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Driving from Clayton to the upstate last night

I listened to the Clemson game. Yall can complain about Scott Howard all you want. Don Munson has a high, squeaky, nasally pitch. Their version of Eric Zeier, whoever it is, would interrupt and react to a play before Don could even tell what was going on. Hard to listen to.

I did learn that the vaunted Clemson defense so many of you raved about was dead last in rush yards per attempt in the 4th quarter. Clemson was giving up over 6 yards an attempt in the 4th quarter.

More Vol Tears.......

"The greatest football team we've played since 1997 Nebraska" Vol:
You bought into the hype of this game.
Most fans would, but OSU was the only team we’ve played all year that pure talent advantage and coaching advantage. UGA is not as talented as this Ohio State team.
The talent on that OSU team- should not have lost twice this season. The feeling I had watching that game was similar to Nebraska 1997 vs Tennessee.

"The had all of the advantages. Close game on a neutral field in a dome" Vol: Tonight every single thing was in OSUs favor. The venue, the weather, injuries, our freshmen QB, the refs, the talent gap. even every bounce in punts and kickoffs. We had almost every break go to them all night. Day was fighting for his job and OSU was fighting against the shame of losing to Michigan.

Jim Nantz Vol: So many uncalled holding and flagrant PIs. Didn’t matter since we sucked but was still glaring.

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"I remember when Gen. Neyland first said 'Charge the Checkerboard'" Vol:
Look, I’m not disrespecting heupel at all for the job he’s done in the position we were in. But we are too prestigious a program to not be looking to improve when we can. We are in a position now where we can convince a proven head coach to take the job. Heupel has been paid well and been given every resource. And we just got embarrassed so badly that we should be questioning our coach. If I’m Danny White, I start putting out some feelers now. It’s been 2 years since our offense has been worth a ****. Flame away, I just think we could convince a good HC to take this job.


Is Josh James Franklin minus a playoff win? Vol: Are we Penn State? Good program that will win 9-10 games a year but can't beat the elite programs in big games?

Matthew McConaughey Vol:
We Are! Marshall!
Playoffs every year some coach replacements once a while

Truth Vol: We beat elite teams but they are coincidentally not elite when we do it.

"We are Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoosiers" Vol: OSU 38- Indy 15 and we were 42-17 so basically we’re Indiana.

"Mike Bobo beat us again." Vol:
Early Ohio St did to the Vol defense what Georgia showed-
- quick passes in the flat to the RB's
- short crossing routes by the WR's
-dump offs to the TE
- some counter run game
All discourage the pass rush, their QB builds confidence with the wide open easy short throws and the deep shots and perfect dimes soon follow. Only Ohio St has better skill players than UGA but it looked very similar. LB's especially get exposed.

Rose Dewitt Bukater Vol: We're getting there, slow but sure. Have some patience. Keep demanding championships, but have patience about it.

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Let's have some real talk about the SEC.

First, I give zero you know whats about conference pride. I love that Tennessee took the big L.

That said, the ease with which Ohio State threw the ball at Tennessee raises some red flags for me. Tennessee's pass D was always overrated and mostly the product of a terrible schedule, and we exposed it to some degree, but goodness, that was something else last night. Very little pass rush, and easy access throws at the edges of their zones plus a lot of misdirection swing passes that kept the chains moving, and the over-the-top throws to Smith were just the icing on the cake.

The contrast between the two offenses was stark. Is this just a weird, one-off road game, or are SEC offenses down this year generally? No one in the SEC moved the ball this easily on Tennessee all year, road or not, including us. And is that because the conference didn't really have any elite offenses?

Bama's QB is a head case. Tennessee--we saw that all year. Texas doesn't scare anyone deep. Ole Miss can get going at times but didn't light the scoreboard up all year. LSU had major OL issues. UGA is philosophically opposed to scoring in the first half. UF has a freshman QB who throws a pretty deep ball to go along with pretty interceptions over the middle

It seems like with every SEC team this year, you can take their strength away and make them one-dimensional. All of those teams are still good enough, that on a given week, they can give you trouble, but there just isn't a dominant offense throughout the league. And perhaps that explains why Tennessee struggled so much, because they haven't played against a very good and balanced offense all season?

The other thing that struck me is that Tennessee did not make very good adjustments. Ohio State scored three TDs in each half, and almost all of them were the product of moving the ball down field, not turnovers by Tennessee.

We have a lot more speed at LB, so I'm somewhat hopeful that we could squelch some of these easy access throws, but at the same time, if we play as undisciplined as we did against Tech, Ohio State's misdirection would give us a lot of problems as well. None of that matters if we don't beat Notre Dame, but Ohio State is the team I want to play the least.

Gunner's dropback analysis in the SECCG

GREEN = Completion
RED = Incompletion/Interception
BLUE = Other

1. Completion to Etienne. -6 air yards, +14 yards after catch.
2. PA rollout right, thrown away
3. Completion to Arian. +12 air yards, +6 yards after catch (First down)
4. Scramble right for 3 yards (First Down)
5. Completion to Lovett. -3 air yards, +6 yards after catch
6. Completion to Luckie. +14 air yards, 0 yards after catch (First down)
7. Completion to Etienne. -3 air yards, +10 yards after catch
8. Sack/fumble out of bounds, loss of 16 yards.
9. Throwaway, back left corner of the endzone.
10. Sack, loss of two yards
11. Completion to Frazier. +3 air yards, +6 yards after catch
12. Completion to Lovett. -2 air yards, 0 yards after catch
13. Completion to Arian. -2 air yards, +2 yards after catch
14. Completion to Arian. +7 air yards, 0 yards after catch

15. Completion to Etienne. -3 air yards, +6 yards after catch (First down)
16. Incomplete over the middle, tipped
17. Interception, right side

18. Completion to Delp. -1 air yards, +10 yards after catch
19. Completion to Lovett. -2 air yards, 0 yards after catch
20. Completion to Delp. -1 air yards, +4 yards after catch (First down)

Some notes:
  • At least one of these "completions" was technically a run because it was a backward pass, but it was a swing pass and more of a throw than a run. For purposes of judging Gunner's performance, I'm counting it as a pass.
  • This only includes pass plays/dropbacks. No designed QB runs.
  • There were 13 completions. Nine of them were at or behind the LOS.
  • The four completions thrown beyond the LOS were: 14, 12, 7, 3 air yards.
  • Gunner had back to back non-completions when his pass to Etienne was tipped and then the interception, but he followed it up with three straight completions.
  • All three were at or behind the LOS, but they were accurate and resulted in +14 yards after catch.
  • If you add up the 13 completions you get: +13 air yards, +64 yards after catch

How embarrassing

Can you imagine a player in Kirby's program standing on the sideline smoking a victory cigar after a 1st round playoff win?! 😂

These f-ing clowns at osu truly haven't won shit in their CFB career 😂😂

They can't act like they've been there before because they haven't. They're celebrating like they just won a national title. I'm embarrassed for them 😬😬😬

Portal QB recruitment thoughts

Have given our pursuit of a portal QB a great deal of thought and find it a bit perplexing given the circumstance with Beck.

Let me caveat by saying in normal situation, I would understand going for someone in the portal. Given the situation idk that I do.

I find it hard to believe you can sell for 3 games Gunner and the team that he is the guy who can win a national championship while looking for a guy with legit starting experience to likely replace you for 2025. Come spring you’ll have 5 scholarship QBs on campus so you cant sell depth, etc. cant sell competition because the room is loaded with talent.

Could be a sign Beck will play. Could be a sign Gunner is fine being a career back up (something tells me he isnt).

Just a really odd spot to be in. My opinion is that you cant waste this run worrying about next year. Gotta win while you have a chance. Feel like pursuing a portal QB does more harm than good if Beck cant play.

Ohio State vs the SEC

Time to update a post I wrote in July 2022.

Ohio State vs the SEC

(Caveat: This is Ohio State’s record vs teams that were SEC members at the time they played. OSU likes to pad its record vs the SEC by including games against Missouri and others from before they joined the SEC and games against current members from before the SEC existed.)

Alabama leads OSU 4-1
Georgia leads OSU 2-0
Florida leads OSU 2-0
South Carolina leads OSU 2-0
Auburn leads OSU 1-0-1
Missouri leads OSU 1-0 (since joining the SEC)

Tennessee is now tied with OSU 1-1
LSU is tied with OSU 1-1-1

OSU leads Arkansas 1-0 (this win was later vacated)
OSU leads Kentucky 1-0 (Haven’t played since 1935. Other matchups pre-date the SEC)
OSU leads Vandy 1-0 (Haven’t played since 1933. Other matchups pre-date the SEC)

OSU hasn’t played Texas A&M since the Aggies joined the SEC
OSU has never played Ole Miss or Miss State

In total, the Ohio State Buckeyes are 6-14-2 all-time against SEC teams, one of those wins was vacated, and two more were from the 1930s.
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