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10-12-2005, 06:45 PM
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I think. Therefore, I am
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Originally Posted by MililaniBuckeye
10-2 is a possibility as I said in another thread, but with the offense as it is, that 10-2 will be a serious challenge. If we were to somehow be able to rev up the offense to where we score 30+ each game, that 10-2 is all but a lock.
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Yeah, I read that. Good post by the way.
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10-12-2005, 07:06 PM
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OK...How about a show of hands...Who here believes someday we're going to just blow through the Big Ten+1, smoking every team in our path?...Anyone?...Just you in the back...Ok...You're a moron.
After a quick perusal of the data, since 1950, it's NEVER happened. There has not been one year where there hasn't been at least one close, defensive type game. It's time for some reality here. We smoked Miami, SDSU and Iowa. Texas and Penn State are better than those teams. To think we are going to be able to just destroy every opponent on our schedule is so unrealistic is ridiculous. Now, I understand many of you are not talking about "smoking" everybody. I'm not trying to insult your intelligence here. But I am saying that this idea that we are going to just waltz through our schedule in any one given year is pie in the sky, no matter how much talent we think we have. PSU needed to play a perfect game to beat us...They did. Going into that game I thought we had enough talent that we could've recovered from two major mistakes and still won. We couldn't. Now, we have won Big Ten and Nat'l Titles in the past. How did we accomplish that? Great defense and a running game. That's how it's done. If it's not exciting enough for some of you, well, I'm sorry. But there is no reason to believe that anything positive will come from a complete change in offensive philosophy. Those of you poking around the edges, calling for this coach or that coach to be let go or promoted and so forth, that's fine. I have no particular quarrels with that. I do have problems with the idea that becoming some kind of "fun-n-gun" type of offense will result in the success we are all hoping for. It ain't going to happen. JMO.
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10-12-2005, 07:14 PM
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if I don't take us down the field, bench me
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Originally Posted by Buckeyeskickbuttocks
But, 10 - 2 with a win over Michigan and a possible BCS bowl still alive, I'm not yet willing to call off the dogs for 2005
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I wish you would call off the dogs, they get repetitive after a while.
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10-12-2005, 07:15 PM
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Saw31 said "and so forth" .. is he from the JT household?
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10-12-2005, 07:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Saw31
...It's time for some reality here. We smoked Miami, SDSU and Iowa. Texas and Penn State are better than those teams. To think we are going to be able to just destroy every opponent on our schedule is so unrealistic is ridiculous. ... Now, we have won Big Ten and Nat'l Titles in the past. How did we accomplish that? Great defense and a running game. That's how it's done. If it's not exciting enough for some of you, well, I'm sorry...
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There really should've been no reason why we couldn't punch at least one TD out of those first-half three turnovers Texas gave us in their territory. And drive a little deeper into Texas territory so that Huston's 50-yard attempt was from 40 yards (and thus good) instead. That's not counting the Hamby dropped TD. Add those up (which is very reasonable) and we put up 36 points on Texas. So yeah, Texas is better than Miami, SDSU, and Iowa, but that's not an excuse for the chances we blew.
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10-12-2005, 07:28 PM
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Dunno how many of you saw his Q&A after todays practice (transcripts on Bucknuts) but he was getting rather [censored]ed off! Its good to see that he is showing emotion and a lil 'tude after a game that we could have won. He brought up to the reporters that "He knows more football than they do", that noone brings up OSU is the best team concerning turnover margin, and that we also are the top team in the Big Ten with time of posession. | |
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