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Gee, winning 29 out of 30 games as a head coach in the Big Ten, or making the playoffs in two of his three years as a head coach "isn't even a pimple on Meyer's ass"? You just might want to rethink your comment...
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Meyer mad some unquestionably bad decisions and hires. But he made more great decisions and hires….perhaps much more.
Hence, OSU is in the same breath as Clemson, UGA, Okie and even Bama….or at least close. Without Meyer we are without one NC and battling Wisconsin or Michigan for BigTen supremacy
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I agree and disagree with your post. Yes, he made some great hires (Day, Ash, LJsr, Wilson, Coombs, Warriner-OL), but he also had some very bad hires too(Davis, Withers, Smith, Johnson, Beck, Warriner-OC). For his greatness with OSU, like winning an NC, he also cost us an NC with his stubbornness to not run Zeke, and keep predictably running JT. Matter of fact, the final years of Meyer were a complacency of running JT like he was Tebow Jr, and defenses no longer falling for that. True, without Meyer we probably don't have that NC in 2014, and probably are just a regional power. But also with Meyer, there were major mental team lapses that led to blowout losses to Purdue and Iowa. For as great as Meyer was(and he was great, and is a legend), it was his time to leave, as he was wearing out his welcome in Cbus. And Day is great HC to follow him
We also got our dicks kicked in by unranked Iowa and Purdue as well...
Day and Meyer aren't comparable, as Day is still in the infancy stage of his head coaching. His first HC gig was OSU, while Meyer's was BG. Different levels of pressure
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Meyer was vastly good over bad simply because he ignited a recruiting juggernaut and win a Natty 1 year early. He also went undefeated with the shaky 2012 team.
I agree that Meyer started swerving a bit but never put it into the ditchexcept for those 2 inexplicably bad games. He also had Burrow and Haskins but chose to stay with the upperclassman leadership. That tells me he was holding on too tight by 2016/17.
Day appears to have been the right hire at the right time. Too bad he didn’t turn over his D staff after the Bama Bowl debacle…..and it was a debacle….or else we would have been able to face UGa. Getting blown out on the road by Iowa and Purdue is indeed worse than losing to a decent Oregon team at home…..but not light years worse.
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Urban also cost us being the 1st ever repeat NC with the god awful offensive game plan against MSU in 2015! The MSU loss in the B1G championship was also awful since we had the better talent as well. And you also forget about the utter embarrassment against Clemson as well when we got shut out! Meyer is a legend, and most if not all of us are grateful for him coming to OSU, but like I said, it was his time to leave.
Day got blown out by a legendary Bama team, and then outcosched and beaten down by Oregon and scUM. And he has shown that he will make the difficult decisions to cut those who are holding back the program.
Btw, if these posts need to be moved, so be it. I much rather discuss recruiting as opposed to a coach who no longer is on our staff in comparison to our current HC…
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Systems_id
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Disagree vehemently with this. Those Iowa and Purdue teams were barely .500 and Purdue got absolutely annihilated by a middling Auburn team in their bowl game. Like those two beatings were so bad that it made me question the state of the program. Losing to Oregon sucked but that was closer to Bama losing to a random good Ole Miss team or Texas A&M this year. Iowa and Purdue would be like Bama losing to Tennessee or Arkansas by 4 TDs.
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Onebuckfan
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2012 and 2014. How Meyer and staff instilled enough confidence in that team to go on that roll…is legendary alone. Same thing he did with Florida when an average team rolled another ledgendary team.
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Anybody got any surprises for the good guys tomorrow? I couldn't think of any still as possibilities
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Buckeye86
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Seeing if Abor signs with Ohio State is still somewhat of a question mark, I think. Although he never actually took additional visits, as far as I know, so that drops the tension a little bit, but there still might be something there.
Otherwise, there is a tiny chance Christen Miller picks Ohio State.
Anything else would be completely out of nowhere.
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with so many kids signing early… there is 0 buzz or feel for this signing day now. heck I even forgot it was this week until I saw this
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billmac91
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I think Bucks have a couple targets on back burner depending on tomorrow.
Depending on who signs (or doesn’t sign) I think they have some transfer portal guys lined up. I’ve heard a few names of interest, but we will know pretty quickly after tomorrow.
It’s truly all about numbers and knowing scholarships available. Once the HS kids are in the books they know exactly what they have to work with.
I’ve been told they have at least 1 transfer in the books…..not surprisingly at a major position of need.
Depending on who signs (or doesn’t sign) I think they have some transfer portal guys lined up. I’ve heard a few names of interest, but we will know pretty quickly after tomorrow.
It’s truly all about numbers and knowing scholarships available. Once the HS kids are in the books they know exactly what they have to work with.
I’ve been told they have at least 1 transfer in the books…..not surprisingly at a major position of need.
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[redacted - recruiting forum]. He just finished his third full year as head coach, so the vast majority of players on the roster are "his". Meyer won three national titles in his 19 years as a head coach but didn't win his first until his sixth year...Day just finished his third. While we got beat by 15 points by a Meatchicken team that made the final four playoffs--the worst defeat under Day, and to a very solid team on that team's home field--Meyer lost by a [redacted]-ton three times during his seven years as a head coach here, and two of those were to teams that barely finished their season with a winning record. While Meyer was 38-3 in his first three seasons as our head coach, Day was 34-4 as head coach, which I'd say is pretty [redacted]close. So, yeah, Day is currently as good a head coach as Meyer ever was, despite the fact that this is his first-ever head coaching position. If he stays at Ohio State for 19 years (and equals Meyer's total years as a head coach in college) he'll have at least three national titles.
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