They are eating their young on Eleven Warriors right now.

A good Michigan is good for OSU and vice versa. Even MSU would rather MIchigan be good because with UM being terrible for awhile, it makes the B10 look bad.

 

I imagine 75% of OSU fans as this

Their opinions are irrelevant. We just hit a home run!

My dad is a huge Ohio State fan. His words were "Wonderful, now we'll never win again."

There's a thin line between insecurity and prowling for schadenfreude.

Their collective spin (from the less rational ones) to show how Jimmy isn't really a very good coach and they have nothing to fear: -He never won the PAC-12 conference -He never won a Super Bowl -He won't stay beyond 3-4 years, never has -He only won at Stanford because of Andrew Luck -He only won at SF because of a stacked roster that was ready to go -He will piss everyone off and get run off quickly -He is barely over .500 as an FBS coach -He has never even won an NCAA football title -He is going to coach Oakland next season anyway, doesn't matter -He is going to coach the Jets next season anyway, doesn't matter Yep, this mountain of evidence, which takes EVERYTHNG into account, clearly shows how much he sucks.

OSU is not going anywhere under Meyer and we have some catching up to do.  If both staffs stay in place for 6-8 years this should be a wonderful era.  Anyone over there thinking Harbaugh will be average (as both RCMB and some 11Warriors have pointed to Harbaugh's "mediocre" college record in FBS) or anyone over here thinking Meyer suddenly will become an  idiot is just plain silly.  Or that either team will "lose all their recruits" to the other just has a shade of glasses on.  Both have recruited well for decades under various regimes and will continue to.  As will Notre Dame. 

What discerns great coaching from below great when you are in a program that gets top recruits constantly is finding the right fits with those recruits and then the ongoing development..... the latter has been a sad situation of late for us.  That changes.

They have a head start with a cadre of QBs ready to run Urban's very effective offense and a coach already established in that location with his own recruits now filtering thru the system.  We still played them close even with some very average coaching the past few years.  So 2015 at home will be no different. 

As long as we find a QB by the 2016 game I expect that one to be a barn burner reminding us older guys of how "The Game" used to be, and I hope we start seeing some 2006 like matchups again.  The talent pulls now will be very equal, and the coaching very equal.

As for fans - whatever.  We said lots of shit about Urban too when he was hired.  Truth is these are 2 of the top 5 coaches in the country by any measure for the NCAA.  Both win big and win early everywhere.  I already see the crap about "Harbaugh doesnt the win the big one" and "Harbaugh doesnt win his own conference (NCAA)"  which will be retorted from our side by "oh yeah NFC Championship > than any NCAA conference".   Lots of nonsense on both sides - again 2 of the best coaches going at the same time, at similar ages, both alpha males, with similar hunger drives.  This is going to mirror Auburn - Alabama and what TN - UF used to be 10 years ago.

Game on.

Buckeye and Sparty tears are delicious.

Sparty slappies in my social media feeds are just as bad, if not worse. My favorite contradictions: 

- Michigan fans are getting everything we deserve from Dantonio, because allegedly some of us "mocked" the hire of a guy who at that time was one game above .500 at fucking Cincinnati. Now excuse me while I go mock the hire of a guy who coached in the Super Bowl

- Harbaugh "can't win the big one" because he lost the Super Bowl, you know, that game that even the best coach/QB tandem of the 21st Century haven't won in a decade. Meanwhile their team is playing in the Cotton Bowl instead of the Playoff precisely because of twin bed-shittings against the only two good teams they played

- when Hoke was here and turning in consensus top ten recruiting classes, it didn't matter because he can't develop players like Dantonio. Now that Michigan has a coach who has demonstrated that ability, it still doesn't matter because those players actually aren't talented. The real problem is that the recruiting services who scouted them and the Urban Meyers and Nick Sabans who offered them were just wrong. Other teams in the apparently unique situation of losing players to graduation and the NFL will simply reload, while Michigan losing four players from their entire two-deep is an impending personnel catastrophe

- Harbaugh's just not good, you guys. Did you know he went 4-8 in his first year at Stanford? Yeah, you know, Stanford, the place where they went 1-11 the year before he arrived, and where the previous most recent winning season was the first year of the George W Bush Administration. He couldn't turn that around in one year? Please. Plus he's had a favorable set of circumstances waiting for him everywhere he's gone, like non-scholarship programs and total dumpster fires

I've never seen people so sure of something needing to give themselves so many reassurances. The difference I sense is that Ohio State's had sustained success against Michigan during a semi-recent period when Michigan was actually good, so they're still confident. Dantonio has only ever beaten crappy Michigan, so "Sparty Nation" is understandably more nervous and kind of bitchy.

I'm curious, do they think Harbaugh is better than Hoke? because their current staff struggled against Hoke.

I absolutely cannot wait for end of game handshakes with JH.

You mean other fans are as ridiculous as some fans are here?

Truthfully, I've never seen the reason to be interested in what "other teams' fans" are saying on message boards. I can quite honestly say that I've never been to any other team's message board except for when Google brings me to some recruiting info on Buckeye Planet or something. I visit 11 Warriors occasionally when links are posted to good articles. Same thing with The O-Zone.

A lot of us - including me - have a hard time getting past the morons on our own boards, so why would I want to go seek out more of them with opposing fan allegiances?