Alex Grinch to become Co-DC. Not sure whether that's to replace Schiano after next year, or a response to OSU's defensive troubles in a few games this year. In any case, local guy and looks like a good coach.Gonna be very interesting to see how Urban develops that team in 2018. Lotta changes.
Will be an interesting offseason in Columbus. JT Barrett is finally gone, and the offense promises to look different next year as they become much less reliant on the read option and more reliant on getting the ball down the field. Further, some big changes in the offensive line, as standouts Billy Price and Jamarco Jones move on.
Defensively, they lose a a lot of guys off the defensive line rotation, Chris Worley, Damon Webb, and Denzel Ward.
Booker is a Sr I believe also.Between Hilliard/Browning/Jones/Borland/Warner there should not be too much of a drop off - hopefullyDon’t forget the guy who played a lot this year and was really good-Malik Harrison.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DVDOkTJXcAAdiDN.jpg)The First "U" Brutus always creeped me out.
Greg Schiano stayingI like Schiano, OSU is fortunate to have him another year.
I like Schiano, OSU is fortunate to have him another year.Also, he doesn't have to try and solve Iowa's offense this year
Sounds like Dante Booker will graduate and then transfer. A little surprising, a lot of people penciled him in to start this year. OTOH, he played like ass last year.Or maybe not
Is ESPN giving too much credit to Penn State, and Michigan State? I am not sure why Penn State would be favored over Ohio State. Penn State seems to have lost key people.PSU over OSU makes sense. Last 2 trips to Happy Valley resulted in an OT win and a Loss. PSU is a good team, getting great recriuts, and playing with bona a fid Home Feild Advantage.
PSU over OSU makes sense. Last 2 trips to Happy Valley resulted in an OT win and a Loss. PSU is a good team, getting great recriuts, and playing with bona a fid Home Feild Advantage.OSU has won the last 6 in East Lansing, MSU hasn't beat the Buckeyes at home since 1999. Until the beatdown last year, MSU had won the previous three matchups not played in East Lansing (2 in Columbus, 1 in Indy). Not sure home field is an "advantage."
MSU has Dantonio, and a steller defense, as well as Home feild advantage. Both these games will be huge this year.
OSU has won the last 6 in East Lansing, MSU hasn't beat the Buckeyes at home since 1999. Until the beatdown last year, MSU had won the previous three matchups not played in East Lansing (2 in Columbus, 1 in Indy). Not sure home field is an "advantage."And Maybe that's why ESPN has OSU favored over MSU, and not PSU?
If I'm Urbs, I'm playing them both. I know it's frowned upon to play two quarterbacks, though not for any reason that makes much sense. They are both good, and if one leaves OSU would be really thin at QB. So name them both starters and move right along.I think the psychology of this is interesting. It reminds me of some situations I've seen at UW and oddly the way Badgers fans look at the basketball team in the offseason.
I thought Burrow looked better. May have locked down the job.agree.
Master Teague is a beast!
I think the psychology of this is interesting. It reminds me of some situations I've seen at UW and oddly the way Badgers fans look at the basketball team in the offseason.I totally agree, though in part because many times two guys are playing because they are both kinda crappy. The 2015 Buckeyes were a good example, not because both guys were crappy but the offense in general was pretty uninspired compared to the 2014 outfit. In retrospect, it was because Tom Herman left and was replaced by not Tom Herman. At the time, how many story lines were about Cardale v. Barrett? Even now I here people talking about how Urban "mishandled" the quarterback situation that year by not going with Barrett from the beginning. Of course, this ignores the fact that their worst performance that year was far and away the one against MSU, where Cardale didn't play a snap.
Each year, UW fans try to guess how the rotation will shake out. And each year, the guesses have something like nine-plus guys at 10 minutes a game. I don't think that's happened more than once or twice since Bo arrived. It's usually a core six or seven, sometimes eight. When one looks at ninth or eighth guys through the years, they don't usually do much (and when they do, it's not for good reasons). But fans want that balance. They want everyone to be good or potentially good.
The weirdest part is when the team actually has to go deep like that, fans aren't that comfortable with it. There's always complaints. Why did this guy get a lot of minutes this game and few the next? Why do the starters (usually good players), get broken up five minutes in for three subs? In-season, it seems people like when folks settle into defined roles.
I say this because in the offseason, there's a feel of play both or play everyone. We expected the best, if these guys are each their best, we've got a good issue. But it's kind of rare a QB rotation ever feels that great when it's happening. The way our brains work, we're wired to assume when something goes wrong, that another choice would've been better (as it did not go wrong in front of us). A good example is that all of last offseason, OSU fans wanted less running JT. And when the offense looked lethargic in the first half, there was a lot of asking on this board, where's the QB run. Split QB jobs are much like this. You'll always find yourself guessing.
UW's had two in my time: the Hornibrook/Houston split of 2015 and the Tolzien split of 2009.
2015: Houston started, lost the job. Hornibrook was good, then uninspiring, then started ceding drives. Fans got split, pointed out which drives were better, got granular making their cases. It wasn't fun.
2009: Tolzien was the real starter, but Curt Phillips would get the third and fourth drives in games where UW wasn't suddenly up against it. There's still arguments about how Phillips going in against Iowa "took Tolzien out of rhythm" and cost UW the game. (I don't believe it, but that's another story)
It works on occasion, when skillsets are very different and when one guy is so good at one thing, it doesn't matter that his presence tips the play (Tebow, every good wildcat-ish short yardage set).
What I'm saying is, the brain wants everyone to be as good as we hope. But in the heat of the moment, we want the dude who's gonna be the best dude. Two similar QBs means a season of second guessing (sort of 2015-ish). Not making the call now is good, as you want both guys to stay through next year, but when push comes to shove, OSU has them, a top-60 recruit and a four-star from a Texas powerhouse, that's a decent group. And of course it's all solved if the team is very, very good.
(I know this is too long, but that offseason desire for balance and in-season desire for certainty is an interesting quirk)
agree.And we know that if Burrow doesn’t look likely to win the No. 1 job in Columbus, all options are on the table (https://www.landof10.com/ohio-state/joe-burrow-ohio-state-quarterback-battle-transfer-stats-bio) in the coming weeks:
Burrow looked surprisingly good. Haskins clearly has the arm strength and size over Burrow, but to my eye Burrow does everything else better.
Spring game caveats apply. It's just practice. Both looked pretty solid. OSU continues to have a good looking QB situation imo.
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OSU has won the last 6 in East Lansing, MSU hasn't beat the Buckeyes at home since 1999. Until the beatdown last year, MSU had won the previous three matchups not played in East Lansing (2 in Columbus, 1 in Indy). Not sure home field is an "advantage."Didn't you, just last year, argue that this wasn't really a thing because it was mostly coincidental?
Didn't you, just last year, argue that this wasn't really a thing because it was mostly coincidental?I argued that there wasn't an "away advantage," because the better team simply won. That's all I said here, that there wasn't a home field advantage. It just seems like the better team seems to win in this series over the past 20ish years, and location doesn't matter.
Antonio Williams transferring to UNC. Makes sense, though I always liked himwasn't he the RB that Urbz flipped from Wisky?
wasn't he the RB that Urbz flippedNo flip.
What'd Joel put ketchup on his Brat or somethingNope.
They only have 7.
Oregon State, Tulane, TCU, Rutgers and Maryland are the 5 non-conference games. :93:
Now.....the dreaded long wait, and torture of watching the Reds struggle for yet another season!ya well from '59-'94 the Tribe finished in 3rd place- once.Then have lost the Series 3X since then.So Jobe had/has nothing on Tribe Fans
I put that in my write up of Florida yesterday, that it seemed to be going in that direction. I think Florida and Nebraska are probably the favorites here?some LSU and Cinci rumors too.
https://twitter.com/ProFootballTalk/status/1052222136537022467heard that earlier today from other outlets, although this is the first with such a negative approach.
heard that earlier today from other outlets, although this is the first with such a negative approach.yeah, I really don't blame him for sitting out.
He was only going to be able to come back, if at all, for last game or two. And that would have been risky.
Not sure why these idiots need to characterize it that way??