1. I was in the 9-3/10-2 camp at the start of the season (leaning heavily towards 9-3).
2. I downplayed the significance of Kenny G's work against Purdue from a historical perspective.
Without a doubt, one of my favorite (if not my favorite) Buckeye teams of all time.
2 confessions
1.) I also didn't believe 12-0 was possible.
2.) I once had to use the restroom really, really, bad like emergency bad while driving and the closest place to stop was a Culver's restaurant. I ran out of my car (and I discovered running is actually not a good idea if you really have to go #2, so take note) and well, let's just say I didn't make it inside before disaster struck and as a result, I left my underwear behind in the restroom wastebasket.
1) I was 10-2
2) I once made my kid eat cucumbers.
1. Since it was a complete retooling of the offense, I didn't care about the record as long as OSU won the last game of the year.
2. I wanted to see Robinson to get hurt on Sat, and that was wrong of me.
After seeing how he was being used in the 2nd half (without Gardner on the field) and after the fumble, I kind of wanted him to be out of the game, too.
Those who stay will be CHAMPIONS!
~Bo Schembechler
It will be denied, but I think he got dinged up and they kept him out. Just the hunch of a casual observer.
I agree. In the second half you could see him walking the sidelines he wouldn't move his right arm at all and had it held against his chest. Something wasn't right
I actually thought 10-2 would be a terrific season and felt 8-4 or 9-3 was likely. I just felt the team was in such disarray last year that even with a horrible schedule it was going to be tough to not have disappointments along the way. It's a real testament to this Senior class and team as a whole that they bought in and changed their ways. 12-0 really was an amazing feat this year.
Nothing to confess, Pope Talbert?
LOL, I'm never wrong about anything why would I confess? Actually, I abandoned the Purdue game after Guiton threw the pick. I got up walked away, told my wife the game was over and she could watch whatever she wanted. A few minutes later she still had it on and I saw they were making a run at it.
After that, I'll never give up on game again!
That reminds me of a friend of mine who is a Nebraska fan. He actually stopped watching the OSU-Nebby game last year right after Hyde scored early in the 3rd quarter to put OSU up by 21, and went to bed pissed off.
I texted him a word of congrats after the game, which he didn't see until the next morning. He texted me back and said 'very funny man' cause he still didn't know Nebby won. I called him and told him that I wasn't joking and the Huskers had come back and won the game which he checked ESPN.com while on the phone to verify what I was saying. It was freakin' hilarious.
An angry fan...rooting for an angry team...led by angry coaches
One confession.
When Urban got hired, I said "We're going to go 12-0 so that whomever wins the big10 title and goes the rose bowl will have to be reminded forever that they lost to Ohio State and really weren't the TRUE b1g champ."
I win all the marbles.
1. I predicted 8-4 or 9-3.
2. I didn't wear my "Ann Arbor is a Whore" T-shirt to the game (lucky Michigan shirt) and casually commented to my buddy before the game that if we muffed a punt, it would be my fault. When we muffed that one in 1st half he looked at me with cold death in his eyes and called me an a-hole.
"Because the rules won't let you go for three." - Woody Hayes
THE Ohio State University
Your friend is absolutely correct. Jerk.
You can kill a fly with your slipper or a cannon. Either way, the fly dies. -Ramzy
It's like magic, only real.
Cue the Stevie Wonder and light beer commercials.
It is only weird if it doesn't work.
1) I was unable to watch the game live for the first time since I don't know when. Fatherhood obligations intervened. I can't say that I regret it, as I made the choice to attend an important event for two of my children, but I sure wish circumstances had been different and I could have seen it as it happened.
2) The afterglow of the win and the undefeated season has not lasted as long as I would have hoped/expected. I feel the depression that inevitably follows the end of football season coming on hard and fast. The time this did not happen was January 2003, when I couldn't stop smiling for weeks whenever I thought about our Buckeyes.
That happens with the kids. I have become an expert at not finding out scores and anticpating score updates on PA systems, moving away from other parents who like to talk about the game, driving home with the radio off etc, and then watching the game on DVR as if it were live.
Yeah, I just couldn't keep myself away from the scores, so I watched the recording already knowing the outcome. I was amazed out how differently it felt to watch without the gut-wrenching emotion that usually accompanies my viewing of The Game. Still very enjoyable (and much less stressful), but the positive emotions were somewhat muted as well.
Perhaps that's why I'm anticipating my incipient post-season depression to be worse. I didn't get the emotional release I'm used to from beating those guys.
I stay away from the scores. I have been caught more than once sticking my fingers in my ears and going LA LA LA LA LA to drown out what is being said. Oh, the looks you get.
1). I was thinking we were looking at a 10-2 season at best.
2). After the first half my wife looked at me and said, "You want me to leave with the dog and go find another tv don't you." Once we took the lead she was banished up stairs until the game was over. Later she commented that she could tell by my pronunciation of "f$&@ You" if I was happy or mad. I sure hope I get to watch a game with the wife in 2013.
1. I gave up in the Purdue game. I sat and watched becuase my wife was so mad at me upstairs for yelling what I was yelling in front of the children. If I wasnt scared to show my face, I may of missed the last drive.
2. I was hoping for a sinkhole to open up under Dallas Cowboy stadium when Alabama played Michigan. I didnt want anyone to die or be hurt, I just wanted them all to be stuck down there and we would have to give them a Chilian minor type rescue after the 2014 season. To destroy those 3 teams at once was kind of exciting.
1) I always looked at 10-2 as the minimum for this team, and GIVEN OUR SCHEDULE, never discounted the possibility of 12-0.
2) After DR's TD run, and the eating gesture that followed, I wished for him to choke on his broken teeth in front of my 5-year-old. I might have squeezed the word f*** somewhere in that sentence.
1) I hoped the team would go unbeaten at the beginning of the year, but didn't think they would until we got to the last two games of the season.
2) I thoroughly annoyed all of the stick-in-the-muds behind me at The Game by refusing to sit down except for during half time. Its the Michigan game you old farts! Stand up and cheer!
You can kill a fly with your slipper or a cannon. Either way, the fly dies. -Ramzy
1. I actually predicted 12-0 and have witnesses. I didn't just say it because I'm a fan but I actually had valid reasoning. I even called in to the Common man and the Torg when they were asking for predictions.
2. I left the Purdue game when Kenny G threw the INT. I punished myself.
1) I predicted 9-3 at the start of the year.
2) Like the first commenter, I too once pooed my pants to the point of destruction
I confess that I am dissatisfied with 12-0 even though I thought we'd go about 10-2.
I confess that I am angry/disappointed with Coach Meyer for:
blocked punts, personal fouls, roughing the punter, not running on 2nd and inches from the 2 after runing all over UM, not changing play calls when Wisconsin and UM put a spy on Miller, not developing any linebackers, watching our DBs stagnate for an entire year.
I confess that I feel guilty for not being a rah-rah Urban Meyer guy. I think he could be better
Valid criticisms, all, though I'm guessing you'll get some hate for your post.
Meyer is not a perfect coach, and this is not a perfect team, but.........
He will get better. Do you think he is satisified with the issues you have listed? Let's give the guy a chance. 12-0 in year one is an OK start, right? Right???
Right
@Golden Bear,
Are you also mad at your dog because he won't do the dishes? Urban Meyer took this team --a team that finished 6-7 just a year earlier-- as far as it could go. Relax brother, and enjoy 12-0 and a full year of rubbing michigan's nose in it.
"Ahh Saturday",
You are right. BUT, in answer to your question, I would be mad at my dog if he peed on the carpet (i.e., roughed the punter). I would feel bad for him when he barked during the fireworks on July 4 (got a punt blocked), but would be pissed if he barked every time the neighbos turned their porch light on.
1. i was predicting 12-0 and but through SERIOUSLY tinted rose-colored glasses. In my mind i was prepping for a 9-3.
2. I was at Mister Days in Arlington, VA for the Purdue game. I had just purchased the brand new pro combat red shoes and was wearing them. I then proceeded to take the shoes off below the table when we began to lose as i felt they were bad luck and as soon as we gave the ball back to Purdue towards the end I was furious b/c i seriously thought i was never going to be able to wear these $125 shoes again. I began to put them on and walk out of the bar until my lady yelled at me and made me come back to watch the rest. Rest assured i am ecstatic i've made her into such a buckeye fan over the last year of us being together..and i get to keep my shoes.
"Winter is coming" - Urban Meyer
1. Confession. I thought we would go 12 and 0.
That is all.
Absolutely was in the group of 8-4/9-3, love how this team came together the last few games of the season. I the teams in the future take note of what it means to be selfless and a team, this year team embodies that concept. Great year.
Love the comment I made my kid eat cucumbers once...
I live in between all the USC, Stanford, and Oregon fans out here in Cali so it has been great for me to say we didn`t lose any games ( I thought we would win 11). So I am spreading the Ohio love to all the losers out here. Let`s give a big shout out to my St. Clairsville Red Devils who be playing in their first Division IV title game this Friday against Clarksville Clinton Massie..........Go Devils !
P.S. to coach Meyer. Take a look at Dan Monteroso fro St. Clairsville.He was comitted to Boston College before their coach got fired.Ohio State was in St. C. 2 weeks ago to look at him.He is a Dane Sanzenbacher type receiver.Always open and runs great routes.It would be nice to see one of the small schools in Ohio get called up to the big time.
We already tried to take a kid from there, but your LB star committed to UM
Yeah,I seen that.There`s always one bad apple
1. I am Mikey, the cereal kid
2. I once shot a man just for snoring.
athankyouverymuch
Thank you Rodney Carrington.
1. I did predict 12-0 so go me
2. I thought they'd drop 50 on Bert so I was wrong there
1. i thought we would go 12-0, and felt that it wasn't worth it to worry about if they lost or not throughout the year because there was a bowl ban.
2. after i was at the nebraska game and they scored 63 points i thought to myself 'the b1g is so effed'
3. i regret not kissing the ground after storming the field after The Game.
4. i hate michigan.
I like football
1. Definitely in the 9-3 camp, and thought so until Nebraska ate 63.
2. I kinda regret not storming after The Game. However, it was an extraordinarily anticlimactic ending (unlike Iowa in 2009, when I did storm the field)
3. I was kinda pissed when Urbs was hired, but I am a huge fan now.
...and Michigan still sucks.
1. I thought 10-2 before the season, maybe an outside shot at 11-1.
2. I was complete classless trash yelling at TSUN coaches and players as they were exiting the field after The Game.
Class of 2010.
1. I thought we would go 12-0 and couldnt see anyone we would lose to, but you guys had me convinced we would lose sometime.
2. I farted.
I have two things to confess to.
1.) I thought we would go 11-1, with a close loss to either UW or (Woody, forgive me) scUM. Just didn't think we could go undefeated after last year.
2.) I left the Purdue game early. I will regret that for the rest of my life but at least I was there for the scUM game and got to be on the field after to see Cardale, Buchanon, and Rod Smith after.
Buckeye Nuthouse Member 2011-13 season
Block "O" 2012 season
I was a 10-2ish guy. I dont really care about the new offense I just think the amount of improvement by the OL was stunning. Sure there are a lot of things I would like to see improved but solid line play covers up a lot of mistakes.
I too was in the 9-3 or 10-2 camp, and I was not a Hyde believer.
Wrong on both counts!
I didn't have any expectations going into the season, but the thought of us losing that last game kept lingering in my mind. Scars from the past three or so decades I guesss.
I punched Elmo repeatedly until he stopped that silly "Hi I'm Elmo" crap. I was trying to sleep when he kept going off all night. I felt guilty because I never told my kids why he never worked again. Otherwise screw Elmo.
Confession #1 - My 6 year old grandson comes home from school and says (No wonder this country is going to Hell in a handbasket! Teachers nowadays. Hmmphhh. Obviously, his teacher was NOT a Buckeye grad...probably went to that school in Athens...the "fer real" Ohio...) anyway, "Pawpaw, we don't really HATE Michigan, do we? And I replied, "Yes we DO really HATE Michigan."
Confession # 2 - I meant it!
“...indomitable in victory, insufferable in defeat.” Woody Hayes
1) I was firmly in the 10-2 camp, expecting to lose 2 games out of Sparty, Wiscy and Michagain. Luckily (?) the B1G was a steaming pile of mediocrity this season.
2) I thought Jordan Hall would be a beast in this offense and when he got hurt I really did not like our chances. I figured Hyde would lose touches to Rod Smith and Dunn and none of the 3 would become a feature back. Sorry Carlos, I am extremely happy you made me look foolish and can't wait for your senior season.
3) I pooped in the refrigerator. And I ate a whole wheel of cheese.
1) I didn't believe 12-0 was possible, please forgive me Urban
2) I regret not buying the shirt after The Game that said "Michigan is our Bi*tchagain...and again again again"! Can't find it ANYWHERE!
1) I predicted 12-0 because I firmly believed it was going to be a down year for the Big Ten (and oh boy was I right!)
2) I am the eternal champion of god-awful socre predictions
My Confession
1. I thought we'd go 8-4
2. I thought we'd lose to Michigan. What was I thinking.
I was not very optomistic about the Buckeyes this year but come next year, the bar will be sit very high!
Ohio State's band SLAUGHTERED Michigan's band. If this were a football game, it would have been Florida State vs. Savannah State. - SB Nation following OSU vs. UM 2012
1. I had all the hope in the world for a 12-0 finish to this season. However, following the Purdue & Indiana games I secretly thought it would end up an 8-4, 9-3 type year.
2. I was fined after burning a Block 'O' into the grass outside of an ann arbor dining establishment.
3. The fine was for pissing on it to put it out. (Literally, my defense to the arresting officer was: "But Sir, the whole town already smells like piss!!")
“Right now, Michigan is not at the pinnacle of college football, and that’s all Urban Meyer cares about...He’s been there and knows what it takes to get there.”
1. I predicted 10-2 with losses to MSU and Wisky (because they both were road games).
2. I am still pissed at Tressel for what he did
2 confessions:
1. I thought we would be 8-4 but I always hoped for 12 - 0.
2. I'm pretty sure I have a bunch of kids overseas from my 3 military assignments.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender. - Woody Hayes
I never expected anything less than 10 or 11 wins. I thought there would be a road stumble only because everything was new.
Another thing is that unlike most, I expected Carlos Hyde to have a great year. It wasn't a surprise to me when he played this well. In the 2011 games against Nebraska, and Indiana, he showed that he had a lot of potential. I expect a big year from Hyde, Smith, and Hall in 2013.
"YOLO" = I'm about to do something extremely ignorant/stupid & I need an excuse to do it.