B1G: Football Media Days are two weeks away - any stories to follow
As the countdown to the season opener continues, and teams prepare for Fall Camp - the B1G Media Days are two weeks away. They'll be held in Indy on July 26th and 27th.
This will be the last year that the B1G looks like it does - with UCLA and USC joining for the '24 season.
Each coach has 15 minutes with the media - Coach Third Base ends the media session on the first day (Tuesday, July 26th) - and Coach Harbaugh end the media session on the second day.
Here's the link to the B1G page: https://bigten.org/sports/2023/4/3/FBMD23.aspx
Are there any predictions, or things you're expecting to see, or hear?
My guess is - the media will pick the Buckeyes to win the B1G, again. And, there will be a fair amount of general discussion about the conference structure for the '24 season.
You think OSU has an advantage at QB, RB, Oline, Dline, DBs? I don't...
This is all hypothetical, but assuming OSUs' players hit their potential (as per stars/recruiting rankings), we probably have the talent advantage at:
RB (hard to argue with our returning production, although OSU has a 5* or two)
QB (JJ has the experience edge)
CB1
Maybe TE?
Maybe S?
Other than that, OSU has higher ranked players pretty much across the board. OSU's DL is loaded with 5*s and top 100 guys. I'd guess most of their OL are higher ranked than ours. Etc. So like I said, this is assuming they all hit their peaks, i.e. not taking into account that they've massively underachieved at many key positions.
it seems like this whistles past both lines. Independent of "stars" I think we've had the better lines each of the past 2 years and that was a big part as to why we won. Particularly with the offensive line, the way the players perform as a unit carries as much weight as whether or not the individual guys were given 4 or 5 stars 2-4 years before the game is played.
(watch that UGA game and tell me how confident you are we could have beat them if they played like that against us...).
Well, why didn't OSU play like that against us? Are you saying they took us lightly and didn't put in the prep? Hard to imagine that, after what we did in 2021.
I think that semifinal game says more about UGa than anything else. They probably expected the game to be a walkover, after seeing what we did to OSU. It seems they especially didn't gameplan well for Harrison.
Well, why didn't OSU play like that against us? Are you saying they took us lightly and didn't put in the prep? Hard to imagine that, after what we did in 2021.
I honestly have no idea. Maybe they underestimated us (in which case I hope they continue to do so)? They definitely played tight against us. But yeah, I have no idea. The Stroud runs seemed to be there for the taking against us (he just didn't run, whereas he did against UGA). I have no idea why Day abandoned the run (which seemed to be working) against us in the second half. Best guess is poor coaching by Day...
I think some will pick OSU to win the game, but from what I've been seeing it's wild. Like predictions of Michigan winning the game again, but OSU winning the conference? Weird.
Personally, I feel the PSU game will be the game most challenging and the point spread the closest.
The importance thing is which loss felt worse to Buckeye nation? If only there was some reaction footage out there to determine this?
“Coaching and character”?! GTFO with that nonsense.
Did you watch the last two games? Absolutely outplayed them. Out physicaled them. And it wasn’t close.
of course we outplayed them. you missed the point. we outplayed them because our kids were better coached and had tougher character. that's what allowed us to overcome their 'stars'.
Would you trade our QB, RB, or Oline for theirs right now?
not a one would i trade. my only point is that on-paper and in the overall scheme of things, they have more talent. if we're just talking stars and you are trying to upgrade somewhere, then maybe i'd take one of their WR's? that's about it.
I know you meant to say mercenaries.
I think it all depends whether the Northwestern story is still a story two weeks from now. It will be pretty difficult to get them out of the news unless they name an interim coach soon.
If it is out of the news, I think they could be putting Third Base on hot charcoal because it would be fun to see him sweat.
There's always the possibility of Harbaugh to NFL rumors.
They named an "acting coach" (not sure if that's different than an interim coach) - DC David Braun, who was hired in January so he's relatively "clean".
But there's no way this story will go away. NU has to figure out how much the assistants were involved in the hazing - not to mention current players.
Likely something about Northwestern
The focus will be on Burger gate as it rightly should be. What next; brazen extra stretching. Maybe both issues can be made to disappear if covered in the camp of bags of cash, coeds and bling. Works for the Elite coaching staffs so fawned over.
Maybe mandate all off campus Zoom classes so recruits needn't learn the confusing layout of their chosen schools' campus.
Perhaps suggest a move to a nearby licensed track for all current drag races between strip clubs. Safety first.