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10-07-2007, 10:36 AM
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Well tsun can't stop any team that lines up 3/4 wide and throws, Purdue pretty much always lines up 3/4 wide and throws. So the question is, can Purdue hold tsun under 35?
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Depends on how they bounce back mentally from our game, but initially I'd say yes they can. Never forget the built in damper that is the tsun coaching staff and the field general that is Henne.
Tsuns offense isnt complex, its just takes a basic level of overall atheticisim to stop it. From what I saw, Purdue might have enough. 8-9 man fronts, key on the fullback and when in doubt guess they will run left. Backside guys keep your feet, maintain your gap responsibilities and know that the cutback is coming.
Purdue will have to cheat on defense to overcome tsuns talent edge and you can't always guess right, so they will give up some points/big plays BUT I think tsuns D is at a bigger disadvantage than Purdue's.
Also if Purdue is scoring at some point in the game Hart becomes less of a threat and it has to get turned over to Big Game Chad and the receivers.
All that said, if Purdue doesn't come out fired up and play the best they are capable of, tsun will win. A post- OSU hangover could doom them.
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10-07-2007, 11:23 AM
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Yesterday was the last battle of unbeatens in the Big 10 this year.
In the unlikely event that the skunk weasles get past Purdue next week, they play Illinois the week after.
So in two weeks, we will be down to (at most) two teams in the Big 10 without a conference loss.
It is possible that OSU could wrap up the conference title at home against Illinois the week before heading to the Pig House.
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10-07-2007, 11:35 AM
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It is possible that OSU could wrap up the conference title at home against Illinois the week before heading to the Pig House. |
I don't see Illinois losing to anyone else but us so technically it would mean we play tsun for the outright B10. If somehow we lost to tsun after beating Illinois we would still be the RB team because of the better OOC record.
All that said, the road to a 3rd straight B10 title is firmly in our grasp but Happey Valley looms.
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10-11-2007, 05:29 AM
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After Ohio State, pickings are slim
Big Ten is really a Big One
After Ohio State, pickings are slim in conference
Thursday, October 11, 2007Doug Lesmerises
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Columbus -- Name the second-best team in the Big Ten. Right now. Go.
Illinois, right? Maybe. Not Wisconsin, not after losing to the Illini. Michigan, with four straight wins after an 0-2 start? Not Penn State after two straight losses. Umm, 5-1 Indiana?
How about no one?
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THE BIG TEN
Jason Lloyd, Morning Journal Writer
10/12/2007
1. For those of you who felt ESPN was on a witch hunt in its pursuit of Jim Tressel and Ohio State a few years ago, Yahoo! is helping the NCAA close in on USC. Yahoo! reported this week that a sports marketer in Los Angeles will give the NCAA financial records indicating Reggie Bush and his family received about $280,000 in benefits while he was enrolled at USC.
2. If it's proven Bush received improper benefits, USC could be forced to forfeit games. How that affects its 2004 national championship remains to be seen. The school could face more sanctions if it's proven that the coaches knew or should have known about the benefits.
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