Request for OSU UFR. Willing to donate.
Would really like a UFR of yesterday’s game. I know the tradition is to not do one cus BPONE but I think some analysis would help readers of the blog. It would help me and I’m sure I’m not alone. I know it wouldn’t be pleasant to make (and probably not read at points) but understanding what happened once people aren’t emotional would help. This blog gives great analysis which helps frame losses. Well the past 4 years we’ve gotten no analysis to explain the biggest and most important loss and that probably doesn’t help ppl think rationally.
A UFR would also give indications about players and the team next year. I know ppl are tired of “next year” but unless you win the NC at some point every team’s season become about “next season.”
If it takes some donations to get them to do it I’m in.
Everything below is kind of snowflakey so ignore it if you want. Or read it, downvote me and yell at me about a shitty post or that this should’ve been a snowflake. First post so I’ll take my lumps.
Re Brown: Id like to see if the problem this year was schematic or based on players. He’s been good but he does deserve scrutiny and analysis of this game would give insight. Getting rid of him could hurt recruiting especially in the transfer portal era but if a UFR shows he’s been really bad then it may be time. (Hate lose DHill to the transfer portal cus Brown left and it would look bad after deciding not to promote Mattison.) I suspect Mettelus and Hudson would be sore spots on this years UFR and possibly ones from past years. Maybe getting rid of them alone will make a difference. Mistakes by them accounted for at least 21 osu points.
And that I think goes to one of Browns biggest issues: his rotations. We saw no Josh Ross yesterday. Last year Gil rotated with Ross despite being noticeably worse. Hudson and Mettelus have 4 star back ups but we haven’t seen them this season. Even in big wins they were out there late. I wonder if this drives recruits away once they’re here (Myles Sims Keith Washington and other DBs. Solomon too maybe? But he had issues before he was on campus) and doesn’t give young guys experience. It also means that when they play poorly in big games there is nobody with game experience to replace them or at least spot them for some plays so they can be coached up or pressure them to improve or stay sitting. Loyalty to seniors is good to a point and at BC Brown may not have had a choice. But this isn’t BC talent wise.
December 1st, 2019 at 8:39 AM ^
Just follow @jdue51 on twitter. Right now he's posting replays and analysis on WTF happened yesterday and he's the guy Brian posts on his Monday wrap up.
You're not getting an OSU UFR. Sorry.
I should add though i completely agree with your questions and would love to know the answers too. I think it might be time to move on from Brown too.
December 1st, 2019 at 9:42 AM ^
So when did you leave the party yesterday?
December 1st, 2019 at 10:06 AM ^
Came here to post this as well. Really sound analysis on a weekly basis for all key plays, as well as seemingly ho hum plays that had the potential to be much better or much worse outcomewise
December 1st, 2019 at 5:27 PM ^
I’ll donate for an OSU UFR. Comrade Brian, what’s your price?
December 1st, 2019 at 8:41 AM ^
I don't think much analysis was needed to know most of the battle was won in the trenches. Their O-line created huge gaps to wear down our undersized D for Dobbins to run through and allowed them short pass dump-offs and homerun pass plays. You can see how many big plays they had. We also had some big plays that exploited their nickelback situation when Wade was out for them. Bottom line was simply we shot ourselves in the foot too many times with turnovers and unforced errors like the jumping offsides on the punt that would have stalled their drive but instead they ended up getting a TD. This game was a shoot out and they hardly squandered their drives as much as we did.
December 1st, 2019 at 8:46 AM ^
Pretty much this. OP is is pain (like all of us) and thinks that the UFR can provide logic to why we lost, and presumably, he further thinks that once he understands the logic, he can begin to renew his hope for next year.
OSU beat us in the trenches and no scheme was going to overcome that.
Then again, if his donation is big enough, this site might be able to handle gameday traffic. Plus, maybe its time to break tradition!
December 1st, 2019 at 8:50 AM ^
I’m a grad student. Donation wasn’t gonna be that big lol
Putting hope and understanding aside I would like analysis on the biggest game of the season from what I consider to be one of the best sources for UM analysis.
December 1st, 2019 at 11:53 AM ^
Whatever the reasons may be, I think it's chickenshit we never get anything from OSU games. Yes I get that we lose, but it's literally the job of this site to provide analysis. Whether they like the result or not.
December 1st, 2019 at 8:46 AM ^
This is true. Our d line got moved and we missed our outside gap contain.
I haven’t seen anything posted but at the game OSU ran a play on 2nd and long for about 40 yards a full second after the play clock hit zero.
December 1st, 2019 at 8:58 AM ^
Hinton got a ton of run yesterday. Would be good to know if that was "earned" or if maybe there was an injury that kept others off the field. I don't think I saw Dwumfor even once, but very much could have just missed him. Regardless, would be interesting to know how Hinton graded out. Saw one nice play in the backfield, but also thought I saw him get washed out...a lot.
December 1st, 2019 at 9:34 AM ^
Hinton played well. Lot to look forward to next year. But yes there were a few times those guards got a good hold of him. Not surprising as he is a freshman and usually guards that are seasoned and good talents will get the best of them. But you can see Hinton has game and he made some plays.
December 1st, 2019 at 10:44 AM ^
Hinton played decently. His future is good.
December 1st, 2019 at 10:21 AM ^
I think it was just because they needed him. He wasn't playing over anyone injured. He's our 3rd best DT.
December 1st, 2019 at 8:59 AM ^
I remember that. In fact, I think they got away with delay of game a couple of times.
December 1st, 2019 at 9:33 AM ^
I saw that late play too. I don't know if it was a board error or the just "missed" it.
December 1st, 2019 at 10:32 AM ^
So that play was something I figured would be mentioned alot here and watching it live it looked real late.
But, per the guy above @jdue51 has a lot of plays on his feed and this is one. I watched it over and over and the snap came just a hair after the clock hit zero.
Considering it is one officials job to watch the clock and when it hits zero look down to see if the ball was snapped, he would not have seen a delay of game because of the slight delay in looking down at the snap. He would have seen the ball in motion.
December 1st, 2019 at 10:47 AM ^
I dunno man everybody in our section saw it and had time to scream. I would expect the time clock to be accurate/official. Is it?
If so it was a big miss by the officials.
Would have gone to like 2nd and 23....uh never mind.
December 1st, 2019 at 3:44 PM ^
This happens all the time in every football game. This isn't an egregious error by the ref because they have to look up then look down to see if they snapped the ball or not like you said.
December 1st, 2019 at 8:58 AM ^
Don Brown needs to retire. The game has left him and he is too stubborn to realize it. He plays the wrong players and has very little rotation. The very conception that a freshman cannot play over a Senior is 1980’s bullshit and frankly our head coach fosters the same thing. Gattis had a great plan yesterday that scored 27 points and possibly more without the miscues against the best defense in college football. There are NO excuses on defense. In two games against Ohio State, Don Brown has schemed his way to 1,114 yards and 118 points. My hope is that Gattis doesn’t leave.
December 1st, 2019 at 9:06 AM ^
RRs defenses didn’t cede that much to OSU and they were historically bad yet we have so many Brown nut huggers on this board. It’s getting pathetic.
bUt WhO Is GoInG tO bE BEtTer?
December 1st, 2019 at 9:11 AM ^
These aren’t the teams RR or Hoke were playing. 3 of the osu teams Harbaugh has faced have had 2 of osu’s all time rushers. These have been some of the best osu teams of all time.
Re Brown: it’s not just freshmen he refuses to rotate. The players behind Mettelus and Hudson aren’t only freshmen.
December 1st, 2019 at 9:40 AM ^
what about just plain discipline? Why are captains trying to untie shoes in the middle of the most important game of their lives? Why are there sweatshirts with a former coach printed? Wtf is Cam knowingly committing that penalty? I love the idea of fostering identity but maybe we need a taskmaster like that shithead who left us for Maryland.
Another thing is these student athletes probably would not benefit from more coaching turnover.
December 1st, 2019 at 9:44 AM ^
Can Brown. Promote Partridge.
December 1st, 2019 at 2:39 PM ^
Maybe Partridge should stick to figuring out special teams (extra points and not jumping on punts) before he takes over the defense
December 1st, 2019 at 8:58 AM ^
December 1st, 2019 at 9:32 AM ^
Umm, because Brian made this his job? And jobs usually require sacrifice?
December 1st, 2019 at 9:34 AM ^
Shut up and look at these stupid adds. Donate while you're at it!
December 1st, 2019 at 9:16 AM ^
You are going to lose. There, done!
December 1st, 2019 at 9:21 AM ^
Your best bet is asking Seth, Ace or a poster like Space Coyote to do it. Brian is arrogant, ungrateful and emotionally unstable. He'd have no qualms about taking your donation and continuing to half-ass his work.
December 1st, 2019 at 9:41 AM ^
Username kind of checks out.
Of all the stupid things said in the fallout after a loss, saying that Brian is "arrogant, ungrateful and emotionally unstable" is pretty dumb.
The guy writes hundreds of thousands of words each year on UM football, and is probably one of the most intelligent commentators on sports there is. We are lucky to have him.
December 1st, 2019 at 9:30 AM ^
Sorry, Brian checked out. Please call back in late August.
December 1st, 2019 at 9:34 AM ^
No, the Bahamas tournament guaranteed you will be getting plenty of basketball content from Mr. Cook this winter. If it was a team struggling for a tournament bid, he would be ignoring them.
December 1st, 2019 at 10:53 AM ^
I look forward to Brian’s game recap which will probably be about ducks or squirrels and will quote some obscure artsy film, but won’t mention much about actual football.
December 1st, 2019 at 9:31 AM ^
All I know is that asking my exes for an explanation for why they dumped me never ended well.
December 1st, 2019 at 9:46 AM ^
It was probably the herpes.
December 1st, 2019 at 9:59 AM ^
Say, how did that Pussy Riot thing turn out?
December 1st, 2019 at 9:56 AM ^
I wrote out a long message but it didn’t save. Basically beat in the trenches and they exploited JM, who is a good safety, with average coverage skills. OSU has elite receivers that most teams don’t have so they’re able to exploit JMs coverage skills with quick skill position guys.
Michigan was in a zone on one of the plays that JM got beat on. Michigan has recruited guys like Mazi, Hinton, and Hill to fix the issues they have on the line and secondary. But unfortunately they just weren’t ready yet to go against an established elite team. OSU is a team that you have to play almost perfect to beat. Or get momentum going your way.
I know people point out Iowa and Purdue beating them, but they don’t get OSUs best effort and again momentum is huge in college football. Michigan will always gets OSUs best game plan and effort. It’s just the way it is. The scheme wasn’t terrible but OSU knows how to hit weaknesses.
December 1st, 2019 at 10:36 AM ^
Sending the kitchen sink on 2nd and 19 is bad scheme.
December 1st, 2019 at 11:53 AM ^
You are only the 100,000 person to point that out. Literally not even Alabama’s defensive coordinator, when they were running with the best defense in the history of college football, made every stop. It’s not bad scheme to call a bad play. If you don’t understand the difference, I can see why you’re so mad. Scheme vs play calling one defensive play that didn’t work is not the same thing. It was not a good choice. You can go to every game in the history of football and find a badly called play for every team in every game. So thank you for pointing out the blitz on 2nd and forever. You and literally 90% of the fan base.
December 2nd, 2019 at 8:58 AM ^
What’s your excuse for blowing a 3rd and 14 a drive or two earlier?
December 1st, 2019 at 10:23 AM ^
Brian needs to do a UFR as part of our "break the curse" movement. Until one fully confronts their problems, they will never heal. We need to see the stark naked truth about how OSU exploited our defensive weaknesses, yet again.
December 1st, 2019 at 10:33 AM ^
Metellus -9000
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December 1st, 2019 at 10:54 AM ^
Agreed. I thought last year it might happen since the UFR got a sponsor. It would definitely help and would allow for full-season UFR stats. I think he might actually do it this year TBH; he was much less optimistic about our chances so maybe it doesn't hurt as much (it does)