggly
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