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Game Thread tOSU at Iowa, Sat Nov 20, 3:30 ET, ABC/ESPN

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SayNoToMichigan;1817308; said:
So what you come out flat against PSU and Iowa and all of a sudden it's the norm? We have come out in the first half guns-a-blazzing most of this year. The other team has players too, and sometimes they play better than us. It's part of the game. I'm sick of the bitching after we don't beat the shit outta of a team. We play in the Big Ten people, not the Big East.
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Exactly. Six straight seasons of 10 or more wins. People bitching about it is pretty ridiculous. .... and with some people... it's always something.

Didn't win pretty enough...
Not enough passing....
Didn't run the ball enough this game...
So and so got burned... bla bla bla..

It's frustrating - even as a fan - to listen to the constant negativity even in victory.

Don't get me wrong - there's a line between making observations about what OSU did poorly... trends.. and the like.. But, as a fan base, we bitch more than any I can think about. Maybe that's part of the reason why Ohio State seems to be held to some different standard nationally (ie pollsters dropping Ohio State for not winning pretty enough, dropping them further when they lose, not moving up or getting jumped despite beating a team 49-0 and a team in front of them losing).
 
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Buckeyeskickbuttocks;1817454; said:
Exactly. Six straight seasons of 10 or more wins. People bitching about it is pretty ridiculous. .... and with some people... it's always something.
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And when is the last time in the history of the Big Ten did a program record six consecutive seasons of 10+ wins? Oh that's right....never until now.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't the 2009 OSU Buckeyes beat 5 teams in one season who recorded at least 10 wins.....the first time that feat was accomplished?!?
 
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billmac91 said:
When he slows down, he slows down to protect his body. Its a misconception to say he slows down just so he can make contact. He slows down so he can get low, protect his legs, and avoid injury. He doesn't like contact at all....
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He can either keep running at regular speed, run out of bounds, then turn around and run back to the huddle.
or
He can slow up a little bit and lower his shoulder into a guy coming at him.

A guy who doesn't like contact usually takes option A.
 
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OregonBuckeye;1817482; said:
I only wish Tressel could motivated his team like Urban Meyer and Mack Brown. Those guys go 14-0 every year, right?
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Outstanding POST..my Illini and Iowa friends say they would kill to have JT and Thad..Iowa fans hate being known as the state prison because of problems on the football and basketball teams.
 
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billmac91;1817451; said:
He doesn't like contact at all...
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A good thing in a starting QB.

Those who call on Pryor to take on more of a Beanie Wells persona and run like a fullback are so stupid I really have no time for them. Every so often a Tim Tebow comes along who is so solidly built that they can do stuff like this and get away with it. But there are not many Tebows out there, and wanting your QB to be more macho when it comes to contact is idiotic.
 
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MaxBuck;1817195; said:
How anyone can say this just one week after the Penn State game just befuddles me.
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so you're saying that the team was not motivated for the Penn State game? That's precisely what you are saying here. Because if you're going to say that Tressel motivated them at halftime then you are saying they weren't motivated already.

Penn State was and is a bad team. There is no way they should have dominated the 1st half the way they did......absolutely dominated us.
 
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TS10HTW;1817492; said:
[sarcasm]EVERY YEAR. DON'T FORGET SABAN AND STOOPS THEY NEVER LOSE A GAME EITHER!!!!!11!![/sarcasm]
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For motivation how can you do better than Pete Carroll...the second coming...I mean his team won a NC without even being in the game. He says that the way to motivate your players is to buy them a house. But I kind of like Dan Jenkins idea....buy them there own convenience store so they can rob it any time they feel like it.
 
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CFN writeup on the Iowa game:

http://cfn.scout.com/2/1023925.html

Ohio State 20 ... Iowa 17

By Pete Fiutak

Could Terrelle Pryor step up his game and become Cam Newton next year? Maybe.

Could he be the type of veteran leader who wills his team to wins while carrying the Buckeyes to a national title? Possibly.

Has he lived up to the hype to become the type of transcendent superstar he was supposed to be when he was among the top quarterback recruits of the last decade? Not even close.

Is he about to lead his team to a third straight Big Ten title? Yup.

Pryor?s career has been defined mostly about what he isn?t, rather than what he has been able to do. He hasn?t been special and he hasn?t progressed as expected, but he has been the target for three years (alright, more like two-and-a-half) and he has managed to survive the criticism, the bizarre (like the underground movement to make him a receiver after last year?s loss to Purdue), and the unattainable expectations. No, he hasn?t won enough big ones, and no, he shouldn?t be considered a superstar based on his career so far, but against Iowa, he did what he needed to do to rally the offense late with his legs (running for 14 yards on 4th and 10) and his arm (hitting Dane Sanzenbacher on a 24-yard play to put it down to the two), marching the Buckeyes on a game-winning drive. And now he?s one game away from another Big Ten championship.

And Iowa is left to wonder what happened...
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DaveyBoy;1817834; said:
so you're saying that the team was not motivated for the Penn State game? ...

Penn State was and is a bad team. There is no way they should have dominated the 1st half the way they did......absolutely dominated us.
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First, Penn State is in no way a "bad team." It's beyond absurd what fans say sometimes - the fact a team is not a Top 10 team does not mean it is "bad" - it means it's not a Top 10 team.

Secondly, your suggestion that the team was "not motivated" is ridiculous. Certainly we seemed unprepared for some of the things that we saw from the Penn State offense in the first half, but lack of motivation is not a likely root cause of the poor first half performance.
 
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DaveyBoy;1817119; said:
Tressel seems to have lost the ability to motivate his players. ......that is why we lost to Wisconsin plain and simple.
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Not wanting to pile on...but two thoughts.

1) I am not sure anyone could have beaten Wisky that day. They had the red ass because they beat us everywhere except the scoreboard so many times that I'm not sure you get many motivational opportunities like that from their standpoint. They played a nearly flawless game with much gusto.

2) I was listening to the TV idiots talk about how the Cal Bears had "laid out a blueprint of how to beat Oregon" a week ago. Hell we did that almost a year ago.

Our kids have been fortunate, they got into the school they wanted to go to, they don't lose games they shouldn't, save Purdue last year, they are some of the best talent in the country. 18 and 19 Y.O. that are that fortunate are hard to convince they can lose and hard to convince that other teams are almost as good talent wise and are going to show up super motivated and be ready. I think that is why our team seams to do better in those "re-building years" than they do when so much is expected of them. I dunno...a cheerleading assistant doesn't seem to be the answer. Texas has that with Muschamp and they don't look particularly motivated. Rambled...sorry.
 
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