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11-12-2006, 12:43 PM
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OBSERVATIONS FROM THE BARCALOUNGER - NU
1. I'M STILL HERE
Sorry to disappoint, but I'm back - and representing the first of what will surely be many economic failures since the Democrats regained control of Congress. A hapless victim of Nancy Pelosi and her horde of tax and spend wolverines. That's right - every Democrat in congress either attended the University of Michigan or wished they had. I even have a picture of Pelosi, Jane Fonda and John Kerry standing together at an Ann Arbor Hash Bash. I tried making a go of it. But how was I supposed to draw subscribers after posters on this site attacked the accuracy of my central thesis from last week? OK, so Tressel DID in fact button things up. You guys just don't get it. I'm not into this detail stuff. I'm more concepty. These threads are not about accuracy. They are about stringing words together in such a way that they SOUND accurate. It's what I do. It's what I have always done. It is the sounds of the words that matters - the flow - the rhythm. But that isn't good enough for the Planet. People here have to think things through and apply logic. Then the next thing you know clowns like BB73 are running around looking up everything I say. I can't be both factual and turn out a seven page post by Monday morning. I am not trying to be the Bob Hunter of the Planet. Think of me more as a Jason Blair. I did get a few visitors to the new site. Most were looking for the Brittany Honeymoon video. The rest were either chasing advice on starting his own sites or trying to sell me some Columbian Gold - pure uncut cheese food product from South of the Border where it all began. So here I am - back on the PBS of OSU Message Boards. 2. JUST WHAT WAS THAT? Was that a continuous highlight reel - or the sloppiest 54-10 victory you will ever see? Hard to find room to complain after a win like that, but there is a little space right here - let me wedge myself in. NU moved the ball. They not only had more yards than OSU in the first half, but on 9 of their 13 series they had one or more first downs. What happened to the old "three and out"? And we may have given up more plays over 20 yards than we have all season (four). And 17 first downs - to Northwestern? Granted, when you are scoring quickly the D is on the field a lot - but NU was definitely finding some seams. Don't get me wrong. I am not saying that our Defense didn't exist. There's another way to phrase that - and that is that the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence. It is basically saying the same thing in a different way. Simply because you do not have evidence that something does exist does not mean that you have evidence that it doesn't exist On the other hand, the winning point WAS scored 5minutes 35 seconds into the game. Am I making too much of this stat? It just blows me away that we are winning games so quickly. Eleven games and we only needed to score in the second half in one of them. And the highlights! They were everywhere. I would be hard pressed to come up with a single "play of the game" - buy my sleeper candidate was a simple scramble and throw by Troy where he literally hopped straight in the air out of a tackle. But they didn't even replay it - and you can?t have a play of the game if they don't replay it. Given that, I really liked Beanie's 33 yard run. So I am not really complaining (after all it was the most points by an OSU team since we got 70 in back to back weeks in 1996*), but mistakes were made (interception, fumble, two missed extra points). And we need those mistakes behind us. * I can't remember if I looked that up or made it up. I tend to do both. 3. BEST OF RUMSFELD Since the new web site has gone down in flames I am making yet another entrepreneurial (I want you to know that I typed that word without looking it up and got the spelling right the very first time) attempt. Not bad for a guy who struggles with "teh". I am selling CDs of the Best of Donald Rumsfeld. Most of this material is from his work as Sec of Def under Bush, but there are also some older clips from his early days with Dracula (before he anglicized his name).. Order now and you can get free shipping - if we know your address. Or even if we don't know your address - provided we know we don't know your address. However, if we don't know your address and don?t even know that we don't know your address - well, you will have to foot the bill on that one. (Then again, if we don't know we don't know I suppose we would think we would know - in which case you wouldn't have to pay for shipping. Let me go back and listen to track 32 again and I will get back to you on the shipping costs later in this thread.) 4. PITTMAN In the long and glorious history of OSU football there has only been one RB break the 1000 yard barrier three times. Pittman could become the second next season. Not so much a great game as another chapter in a great story. 5. BEANIE I had my fingers crossed on that first third and short situation, hoping JT would go with the beast. Why did I even doubt? NU or not, he finally had his complete coming out party with streamers and all. If there is anything on the game film that should give Michigan pause this week it has to be his performance. I hope somebody takes this kid to see the Atlantic or Pacific Oceans before he dies because he will never find them on his own. There is just North and South. 6. RUMSFELD CD SHIPPING COSTS In regards to my earlier post about shipping costs on the Rumsfeld CDs - what I said then is correct. I don't know what I said, but I know what I think, and, well, I assume it's what I said. 7. INTERCEPTIONS Twenty-two in eleven games. Let me see, that's - hang on a sec, let me get my calculator - 2.3 per game (I'm sure BB73 will correct me if I figured that wrong). Twenty two leads the nation. And by eleven different players - four linebackers, 6 DBs and a lineman. What fun. 8. BB73s UBIQUITOUS CORRECTIONS It is impossible anymore to have a thread without BB73 chiming in with some sort of factual correction. I don't know what the facts are but somebody certainly needs to sit down with BB73 and find out what he knows that he may not know, and make sure he knows what they know that he may not know. In the meantime, needless to say, BB73 is correct. Whatever it is he says. 9. KICKING GAME Heck of a point in the season to be struggling with extra points, but I am sure it will be fixed. As for the kickoffs, I was a little disappointed that our average on 9 kickoffs was... Ah hell, if you kickoff nine times who cares what your average is? On the other hand NU might want to work on their punting. Four punts for an average net yards of 18 - ouch! 10. POTENTIAL FOR POST GAME RIOTS NEXT WEEK Freedom's untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things. 11. QUOTE OF THE GAME JT leaving the field at the half - just after Troy had won the Heisman for the umpteenth time: "It wasn't a great call, it was a great play, believe me." 12. WATCH OUT FOR RUTGERVILLE Just saw on the wire where the Big East - in a desperate last ditch effort to make the title game - has merged Rutger's D with Louisville's O to form the only complete team in the conference. 13. BOONE Hope the big guy is back next week, but as you know, you play with the team you have, not the team you might want or wish to have at a later time. 14. NEW UNIS What is Fitzgerald going to do with all those black pants? 15. OFF NACHOS FOR GOOD Well, the wife finally laid down the law. Either quit eating nachos or I would have to foot the bill to have the floor reinforced under the dining room table. So, I made a promise - but I wasn't keeping it. I was sneaking nachos every chance I got. Kept some chips and cheese in the desk drawer by the computer. Another in the garage behind the mower. Even had an ice cream bowl with a false bottom to it. Then came Friday night. I went to the basketball game and invited my wife to go along. She said no, she was going to be busy with one of her girl friends. So I have a big tray of nachos at the game, then left early because it was a blow out. On the way home I stop at my favorite restaurant - Wild Bean Cafe - and grab the half gallon jug of nutritious cheese food product. Since I am coming back early I figure I can finish it off before she gets home. It doesn't take me long. I walk in the kitchen and am reaching for the can opener when I hear a noise. I follow my ears to the bedroom where the door is ajar. And what do I see but my wife and our next door neighbor making the beast with two backs. That was it. If you think I am going to eat any more nachos after coming that close to getting caught you don't know my wife. 16. MY PICK FOR NEXT WEEK. It is always tough to predict a score before a game is played. I would not say that the future is necessarily less predictable than the past. I think the past was not predictable when it started. That said, I am not going to give you a number for it because it's not my business to do intelligent work 17. WHERE'S DONALD There are at least nine quotes or paraphrases of quotes from Don Rumsfeld in this week's thread. How many did you find? And for the record - I love the work BB73 does. We are lucky to have him and 76.8% of the folks on this site agree. You can look it up. Last edited by Oh8ch; 11-12-2006 at 12:51 PM.          
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11-12-2006, 12:56 PM
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Careful, Oh8ch!
Keep talking politically and some selfrighteous mod will ship your ass, along with your posts off to the poli forum!  In the mean time. Keep up the good work!
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11-12-2006, 01:01 PM
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11-12-2006, 01:03 PM
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"There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know.
There are known unkowns. That is to say, there are things we know we don't know. " "But, there are also unknown unknowns. These are things we don't know we don't know." -- (Rumsfield knows how to knowingly confuse his knowledgable Audience at a Pentagon briefing) Brilliant! 
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11-12-2006, 01:11 PM
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with Hartline and Mitchell scoring on Saturday... i believe that brings our total to 17. 17 different players have scored for us this year!! That is just ridiculous. I wonder what the all time ncaa record is for that. I bet we're close.
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11-12-2006, 01:15 PM
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pittman smith, troy smith, antonio zwick wells, beanie wells, m hartline hall gonzo robo pettrey pretorious jenkins mitchell nicol ballard
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11-12-2006, 01:16 PM
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Chile - I don't see Small on your list.
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11-12-2006, 01:24 PM
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11-12-2006, 01:25 PM
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small I am gonna go out on a limb and guess he only meant scored touchdowns since we have 19 counting the two kickers. Last edited by BuckeyeSoldier; 11-12-2006 at 01:31 PM.
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11-12-2006, 01:31 PM
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11-12-2006, 01:35 PM
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Wow. The number is 19.
Too bad BB73 wasn't around - would have saved us a good 5 posts.
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11-12-2006, 02:50 PM
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As far as checking the facts - I was at the Hash Bash - it's all good.
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11-12-2006, 03:45 PM
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yeah thanks, i missed Small, and I got the shaft yesterday... getting the Cal game instead of the 4th quarter of our game. I didn't even know Boekman scored.
19 different players is pretty damn amazing
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11-12-2006, 03:53 PM
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1998: 56 TDs by 17 players, plus Stultz kicking and Germaine with a 2-pt conversion.
(22 rush, 26 pass, 1 PR, 3 INT return, 2 blocked PR, 2 fumble return) 2006: 53 TDs by 17 players, plus Pettrey and Pretorius kicking. (22 rush, 27 pass, 1 PR, 3 INT return)
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