It only took us 4.5 hours to find Las Cruces.What's there to say about a game between a fledgling WAC team under first year head man (and former UCLA defensive coordinator) DeWayne Walker? The Lobos have scored 12 or fewer points in half of their games. The Aggies (they farm sand, evidently) are getting 850 large to take their medicine and provide a mid-season jersey scrimmage for the men of the Scarlet & Gray. NMSU totaled just 283 total yards hosting Fresno State in a 34-3 loss last weekend. If you're still not chomping at the bit for a forthcoming clash of the titans, let's gander on over at just whom will be driving the pain train this weekend, shall we?
In this very space a week ago, I foolishly compared Jim Cordle to a turnstile after his unhealthy, not-remotely-anywhere-near-game-shape embarrassing effort against Purdue. A week later, Cordle is taking to the scarlet carpet and bringing home awards and accolades alike for a remarkable performance against Minnesota. With Mike Adams out indefinitely, the left tackle spot isn't being returned to Andrew Miller, but instead to the now vivified senior utility lineman. Miller will take on the backup left tackle duties in addition to his role of the last two weeks as backup left guard. Despite also being somewhat banged up last week, Justin Boren will look to bounce back from a mix of injury and ineffectiveness while Mike Brewster too looks to shake off some discomfort that slowed him slightly the last two weekends as well. Bryant Browning and J.B. Shugarts hold down the fort on the right side, with just two brave souls, Andrew Moses and Marcus Hall, able and willing should disaster strike to fill in on a moment's notice.
Running back is the other position of interest this weekend, as Brandon "Mazda 3" Saine appears healthy and ready to continue serving as the principle tailback in the Ohio State offense. Jordan Hall will serve as the primary backup, though Dan Herron is slotted in at 3rd, should injury not prohibit his return. In a nod to his impressive combination of strength and vision last weekend, Jermil Martin makes his first appearance on the depth chart since pre-season. The rest of the offense remains unchanged. Terrelle Pryor - who believe it or not is outgunning the suddenly in full-on quarter life crisis mode Tim Tebow 234.88 total yards per game to 232.14 - is very much still the same maturing before our eyes work-in-progress he was before the Minnesota game. TP should have the opportunity to chunk the rock around with his buddies, play a little tag with some new friends from Las Cruces, and have a nice little Saturday. Maybe he'll even have the opportunity to learn a thing or two in the process.
The Vest seems relatively committed to the what-you-see-is-what-you-get approach to the defensive side of the ball, and who can really blame him? Thaddeus Gibson put together an absolutely ridiculous 3 sack performance against the Golden Gophers. Ross Homan continues to lead the linebacking corp playing like one of the absolute best linebackers in America on a week in week out basis. And if he hasn't garnered enough praise, Kurt Coleman may honestly only have two real peers in any secondary in America (and they play in Los Angeles and Knoxville respectively). This unit checks in as the 13th best total defense in the country, permitting just 284.75 yards per game (doesn't exactly bode well for an offense that barely managed that against the 61st ranked, does it?). The latest Silver Bullet incarnation is also the 7th best scoring defense, having yielded just 13.13 points per game. Look for Cam Heyward, Doug Worthington, and Todd Denlinger (with Nathan Williams making his requisite cameo in the early-to-mid 2nd half) to make Sunday a very sore, sobering morning for 5 unfortunate large young men from southwest New Mexico.
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ahhh i want to see storm klien get in some time. Mabye even a half?
Gosh, i would love to see like a 70 - 0 score!
Cmon, fellas wouldn't be great to hear about tOSU just smashing a team they should on EsecPN.
To see the scores roll by later on in the evening, and see
Ohio State 70 New Mexico State 0
coach cooper? is that you?
More like the legend.
“I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.”
I hope the buckeyes come out with their hair on fire and put up 21 in the first quarter and make this game no contest. If they let NMS get some first downs and the offense doesn't start well.......... I know I know I'm just saying blow them out and stomp them while their down, don't let them hang around to bite you in the ass like Purdue.
Did anyone see parts of the scUM-Delaware State game? Same game, different colors.
Why is Adams out indefinately? Did I miss something?
given the illness, injuries, youth, the line has experienced It is no wonder Pryor is having a tough time his sophomore season.
Buckeye fans are starting to look like Cleveland Brown fans and forgeting the pride that we all have in our state and it beloved team.
We will get through this season and next year with a third year starting center, a third year starting right guard, two Junior Tackles that are athletic, 6'8" and 315. we will have one of the top lines in football.
Keep beating down these kids and treat them like they are those high paid losers from the NE and I fear we may have one or two head to other schools that appreciate their football team.
Been in the business for 33 years. Coached one of the assistants in the 70's.
I have studied the O-Line and Browning is playing his best ever right now, shugarts did a very good job this weekend, brewster looked like he was plating hurt and Cordle missed a few delayed zone blitz situations.
If we ran a wildcat formation on a few plays that would cause the defense to over adjust and bring those backs up and then we could see our true star play his game with movement and passing.
A national championship before 2012..I gurantee
You know that if we did that then we wouldn't get any cred on eSECpn. Instead Tressel would be ripped for being classless and the Bucks would be ridiculed by trying to puff up their profile by laying into a clearly inferior team. Nevermind Florida has done that 3 or 4 times this year, cause it's Florida and their quarterback is the 2nd coming of Christ and his virgin semen cures AIDS, cancer, and cankles.
The opening line is 38.5. Have to think it would be higher if Tress ever ran up scores. But considering the offensive questions, how bad NM State is, and that we'll never play them again, perhaps we do go hang 60 or 70 on them. If I were a betting man, I'd take the Bucks minus 38.5 in a heartbeat.
Depending on who you listen to, he's either had arthroscopic knee surgery (Bucknuts) or he just has some form of leg injury (the staff/Buckeye politburo)
If Tress hangs 60 or 70 on anyone, it will rain blood and ash for about eight weeks in Columbus.
I don't see Ross Homan as one of the best LBs in the Big 10, let alone the country. It's easy to play clean up when your 3 deep D-Line is destroying the O-line. When the D-Line can't get penetration, a team like Purdue can nickel and dime us because our LBs are flat footed and get exposed in zone coverage. I don't mean to rag on the LB corps, but they have been only serviceable, if underwhelming, this year.
I think Rolle is alright in coverage; but I agree, Homan and Spitler need work (the latter really just needs to borrow some of Rolle's wheels)
I still wonder why we are not seeing BELL or SABINO more???
I mean we are up in the Minny game they didn't seem to get
much meaningful time?
Why?
From what I've heard, Sabino struggles with managing the game and plays more by instinct, which doesn't jibe well for a team that needs its LBs to only be in the right places to stop big plays, not to make plays, which is what Sabino would excel at, and which is what the D-line does in this offense. Shifitng him to SAM from MIKE is a good move, but with a 5th year senior captain in front of him who makes few mistakes, I doubt Sabino sees the field much outside of special teams and barring a Spitler injury. Bell is still undersized for even a WLB and will need to put on some weight; last I saw he was tipping the scales at 205LBs, which is smaller than Hines.
Err, what the D-line does in this defense.
Cures cankles..now that is funny!!!
Smart Football Rankings predicts a 35-0 win.
http://www.smartfootballrankin...
It actually predicted a negative number for NMSU's score. Their offense is ranked #120 out of 120 teams, and their defense is ranked #100. I'm dissappointed there wasn't a shutout last week, so we could likely have 4 shutouts on the season.
Has Bell seen any time at all? Is he still eligible to redshirt?
Hmmm...unfortunate. Thanks for the info kid
I had to Google to see if I could even find 60+ points in recent memory. Cooper put up 70 on Rice and 72 on Pitt in 1996. Tressel saves his high scores for Northwestern, but those maxed out at 58.
http://www.jhowell.net/cf/scor...
So, when we are up by 30 is Sabino still not going to get in ?
Sabino has seen time at the SAM spot in garbage timet his season, and he is always out on special teams, I believe he was out there last week against Minny at SAM when they gave up the points. I'm real excited about him, dood is just big, only Spitler is bigger than him as the LB spot and then only by a few pounds, and Sabino moves more like a nickleback with his speed.
I'm near positive he's never seen any time on defense, but he may have been out there on the special teams unit. In fact, I'd be surprised if he hadn't played on special teams, given his recruiting hype and how vocal he had been about PT. Can't recall #11 making any big plays on special teams, however.
Eh. I'd rather not blow a redshirt like we did on Keith Wells by playing him in garbage time or on special teams. At this point in the season, at least. If he's going to play, he should have done so against Toledo or Illinois.
Heck, I had to appear in court yesterday and they swore me in as "Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you Tebow?"
"We want to score every time we get into the red zone. We're doing things we're not used to doing. We're working on it. I think it's a mixture of things. Overall, we've got to execute better.
"Obviously, we're not excited about watching how we play in the red zone. We're going to get better. That's all I can really say about it."
"The top two things for us to worry about are turnovers and scoring in the red zone. If we keep kicking field goals, somewhere down the line it's going to cost us in a big way."
-Coach Urban Meyer
http://www.gatorsports.com/art...
I love The Vest, but damn I wish I could hear something like this from him. Just say it Jim, We are not pleased with the offense and if we keep kicking field goals sooner or later (Purdue, USC) it's going to cost us.
Not if you actually had cankles.
NCAA investigation coming to MIIIIIIIIIICHIGAN!
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/...
Texas 2005, LSU 2007
Texas 2008
Ohio State 33-0 on 11 field goals... and then Tressel shuts it down!
man, thats like 2 years, that'll take forever.
Has anyone asked Justin Boren his take on the situation? I know he commented on the eroding state of the "family" atmosphere there, but that's all I've heard. I guess Tress frowns upon piling on?
i Can wait !!!
ON GAME !!!
LOL
http://www.dispatch.com/live/c...
Boren has stated publicly that he will give no further comment on Rich Rod until he is out of college football; I expect at that point he will have some choice things to say.
As an aside: this will almost certainly be the first season since 2002 when the Buckeyes are without a major award winner. Of course, we won something else in 2002; doesn't look like that's going to happen this season. Darkness, Charlie Murphy.
I had a dream last night that they scored 59 points. I never dream about football but I'm going with that, and 59-0 or 3 would be a good ass whooping.
I sure hope by safety in LA you're referring to Rahim Moore. Taylor Mays has done NOTHING in the past two years besides some big (and some illegal hits). We saw him take a terrible angle and get smoked on our biggest play against him, then proceed to get hurt. He's got 1 pick on the year, no forced fumbles or sacks, and not as many tackles as Coleman. On Saturday as the Beavers were trying to come back he was late getting help on their last TD, then proceeded to rip James Rodgers' helmet off. Great athlete - there's no denying that. But all great athletes don't make great football players. Don't be like the rest of the media (which is why I read blogs) and crown this kid for running fast and jumping high.
You can be both a big hitting and a GOOD and ball hawking safety. See Sean Taylor in his UM days.
If you didn't know who Taylor Mays was before the season...you still wouldn't know who he is from his performance on field.
The hippie will dismiss official inquiries from the NCAA with flippant phrases like "newsy. sort of" and his sycophants will eat it up. But if Ohio State gets ensnared in any rumor without any kind of verification of the underlying facts and innuendo, BAM!
http://mgoblog.com/content/who...
the hippie (and his brethren) has been throwing sanctimonious boulders from his glass house for years. unfortunately, his former life partner lloyd was replaced by a rambunctious hillbilly only concerned with his personal advancement. the schadenfreude of 290 million people is going to be glorious and long-lived.
As a NMSU alumnus and OSU lifelong fan, this is an opportunity to see my alma mater play once again. With a first-year coach, they are showing some signs of life compared to past years. Although they are far from competing for a conference title in the WAC, I am content with where they are going.
As for what I want to see from OSU, I would like to see a complete game. No turnovers, solid play-calling, consistent O-line play, etc.
Only if they're +40yd attempts...
HA!
"We're going to come out all guns blazing...."; Tressel today in his presser.
Andre Aggassi smokes crystal meth.
LOL what?!?!?
NM, went to eSECpn to check it out. The comments, for once, are HILARIOUS!
That and LJ using gay slurs have made the worldwide leader a popular site today
51-3
If Rich Rod didn't put 100 on Del State, Tress won't push it much over the halfway point.
Don't be getting overconfident. I saw NMSU play SDSU a few weeks ago. Remember, NMSU is FBS and has beaten two other FBS teams this season. Both Colley's and Anderson/Hester has NMSU ranked higher than Illinois. Not a powerhouse and shouldn't be a problem but a step above Delaware State. Just sayin'.
Even The NMSU faithful say they suck. http://www.cbssports.com/mcc/m... Don't loose sleep over it. Buckeyes will be fine.
Back to the Sabino talk, Im almost positive that he got ran past by Stefon Johnson in the USC game for the second touchdown. Not 100% sure but Im almost positive I seen number 6 out there.
I went back and watched the video recap of the USC game, it was Sabino on the field to the side Johnson ran the TD in. However he got picked up on a great block so it wasnt much he could do.
That is right!
Just an $850,000 ass whoppin". I'd take it.
How about a simple "Quick Out" to the TE. I'm sure he knows the route ( 5 up and cut out. )
That 72 on Pitt is why Mark May Hates us (He He He).
He should have been flagged for the unnecessary helmet stealing hit.
Should be a perfect time to let our corners practice/play man.
That 70 on Rice is why Ken Hatfield hates us.
Coop kept getting the ball to freshmen to take it easy on Rice. Too bad for them the freshmen were named Boston and Wiley.
I remember sitting at that game and my little sister saying, "I'll be soo happy if we get a hundred."