FB: Ohio Athletic Conference

[JK]

National Championship game...

Am I really watching this happen AGAIN?

I hate to say this, but I think Jim Heacock loses his job this year if this continues like it is going, number one ranked D or not...

[seventiesraider]

When you make it to a National Championship game and get to play a team with two defeats, you could at least try to play all four quarters. Wasn't impressed with Ohio State at any point this year and tonight did nothing to change that.

BCS is a joke

Two Ohio HC's in almost every Bowl Game. Maybe we got the wrong one. Felt that way last year as well. Tressel is producing some rather predictable teams for the millions he's making

[JK]

It's likely that Ohio St falls out of the top 5 after playing for the title.  Everyone has been looking for a reason to dump on the Bucks all year.  They just got one.

Prediction for tomorrow's final poll:
1) LSU
2) Georgia
3) USC
4) WVU
5) Kansas
6) OSU

[reality check]

I'm as disappointed as anyone about the game tonight but seventies, you've got to be kidding me.  This wasn't even supposed to a contending season for OSU and they still made it to New Orleans.  I'm happy they were even in a position to go there and if you really think getting to the national championship this season was anything less than anextremely fortunate treat then maybe all those trips to the Stagg are spoiling your better judgment.

I was unimpressed tonight as well and LSU earned the championship but much like the Stagg Bowl, when an opportunity to swing momentum back into Buckeye favor arose, things just didn't go the Buckeyes' way.  I would equate the fumble into the endzone by Beaver that was recovered by the lineman for UWW to the missed opportunity on the running into the kicker penalty.  Spitler whiffed on the ball but could have (and probably should have) not only blocked that punt but also run it back for a TD (or at the least given the Buckeyes the ball deep in LSU territory).  That was a 14 point swing right there.  And if the vaunted OSU offensive line would have shown up when they were needed instead of backing down to a bunch of guys name after french pastries, we might be celebrating tonight.

Anyone that would take Les Miles over Jim Tressel in a head-to-head is missing some key ingredients upstairs.  I hoped and prayed he'd take the Michigan job but I guess we'll have to see how Tressel matches up with Rodriguez.  I know a couple times tonight I caught myself thinking OSU is still in this because of some of the crazy and unnecessary crap Miles was capable of doing.

OSU just flattened out when LSU answered and they're not a "catch-up" team.  I hope this leaves a sour taste in most of the underclassmen's mouths so they rethink the draft and come back for another shot at the title; 3 senior starters, 18 sophs/juniors.  

Enough D-I.  I'm sorry.  How many days 'til D-III training camps open up?

[short]

212... I Think!

[skunks_sidekick]

RC.....bravo!!!

As disappointing as the game was to watch, this was not supposed to be even a serious contending year for the Buckeyes. 

Seventies...dude.....take a deep breath!  It's all good. 

For someone who is as passionate about Mount football as you are, be careful what you say.  Dis the defense of OSU?  Ummm.......a certain game was played on Dec. 15th that proved what everyone THOUGHT was the most dominant defense EVER in D-III was not quite that good on that certain day.  You win some....you lose some.  Move on.

As we all know...who CARES where you are ranked starting out the season (provided it's not out of the top 15 or 20), it's all about where you finish.

(Rumor is Mount is recruiting a certain QB that was light's out in Ohio High School Football this year and if so.......will he push Micheli for playing time in '08?)   

[PurpleSuit]

(Rumor is Mount is recruiting a certain QB that was light's out in Ohio High School Football this year and if so.......will he push Micheli for playing time in '08?)   Grin

must be one hell of a QB, any other info on who this kid might be? school?

[frank uible]

Today Woody is spinning in his grave. Three turnovers, 7 penalties against for 83 yards, inferior time of possession, inferior 3rd down conversions!

[Genius Gone Bad]

Today Woody is spinning in his grave. Three turnovers, 7 penalties against for 83 yards, inferior time of possession, inferior 3rd down conversions!

Good thing Woody never had to play against a team like LSU.  I may be a Bucks fan, but LSU is a hell of a team.  Congrats on the Championship.

[Ralph Turner]

Coming from another part of the country, I have to question the Big Ten.

Big Blue loses to App State.  Ohio State gets one loss in the Big Ten.  LSU runs the ringer that is the SEC.  Big Blue finally gets an emotional justification over Florida in their coach's last game.  I think Rodriguez will be very successful there.

I really noticed the announcing crew's (pardon my French) big-time "suck-up" to Ohio in the 4th quarter as the game was going down.  Listen to the tape to the relative number of effusive platitudes that were uttered about Ohio football by the announcers.

I thought we were bad in Texas!   

235 days to D-III.  Have a good off-season. 

[frank uible]

In the 30s, 40s and 50s the Big Ten was the nation's preeminent conference. Infrequently did its teams (even the lowliest) lose out-of-conference games. In the late 50s the Big Ten decided to adopt a policy whereby football scholarships were granted only to athletes with financial need. This policy was discontinued in the mid-60s. Nonetheless during the term of that policy the Big Ten lost recruiting position relative to certain other conferences and has never regained it.

[Ralph Turner]

In the 30s, 40s and 50s the Big Ten was the nation's preeminent conference. Infrequently did its teams (even the lowliest) lose out-of-conference games. In the late 50s the Big Ten decided to adopt a policy whereby football scholarships were granted only to athletes with financial need. This policy was discontinued in the mid-60s. Nonetheless during the term of that policy the Big Ten lost recruiting position relative to certain other conferences and has never regained it.

One big advantage for the Big Ten that I remember growing up in a segregated Texas is all of the athletes that went to the Big Ten on football scholarships.  With integration, first by SMU with Jerry LeVias and then across the SWC and SEC, that advantage was lost.

[JK]

LSU is a hell of a team.  Congrats on the Championship.

GGB,

You are right about LSU, but you don't have to live down here in SEC land (Kentucky).  At least I don't think you do... I don't know where you call home.

Now, for another year, I have to put up with more of the same crap about the SEC being faster and the Big 10 being overrated and not deserving to play for the NC.  It gets old, especially from the know nothings who have never put on pads in their life, and whose whole perception of football comes from what others (Local- SEC slanted media, other SEC wonks, etc.) tell them.  But, until we actually win once, all I can do is smile and take it.

For the record, I do think, top to bottom, the SEC IS the best conference in DI ball, but I don't think the other conferences are as far behind as the SEC fans like to convince themselves.

Ohio goes 0-2 in football NC games this year with MUC and OSU losing, but it's tough to complain as a fan of Ohio football in general when you get two teams into NC games to begin with.

[Mr. Ypsi]

Today Woody is spinning in his grave. Three turnovers, 7 penalties against for 83 yards, inferior time of possession, inferior 3rd down conversions!

IMO, FOUR turnovers.  Roughing the kicker on 4th and 23 ought to be counted as a TO.  I think that play ended whatever slim chance OSU had of coming back.  (I also think if one of Woody's players had pulled a boner like that, Coach Hayes might not have held his temper long enough to punch-out the Clemson player! )

[seventiesraider]

My personal thanks to Coach Tressel for showing Larry Kehres it just ain't worth leaving the place you found your success.