All due respect Medina- but I don’t know where your getting your confidence from. I’m not saying that you may not turn out to be correct, I’m just curious as hell how you’re there already.
Lastly, it’s not uncommon for Ohio State to take several games to get into a rhythm on both sides of the ball. Rarely do they look super good in the early games.
To say that they’re an NC caliber team in my opinion is very premature. Certainly you could say they have the potential to be there but until I see something with my own eyes I won’t actually believe it. Therefore I expect a close game. I would love to be wrong about all of this.
This comment has been grating on me all week because while it wasn't stated explicitly, I think the implication is that I'm some wildly and irrationally optimistic "homer" and here comes
@Honestbuckeye as the rational voice reason. That is exactly the opposite of reality.
The national media and coaches both have Ohio State at #2. That isn't a bunch of home team fanboys, those are people from all over the country.
The wise guys in Vegas say tOSU by more than two TD's.
Closer to home, in our Power Rankings all but one voter has tOSU at #1. The lone exception is a pessimistic Ohio State fan. Those who have tOSU #1 include fans of Purdue, Wisconsin, Ohio State, Iowa, Michigan, Michigan State, Alabama, and Indiana.
Nothing you said is extremely unlikely but all of your analysis leans toward the worst-case-scenario for Ohio State. The internal inconsistency is glaring:
Ohio State replaces most of their defensive staff so you assume that it will take a long time to learn the new system. Certainly possible but Notre Dame replaces not only their defensive staff but also their offensive staff and their HC and you apparently think that their transition will be completely seamless.
It is entirely possible that tOSU's defensive coaching transition will involve painful growing pains and it is entirely possible that Notre Dame's coaching transition will be seamless but a more realistic and unbiased analyst would assume either:
- That both will involve painful growing pains, or
- That both will be seamless.
You've chosen to assume the worst for tOSU in both cases. That isn't the rational voice of reason, it is the pessimistic view, I call it the anti-homer view.
As I said above, nothing you have said is altogether ridiculous or outside the realm of reasonable possibilities so you *COULD* end up being right. The thing is that you ALWAYS take the pessimistic view of the Buckeyes so if you do end up being right it won't be because yours is the voice of reason, it will be for the same reason that broken clocks are right twice a day.
