Mark May Trolls Ohio State Again, Buckeyes Fans Let Him Have It On Twitter
Mark May, ESPN college football analyst and professional Ohio State troll, is back at it again hating on the Buckeyes. Today, May let his Twitter followers know why he didn’t put OSU in his preseason top 10...http://collegespun.com/big-ten/ohio-state/mark-may-trolls-ohio-state-again-buckeyes-fans-let-him-have-it-on-twitter#
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That is true.
That really is a stupid argument in the first place. IF they played in the SEC...yeah IF, but they don't. Basing polls on something that can't happen is stupid. At least Lou Holtz has gotten his Notre Dame playing in the national championship prediction right once.
But don't you have to do some "IF" scenarios to do a poll? Most of the teams don't play each other, so unless you rank 100% based on record, there is a little hypothetical guessing involved. This happens with all of the mid-major teams. People say that 11-2 NIU is more like a 3 or 4 loss BCS team, because if they played in a major conference, they'd lose a couple more games. We don't know that. But without that speculation, you're left with "standings" and not "rankings."
Preseason polls aren't really about what happend last year. Well they are a little, but they're mostly about what will happen THIS year.
Well, his second sentence is about this year. He's saying that OSU would lose 4 games in the SEC. If he thinks that, he shouldn't put them above an SEC team he thinks will lose 4 games as well.
I think his first statement was saying that OSU wasn't really as good last year as their record suggests since they came very close to losing a handful of games (some of which were to bad teams) but that is too many characters for twitter. One problem with twitter is someone's point can get misconstrued because of the need to be overly succinct. But perhaps he should have said "nearly lost" instead of "should have lost."
Personally, I don't disagree with either of his points. Like ND, OSU was a handful of plays away from 8-4, but unlike ND, didn't really beat anyone in the process (other than us, which was in Columbus).
Agreed. They were probably like Georgia last year. Beating the not so good teams, struggling with most of the good teams and beating one good team. Georgia also had an easy schedule from SEC standards, and they still dropped a few.
OK, I didn't necessarily mean they'd only struggle with the good teams, but that Purdue game is certainly part of my evidence. If Purdue was a good team, they would have won. Same with MSU and Indiana. If you replace those teams with their SEC equivalents, and OSU probably loses all three. Probably Cal and Wisconsin too. And unlike UGA, OSU would get clobbered by Bama in the championship game.
Buckeyes Fans Let Him Have It On Twitter...(in short, poorly written, grammatically limited and pithy responses offering little in the way of actual thought or commentary).
Did Mark May post the teams he had in his top 10?
I agree with a majority of the points here.
- OSU was good by B1G standards but not by national standards. Keep in mind the entire B1G was down including OSU.
- OSU would have likely had four loses or more with any SEC schedule. We're talking about a team that could barely tackle at the beginning of the year and struggled to put teams away.
- OSU is getting lots of hype based on how they perform even though they had several close games that could have went the other way.
- OSU shouldn't be ranked any higher than the 4th best SEC he believes they will lose to. Agree with this statement 100%
Some additions points
- Another factor for this hype is based on Meyer second tenure at the programs (Utah perfect season, Florida national title) he's been at. In essence the media, fans, Kool-Aid drinkers (which I'm not) are hyped up to think they'll go 26-0 and end the SEC streak of seven national titles.
- OSU is getting more hype based on their easy schedule and not their talent. Not to long ago, Schlabaugh had OSU as the top of his ESPN top 25 because of their schedule.
I, like other OSU fans, don't like Mark May but he is right on this topic. I've seen him troll OSU way harder than this but this clearly isn't an example of it.
I don't see May as "trolling" at all. What has OSU really done in the last seven years to make Mark May think that they are capable of beating any SEC team other than Arkansas? They lost two MNC games to Florida and LSU, and lost the 2012 Gator Bowl to a mediocre Florida team.
Since 2001, OSU is 1-5 against the SEC in bowl games. Exactly what is Mark May supposed to think?
And OSU vacated the one win....
People use the word "troll" so wrongly these days. If someone does something on the internet, it is not automatically trolling.
Mark May isn't wrong in suggesting that OSU was probably not as good as their 12-0 record last year indicates and that if they played in a more competitive conference their record would suffer. Still to suggest that OSU is not a pre-seaosn Top 10 team is assinine. I'm not suggesting they merit a pre-seaosn number one ranking, but with their talent, Meyer as coach, their soft schedule, and their performance last season you don't think they're at least the 10th best team in the country? I call bullshit.
We would let him have it as well. Still kinda funny though.