2024 Ohio State Off-Season Thread

[Mdot21]

Ohio State is trying to plug the portal with cash.


https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/bigten/2022/06/03/ryan-day-13-million-nil-maintain-ohio-state-football-roster/7496445001/

good for them. 

Michigan needs to hire Moore already and go start fundraising NIL $$$ so they can start spending portal cash when it re-opens in the spring.

I really don't see the big deal here. Ryan Day just doing his damn job. He should be encouraging NIL fundraising and spending that cash in the portal. It's part of his fking job. 

[MrNubbz]

Ohio State is trying to plug the portal with cash.


https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/bigten/2022/06/03/ryan-day-13-million-nil-maintain-ohio-state-football-roster/7496445001/

Well it is NCAA sanctioned tOSU thought they might try that 1st before resorting to the michigan measures

[Temp430]

Third Base's seat is white hot.  If he looses to Michigan again, at home to a transition staff, he's gone.  Hell, if he looses before that he might be gone.

[MrNubbz]

If he looses to them good,booger ranaway from his hot seat even when the program caved in to his ridiculous request

[Mdot21]

If he looses to them good,booger ranaway from his hot seat even when the program caved in to his ridiculous request

Jeem ain’t running from anything. He wants to win a Super Bowl. That has always been his dream and goal in life.

[MrNubbz]

Perhaps but had they lost he was still getting out of Dodge


 

[Mdot21]

so...can get back to talking bout THE GAME. I know Michigan still has yet to fill out the staff and spring ball will be hugely important to see who they can portal in and who will get the edge on the obviously hugely important starting QB job....but feels like to me Michigan is playing with house money in '24 in THE GAME. 

Michigan loses, well it's a transition year in which they're replacing the HC, rebuilding nearly the entire offense, and it's a road game. Moore is already 1-0 vs Ohio, Michigan has won 3 in a row, no expectations and not much pressure will be on them to win imo. Ohio State on the other hand? All the expectations and pressure are on that program and more specifically that coach. They pushed the chips into the middle of the table and went all-in on the NIL front to keep a bunch of guys from going pro and get them for their SR years and got themselves some big fish in the portal. If he don't get it done this year- almost feels like it's just never gonna happen and it's an if not now then when situation for them imo. 

Ohio State absolutely should be favored and probably will be by probably 6-7 points. Michigan will have a puncher's chance however. You think they'll be able to run the ball and figure that out- and you know for sure they'll have a legit defense. And what usually always travels? Running the football and playing defense. Will be an amazing game imo. 2023 was one of the best ones I've ever seen. 2016 was epic and so was 2006. Think 2024 could be a down to the wire thriller like all of those were.

[MaximumSam]

so...can get back to talking bout THE GAME. I know Michigan still has yet to fill out the staff and spring ball will be hugely important to see who they can portal in and who will get the edge on the obviously hugely important starting QB job....but feels like to me Michigan is playing with house money in '24 in THE GAME.

Michigan loses, well it's a transition year in which they're replacing the HC, rebuilding nearly the entire offense, and it's a road game. Moore is already 1-0 vs Ohio, Michigan has won 3 in a row, no expectations and not much pressure will be on them to win imo. Ohio State on the other hand? All the expectations and pressure are on that program and more specifically that coach. They pushed the chips into the middle of the table and went all-in on the NIL front to keep a bunch of guys from going pro and get them for their SR years and got themselves some big fish in the portal. If he don't get it done this year- almost feels like it's just never gonna happen and it's an if not now then when situation for them imo.

Ohio State absolutely should be favored and probably will be by probably 6-7 points. Michigan will have a puncher's chance however. You think they'll be able to run the ball and figure that out- and you know for sure they'll have a legit defense. And what usually always travels? Running the football and playing defense. Will be an amazing game imo. 2023 was one of the best ones I've ever seen. 2016 was epic and so was 2006. Think 2024 could be a down to the wire thriller like all of those were.

Kind of depends on the circumstances. Next year, both teams would have already qualified for the championship game before The Game, which makes The Game not really as much of a game.

[MrNubbz]

https://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio-state-football-recruiting/2024/02/145296/ohio-state-2025-recruiting-class-poised-to-be-one-of-the-best-ever

It's hard to imagine any assistant coach in college football being hotter on the recruiting trail right now than Ohio State secondary coach Tim Walton.

On Sunday, Walton secured the commitment of Na'eem Offord
 Offord, the No. 1-ranked cornerback in the 2025 cycle. If that wasn't enough, he already landed second-ranked cornerback Devin Sanchez in January and 10th-ranked cornerback Blake Woodby in October.
His impeccable run on the recruiting trail may not be over yet, either. Ohio State sits in great position to land fourth-ranked cornerback Dorian Brew and is also a strong contender for elite safeties Faheem Delane and Trey McNutt, both of whom Walton has a big hand in recruiting alongside new safeties coach Matt Guerrieri.

[Hawkinole]

Kind of depends on the circumstances. Next year, both teams would have already qualified for the championship game before The Game, which makes The Game not really as much of a game.

It would make sense to move The Game, to mid-season (or cancel the Big Ten Championship Game - which will not happen). I do not want to see the same two teams playing consecutive weeks. It would give a chance for Ohio State and Michigan fans to enjoy other rivalry week games, while still having their own rivalry game mid-season.

[medinabuckeye1]

It would make sense to move The Game, to mid-season (or cancel the Big Ten Championship Game - which will not happen). I do not want to see the same two teams playing consecutive weeks. It would give a chance for Ohio State and Michigan fans to enjoy other rivalry week games, while still having their own rivalry game mid-season.

From what I've seen and heard on here and elsewhere I'm pretty much the only fan of either the Buckeyes or the Cheaters to agree with you, but I do.

In my view, the importance of THE GAME has unavoidably diminished due to structural changes in the sport anyway. Beyond that, I see two problems with THE GAME being the week before a non-divisional CG:

The first problem is the one you pointed out. I just hate the idea of any two teams playing in consecutive games. Beyond that, consider last year. Without divisions both the Buckeyes and the Wolverines would have clinched spots in the B1GCG before their game in Ann Arbor. Thus, both teams would have known in advance that they would be playing back-to-back and that only the second game mattered in terms of the league title and CFP status. Just wait until we get to THE GAME and one side decides to rest their starters because they have more important games coming up.

The second problem is that kids can't maintain the hyper-intensity you want for big games indefinitely. The SEC schools mostly play an FCS game late for exactly this reason.

In the new potentially four game playoff, Ohio State's season could potentially end with:

• Rivalry game against Michigan
• B1GCG against USC/ORE/PSU
• Playoff game
• Playoff quarter-final
• Playoff semi-final
• National Championship Game

That is insane.

[847badgerfan]

Heh.

[ELA]

I thought Candle said no before they went to BOB?

[847badgerfan]

I think the guy is just throwing shit at the wall to see if it sticks.

Paul Chryst does not recruit. Not a fit for OSU, in any sense.