Josh Gattis offers moral support and encouragement to THE Ohio State University
December 21st, 2020 at 1:26 PM ^
I hope they get destroyed by Fabio again
December 21st, 2020 at 1:42 PM ^
I can’t believe it’s not butter
December 21st, 2020 at 2:57 PM ^
I always th
ought he was Kelly Leak.....
December 21st, 2020 at 3:34 PM ^
I vote for Spicoli
December 21st, 2020 at 1:43 PM ^
Gotta say I am actually pulling for TOSU in this one.
I am growing very tired of Dabo’s act at Clemson. Taking shots at FSU over canceling a game due to COVID. Ranking TOSU 11th. I mean let’s be serious, Dabo is turning into a real A-hole
December 21st, 2020 at 1:48 PM ^
Why would you ever pull for your rival? The team competing for the same recruits you are after. The team that plays in your division. The team that comes in your backyard and takes players you want. Why? Puck OSU.
December 21st, 2020 at 1:51 PM ^
Not being able to win a playoff game will take some of the luster off the central Ohio football school. I'm all for Clemson beating the crap out of them.
December 21st, 2020 at 5:04 PM ^
Gattis, like many others presumably on this staff need a history lesson on this freaking rivalry.
My two favorite teams are Michigan and whoever plays the team down south!!
Aaaaaargh!
December 21st, 2020 at 5:12 PM ^
He never said he wanted them to win. He said he thinks they should make the playoff. Is he wrong? An undefeated Big Ten team missing the playoff looks bad on the whole conference. I think he tweet makes sense.
December 21st, 2020 at 1:54 PM ^
I mean honestly it's close to a push for me on the dislike scale. Don't want either team to win, wouldn't say I'm pulling for either though. Dabo is an insufferable piece of trash at this point, holier than thou fraud of a person honestly. Team Meteor I guess. Or just hope whoever wins gets a proper ass kicking in the title game to make the winner of this gane irrelevant.
December 21st, 2020 at 4:43 PM ^
These programs operate like big corporations, and they are just as faceless and disingenuous. Rooting for Clemson or Alabama is like rooting for Amazon. Dabo actually looks a bit like Jeff Bezos now that I think about it
December 21st, 2020 at 7:59 PM ^
Like you. I'm having a hard time. I always root against OSU but, on the other hand, you have POS - "praise the lord" Swinney. C'mon Meteor
December 21st, 2020 at 4:00 PM ^
We don't compete for the same recruits anymore. And haven't for more than a few years.
December 21st, 2020 at 4:16 PM ^
If the football school in central Ohio takes and another ass-beating in the play offs, then maybe we will be competing for the same recruits.
Personally, I'd like to see the Ohio football school humiliated on the field.
December 21st, 2020 at 8:37 PM ^
I am with you 100%. There is no case where I EVER root for OSU. I think this guy is probably more of a Bama fan than UM if thats how he thinks. I mean Dabo has stolen a lot of thunder from Saban of late and I can imagine Bama fans are pretty sick of him.
December 21st, 2020 at 1:48 PM ^
I hate Dabo too but I hate OSU too much to want them to win anything. I hope Clemson shuts OSU out again and then gets destroyed by Bama. At this point I'm numb to Bama winning so might as well give them another one.
December 21st, 2020 at 1:53 PM ^
Are you campaigning for a job for michigan? Why on earth would you root for osu?
December 21st, 2020 at 1:54 PM ^
get out
December 21st, 2020 at 1:55 PM ^
"Taking shots at FSU over canceling a game due to COVID"
So Clemson doing this makes you want to cheer for Ohio State?
December 21st, 2020 at 1:56 PM ^
What Michigan fan has ever used the acronym TOSU unironically?
December 21st, 2020 at 3:15 PM ^
Yeah, that was weak. Dabo clearly a phony a hole. Gattis, kissing the king’s ass, may be looking for future work or at least hoping Day keeps the score down next year. If he was trying to show conference pride and loyalty, he failed. Still, I’m rooting for a Clemson victory of epic proportions.
December 21st, 2020 at 2:07 PM ^
Fuck Ohio State. And fuck the Big Ten. They fuck us every single chance they get. To feel any differently is just wrong.
I'd be happy if we left the conference. It'll never happen, because money, but we should. We are the second-biggest cash cow (maybe even the top one?) in the conference and we are the whipping boy, with an AD that takes it (presumably) without a sound.
December 21st, 2020 at 2:14 PM ^
Interested in this take as I have never really heard of UM being dogged by the conference on a regular basis. What instances are you referencing?
December 21st, 2020 at 5:51 PM ^
You have to be fucking trolling with this response.
But in case you aren't....
1. Someone here did an analysis of strength of schedule between OSU and Michigan since, what, 1990 or something? The difficulty in Michigan's schedule is striking. Yes, some of that is self-inflicted, but since the conference went to divisions, Michigan has been "given" significantly harder cross-division games than OSU by the conference schedulers. Had 2020 played out, Michigan would have had to play Wisconsin, Iowa, and an assumed-to-be-good-beforehand Minnesota as cross-division games.
2. Someone did an analysis here about penalties (I think it was holding calls, both on our OL and calls not made on opposing OLs) and found a significant disparity disfavoring Michigan against virtually all other teams in the conference.
These two points alone show the bias of the conference. But to keep going....
3. In basketball, Michigan has gotten a much different whistle at home than other teams in the conference. I'm not sure if anyone has systematically studied this, but it's been discussed here numerous times. So it's not just football. MBB does not benefit from the "home cookin'" other teams get.
4. In the 2016 OSU game, the conference allowed a clearly OSU-biased crew to call the game. One of the officials was in the Ohio HS Hall of Fame or something, fergodsakes. The calls in that game have been analyzed on this blog, and clear bias for OSU is indicated, as expected. Then of course, we have The Spot. As has been discussed, we made our own mistakes in that game, but that kind of bias is to be avoided, and the conference has the responsibility to take care of this.
December 22nd, 2020 at 12:38 AM ^
December 23rd, 2020 at 12:19 PM ^
I don't see anything that isn't objectively true in the post above. You're usually decent about acknowledging things like this, or at least that's my impression of you. You have a better football team than we do currently, but truth is truth.
December 21st, 2020 at 9:35 PM ^
We could join the Big 12 and be right at home with teams that don't play defense
December 21st, 2020 at 2:13 PM ^
I -1'd you for 'TOSU', before I even saw the rest of your post. The 'T' is not part of the name...
December 21st, 2020 at 2:13 PM ^
I mean, root for a meteor, sure. But to root FOR osu? That seems a bit much. Although yeah - totally over Dabo's holier-than-thou win-at-all-costs attitude.
December 21st, 2020 at 2:13 PM ^
Dabo never said he wanted to hang a 100 on us!
December 21st, 2020 at 2:19 PM ^
If you think Dabo is an asshole, wait until you hear about Ohio State fans.
I could never imagine in one million years ever hoping for Ohio States's success. I hope Clemson curb stomps them.
December 21st, 2020 at 2:29 PM ^
OSU winning a national title would be disastrous for Michigan. I’m not a huge fan of Dabo, but I’d rather see OSU flame out like a fart in the wind.
45-3 Clemson sounds alright by me.
December 21st, 2020 at 3:09 PM ^
How would it have any effect on Michigan? OSU is already recruiting at an absurd level and playing in a different league than Michigan. It wouldn't change a thing.
December 21st, 2020 at 6:10 PM ^
It would take some of the shine off of them. The "can't win a playoff game" label would be slapped on them and their head coach, which would be much more preferable than the eternal optimism surrounding them now. Momentum is a touchy thing; the smallest things can affect it.
December 21st, 2020 at 7:18 PM ^
Chipping away. You can't take them down overnight, but every little chip weakens them.
December 21st, 2020 at 2:32 PM ^
Dabo's schtick is definitely played out, but that is not nearly enough for me to want OSU to win. I still hope they lose every game. Even still, I don't have a problem with what Gattis said.
December 21st, 2020 at 2:39 PM ^
I'll never root for OSU. I made that mistake one time. Won't do it again.
December 21st, 2020 at 2:47 PM ^
I'm rooting for Clemson to beat them 70-0.
December 21st, 2020 at 3:24 PM ^
I'd prefer that they hand 100 on them.
December 21st, 2020 at 3:15 PM ^
I think be been one but the Covid made it come out
December 21st, 2020 at 3:31 PM ^
Rules about Ohio State:
1. Fuck Ohio State
2. See # 1 above for all other rules.
December 21st, 2020 at 3:38 PM ^
“TOSU”? Nice try dude.
December 21st, 2020 at 4:35 PM ^
I hope they both lose.
December 22nd, 2020 at 11:42 AM ^
No matter how confusing the times we live in...it is never right to root for Satan.
EVER.
December 21st, 2020 at 1:26 PM ^
Maybe buttering them up for a job offer....
December 21st, 2020 at 1:50 PM ^
OSU to Gattis: All custodial services positions are filled. We appreciate your interest and we'll keep your application on file should our coolers need emptying in the future.
December 21st, 2020 at 3:34 PM ^
My take is that he has a grudge with the Big Ten conference administration and is just using this as an excuse to be passive aggressive. All of those points applied to Michigan as well. It seems clear he thinks teams in other conferences had advantages we didnt. That's it.
December 21st, 2020 at 1:27 PM ^
Reverse psychology?