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Tulsa Golden Hurricane at tOSU, Sep 18, 3:30 ET on FS1

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Dryden said:
Gathering the family around the burn pile while you lit $1000 on fire would have been a more memorable experience.
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Actually the memorable part was getting to meet Rex Kern the night before the game. I still have pictures of the kids, when they were little, with him so all in all it was worth it.

MaxBuck said:
This is the price you pay for living in Florida.


Well, that and the bugs. And the hurricanes. And the heat and humidity. And 80-year-olds driving 45 in the left lane. And the COVID. And the Q-Anon.
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No doubt and thus the move to Philly suburbs about 10 years ago. Fuck Florida.
 
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"(The Big Ten) is (a good league). And Ohio State, who is looked at as the behemoth, they win 41-20 and there are a lot of people like, 'Man, what is wrong with the Buckeyes?'" Herbstreit said on Monday's episode of the ESPN College Football Podcast. "And I'm still right there with you — I'm not saying they're immune to mistakes. I mean, they're still trying to figure out their defense. I don't know if it's something you can fix, to be candid. I don't know if you can fix it in the middle of a season. You can tweak it, like (third-year head coach) Ryan Day's mentioned. You can try to make some changes to the staff. But you've kind of trained these guys to be a single-high defense, which means Cover 3 — Cover 3 is a zone defense with a lot of deep coverage, trying to prevent the big play — or Cover 1, man free, where, against Oregon, they were picked on. And so, it's hard.

"For people that don't understand, it's not something that you drill and it's your DNA and it's who you are and then, 'No problem, playing Tulsa, let's go to a quarters coverage or let's go to Cover 2.' That takes a year of training. And they'll play some. But to be really good and confident in it, it takes a spring ball to implement a defense, work on technique and, 'OK, let's say you funnel a receiver, you get back in position, your eyes need to be here.' It's not just, 'Hey, on a Thursday, we're going to play Cover 2 now, let's play some quarters.' So the point is, no matter who's calling the defense — whether it's Matt Barnes, the secondary (coach), or it's (defensive coordinator) Kerry Coombs — whoever's going to do it, it puts 'em in a tough spot, to have to tweak things. So they've got their hands full the rest of the year."

"And I think Ryan Day, to me ... he spent a lot of time during team work this week with the defense. And I think it showed on the offense," Herbstreit said. "They just didn't have a rhythm to it. I mean, (freshman running back) TreVeyon Henderson, as we said in preseason, this kid's going to be Zeke Elliott, J.K. Dobbins. Henderson, he's in that, type of guy — he's a freak. So he made a lot of things look good. But they were out of rhythm, out of rhythm. And they've got to find themselves because, obviously, it's going to get a lot tougher when they get into conference play."
 
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