OSU deal with the devil?
After watching the frustrating Peach Bowl game and now watching Haskins & OSU control the game against Washington I can't help but wonder how have things gone so well for OSU the past 10 years and so bad for UM? Is there some fundamental flaw at UM that continues to bring in coach after coach that seems to come up short and OSU the opposite? Both Tressel and Meyer dominated UM and Rich Rod, Hoke, and Harbaugh struggled against OSU. Prior to RR coming to UM who would have thought he wouldn't be successful? Prior to Tressel coming to OSU who would have thought he'd be so good? Prior to JH coming to UM who would have thought his offenses would struggle so much? And, who would have thought Meyer's QB would be one showing uncanny accuracy and ability to find the open receiver whereas our QB whisperer's protege, a former 5-star talent, struggled in our bowl to hit open receivers. I sit and watch Dwayne Haskins just drop dimes everywhere and I go back and look at the recruiting rankings only to find our own Brandon Peters and Shea Patterson ranked ahead of him in the same class. I find this incredibly frustrating.
I keep thinking this thing is cyclical and eventually things have to turn around, but every time there seems to be an opportunity to do so (Tatgate, JH hire, ZS saga, the trajectories of the two teams prior to our meeting this season, etc.) it always seem to work out in OSU's favor. I want to believe that Meyer retiring will be good, but it's hard to believe things will change when they never seem to despite multiple coaching changes on both sides. I know part this is just frustration talking on a message board, but it's really uncanny how bad of luck we've had in relation to OSU in the post-Carr era.
January 3rd, 2019 at 9:39 PM ^
1. We are a basketball school, and the sooner we all accept that the easier the rest of this will be to swallow.
2. Ohio State has more resources, better assistant coaches, better facilities, better football minds, better/more in state recruits, and the end result is a program that checks off all the boxes where we have what? A team that dominated for 80 years or so but hasn't modernized in many ways.
3. In regards to haskins specifically, part of is is recognizing talent better, but in haskin's case I feel it was simply due to being developed better and being put in a better position to succeed. Look at all of our QBs under Harbaugh. They have been thrown into the starting role with the pressure of making Harbaugh look like a QB whisperer, while simultaneously not being given the tools around them to do so.
4. No doubt Urban Meyer had our number. However, it's foolish to expect OSU to just disintegrate now that he's "gone". Ryan Day is thought by many to be one of the best up and coming coaches and even Urban said he might not have retired if he didn't have total confidence in his replacement. And let's not forget whose offense it was that put up 62 pts on us and actually could have scored more.
5. Jim Harbaugh and many of the players approach the Ohio State game "just like any other game".... And we/they wonder why we keep losing to them. They literally have a DAILY segment of practice/discussion about us. We all hate that team, but we shouldn't be shocked at the results when they understand the importance of the rivalry while all we have are foolish guarantees and a "we will win because we're Michigan" attitude.
November 30th, 2019 at 2:16 PM ^
Shit happens, Bum Juice.