Ok St's Gundy uses Harbaugh 3rd Base Comment against OSU
December 16th, 2021 at 3:56 PM ^
Here's a better link (WolverinesWire). The quote:
Consistency is the most important thing in building a big-time college football program, in my opinion. Now, I’ve never been at some of these schools where as people say you wake up on third base and you think you hit a triple. I’ve never been there, so I don’t know what it’s like to coach at a school like that. Coach Knowles will know.
December 16th, 2021 at 4:00 PM ^
Well his agent went simping after one of those programas couple weeks ago so ??♂️
December 16th, 2021 at 4:11 PM ^
That turned out to be fake I think. The person who wrote that has a history of fake repping people. Also pretty much everyone else is ignoring it
December 16th, 2021 at 4:16 PM ^
Oh damn
December 16th, 2021 at 4:53 PM ^
Weirdly this is a semi common thing in European soccer when someone leaks to the media that X club is interested in Y player. They do this because they "know" someone on each side & hope that the media pressure gets the club to look at the player more closely then this person acts as an intermediary looking for a "finder's fee" or something like that
December 16th, 2021 at 5:38 PM ^
Yep. Pogba's agent is notorious for doing this nonsense ("sources indicate Pogba is unsure of the Man U project"). After all, he doesn't get paid without transferring his players from team to team.
He did it for two years with Donnarumma as well, and he's doing it now with Haaland.
December 16th, 2021 at 4:53 PM ^
My first double post!
Yeah?
December 17th, 2021 at 2:44 AM ^
I would be very content to go the rest of my life never seeing the word "simp" used again.
Also, I'm 99% sure that report has been debunked several times over.
December 16th, 2021 at 3:58 PM ^
Can I make a motion for no one to watch the video on that link. After a 30 second commercial, the 1 minute video began playing - only to be interrupted every 15 seconds with another 5 second commercial. Completely unwatchable and ridiculous. GET OFF MY LAWN!
December 16th, 2021 at 4:11 PM ^
sort of like your average college football game
December 16th, 2021 at 7:08 PM ^
Is that a Fox Sports link?
December 16th, 2021 at 4:04 PM ^
Mike Gundy is a MAN. He's 40 (or probably 50 now). He has, or used to have, a world class mullet. He was not born on third base. He trolls Ohio State.
Love the man. My guess is the Buckeyes could care less about this "meaningless" bowl coached by a man who will be in Chicago as soon as the NFL season is over. The Cowboys are gonna kick Buckeye ass.
December 16th, 2021 at 4:08 PM ^
Maybe they would if they were, you know, playing them.
December 16th, 2021 at 4:12 PM ^
Isn't Utah a city in Oklahoma?
December 16th, 2021 at 9:00 PM ^
Naw, naw ....... that's Eutaw, Alabama. Only a 35 mile drive southwest on I-59 from Tuscaloosa!
Maybe that explains the 2009 Sugar Bowl. Nick thought he was playing a local high school, not a state university.
December 16th, 2021 at 9:12 PM ^
That's a very quiet nice place. I have been there a couple of times. They have nice catfish firms.
December 16th, 2021 at 9:20 PM ^
Yep, I've been through there. There is a Detroit, Alabama nearby too, I drove through on the same trip.
December 16th, 2021 at 4:50 PM ^
Well, you got me. My never ending desire to troll all things Buckeyes get the best of me. Okie State should be playing OSU. That's my position and I'm sticking to it.
December 16th, 2021 at 4:15 PM ^
Believe it or not, he's actually 68.
December 16th, 2021 at 4:51 PM ^
No, I'm 68. Mike Gundy is actually 54.
December 16th, 2021 at 8:30 PM ^
Holy shit! That was 14 years ago? Seemed like just a few years ago.
December 16th, 2021 at 4:21 PM ^
The Utah Cowboys ?
December 16th, 2021 at 6:40 PM ^
THEE Ohio State University...Utes.
December 16th, 2021 at 7:09 PM ^
I like Grundy. To some extent, Kiffin is a dorky version of him.
December 16th, 2021 at 4:13 PM ^
Not quite sure what Gundy expected. Jim Knowles one of the hot coordinators on the market this offseason and was pursued by many programs - just not Ohio State. And here's the kicker : Knowles made $800,000 last year with Okie State and will be making $1.9 million next with the other OSU. Would any of us turn down that kind of raise / money ?
December 16th, 2021 at 4:27 PM ^
If we had to work for ohio st to get it?
Fuck yeah!
December 16th, 2021 at 7:43 PM ^
....but OTOH, you're starting on 3rd base. So you've got that going for you, which is nice.
December 16th, 2021 at 4:38 PM ^
Getting paid $1.9 million for the opportunity to sabotage Ohio State's football program? No, I would not turn that down.
December 16th, 2021 at 4:41 PM ^
Okie St. is run by T. Boone Pickens and has more money than God. If that OSU wanted to keep Knowles around, they could and would have matched it.
December 16th, 2021 at 4:52 PM ^
T. Boone is dead. But he may well be running the university from the hereafter.
December 16th, 2021 at 4:25 PM ^
are the bears really that stupid? i mean, I could see the lions hiring day, who took over a top 5 team and produced a couple good seasons... If he has the chance, he better jump, cuz my guess is next year they'll be a 3 loss team and he's fresh out of coordinators to replace, so it'll be him the suckeye mob will be after.
December 16th, 2021 at 4:36 PM ^
I despise OSU, but do you really see anyone else in the B1G potentially beating them next year besides Michigan? Maybe if they open with an L to Notre Dame they could finish with 2 losses, but I doubt they will have 3. The Game this year was their first B1G loss since Purdue in 2018. We kicked their face in this year, but there is still a ton of talent on that team.
December 16th, 2021 at 5:10 PM ^
If you read some of the OSU sites, even at the beginning of the 2021 season, their 2018 and 2019 classes have not turned out the mega stars for OSU like in past years which is why they were forced to play so many from their stacked 2020 and 2021 classes. I've read that 14 of their 2-deep on defense - in 2021 - were from their 2020 and 2021 classes. Take a look at their 94.04 rating for their 2022 class. My point is the people thinking that OSU will be lacking talent in 2022 are way off base. That team will be stacked with great young talent.
Now, can we beat them ? Of course, but IMO, they'll have a whole year to simmer and will be ready IN COLUMBUS next year. We'll need to put the pedal to the metal
December 19th, 2021 at 10:28 AM ^
Agree with your take. OSUs roster was extremely young and got even younger on the field as the year went on since Day’s regime seemed to butt heads with some of the elders in Urban’s last classes - resulting in some mid-season transfers. Dont think they intended to play a number of the guys that were thrown in this season. They are talented but can Day develop them and get them to play tough? This coming season will be huge for Day to either prove he’s keeping the Death Star operational or if he becomes Larry Coker pt 2 Electric Boogaloo.
Outside of M and possibly a PSU or Wisco, they can still simply out talent most of the B1G regardless of scheme.
December 16th, 2021 at 4:36 PM ^
Day is gone after next year either way. He has no ties to the university and isn’t gonna deal with the pressure that program puts on you. If he beats Michigan next year he will have a winning record against them and go out on top and if he loses to Michigan his ass is gone too. Too many NFL teams will be calling at that time
December 16th, 2021 at 5:21 PM ^
Day will be at OSU as long as they’ll have him. He wants stability for his kids.
December 16th, 2021 at 5:24 PM ^
I have never considered Day a long term coach for OSU. I agree with you about his future being in the NFL. it sounds like he's not too happy - along with many other CF coaches - about all of the NIL transactions, especially in this current recruiting cycle (Texas, Texas A&M, and of course the SEC). Sounds like it could drive him back to the NFL. Enter Fickell
December 16th, 2021 at 5:34 PM ^
If I were Day (assuming he has NFL aspirations), I would definitely jump at the first opportunity someone gives me. I really think Day will follow the same trajectory as Don Brown. Both came in doing one thing extremely well and it dominated for the first few years. Other coaches and coordinators eventually find the weaknesses in their system.
For Don Brown, it was using his aggressiveness against him. For Day, it's taking away the deep passing game (see Alabama and Michigan games). We already saw the peak of a Day led team with Fields, Dobbins, Olave/Wilson, Young, Wade, and Okudah in 2019. That was a borderline NFL team and they got ousted in the first round against Clemson. They don't have a Fields level QB on roster anymore (with Ewers gone), the early returns for their WRs is good but probably not Olave/Wilson good, and their DB room is really unimpressive. The only position groups that might improve from that 2019 team is DL and RB, although both Dobbins and Young were heisman candidates so not sure you can replicate that.
Sure, he may adapt, unlike his former co-worker. But based on what i've observed from him so far, he seems arrogant and unwilling to give up control (I believe he had insisted on running a specific defensive scheme rather than let the defensive coaches choose a scheme). Adaptability is probably the single most important trait for a college football head coach. Part of the reason why I think Saban is so successful (other than recruiting) is that he has his choice of the best available coordinators every year. His coordinators cycle through the program so often that nobody has the ability to "figure them out" schematically. It will be interesting to see where Ryan Day goes from here, now that there is a blueprint for stopping his current scheme.
December 16th, 2021 at 11:06 PM ^
And the particular scheme he demanded his DC adopt was one designed to stop his own offense.
Sound familiar?
December 17th, 2021 at 7:12 AM ^
Both came in doing one thing extremely well and it dominated for the first few years. Other coaches and coordinators eventually find the weaknesses in their system.
they lost one conference game in the last three years. not sure that these other coaches and coordinators found a kink in the armor...and if there was one, Knowles will probably fix it.
December 17th, 2021 at 1:57 PM ^
OSU's defense has been a weak link for a while. We'll see if Day finally gives the keys of the defense over to his DC (I think he has to).
The kink that could have been exposed was regarding slowing down their offense. Bama, Oregon, and Michigan, the three teams that have beat them recently and convincingly, had very similar defensive game plans. Play safeties deep to take away the deep shots, give them the underneath stuff and be disciplined in tackling and containment. Make them march down the field and force them to kick a field goal with a shortened field. Day's offense relies on big play momentum. They like to pile points on you as fast as possible (see MSU). Put a speed limit on that Ferrari and they aren't dusting people anymore.
Now, the key to this type of game plan is getting pressure on the QB while allowing your LBs and DBs to stay in coverage. Having Ojabo and Hutchinson was key to that success. That's a luxury most college teams don't have (PSU played their offense well, it was their offense that ultimately failed them).
If we had the same defensive game plan in 2018 and 2019 as we did in 2021, those games would have likely been tightly contested games. Day had the perfect game plan to annihilate our defense in 2018 and 2019 because he knew exactly what Don Brown wanted to run and he knew how to exploit it. Brown tried to adapt and 2020 was the result...
I said last year after the Alabama game that this would be the year to strike against OSU. They had a lot of roster turnover, the Meyer recruits are almost all gone, and Bama just showed the world how to defend them. Oregon and Michigan were obviously paying attention. I think there is now a blueprint to slowing down Ryan Day's offense as it is currently constructed. That doesn't mean he won't adapt successfully (it will be a true test of his offensive genius reputation), next year should be pretty illuminating.
December 16th, 2021 at 5:39 PM ^
I agree this is how it will shake out. Day won't be forced to leave, but with a loss at home and the pressure is really turned up and he will take something else. If he wins, his stock is just that much higher.
December 16th, 2021 at 5:08 PM ^
Opening the door for Urban's return.
December 16th, 2021 at 5:20 PM ^
I don’t think OSU fans want him back after this year.
December 16th, 2021 at 8:32 PM ^
I agree. Bowling Green might though.
December 16th, 2021 at 5:32 PM ^
Don't know any OSU fans - and especially their administration - that want him back. I'll be surprised if he coaches again unless it's at a program like Tennessee that is starving to get back to it's previous status. I actually think he'll lay low for awhile
December 16th, 2021 at 7:37 PM ^
The Detroit Lions already have their head football coach for the next 5 years at a minimum. Bet the house on it.
December 17th, 2021 at 10:06 AM ^
IMO day is in over his head. his team had a deer in the headlights look in The Game.... that didn't happen with tressel or meyer teams. they stuggled against minn, psu & nebraska this year, they aren't the same team going forward under day, that they have been for the past 20 years under tressel and meyer.... is what I'm contending.