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Overall, a great device - it…

Overall, a great device - it's a touch niche but it does those niche things excellently. 

Excellent for quick roasting - you want nice roast vegetables and don't want to wait 40 minutes in the oven? Air fryer will do it in 10. 

Al Borges was a lot of…

Al Borges was a lot of things but he was not a perfect OC. He knew a lot of football but the Xs and Os are his strong point - player development and practical game planning were not.  He learned football well; he was not great at innovating it himself when the gun was to his head.

I'm not sure it was the right call to fire him in 2013, but let's not pretend his offense was doing well.  The Michigan State game plan was inexcusebaly bad; and overall, he had nothing in the tank when it came to handling the emerging defenses (what we'd now call modern defense - the stuff that Dantonio ran that was Saban's match quarters system), especially in the run game.  Maybe he survives if he has a better OL coach, but ultimately development and performance there was part of his responsibility. 

Basically, knowing football is a prerequisite to getting it done at a level that Sherrone more has managed, but alone the knowledge isn't enough. 

This is one of those LOIC…

This is one of those LOIC things.  When you are under the gun from the NCAA you have to show you are taking compliance seriously.  This is the kind of thing that gets Lack of Institutional Control charges if you let it be.  Michigan isn't playing games with it; he's going to be out of College Football until the NCAA investigation is done. 

I hope he gets a phone call from the Ravens and can keep his career going.  This is one of those things you Can't Fuck Up given the circumstances but he deserves another shot.  If Jeff Lebby still has a career Partridge sure as hell does. 

Can you dive further into…

Can you dive further into the question of if the flavor of advance scouting the rest of the conference has been doing - where you have a coach doing it for you - is impermissible under bylaw 11.6.1? By the wording of the rule, it doesn't seem like it is.  Is there something else I'm not seeing on that?

It's going to be the case…

It's going to be the case that there's a long, ugly, and unpleasant discussion on what the letter of 11.6.1 says vs how it's clearly been applied. 

11.6.1 says the activity of "In person scouting of future opponents" is banned. 

There's no carveout for how you go about it; it's not allowed by the letter of the rule. 

So, the fact that coaches think it's okay to get other coaches on other programs to do this for them is a matter of established practice but it's not explicitly allowed anywhere I can find in NCAA bylaws. It's probably technically against the rules but nobody wants to enforce breaking up an old boys' club, so they don't.  But it's not materially different, and not any less against the letter of the rule, than what Stalions did.

Tennessee needs to lose so…
  • Tennessee needs to lose so people stop pretending like a team that got blown out by Florida and has lost every game that matters against teams that didn't pay tens of millions of dollars for the pleasure of firing their coaches deserves to be ranked. 
     
  • Utah because Pig Farmer
     
  • Comet for all Big Ten matchups except for Indiana over Sparty and Minnesota over Ohio State

 

I think there is a lot to…

I think there is a lot to the idea that Penn State runs last decade's offense.  This should be no surprise to modern football people, especially ones who are on teams that run modern defenses.

Match zone concepts have taken football by storm on all levels. It allows teams to play what performs a lot like man coverage but without having to chase from disadvantage - the zone side of the concepts allow the guy in the best position to take each offensive player without being vulnerable to crossing or rub routes, or giving up the soft holes in traditional zone coverage. 

One of the keys to taking that advantage away is to fight the ability for teams to make their reads and assign coverage matches.  You do this through pre snap motion - your no. 2 becomes a no.1 perhaps, or your RB in motion sets up to be the outside reciever at the snap.  It makes the defense show a bit of their hand, and when executed well, forces the defense to adjust their coverage read at the snap of the ball.  They may have to reallocate guys and re-shift, which can give one of your guys an advantage do to the adjustment they would not have otherwise. 

It's a simple thing that can really fuck with a modern defense, and Penn State just doesn't do it. They basically only use motion to set up screen looks or bring players in to block, or to tighten a formation.  They don't use motion to help defeat coverage and it puts every pass catcher they have an extra step behind the defense.

It's increasingly inexcusable to play offense this way because you need to change so little in order to give your pass catchers such a big edge.  You literally don't need to change your plays at all; you just adjust your presnap behavior and run the same route concepts.  The reads are the same, but the QB has more info and the defense has a tougher read on their end. 

So yeah, probably a good firing on the whole but quite possibly not made for the right reasons.  Broken clocks are right twice a day and all that.

Harbaugh should walk off the…

Harbaugh should walk off the podium and have his players step up to take it.

Honestly, no. 

 

If…

Honestly, no. 

 

If Harbaugh is in on this shit he needs to be held accountable.  The standard needs to be higher. 

For what it's worth, after…

For what it's worth, after the comments made by James Franklin I went to take a look for the scenario he described and I couldn't find it.  Our coverage shell is in the UFR and while there's plenty of two-high, there's very very little 3rd or 4th and short and none that fit the described profile.   

That doesn't alone mean anything; I think it's pretty clear in context that Franklin was explaining how you might have an idea that signs are stolen and what a suspicious play might look like rather than giving an oblique hint about a specific actual event.  I don't think there's likely to be an in-game smoking gun.

The one upside on this is…

The one upside on this is that it's going to be really obvious what the truth is when it comes out.  Literally nothing about this seems to have been done with any care for secrecy; if there's anything to be found there it will be.  It's going to be a matter of FOIA-reachable record exactly what was going on.

There's going to be penalties because you can't just let people in your programs break rules, but there's clearly enough of a compliance effort going on that Stallions knew he had to go outside the bounds of the program to gather this information.  That side of LOIC is not likely; the only other way it comes down to that is if the program was directly aware of how Stallions was stealing signs.  And that should become very clear without much difficulty. 

I have reason to hope because, so far as I can tell, every other aspect of this investigation has leaked like a fucking sieve but there's been literally no evidence of that going public as of yet.

For clarity, this includes…

For clarity, this includes anywhere in your proximity not on your land or at your work. 

Relevant law Mich. Comp. Laws Serv. §§ 750.227(2):

A person shall not carry a pistol concealed on or about his or her person, or, whether concealed or otherwise, in a vehicle operated or occupied by the person, except in his or her dwelling house, place of business, or on other land possessed by the person, without a license to carry the pistol as provided by law and if licensed, shall not carry the pistol in a place or manner inconsistent with any restrictions upon such license.

We're in a place where we have no idea if this is another, more serious incident and this is what stuck to have a charge, or if Mazi got caught Driving While Black and he had a gun in his car somewhere.

If it's the former, I'm upset this is the first we are hearing from it. We should have expectations for our program north of Michigan State.

If it's the latter, I don't give a damn and I hope we hear accordingly from Harbaugh in short order.  I think it's fine to not have this be a midseason distraction in that case.

I think it would be the…

I think it would be the right thing to do to have Howard not on the sideline for the remainder of the games this season.  We need to have a higher standard.  

I'd still have him coaching and teaching players maybe after ~1 week.  The kids should not have to suffer; they are hear to learn the game and his first job is to be a teacher of it.  

But I think it would send the right message if he wasn't on the sidelines for the rest of the season.  

He does have a second read…

He does have a second read here to Tarik Black if he thinks this is dead.  I don't know how live this read is, but it's pretty much free yards if PSU overcommits to the screen here. For what it's worth - they really don't overcommit - you'll notice what I think is a Safety stays in line with Black.  It's possible Black doesn't get the ball even if he's fully uncovered, but he appears to be looking potentially for it so I would not be shocked if that player isn't the primary post-snap read on this play. 

I think the actual play here though is to simply place this ball better.  This is a screen set up to go farther outside (you can tell by where the blockers are aligned).  This ball wants to be in a place where the reception point is actually protected by the blockers out front. In this case, with Charbonnet getting tripped up it's probably an incompletion anyways, but without someone getting a free run at the ball that's your worst case scenario.  

Either way, I don't think this is anywhere close to Shea's worst moment on the night.  

Honestly I think it would be…

Honestly I think it would be tragic if Quinn went down with the Patricia ship.  So far it looks like the young players are doing pretty well.  We've drafted better under him than we have in decades, and better than a lot of the NFL.  

Y'all peoples can thank me

Y'all peoples can thank me for this one. Well, me and comcast.  

See, I've personally jinxed Michigan sports for the past decade. It's like schroedinger's cat for me, but whenever I watch it, it fucking dies.  

It starts 10 years back.  My first game at Michigan Stadium? Season opener 2007. 

Held up all this season. 

Game 1 of football season, I tune in late because I couldn't get home in time.  I turn the game on, back to back picks to keep florida in.  Entire season was like that. 

I turned off Michigan State halfway through the rain and we nearly made a comeback. Yup, I turned the game back on.  

I watched Penn State from the start.  We gave up the two long TDs and I had to leave to drive home.  We start catching up and some dumbass texts me and tells me about it.  I turn on the radio and suddenly Penn State puts us away.  

See, y'all think Belien just develops players.  No, I get crushed by heartbreaking early losses against mediocre opponents and stop following the team early on in conference play.  I stop watching; they start winning.  

Today, Comcast shit the bed.  I'm trying to stream the game at home and the internet and my cable TV go out.  I can't watch most of the game and miss the ending. 

You're welcome.  I think for the sake of the rest of the fanbase, I can no longer watch Michigan sports live because I'm pretty sure the entire past decade of Michigan Fan torture may be solely my fault. 

Holy shit this.

We shouldn't be judging an entire offense when they've returned basically no starters and spend the entire season on 2nd/3rd string QBs. 

Huh

I'll trust your googling over my weak middle-school era memory. 

I only remember a tiny bit of latin from middle school

I think it's actually 'Roma Victrix' because Rome (Roma) was female. 

 
 
 
 
 
 
They play in the

 

 

 

 

 

 

They play in the Mountain West.  It's still a good accomplishment, but take it with a grain of salt. 

However, there is something to it, and its a pattern not just seen at SDSU.

Since 2012, in all but 1 year, they've been in the top 30 rushing defenses in the FBS.  In the past two years, they've had a top ten unit.  

Running the football is primarily an execution thing more than it is a scheme or strategy thing, especially outside of a spread offense.  

On spread runs (such as any run with any sort of option) and on pass plays, you get a lot of extra edge on decision making alone.  Your offense will have a bunch of free success simply because thy can make a defense guess wrong. This shifts your practice emphasis inherently more towards making the right post-snap read rather than on individual execution.  

When you line it up and attack directly at people, the reads move more pre-snap, and the actual play and coachable moments are more about reacting in the moment and executing correctly on an individual level.  You take more of the post-snap reading out of it.  

Now, it's one thing to have to learn those post-snap reads on an occasional basis against your scout team.  It's something totally different when those post-snap reads are necessarily part of your daily practice simply because of the unit you practice against. 

This might seem like a symmetrical choice, but it turns out winning those individual matchups can absolutely blow up any offense, regardless of how it tries to rely on post-snap reads to ignore defenders. 

On the offensive side of the ball, when your blocking front can out-execute their opponents, you are effectively guaranteed at least a modest gain on a consistent basis.  If the opponent over-committs to stopping this bread and butter, then it opens up your constraints that punish dishonesty.  

For a while in the mid-2000s, this was a bit unclear as the spread/option offenses were fairly young, and were tearing up stale traditional defensive powers (such as us) who were slow to adjust.  However, since then, execution has caught back up and is again king.  If you look at all of the top programs right now in college football, they all rely on basic execution and good defense as their foundation and treat their star power as a bonus, rather than re-tooling their entire team around elite skill-position talent.  

The other side effect of this focus on execution is it also is the best formula for developing talent.  This helps get the most out of the existing recruits, regardless of entry talent level, as well as enticing recruits based on offering a path to a potential NFL career.  

On the offensive side of the ball, when your blocking front can out-execute

That sounds wierd - they

That sounds wierd - they allow general aviation and offer services for it; maybe charters for whatever reason somehow can't.  

 

[EDIT] Upon further review, it seems that you need to get security approval to fly into DCA, and you must file for this waiver within 24 hours of travel.  Even if a charter operator might normally otherwise try for that waiver, they couldn't have gotten it in this case even if they had wanted to.

Likely didn't have a choice

DCA is super busy every morning and only has 2 active runways and constricted airspace due to security restrictions.  They probably couldn't get a flight plan into there for a last-minute charter given all the morning commercial traffic.  

For reference, DCA had 45 arrivals and 46 departures between 9 and 10 AM on two runways. That (by the book) would be more than 100% runway utilization uptime - realistically, they easily had departure lines extending past the hour into the next given that Air Traffic Controllers usually have ~2m seperation between flights.

Dulles had 33 arrivals and 36 departures on 4 runways in the same stretch with no controlled airspace interfering with air traffic.  

2006 was stronger talentwise but this is a better team

I think overall 2006 was stronger in most positions outside the secondary and linebackers.  

Offense

QB: Henne > Speight, especially given injury. 

RB: Mike Hart is probably better? More or less a wash given this squad has more versatility.  

FB: Harbaugh actually uses this position whereas this, if anything, seemed to get in the way of Mike Hart.  

WR: 2006 may have had the best WR talent that has ever been at Michigan at the same time.

OL: Jake Long went first overall for a reason - this line was loaded with talent.  Our OL this year, if anything, was a group of scrappy over-performers more than a truly dominating force.  Great in pass protection but wasn't the rungame force that we had in '06.  

TE: Again, a position that Lloyd didn't get enough value from in the Debord offense.  I'm not sure positionally 2016 is any better because this wasn't part of the zone left-run-screen-punt scheme that was used in a way that mattered.  

Defense

DL: We've got a great DL this year but it's arguably not as complete of a unit as we had in '06.  They basically solo-carried the '06 defense because our defense didn't know how to use linebackers back then for anything other than blowing coverage on slot recievers.  It's only by a half-step over this year's unit, but I think '06 gets the edge here.

LB: Far and away the biggest advantage 2016 has over 2006.  2006 the linebacking corps was something of a question mark (remember Woodley was a DE in college despite playing LB in the NFL), it's turned into a swiss army knife of destruction under Don Brown.  Don Brown is one of the greatest LB-using geniuses in the history of football and Ron English was a total hack that absolutely wasted every bit of talent handed to him, so this is no big surprise.  

CB: Leon Hall may have been as good as Jourdan Lewis, but Morgan Trent was a massive liability as often as not whereas Stribling, while mortal, is overall a very good corner.  So call it a wash for the first slot, but 2006 had zero depth and definitely would have been a dumpster fire if they were forced to absorb a Jeremy Clark level injury.    

Safety: The 2006 job for safeties was to read a book and be sad when they actually had to play vs Ohio State.  While 2016 wasn't exactly the most standout unit among exceptional squads on this defense, it actually contributed.  

So yeah, overall 2016 is a better team but 2006 probably had slightly better players on the roster.  

Best?

Not really 'Best' but 'Strongest' was Ohio State and Michigan State.  

Michigan State is still same old sparty.  If you hoped week 1 meant they were soft this year, give up hope.  They are beatable, but it will take everything we've got.  

Ohio State was super super good. This was the Ohio State that smoked us last year.  Again, not unbeatable, but they are scary as ever.  Oh, in case you forgot why you hated them, the O-H-I-O chant that you heard during that game that spiked your blood pressure is EXACTLY why.  They could have put the gas on harder against Oklahoma and blown them out by another 2+ tds.  

The upside is that Oklahoma is not good at football.  They couldn't stop even the most basic of Ohio State's bread and butter.  This game was nobody's definition of close; remember that 7 of Oklahoma's points came on a special teams breakdown.  Yes, that's part of the game, but it's a very high variability part.  Oklahoma is bad, and will probably have 4 losses this season (or more).  

I think Houston is overrated.  They relied on Cinci imploding to get the margin of victory they got, and their 'signature win' over Oklahoma clearly wasn't that impressive.  

I know people are fawning over Louisville, and while they are strong, I think thing people are missing is that Florida State is actually really bad.  They were actually really bad even last season, and are worse this season.  The actual contenders in the ACC in my mind are Miami, Clemson, and Louisville.  I'll buy into the Louisville hype more if they can perform well against Clemson, which seems to be the only team that plays particularly good defense.  

The Pac-12 is hard to get a read on this early.  The fact that only Stanford and Washington look particularly good is nice for us; Colorado should be a strong enough squad to do some damage here and make us look good.  

The SEC is kinda flying under the radar.  I think the best squads outside Alabama may be Georgia, Texas A&M, and Florida. I don't believe in Arkansas or Teneseee, and none of the above should challenge Bama in the slightest.  The best thing for this league would be to continue to fly sorta under the radar and get a favorable bowl alignment, because I'm not sure there's a second truly elite squad.  

 

Finally, I'd like to touch on us a bit.  The big weakness we've had is on big play handling, and I have to imagine a ton of those issues go away with Jourdan Lewis on the field. Today we may not have looked like a top 5 squad, but you throw Jourdan Lewis into the mix and we suddenly look a lot better.  I'm not sure I'm satisfied with how we're doing up front on offense, but then again, we have no idea whatsoever if Colorado is actually any good at football.  

Best?

Not really 'Best' but 'Strongest' was Ohio State and Michigan State.  

Michigan State is still same old sparty.  If you hoped week 1 meant they were soft this year, give up hope.  They are beatable, but it will take everything we've got.  

Ohio State was super super good. This was the Ohio State that smoked us last year.  Again, not unbeatable, but they are scary as ever.  Oh, in case you forgot why you hated them, the O-H-I-O chant that you heard during that game that spiked your blood pressure is EXACTLY why.  They could have put the gas on harder against Oklahoma and blown them out by another 2+ tds.  

The upside is that Oklahoma is not good at football.  They couldn't stop even the most basic of Ohio State's bread and butter.  This game was nobody's definition of close; remember that 7 of Oklahoma's points came on a special teams breakdown.  Yes, that's part of the game, but it's a very high variability part.  Oklahoma is bad, and will probably have 4 losses this season (or more).  

I think Houston is overrated.  They relied on Cinci imploding to get the margin of victory they got, and their 'signature win' over Oklahoma clearly wasn't that impressive.  

I know people are fawning over Louisville, and while they are strong, I think thing people are missing is that Florida State is actually really bad.  They were actually really bad even last season, and are worse this season.  The actual contenders in the ACC in my mind are Miami, Clemson, and Louisville.  I'll buy into the Louisville hype more if they can perform well against Clemson, which seems to be the only team that plays particularly good defense.  

The Pac-12 is hard to get a read on this early.  The fact that only Stanford and Washington look particularly good is nice for us; Colorado should be a strong enough squad to do some damage here and make us look good.  

The SEC is kinda flying under the radar.  I think the best squads outside Alabama may be Georgia, Texas A&M, and Florida. I don't believe in Arkansas or Teneseee, and none of the above should challenge Bama in the slightest.  The best thing for this league would be to continue to fly sorta under the radar and get a favorable bowl alignment, because I'm not sure there's a second truly elite squad.  

 

Finally, I'd like to touch on us a bit.  The big weakness we've had is on big play handling, and I have to imagine a ton of those issues go away with Jourdan Lewis on the field. Today we may not have looked like a top 5 squad, but you throw Jourdan Lewis into the mix and we suddenly look a lot better.  I'm not sure I'm satisfied with how we're doing up front on offense, but then again, we have no idea whatsoever if Colorado is actually any good at football.  

The TL:DR of it was an

The TL:DR of it was an attempt to draw the offsides.  Notice that the o-line is a yard back fromtthe line of scrimmage.  This was never supposed to be snapped.  

Maybe not

Maybe not but I bet he 100% would have been on the field for that blown assignment that gave up the long TD to the sparty fullback.  That's your ballgame right there potentially. 

If we make the NCG

If we make the National Champ game, he'll only have featured in 5 of 15 contests, which would be 33%.  If you count his Maryland game as .5, that gives him 4.5/15 games, or /exactly/ 30%.  

Read on client side

Anything in an iframe you could simply re-package as a string that you could prefetch clientside in javascript before generating the actual DOM object.  You'd then log by having the JS talk to the server.  

Realistically, it should still count as a single view, though I'm not sure how ads track view count.  

Engineering question

Would it be difficult to track and/or block redirect ads from the site side?

 

I've never run an ad-supported site before, but I believe the following should be possible:

1. Prefetch all ad content

2. Parse, search for redirects

3. If redirect found, Block and log it so you can complain to your ad provider.  

4. If redirect not found, render ad content

 

 

I'm not sure he missed a hole

I'm not sure he missed a hole or a cut in his entire career.  He didn't have breakaway speed, but he made the absolute best of every block around him and often got the extra yard or two after contact. 

On top of that, the guy basically never fumbled.

I'm not sure if I'm upset

I'm not sure if I'm upset with the tackling or not.  I'm happy we seemed to get a lot of people regularly flying to the football, but there were a number of plays where Utah guys got to the 3rd and 4th man.  

If Utah is as good I think they are, then we should be happy we held them to 17 offensive points.  

Gonna say that I'm not as

Gonna say that I'm not as pissed with Jake Rudock as I expected to be.  

First off, this loss is first and foremost on him.  He has at least a 17 point swing on his head. 

However, I really liked his final drive.  

He looks uncomfortable in a relatively safe pocket, I think on a number of his incompletions, he too quickly went to a low percentage early read.  It's hard to tell given the camera angles, but generally when you are throwing without pressure, you should be making a fairly reliable throw.  

The first pick was probably 75% on the WR.  That's a timed route, the WR needs to be where the fuck he's supposed to be.  

The second pick was an awful throw.  

The third pick was basically indefensible.  Not only was the opposite side of the field wide open, you can still put that pass in a place where only your guy is going to get it.  The Utah player had a great jump on it, but all he had to do was play Rudock's eyes and get the inside angle on the ball.  

Offense as a whole was REALLY good.  If they can ever click properly, this team will be super dangerous.  We finally have a coaching staff that gets constraints - they called plays outside to play against cheating inside.  They went deep (unsuccessfully only due to poor throws) after pulling pressure short.  With more accurate throwing, you could have seen a very good defense get completely picked apart.  

Overall, this season won't be super pretty.  However, we're going to be set up pretty nicely for next year, and will be scary to play against even later this season.  

I honestly had no problems

I honestly had no problems with any of the playcalling, and I haven't felt that way since the 2008 Capital One Bowl.  

For the offensive plays that didn't work, you could see that it was the correct idea even though it wasn't executed well.  I liked how the O-Line seemed to get it together in the second half. 

If we were 5-0, we probably

If we were 5-0, we probably wouldn't have our QB getting absolutely lit up by someone from minnesota.

He'll probably show up at 1

He'll probably show up at 1 am after it's all over, and dismiss the concerns over his tenure as 'minor'.

I'm not sure I buy that he's

I'm not sure I buy that he's evil. 

 

I think he's just somewhat incompetent and not fully firm on what his responsibilities need to be as a coach.  I think he has some severely misguided views and priorities.  

 

I think what he said was 100% accurate - that he wasn't immediately aware of the situation with Shane Morris.  I think he's that incompetent and that disconnected.  He doesn't realize that snap decisions like this are why a Head Coach in a major college program needs a goddamn headset.  There's a quick decision process that I think is not properly established with this team, and in this instance, it reared its head in its ugliest way.  

 

Don't get me wrong, this is still a fireable offense, I'm just not sure I buy they he's deliberately evil. 

I'm not sure you can stack up

I'm not sure you can stack up the quality of the player development job Hoke has done with any other top program in the country.  Especially Michigan State.  

 

We simply don't get as much from our talent as top programs do.

THERES NO SUCH THING AS

THERES NO SUCH THING AS ENOUGH FOR THIS SHIT

 

WHAT THE FUCK

Still not up to standard

They just don't feel like dominant players.  When teams have legitimately good defenses, you feel like they are threatening to maul their opponents on any given play, and I don't see that here.  

 

In a way, this defense plays like a bunch of suboptimal players overachieving in a smart scheme.  They feel like they are doing a lot of good things, but don't win many individual matchups particularly hard. I don't feel generally afraid that this team will miss tackles, either. 

 

My uneducated opinion leans towards some smart players that arent physically dominant in their individual position.  Each player does a solid job performing their role, but don't MAKE PLAYS heavily above and beyond what they are designed to make.  They are stout, but not incredibly disruptive.  

 

I feel like the teams we seem to hold up against would be absolutely mauled by a defense from someone like Michigan State. When Michigan State is beating on a bad offense, most offensive plays seem to begin to crumble as soon as the ball is snapped.  O-linemen are pushed out of position, running lanes don't open, and pockets collapse quickly from multiple directions.  

 

Overall, not dreadful but many steps away from being good and not in the same conversation as the elite.

Agree 100%

At least that way we aren't sending out concussed kids to get murdered.

 

Where did 2006 go? 

Need Dave Brandon gone first,

Need Dave Brandon gone first, else he'd think we were asking for Lane Kiffin from the bama skywriting.

Season's not over yet. Wins

Season's not over yet. Wins against Ohio State, Michigan State, and the majority of the Big Ten schedule would go a long way to helping us forget a dreadful start to the season.  This team doesn't look capable of that, but Hoke and crew have all season to prove us wrong and make something of this team.

I guess Dave Brandon could

I guess Dave Brandon could hire Lane Kiffin in a midseason deal

Nice to see Stevie Brown

Nice to see Stevie Brown blowing a coverage helping us for once

Honestly I wonder if some of

Honestly I wonder if some of the insistence on regularly running the ball and playing towards some of our weaknesses is part of what helped the offensive line develop into what they were today.  

The second read (fade) looked

The second read (fade) looked open to me.  If Devin steps up more into the pocket and pumps the first read, nobody from Ohio State is in a position to make a play on the fade.  

They were facing zones, they knew they were facing zones, trying to overload the zones was not a bad plan. 

The call

Going for it guarantees the game is decided on your most favorable matchup (M Offense vs OSU Defense) that has gone well all day.  

I don't mind the play call either, the timing route is a solid choice when your QB has been playing well and you want to be able to get the ball off fast, understanding that your offensive line won't hold up that well and that OSU has been gunning for the rollout/option all day.

I think going for the jugular here was correct.   

Also, overtime is a bad idea when your kicker isn't 100%.

truth

Well said. This so much forever.

Absolutely

We'll see how well the team plays with a month to prepare.  The offensive line played well above what we've seen all season, and in general the offense executed well.