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Game Thread tOSU at Penn State, Sat. Nov. 2, 12pm ET, FOX

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I think that we miss one effect of NIL. If I'd have had an offer from another top 5 program, it would have still been very difficult to turn down Ohio State because Ohio State was my team. It's the team my entire extended family supported. It was a piece of who were were. Now, the NIL component makes a recruit choose across criteria I would not have considered, especially in an era of national recruiting. Money makes a lot of that assumed identification slide away very easily.
 
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Steve19 said:
I think that we miss one effect of NIL. If I'd have had an offer from another top 5 program, it would have still been very difficult to turn down Ohio State because Ohio State was my team. It's the team my entire extended family supported. It was a piece of who were were. Now, the NIL component makes a recruit choose across criteria I would not have considered, especially in an era of national recruiting. Money makes a lot of that assumed identification slide away very easily.
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I thankfully didn't grow up poor. But I remember riding in a van with my dad picking kids up in the bad parts of town, to bring them to pop warner for the day. If I was living their lives, and was given an opportunity to get my family out of those hell holes, you better believe loyalties are out the window.
 
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Certainly didn't live that life, thankfully, and am trying hard to make sure my daughter never has to feel it. Having said that, back in the day, our basketball team would travel around Columbus to hoop it up against other areas. To add to above, several places we got hammered by some of those teams, their ferocity on the boards, driving, etc overcoming our heighth. The prospect of a full belly now would certainly outweigh a rosy glimpse of the future (NFL, NBA you name it). PS, as a HS team, we got hammered by East, 102-54, in a game that wasn't that close. On that HS team was Eddie Ratliff (Houston, Lakers), Bo Lamar (Lakers), and a guy that played at Illinois and then Washington (NBA).
 
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osuvictory1 said:
Betting and social media have altered CFB, and not in a good way.
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As the sports, media, and wagering industries become more integrated, the traditional fan will become less relevant because the target audience will be gamblers ... and winning and losing will become less relevant because the target audience will be more concerned with points spreads, over/under, and prop bets. Traditional fans are expensive to maintain and have unrealistic expectations, so the combined industries would probably like to get rid of them altogether.
 
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LordJeffBuck said:
As the sports, media, and wagering industries become more integrated, the traditional fan will become less relevant because the target audience will be gamblers ... and winning and losing will become less relevant because the target audience will be more concerned with points spreads, over/under, and prop bets. Traditional fans are expensive to maintain and have unrealistic expectations, so the combined industries would probably like to get rid of them altogether.
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NFL G league.... whoopeeee :/
 
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I saw Zen is out. Have to think Jackson will be the starter at LT.

I also read something today where UFM said Howard needs to run the ball 15-20 times per game. I'd personally love to see that more - having to account for a running QB by having specifically QB run plays would benefit the offense a lot. The few times they ran it specifically with Howard against Nebraska worked.

In the 4 Big Ten Games Ped has played, they've given up right about 300 yards of total offense. The best offense Ped has played so far was USC, who went for over 400 (and probably should have won).

I feel fairly confident about this one. Assuming the LT spot has been decided and handled, I think a lot of Ped's ranking is paper tiger-ish. If the offense can get regular first downs, can score TDs instead of FGs when they are in the red zone and the plays that are working show up more than the one time they work, I feel pretty good about it on that said.

On defense, Ped does not have anything like Oregon's receiving corps. They have some decent running backs, Julian Fleming and their tight end, Tyler Warren, can be very effective in keeping their offense on schedule. If the front 4 can get consistent pressure on Allar, since it appears he's going to play, I think they can shut down this offense. if the other QB (Pribula) comes in, he's a far superior runner to Allar, and if the linebackers are not on their game, that could be a very difficult matchup. I guess we shall see....
 
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