Presumed OSU Backup QB Enters Transfer Portal
Razor thin at QB based on what I've seen of Fields.
Which is nothing.
Exactly my point.
No. Spend a lot of time on reading comprehension do ya?
Where would you have seen Fields play? Curious. What are you basing your evaluation on other than the fact that you are desperately clinging to hope after 17 years if beatings?
Watched a lot of highlights of his senior season on QB1. It's worth a watch. Terrific talent, but there is an odd lack of fire, too. Still, has every physical tool you would want. Will take some adjustment but he's entering the perfect easy-decision making system to thrive early.
April 18th, 2019 at 10:19 PM ^
Where do you coach?
Don't you have a co-ed at Florida to be banging?
wish i had a co-ed at florida!!! i wouldn't be talking to you dumbasses then....lol
April 18th, 2019 at 10:18 PM ^
Think he's just commenting on the lack of experience from even the starter. Chill out, guy.
April 18th, 2019 at 10:32 PM ^
Harbs has a lot of feelings for Fields - poor guy has to put all of his eggs in the basket of a failed transfer with character concerns.
The tide is changing indeed. Fields is not the kind of player you want as your only option. Ryan Day = not scary.
To quote every single poster on this board when it comes to news that might be a help for UM: "I'll believe it when I see it."
After nearly 2 decades of either ass-kickings or inexplicable will-of-the-gods shit that always ALWAYS goes OSU's way, I've become a bit jaded.
Great points, I am aware of the MgoCulture regarding osu. I am not superstitious, and I refuse to let groupthink and a remarkable 17 year run crush my confidence. Ryan Day and Justin Fields do not scare me, and I don’t apologize for that! (But I respect and understand yours and nearly everyone else’s skepticism)
Just come to accept that we will never beat them in our lifetimes. You'll be much happier.
Honestly, if we're lucky we might go 8-4 next year. OSU, ND MSU are all automatic losses and I could easily see Wisconsin, Iowa and PSU going the wrong way.
What are the odds we go any better than 2-4 in those games? Close to zero. And we decided to schedule Army. This could very well be a year in which we don't make a bowl game, and we'll be wanting Hoke back.
Oh God....I just remembered Michigan plays Army in week 2 with a DL composed heavily of true freshman, position transfers, and total question marks.
Since they have time to prep, my guess is that the D will play fine disciplined football against Army, we’ll breathe a sigh of relief as the team goes up by 28 early in the third, and then Brian attempts to throw himself from the luxury box level when two of our DTs tear ACLs negotiating cutblocks.
I know I stand out like a sore thumb in that I refuse to accept a bad fate against OSU this year. I have followed this team since being a student 99-03, so I am aware of the record. I just see the tea leaves and call them how I see them. Vegas agrees with me (-6.5 points), and they are far less emotional about this stuff than anyone who posts on MgoBlog. Odds we go better than 2-4 in those games? I would go with 80%. OSU, ND, MSU automatic losses - that is a clueless and emotional take. You are usually pretty rational from what I have seen, but guaranteeing a home loss to a very weak MSU team, a diminished OSU team and Brian Kelly-coached ND team is kind of pathetic. Also, Wiscy and PSU are not vintage this year. Iowa is Iowa - and they don’t scare me at home (edited). I am thinking 4-2 is far more likely than 2-4. Vegas rationally agrees. I also think 5-1 is a very distinct possibility. 6-0 would be magical, but even as a rational optimist, I don't foresee that.
Not making a bowl game? Please! This is the kind of post that should be held accountable at the end of the season. Weak stuff EYB.
Fine. Save it and make a post about it in January. I've been overly optimistic for over ten years and all it's gotten me is creepy ass perverts like Kurpit keeping a journal of all my posts and then throwing my comments back in my face like a scorned ex-wife. So, fine. I'm sticking to my guns that we are AT BEST going 6-6 this year because I have nothing to gain by being an optimist.
Lol, totally fair! Reverse jinx - if it works, I will not shame you at the end of the season since you are owning it.
6-6? Take off your maize-colored glasses, dude. 3-9 is our statistical ceiling (anything higher is so improbable as to not matter), and my advanced stats analysis model predicts 1-11 as our 44% most likely outcome.
Psychologically are we becoming like Lions fans when it comes to our big rivals?
We play Iowa at home
Thanks UMx, will edit my post. Further strengthens my confidence....
Doesn't really matter. We still lose.
For real tho, what was the spread for the game last November? Being a favorite, for either team, in April means nothing. There are arguments to be made for either side but Vegas odds in April when starters haven’t even been set is a little flimsy.
April 18th, 2019 at 10:04 PM ^
We have been through this. Vegas football lines in April mean nothing.
Vegas makes its money off of the vig on a volume of betting. They could care less who wins, only that they they get equal action on both sides. The losers pay the winners and Vegas collects a margin on the volume.
Unrealistic lines in April on a are used to draw early betting action (volume) only.
Unless the unthinkable happens like Purdue @ OSU, everyone bets the underdog, osu doesn't cover the spread. Then the bookies eat heavy losses, yet it doesnt matter because these scenarios dont happen enough .
This has to be the dumbest post I've read this week. What is scary about MSU? 2-4 in those games is laughable and nothing will make me want " clap happy" Hoke.
Yeah and everyone thought we'd be in the playoff in 2018. Stop deflecting. MSU has owned us the last ten years. Last year was a fluke. At least Hoke had a win vs OSU.
In the summer leading into the 2018, I recall that most people tended to think that it was going to be a rebuilding year leasind up to the 2019 season - which would then be "the year". The loss to ND reinforced this, but only after the string of victories did people start to see real playoff chances.
I agree. I never want the clap again.
April 18th, 2019 at 11:10 PM ^
We will not be wanting Hoke back. Nothing against him, he's a good DL coach and recruiter, not up to the Michigan HC job and that ship has sailed so far off the horizon
How many years do you have left? Cuz I’ll take that bet. OSU has been on an epic run, somehow survived losing Tressel by landing Urban. They’ve lost Hermann and now internally promoted their first coach in.....how long? Everything reverts to the mean, look at USC, Miami, Florida State.....I’m not sure how many years you have left but what you are claiming is mathematically improbable. Nothing lasts forever and that includes their reign and our slump.
Michigan knows a thing or two about being thin at QB.
The transfer portal means the end of a team like OSU winning the CFPB with a 3rd string QB are over for every team. Teams will have a starter, a second string freshman or sophomore if the starter is a senior and a Chuganov quality backup. Starting caliber QB’s aren’t riding the pine for 3 years anymore. As an OSU fan I’m 100% fine with that despite losing a guy like Baldwin. Players get 4 years, they should be able to go wherever they can play.
As a side note Baldwin was a Meyer recruit and Day brought in Fields. It’s a little different relationship than if Day had been the driver in his recruitment
Do you just make stuff up to fit your narrative?
From Ari Wasserman’s article on the athletic:
A source close to the situation said it’s a tough situation for Day, who hand-picked Baldwin as a recruit from Austin (Texas) Lake Travis and felt he could be a future starter, whether it was in 2019 or in 2021.
April 19th, 2019 at 10:32 AM ^
Maybe you should google narrative as it doesn’t mean what you think it means. A side note, by definition, isn’t a narrative.
Day was the QB coach, Meyer was the head coach, period. Of course Day was involved as the position coach but Meyer was the head coach and that’s who he signed to play for. If you think that had zero impact then you’re beyond help.
Everyone needs to relax, it’s only April so we really won’t have any idea what kind of team we have until Fall camp.
If it is any comfort, Pete Davidson just went on Jimmy Fallon and compared his new crib in ‘The Basement’ to ‘The Ohio State University’. That has to be a good omen.
Davidson makes the quip at the 5:33 mark.
Yikes.....
SC - you are on the board for 1 month, name-calling, and relentlessly praising OSU at every turn. Go back to your own website and enjoy Coach Day and Justin Fields! I am confident that we will enjoy them here quite a bit...
You’re not scared of OSU after two decades of ass kickings and skull fuckings?
What planet have you been living on?
Double yikes....
These fans are the reason for your moniker I presume?!
Indy - I just don’t understand the necessity of certain phrases. I’m no prude, but I gotta draw the line somewhere.
Really? I am amazed at how many people are marking this fall up as a win because of THIS news. Baldwin was on the depth chart behind Tate Martel.
April 18th, 2019 at 10:31 PM ^
Yes really Harbs. You cheer for an institution that values winning over integrity. Beating your Buckeyes will be especially sweet by doing it the right way - something osu has not done for decades...
Mattathias "Biggity" Baldwin