Speight will reportedly be out "multiple weeks."

but serious question.  Does this mean we have to burn McCaffrey's red shirt if J.O.K. gets hurt?

J.O.K. gonna play.....WHAT ELSE DO I HAVE TO SAY?

Heal fast and achieve your dreams. I'm fine with O'Korn assuming the helm. His tempo is quicker and I believe OK has the right stuff to prevail over Staee. I am less confident in OK's backup and it concerns me.

A public apology from the Purdue DE that delivered the dirty hit and a retraction from Brohm on his defense of the play.

Will never happen, but would be the right thing to do.

Wishing a speedy recovery to Wilton and continued success for Mr. O'Korn.

and their dirty play...that should help

Dylan be ready

Everyone is freaking out about Peters and I'm not sure why. Initially it was because we all assumed he'd be the backup behind Speight but it was O'Korn. But now early returns indicate that's because O'Korn might be significantly improved. There's one report from fall that McCafferey was ahead of Petets because Peters hadn't grasped the offense. But that was a report during the same time as the Peters dropped behind O'Korn saga so how much of that report was just jumping on the Peters sucks bandwagon? If either Peters or McCafferey plays we're probably in for a rough time. But I don't buy Peters being behind McCafferey. That's all based on one isolated report, and it's not like insiders are infalliable. No one saw the 3-3-5 or O'Korn coming. And common sense just points towards Peters being better

Clarification:

Was this comment:

a) An OSU troll speaking up

b) Sarcasm

c) a serious comment

 

edit - this was supposed to be a reply to a comment lower in the thread. 

Surprised Jim said anything. I figured he'd leave it up in the air and act like it could be possible Speight played. I guess he doesn't need the advantage.

Someone please make sure Tim Brando has this information.  I would tell him but he blocked me! 

a warrior and deserves a lot better than the dirty hit that knocked him out of the Purdue game.  Aprreciate the info, but it makes me sick.   Get well soon Wilt. 

Of course its Peters who is going to backup O'Korn.  How is this even a question?!?  Peters used his redshirt last season. 

The question is, if Peters is forced to step-in for O'Korn, and Peters gets injured, who replaces Peters?  My guess is Malzone would be 4th string because there probably isnt much difference between McCaffrey and Malzone, so why blow McCaffrey's redshirt?  McCaffrey's an 18 year-old stringbean.  Use Malzone as 4th string QB.

I've watched the replay multiple times at .25 speed, and I am genuinely baffled why so many posters seem convinced it was a dirty play.

He fell on him.  With his chest, not his helmet.  He immediately got off him.

It could have been called a late hit.  In the course of a game, similar plays happen a dozen times or more, and they almost never get called, but sometimes they do when it's the QB on the receiving end.  But a borderline late hit is not some sort of head-hunting, deliberate injury-seeking beahvior that deserves to be reviled. 

As I said in chat at the time, targetting and unnecessary roughness penalties are booth reveiwable even if no flag was thrown on the play.  In fact, not more than a few hours after I point that out, it happened in the Rutgers-OSU game: the replay offical buzzed down to stop play so he could look at a potential targetting penalty.  Given the duration of the injury timeout, and the apparent seriousness of the injury itself, it is simply not credible to suppose that the replay booth didn't look at multiple angles of that play to see if that hit was worth a flag.  It simply wasn't.

 

Saw the play live and immediately thought the second hit to the back of Wilt's neck and helmet it should have been targeting.  Respectfully, the fact he got up immediately from Speight means nothing.  In my view he did not "fall on him".   He hit Wilt in the back of the neck and helmet.  He was not thrown into Speight like Bolden was a ejected for couple of years ago.  Saying he fell on Speight makes it sound like he hit him accidentally.  Don't think so but if thats your take so be it.  

It was a cheap shot by that turdue player. That's not how a player should end the season. I really hope what ever injury he has is one he can fully heal from with out any permanent damage. 

Now it is time for O'Korn to step up and deliver.

I watched him play at Valor. He was as polished as a QB can be in high school, but is not physically ready for D1. His arm doesn't have the strength to throw into tight windows with velocity. His body would not stand up to the hits. My best guess is he needs 30-40 lbs in S&C before he is ready. More likely 2019 than 2018.

for the game this weekend is now -11.  I know it opened around 12.5/13.  

 

I have to wonder what the spread would be if Speight was playing?  I thought I saw 17 before State's game against Iowa.  I think it'd be closer to 15 with Speight.