props to tOSU

[Goober McTuber]

If Flynn's receiver hadn't gone inside and that pass get intercepted, it probably would have ended up 38-10.

Ohio State was beaten badly.

And if tOSU hadn't been flagged for roughing the kicker, it might have been a much closer game. What an ungracious cunt.

[Sky]

Props to you Jsc, and Sam, that sounds a little like Trixie.

LSU played a much better game last night. Once the 2nd Qtr rolled around, LSU started playing tough and kept it up for the rest of the game. OSU had their moments but couldn't put together a great stretch on offense or defense.

Again, congrads and I hope you enjoy this victory.

[Mikey]

tOSU didn't belong on the same field as LSU last night. They were thoroughly outplayed in every phase of the game. I was hoping that the Buckeyes would win but, to be honest, they should be embarassed by their performance and their loss of composure.

[GreginPG]

That was an amazing game, this morning the entire region is recovering.

It reminded me of a classic heavyweight boxing match between two champions, both with big KO power, and both went out there and gave their all. Ohio State landed some heavy punches early, but LSU didn't give up. Big plays caused big momentum changes - what if instead of being blocked, OSU made the FG and went up 13-10? LSU took the lead, and then OSU didn't give up. The article in the USA Today says the game was over by halftime but he must have watched a different game than the one I saw. Because of OSU's effort, it wasn't until late in the 4th quarter that I began to feel comfortable with the outcome. LSU won the game last night, but it easily could have gone the other way.

Huge props to tOSU, of course the players feel the sting of defeat right now, but hopefully as time passes they will further appreciate their amazing 6 year run run of accomplishments -- 4 Big 10 championships, a national championship, and playing in 3 national championship games. Huge props to tOSU program as well, 7 national championships, 32 Big 10 championships, the Heisman has been awarded 7 times to OSU players and Archie Griffin is the only player to ever win it twice, the Lombardi Award has been awarded 6 times to OSU players and Orlando Pace is the only player to ever win it twice. By comparison, LSU has 3 national championships, 10 SEC championships, 1 Heisman winner, and 1 Lombardi winner.

It has been a wild year but now it is over. Time to think recruiting and about next year ...

Yeah it was amazing if you are LSUfan. If you were an OSUfan or someone on the outside looking in just hoping for a great game, it wasn't so amazing.

The line of the night last night was from Kilian with his "Great, my fucking DVR is broke. It's showing last years game" blast.
That game was like a boxing match alright. OSU won the first couple of rounds and then promptly went into the tank, couldn't land another big punch and got their asses kicked. (What did they give up? 24 straight?)
Oh and USA today was right, btw.

[Goober McTuber]

Bullshit. If LSU had played hard and lost, so be it. I would have been very happy with a one point Buckeye win. Like most in here I don’t set out to “trash” the SEC, I’ve said more than once that they were the strongest conference this year. And as much as anyone I react to ball-sucking SEC homers like you.

Just go back and read jsc’s posts in this thread to see how a winning fan acts with class.

[Mikey]

Just go back and read jsc’s posts in this thread to see how a winning fan acts with class.

By calling a shitty game "amazing"?

By comparing a total trashing to a classic heavyweight fight?

By giving a team that rolled over and sucked balls props for giving a good effort?

I don't think so. tOSU deserves props for a great season but they seriously stunk up the house last night. If you can't see that you're blind.

[Sky]

Just go back and read jsc’s posts in this thread to see how a winning fan acts with class.

By calling a shitty game "amazing"?

By comparing a total trashing to a classic heavyweight fight?

By giving a team that rolled over and sucked balls props for giving a good effort?

I don't think so. tOSU deserves props for a great season but they seriously stunk up the house last night. If you can't see that you're blind.

LSU played much better than OSU last night. They played smarter, harder, and their coaching was much more clever (not in a "trick-play" manner but in a "you haven't seen this yet" manner).

That being said, I don't think this was a total trashing. OSU made some mistakes. 7 penalties (4 personal fouls, roughing the kicker), interception, and fumble. Those, IMO, cost them a chance at winning the game. Still, since when is a 14pt win a blowout? This wasn't like Hawaii of this year or last year where OSU was out by the 2nd quarter. In the 4th quarter, OSU still had a real chance.

LSU made some big plays and their plays came in the 2nd quarter and latter parts of the game.

OSU gained more yards but also gave up 80+ yards in penalities. I think OSU shot themselves in the foot---that doesn't mean they wouldn't have won had thoes things not happened but they would have had a better chance at making it a game.

[GreginPG]

The game wasn't as close as the final score indicated, especially considering that OSU was up 10 before they quit, errrr overtaken by vastly superior SEC team. OSU would have gone 0-8 in the meatgrinder.

[Mikey]

It was a trashing at 31-10, and tOSU was never in the game past that point, no matter what the final score was.

Without Wells' 65 yard run on, what, the fourth play? they wouldn't have gone over 300 for the entire game.

That run was awesome, BTW, and had me excited thinking that LSU was going down. But tOSU showed absolutely nothing after that until the game was well out of reach. And those personal fouls were unforgiveable, except for the roughing which was dumb but at least he was trying to make a play.

[Sky]

WTF?

LSU scored 21 in the second quarter. Beyond that you are comparing a 7-7 third quarter and each team scoring a junk TD in the final minutes of the game.

BTB, what is up with Miles throwing for a TD w/ less than 2 to go in the 4th?

[Dinsdale]

It apparently must still be off-limits to call a spade a spade...

OSU's play calling on offense wasn't just bad... it was "shockingly bad."

The game-day coaching was a performance worthy of the Hall of Shame.


But for some odd reason, there's a whole bunch of excuse-making for an absolute crap coaching job. Bad play calling, bad preparation, bad motivation... you name it, that area of coaching sucked.

But it's all about Sweatervest and his greatness when they win, but it's all on the players when they mail it in.

[Sky]

It apparently must still be off-limits to call a spade a spade...

OSU's play calling on offense wasn't just bad... it was "shockingly bad."

The game-day coaching was a performance worthy of the Hall of Shame.


But for some odd reason, there's a whole bunch of excuse-making for an absolute crap coaching job. Bad play calling, bad preparation, bad motivation... you name it, that area of coaching sucked.

But it's all about Sweatervest and his greatness when they win, but it's all on the players when they mail it in.

I'll disagree with you there. I fully think this falls on the coaches. I trust Tressel but these last two bowl games have me worried. I saw one clever play call last night and that was the wheel route to Small. Beyond that, there was nothing special about our play calling. Still, Tressel is 4-3 in bowl games. If we continue down this path something would have to change but I don't think its that serious.

[Dinsdale]

I just thought it was really generous of Tressel to not run plays to parts of the field that LSU stopped even bothering to cover.

Props to the television crew for giving us such a great view of the game, to the point that Average Joe could see huge gaping holes in LSU's coverage where Tressel couldn't. Man, they should show the TV coverage up in the booth, or something. Maybe OSU's staff might have noticed that LSU just plain gave up covering the middle of the field, since OSU never ran a play through there all night. I didn't really think they needed to spot LSU such a strategic advantage, but I guess the unquestionable strategy of Sweatervest is unquestionable.

[Goober McTuber]

Sam,

I wasn’t suggesting that tOSU played a great game, but a couple of minutes into the 4th quarter they were down 31-17 with the ball around the LSU 30. Boeckman couldn’t stay upright and they turned the ball over on downs.

They then held LSU to 3 and out. They got the ball back on the 20, moved almost to midfield, then Boeckman threw an INT. With a little better offense, and maybe it was the play-calling, they could have been right back in the game well into the fourth quarter.

Not a pretty game, not their best effort, but I disagree that the game wasn’t as close as the score indicates.

And Sam, you of all people accusing anyone else of paranoia is hilarious.

[Dinsdale]

But...this team never was expected to get to this point, so all isn't lost. These guys should have been a year or two away from a NC appearance.

But then the OSU AD pulled a page out the the SEC playbook, grabbed the Yellow Pages, and checked the "cupcake" listings, then hammered out a schedule.

[smackaholic]

The roughing the kicker call in both college and the pros is bullshit. That dude was in there in plenty of time to block it. Infact, dude missed it because he was there too early.

WFT isn't roughing the kicker similar to roughing the passer? It is quite obvious if some fukk is just teeing off on a kicker as it is with the QB.

It really sux to see such a shit call have an effect on a game.

I know kickers aren't real football players and abhore the idea of actually risking being knocked on their ass, but, too fukking bad.

I seem to remember the rule being similar to roughing the passer back in the day before they decided to pussify the game with ridiculous contact rules.

Is this so?

[Bobby42]

Hey folks,

I spent the day at work hearing co-workers yak about the game, listening to folks calling in on radio programs and I can't tell you how difficult it was to read the headlines from this morning's newspaper.

I listened to excuses and made a few of them myself. When is comes down to the final analysis we're left with this: last night LSU was the superior team. The tigers played with execution, made the fewest mistakes and won the title. Rack them.

And props to tOSU for a team that was not supposed to return to the title game. The Buckeyes were predicted to place no better than 3rd in the Big Ten. In August, who would had believed they would finish as Big Ten champs and end up with a 11-2 record? In fact, many have said 2008 was supposed to be the year everyone was anticipating.

That being said, what can be said about the Big Ten and Buckeye football? I'm not going to debate the conferences because the wheel turns and each will enjoy their time at the top. What I will say about the Buckeye program is it makes no sense to schedule cupcake in-state "rivals." If you want to stay on top you to play the powerhouse teams. You need to be tested and sometimes you'll be beaten. LSU won last night in part because they were tested.

tOSU came to the party essentially by default and on a weak dance card. Not their fault, but who's in charge of scheduling and what are they trying to do with the program?

Nevertheless, another great year for the Buckeyes. We've beaten Michigan once again and that's been the bench mark, as it always should be among other things. But, there's a change in the air coming and will the Buckeyes be ready for it?

[L45B]

What I will say about the Buckeye program is it makes no sense to schedule cupcake in-state "rivals." If you want to stay on top you to play the powerhouse teams. You need to be tested and sometimes you'll be beaten. LSU won last night in part because they were tested.

Couldn't agree with you more, Bobby. I've mentioned a few times during the season how I disagree with the AD's scheduling strategy. Even in the years we play premiere OOC teams, we are still scheduling the likes of New Mexico State, Youngstown State and Troy. We have little to gain from these games. We did add TCU to the slate to compliment the game with USC in '09, but only because Army cancelled its series with us. Our AD needs to buck up, and follow in the footsteps of Southern Cal by scheduling the big dogs and other lower to middle-tier BCS conference opponents. Playing virtually no one until the BCS national championship game is setting the team up for failure, IMO.

But, there's a change in the air coming and will the Buckeyes be ready for it?

If that means bringing Fred Pagac back to coach the defense, I'm all for it.

[Dinsdale]

What I will say about the Buckeye program is it makes no sense to schedule cupcake in-state "rivals." If you want to stay on top you to play the powerhouse teams. You need to be tested and sometimes you'll be beaten. LSU won last night in part because they were tested.

Wow. Maybe you shouldn't have eaten that second bowl of Retard Flakes this morning, eh?


Do you believe LSU was "tested" by Middle Tennessee, Tulane, or Louisiana Tech?

[Bobby42]

Overtime tested, asshole. Pulling out victories in the final moments.

[Dinsdale]

So OSU should intentionally let their opponents stay close, so they can be "overtime tested"?

Man, better get Sweatervest on the phone, STAT, as I'm sure this strategy has yet to occur to him. I'm sure he'll put you on the staff.

[Bobby42]

No you stupid, subborn piece of shit. LSU fought through adversity by playing a few teams to the wire. tOSU’s young team never experienced that kind of challenge and it caught up with them vs. Illinois and last night. The main concern was whether tOSU could play a complete game and persevere if things got dicey. Could they play catch up? Nope. We were counting on luck. Their youth and realative inexperience showed. But, if most of the team stays intact then the 2008 team should be promising.

I'm waiting for your smart ass response.

[Dinsdale]

I'm waiting for your smart ass response.

Which is a darn sight better than your dumbass statement.

OK... slowly, for the Bobbies in the crowd...

DID YOU, or DID YOU NOT state that "scheduling... powerhouse teams," rather than "cupcakes" is how a team is "tested"?

YES OR NO?


Did you also not state that LSU "won last night in part because they were tested"?

YES OR NO?

OK, since we've established that you did indeed make these statements and the obvious insinuations that went with them (those were rhetorical questions-btw... you did indeed state those very things)...


Aside from VT, was LSU "tested" by their "scheduling" of Tulane, Louisiana Tech, or Middle Tennessee?


Which one of those games against non-"cupcakes" that LSU scheduled went into overtime, anyway? My memory must be really failing me, because I just don't remember it happening quite that way. And if YOU do, you might wanna see a doctor.

[Bobby42]

Dins, You reason like a schizophrenic. Go ahead and include incomplete quotes to serve your ruse.

[Dinsdale]

Dins, You reason like a schizophrenic. Go ahead and include incomplete quotes to serve your ruse.

Huh?


I asked you "YES OR NO" questions (although that was a trap, since you'd already made the statements).


OK, let me explain this carefully, and help you out...


You said scheduling cupcakes makes no sense, citing a reason that it doesn't "test" a team. Then, you went on to explain how LSU won because they were "tested."


So, I guess I'll give you an out... I STRONGLY suggest you take it.


What you MEANT to post was "Oh, sorry, I really freaking screwed up in my paragraph structure. Ge golly, I feel kinda silly for insinuating that LSU's OOC scheduling somehow prepared them for tight games, since LSU and every other SEC team is freaking LEGENDARY for scheduling the 'cupcakes' that I just admonished OSU for scheduling, and with their cupcaked schedule, not one game that LSU scheduled was anywhere near close, so obviously had no freaking bearing on preparing them for close games." That's what you meant to respond with, right?



I'd highly suggest you take the out you were given. Because that's what you MEANT to say, right, rather than the absolutely freaking moronic shit you actually did say, right?