Florida State Open Thread
Last year, the conferences were tied at three heading into the final day of games. Despite surprising wins out of Northwestern and Penn State, the ACC was able to take three of the last five games to finish 6-5 and capture their 10th straight challenge.
Tonight, we find ourselves knotted up again at three each with just five to play. The action starts with Illinois visiting Clemson and Minnesota playing at Miami at 7:15. Fifteen minutes later, Boston College takes the floor in Ann Arbor, leaving Duke in Madison and of course, the Seminoles in Columbus to cap the night off.
I don’t know about you, but I see three wins in that lineup. And then we’ll party.
Photoshop is fun!
Not to distract from this thread, but you know one thing I actually like about the SEC? In “down” years, there aren’t any “well, we were young/inexperienced/not mentally prepared” excuses for coaches who don’t get the job done. Heads roll.
http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/latest/lat_703716.shtml?v=1539
Of course, this can be a good or a bad thing, but when was the last time a Big Ten coach fired a long-time assistant for failing to perform?
“I cannot express enough my thanks to all three for their contributions to our program,” Richt said. “However, in the final analysis I’m charged with providing the leadership and direction for the Georgia program and sometimes that means making difficult decisions. This was one of them.”
You mean you can blame coaches and not players? Shocking.
Haven’t you heard? We’ve never been ranked higher than 26th in total offense under JT because the players just aren’t executing, man
okay let’s be real here, JT Money and co has never had a debacle of a season like Georgia just had. even when lydell was shufflin his way to negative yardage on about every down in 2004, the offense clearly improved over the course of the season. really, the biggest target you could have here is bollman, but hell, even the o-line managed to get better as the season went on this year.
should bollman be put out to pasture? yeah, probably like three years ago. but in reality the dude hasn’t done anything completely awful except not fielding a line that’s lived up to our gigantic expectations. plus the players love him. so I dunno, it’s not always that easy of a call to make.
“Not giving up 80 billion sacks to Florida, LSU, USC and even Purdue” seem to be pretty reasonable expectations. I mean, Ohio State is not a passing team, and will probably never be a passing team. We’re going to win and lose games on the ground, but… it doesn’t hurt to give the quarterback a little bit of a time and at least make an attempt at a balanced gameplan. Especially against the better teams on the schedule. Too frequently, Jim Bollman’s lines have come up well short of even the most meager of expectations.
our offense is usually extremely balanced, but that’s beside the point. I mean, I agree with you that bollman should be gone, pretty much for the same reasons you said. but since he means so much to the players, recruiting, and Tress in general, and hasn’t put out much worse than a mediocre line as of yet (although they haven’t been much better than that either), I’m just saying I can see why Tressel doesn’t just bump his ass to the curb.
the truth is, as long as he can get dudes to run block, and he almost always has, he’s going to be at OSU
ummmm guys….
http://www.thebuckeyebattlecry.com/?p=3820
wtf is that?
I don’t know but I hope the neat little experiment is over. Can we please stop messing with the unis for a while?
When they changed them a few years ago it didn’t bother me too much as the changes were not dramatic at all from what I had been used to. And the throwback for Michigan this year was not something I really liked, but I wasn’t too bothered by it, either.
But if they actually start wearing weird unis all the damn time I will have a problem. Stop for a long while.
I think Nike already released an image of the uni’s for next year. Nothing shocking.
However, if we play the Ducks in the Rose Bowl…RULE NOTHING OUT.
construction of the lunar stadium completes this summer. it all makes sense.
I was in Ann Arbor for The Game and going in I was Ok with the white Nike Pro Combats, but after seeing them live, they were sort of weak I thought. You knew the scarlet version was coming. If the stuff is 35% lighter and shit, you know the players will like them. I just think the design could be a little better. I love our numbers on the current unis, why do we have to have numbers like every other school. Everybody is starting to look alike. Our home unis are amongst the best in CFB. Don’t F that up.
can we at least get TCU’s Brett Michaels pants……
Every Rose Has Its Thorn…Bad unis in The Grand Daddy of Them All.
I hear that the Buckeyes are gonna take the field with just one huge buckeye decal on the helmet
I’ll bet Pam hates the new unis too.
my gf loves them. she should be in the kitchen and keep her opinions to herself.
As long as your gf loves the buckeyes, hold onto her.
we’re both alums. and going to the rose bowl. merry christmas to me.
That’s awesome dude. You’ll love that trip. Went to the championship in Tempe…but never been to The Grandaddy.
it’s not much of a trip. about 21 miles according to google maps.
That’s right, you live out there. Still, we haven’t been there since Cooper and it will be all good.
if i didn’t live here i wouldn’t be going. flights are too g d expensive.
i remember that gave vividly. david boston ftw.
I remember that game too. I had just moved from Akron to Albany NY and hung the Buckeye flag out of my window and my neighbors called and asked what the flag with the zero was for. Great place to live but nobody cares about CFB out there. I remember Brent Musburger sucked Jake’s snake all night long until Germaine shoved it in their ass, He was a great QB.
Another sign that Cooper sucked… 2 QB “system”.
Stan Jackson sucked. Germaine was the shiz.
Stanley Jackson was friggin horrible. Here’s a good one for you…When they first built The Woody Hayes Center, John Bozick gave me a tour of it…he was Woody’s equipment guy and Earle’s too. It was the morning after we lost to SC at home with marinovich at QB. He HATED Cooper. He told me the headset that Cooper wore was a dummy headset. There was nothing going into it. Just a prop.
that’s hilarious. they probably got tired of listening to john cooper’s weird jibberish-mumble-speak.
great recruiter. horrible coach.
Friggin Gomer Pyle.
SHAZZAM!
Come on Wisconsin. Why do I give a shit about them all of a sudden?
bc you can’t root against a team full of whitie’s in bball.
They need to make them fit better. If you’re going to spend a lot of money to do special uniforms as a marketing ploy, make them actually fit the players. I felt like twice as many players were dragged down by their loose shirt than usual that game. Not to mention that it really hurts a lot of the look.
Big11Ten sucking on the gas pipe again.
Michigan is bad at everything right about now. Good night.
Is that John Saunders doing play by play? Shoot me.
Alex is at the game and word in the crowd is that Seantrel Henderson is in attendance.
Heard Matt James is visiting next Saturday (Dec.12) and possibly backing off Notre Dame.
WB is at it again
Hightower and Sanders = gonna be a long game
PS way to fuck it up scUM. Wisky has to pull off a miracle now.
We went ice cold
The defense has been solid so far, but we have to start getting some boards.
Who is wearing the Diebler mask?
Scoonie Penn
Threebler came to play tonight
Turner knew that was off when Buford shot it……..he is pretty good.
Any chance at all that the Badgers hold on?
if that keep that albino Singler on lock down.
if they*
We’re all Badger fans tonight.
Wow! Great half!
Only took them 3 minutes to blow their halftime lead.
Big 3 as he got hit in the face
Not much to say other than +1 for Thad Matta’s coaching strategy.
How terrible is Michigan right now? Who would want to play for Beilein? The guy looks like he broke out of the rest home to pose as a bball coach.
horrible foul
BowWow……FreeStyle
HIGHTOWER!!!!!!
He couldn’t move fast enough to see it…….and since he never give the bucks anything he assumed it hit off them.
he owed us.
best. meme. ever.
classic Ed
Beat me to it…..
yessssss!!!
Good god, FSU has like 147 turnovers tonight.
diebs just got balls in his face :(
Wisky working on blowing it
I blame Bo Ryan’s overuse of DEP hair gel
He looks like Vira on Planet of The Aoes.
marky mark made out with her
Call a time out and put the brothers in.
Badgers with a huge chance.
Jim Burr
ET…….working on 4 straight
The villain with his best LBJ impression there.
+1
Wisky outwhites Duke!
I mean, hard-nosed, solid passing, and any other cliche fundamental basketball
Singler is whiter than the whole Wisky starting line all by his lonesome.
Bohannan and Leuer take personal offense to that statement
it’s the truth. and he looks like the guy russel crowe sees in “a beautiful mind”
this guy
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0079273/
Wanna bet that the 4letter still slants the story towards the ACC
Good win for Wisky.
start the “big e-lev-en” (clap clap clap-clap-clap) chant.
Diebler says, “Ask and you shall receive.”
Ohio State says, “You’re welcome Big Ten.”
yyyeeeaaaaaahhhh take that, conference I only even realize exists like twice a year!!!
Big Ten won the challenge! And with Mich*g*n losing! Bonus!
’sup fellas…missed the game due to “operational committments” in parts unknown…. Glad to see we pulled it off. As far as the jersey BS I just won an authentic TP home jersey, so if we do change I will be super pissed. I also won that Greg Oden throwback, and holy God it is awesome. Replay of the game online anywhere???
that G.O. throwback is money. It’s kind of funny to consider it a throwback since the team worse it for only one regular season though. haha