OSU's Carlos Hyde not a happy camper
"I felt we should've run iso's," Hyde said.
"They kept running off the edge, so I thought we should hit them in the middle. We've got to get better. I told the coaches some plays we should've run, but I don't get paid to coach, so I guess they don't listen."
October 2nd, 2011 at 3:06 PM ^
LOLOL is all.
October 2nd, 2011 at 4:16 PM ^
its hard to win when they dont cheat
October 2nd, 2011 at 5:20 PM ^
Yeah! Those tattoos really made them better at football.
October 2nd, 2011 at 6:15 PM ^
Is it possible that impermissible benefits allow OSU to recruit better and therefore field a better team?
Anyways, I think it happens to some extent everywhere.
October 2nd, 2011 at 6:17 PM ^
that he couldn't get in on the $$$ action sooner.
October 2nd, 2011 at 4:42 PM ^
Players calling out the coaching staff to the media, nice.
October 2nd, 2011 at 3:08 PM ^
I told the coaches some plays we should've run, but I don't get paid to coach, so I guess they don't listen
I read that as "I just get paid to play."
Oh hai, NCAA...
October 2nd, 2011 at 3:11 PM ^
October 2nd, 2011 at 3:10 PM ^
If nothing else, he is aware of what he DOESN'T get paid to do, right?
October 2nd, 2011 at 3:11 PM ^
reminding me more and more of "The Program"... next week the starting MLB will say "I guess we have to score points too" before getting his knee viciously torn up.
But for the Buckeyes, Joe Kane ain't coming back mid season, and Jimmy Caan ain't mannig the sidelines... wait so I guess it isn't very much like the movie.
October 2nd, 2011 at 3:35 PM ^
Fu*k you dough boy I can read! See that shoe? It says adidas!
October 2nd, 2011 at 8:52 PM ^
Since my TV is fritzing I am going to head over to Jackie B's to watch the Northwestern game.
October 2nd, 2011 at 3:12 PM ^
Are there any sources that are more credible than this?
October 2nd, 2011 at 3:22 PM ^
and like it.
October 2nd, 2011 at 5:03 PM ^
I don't know where that guy got the quote from, but the OSU board seems to accept its validity.
October 2nd, 2011 at 3:19 PM ^
I almost feel bad for the guy. He's in over his head.
October 2nd, 2011 at 3:22 PM ^
Looking at him seem totally lost on the OSU sideline yesterday, it was the first time in my life I didn't have a smirk looking at a losing OSU bench. He really is a deer in headlights out there.
October 2nd, 2011 at 4:41 PM ^
October 2nd, 2011 at 4:59 PM ^
Comfortable enough to be an average sort of coach, because in that case they may retain him, which would be good for us. Not sure what the latest thinking on Urban Meyer is, but if he went to them next year that would be fantastic for them and much more difficult for us.
October 3rd, 2011 at 12:19 AM ^
Urban Meyer would be nuts to go there. Ohio State is the graveyard of coaches. Every single Ohio State coach since WWII has been forced out in disgrace. Every single one.
Not exactly a healthful environment for Meyer to go to.
October 3rd, 2011 at 4:53 PM ^
While this is technically true, pretty much every OSU coach has hung around long enough to win a ton of games and earn a boatload of money before he got fired. It's not like ND where they've been changing coaches every few years. They've had excellent stability. The fact that every coach has ended up fired is more an odd coincidence than anything.
October 2nd, 2011 at 3:23 PM ^
That was painfully evident in his post game presser.
October 2nd, 2011 at 3:23 PM ^
What were they waiting for? Some retired guy who went into broadcasting to come out of retirement? It's so deluded
October 2nd, 2011 at 4:53 PM ^
There's no coach who's worth hiring that would have stepped into that mess this summer. Fickle for a year while they waited for the dust to settle was the only option.
October 3rd, 2011 at 1:00 AM ^
The "Mr. F" image from the caved Arrested Development thread would also be apropos here.
October 2nd, 2011 at 3:23 PM ^
For a decade these donkeys paid their players and their insufferable fans were ridiculous in their arrogance. Now, suddenly, the slow moving monolith that is the NCAA's enforcement arm actually has the goods on them and trouble is slowly closing in the mirror. In front of them is a hellacious schedule and an upcoming series of beatings.
Karma is a bitch.
October 2nd, 2011 at 9:37 PM ^
the hammer comes down when I see it. I have seen nothing from the NCAA, to convince me that they will do the right thing.
October 3rd, 2011 at 12:38 AM ^
...but I'm very confident that ESPN (also known as the network of the SEC) will be pursuing emails marked 'Sarniak', 'Tressel', 'Gee' and 'Smith' and that can only be a good thing.
October 2nd, 2011 at 3:25 PM ^
...are almost as old as complaints about GERG in Ann Arbor.
Last I heard, Bollman was making about as much as GERG was, and was thereby vastly underpaid (or underqualified?!?) by SEC and Big 12 standards. Michigan, with Mattison's $750k++, has led the way into a new era of high-priced coordinators and one ought to expect that soon (even if Fickell is somehow retained, which is unclear at best) OSU will have some new coordinators. They will be looking at That School Up North, and what we did last January.
October 2nd, 2011 at 3:29 PM ^
Mabye the critisism about Bollman is actually correct? I always thought that it was just whiney OSU fans complaining that they can't win the NC every year, but maybe not. An OSU fan of mine has been saying the last three years that Tressel was shielding Bollman from truely wrecking havoc on the program with his coaching. Also that Pryor, for all his mistakes, was hiding the defficenies on the O-line that Bollman was responsible for. Maybe this is now being shown as a legitamite critisism?
October 2nd, 2011 at 3:52 PM ^
I can't claim to have seen as much of Bollman's offenses as I have seen of GERG's defenses, so I won't make a judgment. But you're right -- those have been the complaints. My impression was always that Tressel was more involved in coaching the offense, than the defense. Tressel had been continuously packing off his DC's to other head coaching jobs. But nobody has been talking about Bollman being swept off to another school's HC job, and least of all OSU's HC job.
And I should note a correction above. Complaints about Bollman are not "as old as complaints about GERG." Complaints about Bollman predate GERG in Ann Arbor by several years. Complaints about Bollman predate Rodriguez in Ann Arbor. Complaints about Bollman go back to about 2002! [He's been OC since '01.]
October 2nd, 2011 at 4:46 PM ^
It makes you wonder about Bollman's capacities when independent evaluators did not see Mr. Plow as NFL calibre, for example. Maybe Pryor was actually paid well enough, and talented enough, to cover up Bollman's limitations.
October 2nd, 2011 at 3:25 PM ^
Wow, they really are falling apart at the seems right now aren't they?
And, actually, I agree with them. Maybe not about the Iso as much, but their O play calling was BAD.
October 3rd, 2011 at 12:26 AM ^
I did not want to root for MSU against OSU, but this is the reason I did. OSU is on the edge of destruction. It will only take another loss or two for them to implode. All while the Hoke regime is looking like the real deal.
Hello Mr. Dunn. Hide 'yo ACL.
October 2nd, 2011 at 3:26 PM ^
As I was watching that cripple fight yesterday, I kept thinking to myself, "Michigan would roll these guys."
And I think we will. Although they get back some guys next week, that team is a wreck. And I could not be happier.
October 2nd, 2011 at 4:48 PM ^
They don't get a new quarterback
October 2nd, 2011 at 10:19 PM ^
A lot of OSU fans are saying things will improve when they get Herron back next week. Dude can run, yes, but uh... he's not going to put up the 21 extra points they'll need to beat teams that aren't MSU by himself.
October 3rd, 2011 at 8:00 AM ^
It's not just Herron coming back. They also get all-b10 left tackle Mike adams back, which allows them to move the line around a bit. Think about the difference in the PSU game last year when molk went out. A single (talented) O-lineman can make a dramatic difference.
They also get Posey back - and whatever you think about the character of the young man, he has football skills. He will be able to get separation against average to above average CB's.
If Adams can provide Miller with a extra second, posey might be able to give him an actual target to throw to. A stable left side of the line might also allow OSU to run off tackle - which they failed at miserably yesterday.
I'm excited for The Game, but the team we play will not be the same one we saw yesterday against MSU.
October 2nd, 2011 at 3:34 PM ^
I honestly don't think it is completely Fickel's fault. After all, the rest of the coaching staff was left intact, so its not like the team should be regressing talent-wise. Pryor leaving is what screwed the Buckeyes, but there wouldn't be nearly as much hatred in Columbus if Tressel was still coach.
October 2nd, 2011 at 4:02 PM ^
Hoke came the exact season Tressel imploded...we are getting better as they lost Pryor and suspended players...we were mostly vindicated by the NCAA and they will most likely not be...
We'll see how classy the hairless nuts stay when they go 6-6 this year, maybe 7-5.
October 2nd, 2011 at 4:16 PM ^
There is a possibility they won't be bowl-eligible. They've got games coming up against Nebraska, Wisconsin, PSU, Illinois and Michigan, among others.
October 2nd, 2011 at 5:03 PM ^
Other than Wisconsin and hopefully us. They still have the best talent in the conference IMO other than QB, so they should be able to go bowling NCAA decision excepted.
October 3rd, 2011 at 3:58 PM ^
If our 2008 season taught me anything, its that having a QB is everything. OSU doesn't have one right now.
October 2nd, 2011 at 5:13 PM ^
Yeah, you could easily argue that Indiana and Purdue will be the only remaining games for which they're the favorites.
I'm not taking anything for granted, though, regarding our game against them.
October 2nd, 2011 at 6:09 PM ^
It's hard to believe but that near escape against Toledo may just be the win that enables them to squeak out a 6-6 season and a trip to the Little Ceasar's Pizza Bowl. Man, I really wish Toledo had finished off that upset. (Toledo QB why U no keep ball on option?)
OSU's remaining schedule:
- @Nebraska -- loss
- @Illinois -- toss-up (leaning to loss)
- Wisconsin -- loss
- Indiana -- win
- @Purdue -- win
- Penn State -- toss-up (leaning to win)
- @Michigan -- toss-up (dare I type it? leaning to loss)
OSU looks like a 6-6, maybe 7-5, team right now with 8-4 as their best case scenario at this point. Hello, Texas Bowl (or whatever the h*ll they are calling it this year).
October 2nd, 2011 at 8:30 PM ^
It's hard to imagine a more perfect way to end the season than to beat OSU for their seventh—and bowl game-hopes-killing—loss.
October 2nd, 2011 at 9:43 PM ^
Moar lossez plz.
October 2nd, 2011 at 6:05 PM ^
Speaking of that... what is going on with the NCAA. The August meeting came and went without a peep. Is tUoOS actually going to get off?
October 2nd, 2011 at 6:59 PM ^
The NCAA will turn a blind eye for GGG and his merry band of misfits, taking from the rich and giving to the poor student athletes.
I believe they may get some probation at worst at this point.
I'd love to be wrong, but believe the NCAA is just too much of a corrupt byzantine organization for it to ever actually do its job.