Beanie ran for 480 and 3 TDs at night last year.It was announced yesterday that Ohio State is slated for two prime time games in Big Ten play, to go along with the USC match-up in LA.
The Buckeyes will travel to Madison on October 4th, their first visit since 2003, when Robert Reynolds tried to perform an emergency tracheotomy on Jim Sorgi and the Badgers ended Ohio State's 19 game winning streak.
OSU will then host Penn State on October 25th, in what could be Joepa's last game in Columbus. Gene Smith is aware he needs extra wattage that night, in case Paterno needs a bright path for his emergency bathroom runs. The Big Ten may believe this is Coach Paterno's last year, as 4 of the 5 prime time conference games involve Penn State.
I have mixed feelings about these prime time games. I know there is an extra level of energy due to the all day anticipation and consumption of barley sodas. I also enjoy dominating in front of a national audience. However, I hate waiting all day to watch my beloved Buckeyes play football. It is bad enough I can't sleep the night before, but then making me wait until 8:07 to watch, is worse than memorizing Brittany Spears lyrics.
I'm curious to know what your take is. Do you like being in prime time or do you like the traditional afternoon game? Do you get annoyed with all the drunkards or do you prefer to be a drunkard? Do you have a problem with OSU playing three night games a year?
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It's a mixed bag. Living out of state, it ensures the Bucks are on the air and I like being able to do something else during the day if necessary (cut it is college football season, so what else COULD be necessary?). But like you, the waiting is the hardest part (a bow to Tom Petty).
uh, i can safely say as a sophomore at OSU that my class has been waiting for this moment for too long.
At ASU, 90% of our home games are at night. Personally, I love it. It let's you sleep in a bit longer and work off that hangover from the night before. I also like the fact that I will actually be able to see these games without having to go to some bar that carries BTN.
let's = lets
Yay for ASU academics! :D
Wow, I feel like a complete idiot... Let's didn't look right seeing as how it's a contraction of let and us which would make absolutely no sense (It let us you sleep...) but lets isn't even a word I guess. Now I'm rambling, off-topic, so whatever. Let's (Hey! That one works!) just replace that whole word in my initial comment with "allows" and never speak of my stupidity in this matter again.
Go Bucks :)
I love it except for the Wisconsin game. As if they needed any more incentive to drink. If we beat USC there is good possibility we come out ranked #1 and that game in Madison is a perfect set up for a let down. Man, I'm graduating a quarter too soon. I'm coming back for the PSU game, that is going to be a good one...
I love night games, it means that those games have a 0% chance of being on that abortion called the big ten network. These 3 games can't be taken away from the unfortunate souls that don't have dish. Hopefully they will be on abc so we can get Herbie. I also love night games b/c with small kids they can go to bed and I can watch the games in peace.
Let's hope the national coverage makes it all the way to the west coast! 8:00 PM EST is 5:00 PM PST. Works for me!
Corey,
I have to agree with JoseOle. I used to be on your side, but now that I have a little one, I love night games because he's in bed! You know I love my little guy, but it's nice to not have the distraction during Buckeye games.
I love the night games, they look great projected on the back of the house with a couple of fire pits heating up the backyard.
Well, that announcement locks in the third loss for OSU this season. Crap. I think we drop USC, we drop w*sc*ns*n, and likely drop the game at Illinois. I'll go with 9-3, sad to say.
I intensely dislike the night games. I resent being seated next to a slobbering moron who can't hold his liquor, and I very much resent this pervading notion that p*nn st*t* can only play big games at night. Ridiculous. Every big game they have at home gets shifted to a night game, it seems, and now we're going to make other teams do that for their home games, just because the octogenarian is coming to town? Puh-leeze.
We're OSU, and we don't need to get our fans intoxicated beyond all reason in an effort to rouse spirit and bring in a good crowd. Play the game at 1530 if you must, but this night nonsense has to stop - especially when it's followed the next morning by newspapers, television media and the national press all wringing their hands about some couches being burned, some vandalism on the streets and assorted acts of boorishness toward opposing fans. Don't set up the disease, then complain about the effects.
I'm just glad that we finally retaliated for Penn State's always scheduling us at night for a "whiteout" -- not that this tactic was particularly effective last season. But I partially blame it for the 2005 upset.
The best way to retaliate for playing a road night game is scheduling the home game for 8 in the MORNING. Think about it. How many other schools could pull off an 8 A.M. start time and still attract 300k tailgaters and 100k in the stadium. I can picture it now. The visitors bus pulls through campus into the stadium parking lot at 6 A.M. only to find the place just as packed and just as crazy as if it were a 3:30 kick. Half the fans would get there at 4 A.M. the other half would be there all night. ESPN could do Game Day AFTER the game!
Either one doesn't bother me. When I still lived in Ohio, I would have my daughter on Saturdays and she would watch the games with me. It was actually harder with the late games as I was trying to get her into bed about the time the game was starting, so cheering loud was a bit of an issue... Now that she is older and talking (a lot more) it's time to teach her to say Michigan sucks.
Joe Fox, it seems you have a lot of insight but I can't figure out how you can concede games. Honestly, I figure USC is the only real test as I think OSU is by far the best team in the Big 10. I just can't concede games with this defense & with a healthy #28.
I can see OSU losing to USC, but I really think they'll be out for blood against Illinois and will give the new Wisky qb some serious trouble.
Night games at home = awesomeness and debauchery + burning couches
Night games on the road = tough wins for the Silver Bullets + anxiety when Boecks has to throw the ball.
How many seasons has Jim Tressel lost 3 games or more? 2, just 2 years! And this year is arguably 1 of the best he has had and 1 of the most experienced teams he has had.
Also, I'm not sure what this fear is of USC.....let's (just for you Dave) look at this, they have lost 4 of their 5 starting O-line, their starting QB, their starting tight end (that makes 5 of six starting lineman) who also happened to be their leading receiver.
Let’s (again for you Dave) go into more detail, on offense the only returning starters are Guard Jeff Byers who wasn’t anything special, starting Wideouts Patrick Turner and Vidal Hazelton who had a combined 7 TD’s last year, whoever the hell their fullback was, and runningback by committee (possibly missing the best of the bunch, Joe McKnight, because of academic reasons). Of those players, only Joe McKnight was enven mentioned on the All Pac10, and that was as an honorable mention.
On defense they return 7 starters, of that 5 they lose Sedrick Ellis and Keith Rivers are sure fire 1st round picks in the NFL draft, they also lose All Pac10 1st teamer DE Lawrence Jackson and All Pac10 2nd teamer DB Terrell Thomas. The only All Pac10 Defensive Player they have returning is Rey Maualuga (who is a beast mind you).
We are their 2nd game of the year. If we play to the best of our ability we should beat them by 2 touchdowns. That is not a prediction that we will, it's just a fact that when you lose that many starters you are going to need some time to get back into the flow of things.
W*sc*ns*n's new qb will be an issue for Bucky, I agree. Illinois has to replace some key components, too. Bucky's slow; Illinois has to prove they can sustain winning - that's sometimes tougher for an up-and-coming program to do than anything else. Zook has to change the whole culture out there.
I'm not "conceding" three losses - I just don't think OSU has a particularly gifted offensive line, and they can be beaten deep at the safety position - those two weaknesses can kill them on the Left Coast. I want to see a better performance out of the defensive line, too, or Bucky's going to keep the ball for forty minutes in front of a friendly crowd, and beat us 17-7.
As many strengths as OSU has, I'm just not sure how folks who actually watched this past national title game can feel that confident about going out to LA and beating USC by two touchdowns.
OSU is the class of the Big T(elev)en, though, and I earnestly hope they lay a whuppin' stick on everyone they play. I love 'em as much as anyone else.
I hate the night games...While everyone gets extra juiced up I am cleaning up the fights and burned lawn furniture...It is overtime for me so it's cool.
Columbus Finest
Incidentally, Tressel has indeed lost three games or more only twice - 2001 (5 losses) and 2004 (four). He's lost two games in three seasons (2003, 2005 and 2007). That means that in 29% of his seasons, he's lost three games or more. And since those seasons come about three years apart, that means we're.... um.... a little overdue.
Just sayin'.
Joe, you have to look at this realistically. I'm not saying that tOSU is going to walk through their schedule and fall into the NC game. I'm just saying that predicting a 3 loss season for THIS particular year is probably the negative buckeye in you talking. Last year I thought OSU would have 3 regular season losses because of inexperience....but this year they have tons of experience, and if history (i.e. Florida 2006 & LSU 2007) have taught us anything, its that experience means EVERYTHING.
However, I do agree with your thoughts on Wisconsin. That game scares me. Penn State did until they lost Sean Lee. That is going to kill them. They'll lose 4-5 games this year.
Anyone else think that not having the spring game live may be another ploy to boost attendance?
The ONLY game I'm worried about is USC. Bielema is on his way to destroying what Alvarez built up and no Lehman and no Mendenhall means 4 losses for the Illini this season.
Wil,
I don't fear anyone as an OSU fan. But just like OSU, USC is a powerhouse that reloads every year. Yes, they have lost a lot of key components. But the game is in their house, OSU has a long trip (good thing they got some practice with this against the Huskies last year), and the game will be a spotlight on every college football fan's calendar. And we all know how well OSU has handled the microscope recently (ie. Florida, LSU). So out of respect for USC's program, most fans have to give them the respect they deserve. I don't think its "fear" at all.
Wil, I don't think OSU had a choice to carry it live. BTN owns the right to the game and they are being "fair" to all schools by not airing the spring game live. Eight Big Ten teams have their spring game on Saturday.
The O-Zone had a good read on this subject yesterday.
http://www.the-ozone.net/footb...
It doesn't look like the weather is going to cooperate this weekend either.
Since I live in NC, I'm all but certain to get the game televised in my house if its a night game. But I would rather get it over with @ noon. Win or lose, I'm much more productive that way.
As a Buckeye stuck living in slo-cal, the 5pm start sits alright with me- a little nicer than waking up for a 9am game. As for USC-I'm surrounded by it, and I unfortunately know more about USC football than I'd ever care to in my life. True, they reload- but with all the assistants leaving the past few years- some of the shine has wore off on ole' Pete. The LA Times wrote an article talking abou that very fact. Also- Mcknight is good- but no Reggie Bush 2.0. Plus he's a bonehead who was just ruled academically inelgible for the final part of spring practice. Not any bearing on the fall yet, but you never know. Badger game scares me more.................
I can remember being in LA about 10 years ago and the Minny game was a 9AM kickoff. Crazy to wake up that early to watch a game, but it was nice to have the entire day left after the game.
Why wouldn't you want however many tens of thousands of students to be drunk off their ass for the game? Makes the atmosphere that much better and you get the entire day to watch what else going on around the country. Plus you get to shake off that hangover and begin the road to a new one.
Some people party so hard they get diarrhea. That's not good for anyone!
Thoughts?
When I was a student, I partied my ass off on game day. My first game as a student was the night game vs. USC when Ricky Ervins ran all over us & the game was halted in the 2nd half due to lightning. It was a good thing because my "game" was nearly halted due to partying. Now I'm older & wiser & wouldn't party that hard. But I have hard time criticizing students who do it now because of my past.
I agree with Darren's comment way up at the top.....I'm also a soph. at OSU and I was giddy with excitement when I saw that we are getting a home night game while I'm still in school. Should be a good time...
I won't say the only game that scares me is Wisconsin, but aside from USC, we should beat everyone by a touchdown or more if we get Beanie going, ATTACK on defense and keep things sweet and simple for Boeckman (i.e. no forced long bombs).
Living in Anchorage, Ak and being 4 hours behind, this means a 4:00 kickoff for us. I still prefer watching the Buckeyes with my steak and eggs. However, Alamo Bowls at 7 am after a rowdy New Year's eve makes for a rough time. Especially when it included watching that pissed off Brewer kid beat his home state scarlet and gray.
er, I won't say the only game that scares me is Wisconsin, I mean. I should just give up this whole internet thing.
I really should. The ONLY games that scare me are Wisky, SC, and Illinois. I'm going to go hang myself now.
The Vested One hasn't been the luckiest at night. You guys want convenience? Get TIVO. Every game should be at high noon if for nothing else than the historical winning percentage. Corey, nice catch on the prime time/Paterno connection.
Clean sweep. 13-0. Beating Georgia for the crown and molesting USC in SC.
Mark it down.
god i hope so, we freakin deserve it. and to have 3 prime-time nite games is a credit to how good the NCAA thinks tOSU is. I just hope we don't blow it all over the National Stage again.
Is anyone out there surprised that out state Atty. General, embroiled in a sexual harassment case involving his best friend whom he gave a job, is a graduate of UM?
That settles it. I'm going to madison.
As a student I have to say that the 3:30 games are the best. You can wake up around noon if you had a wild night before and not be hungover like crazy during the game. You can booze up sufficiently before the game if need be, and by the end of the season for the games like Michigan, come the second half it is dark out so you get the feeling of a night game. Maybe not traditional, but easily the best time for a game for a college student like myself.
Active duty Navy here....I prefer the Night games, especially vs. USC, because with a wife and 2 kids, it makes it easier for me to watch the games. Try coming off a deployment of 6 months and when asked by your wife and kids, on your first day home, "Whadaya want to do today?" and your response is "What ever you want after the OSU/ Michigan game"...and then you do it again the next year...not to good. OSU football is life...
O-H
I-O
Has anyone else been keeping an eye on the RR vs. WVU legal battle? 11W Lite has another link to a piece of interesting information. I find it fascinating, not because it is happening to UM, but I don't recall a sports divorce this messy in all my life.
Any thoughts?
Wil wrote:
"Penn State did until they lost Sean Lee. That is going to kill them. They’ll lose 4-5 games this year."
I agree. This year's PSU team should have had last year's schedule - then Paterno might have gotten 8 or 9 wins out of them. Going on the road to OSU is a killer - as usual - and I even think m*ch*g*n will find a way to beat them again this year.
At best, p*nn st*t*'s a 7-5 team, and it's not looking any brighter ahead. They're really struggling in the Big T(elev)en. I love reading their fan blogs. Of course, any snickering over p*nn st*t*'s failures is immediately tempered by Iowa. What happened there?
Order of finish?
1. Ohio State/Wisconsin
3. Sparty (I know, I know....)
4. p*nn st*t*
5. m*ch*g*n/Illinois
6-10. Who cares, really?
Corey wrote:
"Has anyone else been keeping an eye on the RR vs. WVU legal battle?"
You know, as ridiculous as this whole transition has been, I don't think it will impact m*ch*g*n's program much, if at all. For some inexplicable reason, the administration is willing to allow Rodriguez to drag this out through the courts - a process sure to uncover all kinds of things better left hidden (like the incident in the article you mentioned). Weird.
What a seismic cultural change this has to be for m*ch*g*n. This was once a program that generally handled itself with arrogant condescension and stiff formality - but everything was clean and orderly. Now, a trailer park has opened up in the parking lot, and every week reveals a plot straight out of "Springer."
I can't imagine that the folks up north really thought this hire through. I think they panicked, and it's beginning to show. It won't effect them on the field, though. Some kids are drawn to these kinds of shady characters.
1968:
"Those who stay will be champions."
2008:
"Now, a trailer park has opened up in the parking lot, and every week reveals a plot straight out of Springer."
Terrelle Pryor will make a huge impact on next years team. He will start by the end of the season as well mark it down Joe Fox. 9-3? you have lost your mind old timer. We blow out the illini next year, wisconsin can't stay within 3 td's, and USC is breaking in a 1st year starter and lost their best d-line man. Beanie will run for 150 plus and 2 td, Saine will get 2 scores, Robo and Hartline each catch one and Ohio state wins that game 42-24. This is our best team since 95' and I don't see us losing.
I see a 13-0 finish with a thrashing of Oklahoma (yes, really) and as for Georgia, they will lose at least 2 games this year ('Bama and unfortunately, Florida, who will finish with at least 1 loss and no Sugar bowl appearance. If I am wrong, you don't need to tell me). USC will be a 28-27 win, Wisconsin will be a 38-24 win, and Illinois, will be a 49-7 win. Did anyone catch the Michigan Spring game? They WILL suck this year.
"Terrelle Pryor will make a huge impact on next years team. He will start by the end of the season as well mark it down Joe Fox. 9-3? you have lost your mind old timer. We blow out the illini next year, wisconsin can’t stay within 3 td’s, and USC is breaking in a 1st year starter and lost their best d-line man. Beanie will run for 150 plus and 2 td, Saine will get 2 scores, Robo and Hartline each catch one and Ohio state wins that game 42-24. This is our best team since 95′ and I don’t see us losing.
tampa buckeye"
I'm printing this one off and keeping it, just to see what you say after week #2. Wow.
JF
If he had said 24-14 I would have beleived him. But as for Pryor STARTING by the end of the year? ......your nuts.....Tebow couldn't even start by the end of HIS Freshman year, and he DID enroll early and participated in spring drills.
that's "believed"