OSUBasketballJunkie
Never Forget 31-0
Well we are now 3-2 and 0-2 in the big ten and I have read countless threads and numerous articles and listened to has been coaches turned commentators and never was players critize and over analyze Coach T and the OSU team....here is my two cents for what it is worth....
I have been a life long OSU fan and had to endure the John Cooper era, that included just two wins against SCUM and eight years of three or more loses and I just wonder how many of you remember what it felt like during those years to have no shot at beating SCUM...I sure do and its something that I never want to go through again.
During Coach T's era we have already won a Big Ten Championship, a National Championship and went to three bowl games, in just 3.5 years at the helm.
This year we had to replace 14 players who were drafted and each played a key role in the last two years, including a quarterback who only lost three times in his career. At OSU we have certain expectations, good or bad that we simply just reload and not rebuild, well we have gotten a dose of reality that it is hard to replace a record 14 players taken in the draft, a shutdown corner, pretty much the whole O line, Three starters off the D line, the All american safety, punter and not to mention a senior MLB. We have alot of talented players still here but with little to no experience at key positions, including:
quarterback, receiver, three on the O line and three on the D line, safety and corner and the punter....thats alot to overcome.
We have a quarterback who shows flashes of being above average to being downright horrible, which can be contributed to lack of experience, he is a sophmore, he has five games under his belt and we expect him to not have some growing pains. I believe that Troy Smith deserves a shot at some playing time, but recently Coach T has said that Troy needs to practice better and I dont know call me old school, but I was always told you practice like you play.
The running game and offensive line go hand in hand, we don't have a decent offensive line which is hampering our running backs and quarterback. Some changes need to be made up front and I guess they have pulled the trigger because Kirk Barton is getting the start on Saturday, we need to see Pittman more and we need to give him the ball 15-20 times, not less than 10.
The point I am trying to make is that we have a talented but young team with little to no senior leadership and it has shown thus far, do I think they are a bad team....no....do I think they are a good team...yes....but they need some confidence and they need a spark, wehter its a qb change or different running back....thats not my call....thats coach T....he has more wins than all of us.....he is a proven winner....and I will not overly critize him for throwing pretty much a new team out on the field and not getting it done, it will take some time.
I hear everyone complaining about his conservative nature, but against Wisconsin he opened it up and the play calling was pretty good but the execution was horrible. We will continue to struggle until Zwick gets over the hump or there is a change, the qb is key and the O line must improve.
I have been a life long OSU fan and had to endure the John Cooper era, that included just two wins against SCUM and eight years of three or more loses and I just wonder how many of you remember what it felt like during those years to have no shot at beating SCUM...I sure do and its something that I never want to go through again.
During Coach T's era we have already won a Big Ten Championship, a National Championship and went to three bowl games, in just 3.5 years at the helm.
This year we had to replace 14 players who were drafted and each played a key role in the last two years, including a quarterback who only lost three times in his career. At OSU we have certain expectations, good or bad that we simply just reload and not rebuild, well we have gotten a dose of reality that it is hard to replace a record 14 players taken in the draft, a shutdown corner, pretty much the whole O line, Three starters off the D line, the All american safety, punter and not to mention a senior MLB. We have alot of talented players still here but with little to no experience at key positions, including:
quarterback, receiver, three on the O line and three on the D line, safety and corner and the punter....thats alot to overcome.
We have a quarterback who shows flashes of being above average to being downright horrible, which can be contributed to lack of experience, he is a sophmore, he has five games under his belt and we expect him to not have some growing pains. I believe that Troy Smith deserves a shot at some playing time, but recently Coach T has said that Troy needs to practice better and I dont know call me old school, but I was always told you practice like you play.
The running game and offensive line go hand in hand, we don't have a decent offensive line which is hampering our running backs and quarterback. Some changes need to be made up front and I guess they have pulled the trigger because Kirk Barton is getting the start on Saturday, we need to see Pittman more and we need to give him the ball 15-20 times, not less than 10.
The point I am trying to make is that we have a talented but young team with little to no senior leadership and it has shown thus far, do I think they are a bad team....no....do I think they are a good team...yes....but they need some confidence and they need a spark, wehter its a qb change or different running back....thats not my call....thats coach T....he has more wins than all of us.....he is a proven winner....and I will not overly critize him for throwing pretty much a new team out on the field and not getting it done, it will take some time.
I hear everyone complaining about his conservative nature, but against Wisconsin he opened it up and the play calling was pretty good but the execution was horrible. We will continue to struggle until Zwick gets over the hump or there is a change, the qb is key and the O line must improve.
