Kosar.....take off those underwear

[auspice]

Your Ohio State University football team lost this Saturday, so you can take off those lucky underwear you've been wearing since last August. 19 games in a row and you've continuously been wearing the same underwear. Amazing. I'm sure they give new meaning to the word 'streaker'.

Noticed that this year's bucks' offense is ranked 109 out of 117 Division 1A teams. Seeing as OSU is just getting into the meat of their schedule, they really got a great shot at the 117th position. Watching their O every week is like taking a weekly rectal exam. I understand Rush Limbaugh was being mentioned as a possible offensive co-ordinator but he declined saying his threshold for pain wasn't that great even with the pills. That and it was just too damn conservative for him.

Also heard they'e contemplated changing the name from bucks to stranglers. Olentangy river stranglers does have a nice ring.

 

[kosar]

LOL-

Sorgi deserved a little strangling action, he refused to go down and when he did, he paid for it. WTF- he couldn't talk, so they took him out? Hasn't Alvarez ever heard of the silent count? All we have to do is run the table and we'll be right back up there. The Bucks have to lose once every 649 days, whether they need it or not. I thank God every day that i'm not a Michigan fan. How pathetic are *they*?

It was a crappy saturday, though. I got back from Pro Player after watching the Marlins get killed just in time to see Wisconsin run that bootleg on 3rd and 2 with 3 minutes left in the game to salt it.

Oh well, can't win 'em all. Sometimes the Buckeyes make it seem like you can, but it's just not possible.

 

[auspice]

Given OSU's problems on the offensive line this year, the coaching staff has been everywhere searching for O talent. This past week's MLB playoff fistfight has unexpectedly ended up netting a new OSU recruit. Don Zimmer will be suiting up next year at right guard. OSU scouts project Zimmer can immediately step right in on the two deep next year and battle for a starting job. Zimmer has already passed the strength and conditioning tests given to prospective OSU Oline recruits. No redshirt year is expected.

 

[auspice]

The OSU offense is now 114th out of 117 Div.I teams. Only traditional powers SMU, buffalo and E. Michigan are 'ahead' (behind) us. As a point of reference: BJ Sanders has 1910 return yards on kicks this year and OSU has 1948 yards of offense.

One poster on another board said that when the OSU offense breaks and comes to the line of scrimmage, they look as confused and scared as GW Bush in a game of Jeoprady.

 

[kosar]

What are you talking about, Auspice? Tressel insists that there's been progress! He's the coach, so he would know.



Tressel sees progress in Ohio State's slumping offense

10/20/03

Bruce Hooley
Plain Dealer Reporter


Columbus- Jim Tressel's evaluation of Ohio State's struggling offense sounds like something he lifted from the velvet-voiced leader of a seminar on building self-esteem.

After the Buckeyes' managed only 185 total yards and didn't score an offensive touchdown Saturday in a 19-10 victory over Iowa, Tressel did everything in the post-game but have his players hold hands and chant: "Every day, in every way, we're getting better and better."



Ohio State didn't advance from its No. 8 national ranking after its win over the ninth-ranked Hawkeyes, despite being the only member of the Top Ten to defeat another member of the Top 20.

Holding steady wasn't possible for the Buckeyes in the national total offense rankings, however.

They plummeted from No. 109 to No. 114 among 117 Division I-A teams after falling more than 100 yards shy of the 294-yard output they were averaging before playing Iowa.

OSU is now averaging 278.2 yards per game, better than only Eastern Michigan (1-7), Buffalo (0-8) and Southern Methodist (0-7).

Even so, Tressel's assessment of his offense was straight from a Dale Carnegie course.

"Based upon what I saw, I thought we improved," Tressel said.

OSU has scored three offensive touchdowns in three Big Ten games against defenses rated 10th, eighth and fifth in the league at kickoff.

The Buckeyes (6-1, 2-1 Big Ten) get another cupcake this week in a 12:10 p.m. kickoff at Indiana (1-6, 0-3), whose defense is next-to-last in the league.

The Hoosiers might be the cure for an Ohio State ground game that managed just 56 yards on 42 attempts against Iowa, yet had Tressel professing progress over prior weeks.

"I thought we ran the ball in tough conditions in the second half," he said.

"At times it was obvious when we were going to be running the ball.

"They knew it. We knew it. We were going to find out what it was all about and churn out some first downs and create some field position."

Whatever prompted that assessment, it wasn't what happened on the field.

OSU gained 29 yards on 22 second-half run attempts and rushed for two first downs after halftime.

Quarterback Craig Krenzel led the Buckeyes in attempts (14) and rushing yards (20).

Ohio State is averaging 108 rushing yards per game - 83 less than it averaged last year as a team and four less than suspended sophomore Maurice Clarett averaged by himself in gaining a school-freshman-record 1,237 yards.

Maurice Hall, on pace to lead the Buckeyes in rushing this year, was the third tailback in the rotation Saturday and enters the Indiana game with 300 yards this year.

That projects to 557 yards for the season, which would be the lowest total by OSU's leading rusher since 1987.

 

[auspice]

Good thing for Tressel that the OSU has a $80,000,000 annual athletic budget and can 'buy' home games from $$ challenged opponents. OSU has played 6 or their 7 games at the horseshoe.

It's also good for Tressel that from last years defensive starters, all 11 will probably be drafted and play in the nfl. This year OSU is rotating 18 players on D. It's estimated that 16-17 of them will ultimately be drafted as well. Hell, for that matter, 5 of the senior O starters for this year will probably be drafted. (Clarke, Step, Hamby, Jenkins and Carter)

Tressel only works with the offense and calls every O call for the bucks. Dantonio is totally in charge of the defense. Two years ago after OSU had gone 7-5 their first year and ended up losing two of those games after leading by 17, Tressel and Dantonio visited Oklahoma for several weeks in the summer to 'borrow' the OU schemes on Defense. That's what OSU uses now with some really small wrinkles. Even the terminology on D is Oklahomas. I'd hate to think where OSU would be without Stoops having strong Ohio ties and giving up the D scheme.

(sorry, it should have been hartsock not hamby from the above, my apologies)