Trey Sermon to transfer to OSU, former OU RB

Submitted by smitty1983 on March 22nd, 2020 at 2:59 PM

This should help their depth chart at RB 

2019 stars had 54 carries, 385 yards, 4 td, avg 7.1 carry  

 

JPC

March 22nd, 2020 at 3:00 PM ^

It's really a perpetual cycle. OSU kicks ass and then gets every break so they can keep kicking ass in the future. 

Cam

March 22nd, 2020 at 3:25 PM ^

I'm not criticizing your post. I'm just saying it's completely irrelevant who OSU starts at RB. They have superior athletes at basically every other position on the field. They could start anyone at RB and beat Michigan easily.

And they aren't our biggest rival anymore. Most Michigan fans are basically apathetic about the game at this point. As Brian has detailed, OSU made every possible sacrifice to ensure they never lose to Michigan, so there's really no point in paying attention anymore. It's a foregone conclusion every year.

UM Fan from Sydney

March 22nd, 2020 at 3:53 PM ^

Your statement about how UM fans feel about OSU - that’s me. It is at the point that I simply don’t look forward to that game. I absolutely hate it because I know UM will likely lose. I honestly wish UM would just leave the Big Ten because the Wolverines cannot beat them anymore. It makes playing for a title (conference or national) completely pointless. They’ll never win any sort of title so long as OSU is like this.

wolve1972

March 22nd, 2020 at 3:14 PM ^

Right now, they definitely have some quality at RB - when they're HEALTHY - but that's a big if right now. Out of their top 4 going into 2020, only Steele Chambers is fully healthy. I think the one to keep an eye on is Marcus Crowley who has some explosiveness WHEN HEALTHY but will he be at 100% when the season starts ? Stay tuned.

Cereal Killer

March 22nd, 2020 at 4:32 PM ^

What kind of deal with the devil did OSU make, seriously?  QB room basically empty?   Here, help yourself to Justin Fields.   Woefully short of running backs?   Here's an Oklahoma transfer who averaged 7 yds per carry.  It's just unbelievable.   Not that kids pick OSU, but that whenever they seem to have a potentially glaring weakness, solutions materialize from thin air.

The Homie J

March 23rd, 2020 at 9:09 AM ^

It's pretty simple, they have 1 priority and it helps them with everything else.  Beat Michigan at all costs.  If you beat your #1 rival every year, especially if that rival is one of the top teams gunning for the conference championship, you're gonna beat a lot of other teams too and win championships and lots of winning and hardware brings the best kids in.  Remember the 90's when we recruited with the best, won our conference and a Natty and those chucklefucks in Ohio thought they'd never beat us again?

What happened?  Jim Tressel came in, put his foot down (while Lloyd was at the top of his game still) and beat us IN ANN ARBOR in his first year coaching The Game.  He stopped letting us take Ohio kids (and we never really tried that hard afterwards) and then natural momentum has taken us where we are.

Why the fuck Jim hasn't made a public statement saying that beating Ohio is our main and only goal baffles me.  Especially when he did that for Sparty and look how that turned out.  Make Ohio a priority again! Where is the countdowns?  Practice periods?  Special film sessions?  If you're too afraid to even mention them in public for fear of a motivational soundbite, then you're simply not confident enough in your preparation.  Make a goddamn declaration and fufill it.

M-B Devil Dog

March 23rd, 2020 at 10:00 AM ^

Now that every University in the country has shown they can teach an entire School online and it will not be considered a less than degree this line of shit has run it's course.  People who use this line 1. Don't realize the NCAA regulates how much a team can practice and when 2. Have never spoken to anyone who has taken online classes to realize how hard they are and harder to cheat in 3. is looking for anything to turn their nose up at because we can't fucking beat them on a football field. 

umGrad1981

March 22nd, 2020 at 5:44 PM ^

Getting tired of reading this garbage about Ohio. I thought when Urban Liar left their recruiting would suffer. Well guess what?  Ryan Day may end up being a better recruiter than Meyer. Oh well, I’ve been around a long time so I have some great memories of Michigan football. I’m pretty much convinced that we can’t keep up with those scum bags. 

Bluenin

March 22nd, 2020 at 5:56 PM ^

Yeah, I have just resigned myself to the fact that we start the season at 0-1 and just try to win every other game on the schedule other than OSU.  It’s helped going into every other season now realizing we have zero hope against them!

MGoStrength

March 22nd, 2020 at 8:28 PM ^

The problem is Urban never left and Day is simply running the system Urban already had in olace, so essentially it's the same. The way to get past it is by getting a new coaching tree and Urban leaving OSU entirely. The best thing that could happen is Urban to get another job.

MGoStrength

March 22nd, 2020 at 6:38 PM ^

Bright side...between this and Pryor's commitment, Edwards may not like their depth chart as much.

MountainDew88

March 22nd, 2020 at 7:20 PM ^

Wonder what's going on with Master Teague?

Marcus Crowley is still working his way back from an injury and, according to the reports I've seen, Demario McCall is going to be more of a receiver in 2020.

sharks

March 22nd, 2020 at 7:42 PM ^

Teague tore his Achilles a few weeks ago in practice.  Sermon was a guy OSU recruited heavily coming out of HS, making him the second one they missed out on the first time around who later joined the team (DL Antwuan Jackson transferred in from Auburn).  Crowley hurt his knee last year, then was in an arm cast over Christmas.

The Homie J

March 23rd, 2020 at 9:16 AM ^

Just a reminder that last year, Penn State (a team with similar talent to us, whom we almost beat in a White Out game) went into Columbus and battled to a 28-17 loss with the ALL TIME GREAT team from down south.  The year before that, they lost by 1 thanks to a horrendous playcall on 4th & 5.  They would have stomped the Ohioans in 2017 if not for the best 15 minutes of football JT Barrett ever played.  And they did beat them in 2016.

If you think we can't do better than Penn State against our chief rival, then why even follow this team?  We have the talent, we have the coaches, go out there and make it fucking happen.  No more "one game at a time" and forget about Sparty (they're irrelevant for now).  Every single second should spent dissecting those smucks and then making them pay in Columbus