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MrBuckeye3

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Posted Friday October 16, 2009, About: Browns WR wants new deal or trade

Here's an idea Browns fans: Stop buying tickets. Stop buying jerseys. Stop giving them your money . . . . .until they provide a quality product.

Posted Thursday October 15, 2009, About: Pryor hears OSU fans' gripes

Is this the same Michigan QB who has been physically destroyed after playing only two Big Ten football games? Is this the same Michigan QB who has lost two Big Ten games in a row? Also, if he DID play for Michigan. . .he probably wouldn't play quarterback AND 11 positions on defense too. . . .so. . .I'm not sure I get what you're saying because Heisman Trophy winners usually come from teams with some level of success.

Posted Thursday October 15, 2009, About: Pryor hears OSU fans' gripes

He's only a sophomore. Many have wrongly assumed he's a QB phenomenon. If he'd gone to WVU, UofM and maybe even PSU, they probably would've done a better job of capitalizing on his athleticism allowing him to shine brighter, earlier. However, TP wants to be a QB and that will come with repetition. Plenty of time left. The entire offense around him is young and they will all grow together. The line will block better, the receivers will run better routes and the RBs will contribute more. It's frustrating to watch now, but you are WAY too premature in your judgment.

Unless you're team is Florida, Oklahoma, Texas or USC, you'd trade us in a heart-beat for Pryor. So don't kid yourself too much

Posted Thursday October 15, 2009, About: Forcier's brother, Rodriguez disagree on injury

Saban went 8-4 in his first year at LSU.

Posted Thursday October 15, 2009, About: Forcier's brother, Rodriguez disagree on injury

OSU has beaten Michigan in 7 of the last 8 years. We've beaten the 9-3 teams as well as the 3-9 teams.

I'll bet that any honest Michigan fan would trade their defense for Ohio States in a heart-beat. Every team has growing pains. . .its just that some can have them and still win. . .other's collapse in futility.

Posted Thursday October 15, 2009, About: Forcier's brother, Rodriguez disagree on injury

First you have to have a QB who wants to run it. There are many out there, but few that can actually do it. Then, you develop that QB. Everybody has to do this, but just about everybody else in American knows how to run an offense that protects a young QB. RR doesn't. So you struggle. Eventually. . .you've developed a QB that can run the system. You then run the QB as you would a running back and eventually he gets hurt. Then you have to put in your back-up and you are shocked when he doesn't have the experience and understanding of the nuances needed to run the complicated offense.

Also. . .the state of Michgan does not have a lot of 1A college football talent, and of what they have, they must share with MSU. Michigan was always able to recruit nationally because they put kids in the league at a good clip. Michigan was known for the pro-set offense and tough defense. They have neither now. If RR and his offense doesn't keep putting kids in the league, Michigan will not be able to recruit the talent they need to do what they think they should be able to do. RR didn't put kids in the league at WVU and things have not changed yet at UofM.

The defense was supposed to be the strength of their 2008 team. The cupboard was not bare on that side of the LOS. . .but they sure played like it was. New DC is hired and again. . .the defensive backfield is still a joke.

Kids are quitting the team left and right. Two years in a row, the starting QB or the shoe-in for starting QB at the University of Michigan up and quit the team. Players who had the chance to walk in Tom Brady's shoes, left. Son's of alumni who were former football captains are quitting the team to go to (of all places) Ohio State!! A means to an end? Maybe. . .but look at the schedule, Michigan may miss another bowl game. THAT didn't even happen in year-two at WVU.

Heck, in year-two Tressel and Meyer both won national titles. . . but if 6-7 or 7-6 is good enough especially after 3-9, then you'll be quite pleased when RR tops out at 9-4 annually. Lloyd Carr would be proud.

Posted Thursday October 15, 2009, About: Forcier's brother, Rodriguez disagree on injury

Small programs with small recruiting bases hire "scheme coaches". Michigan is neither.

Even still, I would expect a coach of a 1A program of Michigan's stature to know enough football to adjust what he does to what he has when he comes in the door on day one. Did Florida go 3-9 in Meyer's first year? Did LSU go 3-9 in Miles' first year? Did Ohio State go 3-9 in Tressel's first year? Did Oklahoma go 3-9 in Stoops first year? Did USC go 3-9 in Carroll first year? Did PSU go 3-9 in Paterno's first year? Did Texas go 3-9 in Brown's first year? NO!! On top of that, the 2008 Big Ten conference was a joke. 3-9 is not growing pains. . .it's still-birth.

Michigan hired RR for his defense? Seriously? That's news to me.

Did you watch the Ohio State/Michigan game last year? Ohio State didn't just out-execute them, they man-handled them. . .so, so much for that vaunted training regime.

Posted Wednesday October 14, 2009, About: Forcier's brother, Rodriguez disagree on injury

That is exactly why RR was a bad hire for Michigan.

Posted Wednesday October 14, 2009, About: Forcier's brother, Rodriguez disagree on injury

You are correct. If RR exhibits some sound decision making, he'll realize that he needs Forcier to survive this season. Forcier with another offseason of proper development will come out looking like Colt McCoy, but if he's irrepairably damaged physically or even mentally based on how he's being used this season, UMs cash-cow will have to be put out to pasture.

Posted Wednesday October 14, 2009, About: Forcier's brother, Rodriguez disagree on injury

That might help. Have you seen Michigan's defense?

Posted Wednesday October 14, 2009, About: Forcier's brother, Rodriguez disagree on injury

I think the motives of Forcier's brother would be more pure than those of RR. So who then would give you better information?

RR has fired that 170lbs weakling into a wall for 2 weeks now. Forcier is not ready to handle big-time college football and his body is telling him so. McGuffie is a great example. Ohio State exploded the poor boy on the field and after that game he quit the team. You can't recruit jockeys to play football in the Big Ten.

If you watch RRs system you know that a back-up QB can't run it. That's why Clemons tanked when they lost Danzler. That's why WVU would lose if White missed any appreciable portion of a game. RR wasted all of last season investing time into a QB that up and quit the game. So now, he has no choice but to play Forcier till his arms and legs fall off because nobody else can do it.

Posted Friday August 14, 2009, About: Pryor's head-scratching 40m time

Griffin probably is faster, but he's also 25lbs lighter and 3 inch shorter. I am a Buckeye fan and I am a bit skeptical of any 40 times I hear that aren???t at the NFL combine. 4.33 is blazing fast for a man his size. His stride size is so huge; that what he loses in acceleration he gains in the last 20 yards. Granted that probably isn't ideal for football, but his size will give him more momentum than most and that will make him hard to bring down and THAT is a football advantage.

Even if you want to ignore the 4.33 time, look at his times relative to the rest of the team. He beat out the Ohio HS 100M record holder, Brandon Saine. . .he was indeed the fastest player on the team. Sure sure. . .you all will comment on how slow the Buckeyes are. . .but if you are well informed, you'll know that at the skill positions, Ohio State's speed is comparable to anybody and that means that Pryor's speed is for real and will hurt you. So as long as our tackles don't act like revolving doors this year, the Ohio State offense will be formidable.

Posted Friday July 31, 2009, About: Kiffin to put up billboards in Florida

If you put players in the league. . .you usually don't need to advertise much. Florida HS football players have their eyes more open than you think.

Posted Friday July 31, 2009, About: Kiffin to put up billboards in Florida

At least Kiffin voted Tebow first-team QB in the preseason All-SEC team. So the world is safe. A black-hole will not open over middle-Tennessee and Earth will still spin in the same direction.

Posted Thursday July 02, 2009, About: Goydos: Tiger is most underrated player

How can you be the #1 golfer in the world and be underrated? It defies logic, it defies reason and it defies the English language.

Forget the money. . .they all had money. Tiger is winning now because his competition is realtively non-existant. There are some young guys coming on, but for the most part, Tiger doesn't have near the competition that Nicholas had.

It angers me when Tiger measure himself to Nicholas by counting the number of major victories. Nobody playing now has more than a handful. Tiger is the best right now. . .absolutely no question about that (which makes this article stupid) but to say he's the best ever is a much much more difficult question to answer. If you factor in today's equipment and Tiger's competition vs Jack's competition, I personally think Nicholas is the better golfer.

Posted Monday June 29, 2009, About: Nittany Lions beef up D-line

This will be a small class for Ohio State and while Ohio HS talent is fairly week this year, we've been brinking in 5-star guys to match your 4-star western PA players. . .some of which came from western PA in the previous recruiting class.

Posted Monday June 29, 2009, About: Nittany Lions beef up D-line

Joe Paterno has been on exactly one in-home recruiting trip in the last 7+ years. . .and that was a failing endeavor to coax Terrelle Pryor to Penn State. Penn State deservers some recruiting applause, but Joe Paterno does not.

Posted Monday June 29, 2009, About: LB recruit gets comfortable with Buckeyes

Additionally, in the past: Tom Cousineu, Marcus Marek, Steve Tovar. Currently: I think Vernon Gholston will still do well. Carpenter is still in the NFL, Larry Grant is in the NFL, Marcus Freeman was drafted, Na'il Diggs is a starter, Matt Wilhelm is a starter. Not bad.

Success in the NFL is tough even for great players. You need to be lucky and stay free from injury, you have to have good coaching and a nice supporting cast/d-line helps too. If you become a starter on an NFL team, you've made it. . .for the sake of this debate, everything else is gravy.

Posted Monday June 29, 2009, About: LB recruit gets comfortable with Buckeyes

USC LBs: In the league. . .Meh. Getting drafted? Their best LB became the lowest drafted of the three. Those that were rumored to have been on the juice were drafted much higher. Way to go NFL. . .rewarding bad behavior like that.

OSU LBs: This program has generations of LBs that have succeeded at college and in the NFL. Names you'd recognize. I have no idea who this Norton guy is but it says in Wiki that he's a UCLA alumn. Katzenmoyer was not an NFL bust, he sustained a career ending neck injury in his rookie season. Hawk is doing well. Vrabel is doing well. There are others but the point is that Ohio State has been doing this for much much longer and there is no greater evidence of USC LB success in the NFL than Ohio State, in fact the evidence seems to be to the contrary.

I think it is absolutely ridiculous to blame a players college team for a players luck in the NFL. You want to blame someone, blame the NFL coaches. Far far more logic there.

Ohio State and Penn State are pretty much known as LBU. USC is RBU.

Unless the Song Girls are pleasuring the recruits on official visits, I don't see why they would impact recruiting. . . maybe he's going to wait and see if a free house comes his family's way before selecting USC. There is evidence of that now right?

Posted Thursday June 25, 2009, About: Moeller QB picks Irish over Buckeyes

If Jimmy Clausen can't manage more than 7 wins in a season. . .what does this guy hope to accomplish at Notre Dame? Cincinnati has always been a good recruiting area for Notre Dame and that makes good sense when their clicking off 10-win seasons every year, but this is not your father's Notre Dame. Great players keep going there and great players end up dying on the vine in that program. Is Hendrix friends with Kyle Rudolph or something? Guess they both want the opportunity to struggle to 6 wins this season together. How quaint.

Posted Monday June 22, 2009, About: Recruit dumps Stanford for Michigan

So will Mike Barwis. . .at least so we (still) keep hearing. Bigger, faster, stronger but still unable to beat Toledo.