Willyville Guy

I think it’s 80/20 he goes, and the 20 is higher than I expected. I do think he’s upset about missing the playoff, and that he loves Day and wants to help.

Mostly curiosity for me. The spectacle of LSU or Georgia or Bama lining up in a snowstorm against OSU, PSU, Michigan, etc. would be compelling in my opinion. It's a part of the game that southern teams don't ordinarily deal with. I agree that a regular season game (at least) would have to come off the schedule in order to make this work.

Lots of talk in the Twittersphere today about the athletic directors discussing an eight-team playoff for 2020. Teams ranked 1-4 would get a home game against 5-8. I would be absolutely giddy to finally welcome a southern team up north for a playoff game in December. According to ESPN, the SEC is against the idea.

Wow. Just... wow.

This would discredit the theory that Urban and the school had a falling out over the Zach Smith investigation that led the parties to separate.

Can you imagine if the national media knew that Urban was on a leash based on how intense he appeared on the sideline? They already had a full-time Urban Cam on him to dissect his every facial expression.

He does seem to be developing an online... brand for himself. Based on this past season, it appears he'll need 7,500 yards and 75 total TDs to earn serious Heisman consideration. Better get to work Tate!

Maybe Ohio Tate will make a run at it.

This is usually a good indicator.

Nobody here has lionized Urban. The guy is an all-time head coach, but he is also definitely compromised. It makes him similar to most other coaches at that level, but company does not make it okay. He convinced Jevan Snead to come to Florida by promising not to recruit another QB; and then when Tebow showed up on campus Urban told Snead that he recruited Tebow as an LB not a QB. That’s shady. When Mike Weber was about to commit to either OSU or Michigan, Urban purposefully didn’t tell Weber that the OSU RB coach who recruited him was on his way out. It worked out fine in the end, but yeah that was shady too. Keeping Zach Smith on staff when everyone knew he was a scumbag was also a huge miss (one that everyone saw in real time) - that was unquestionably out of loyalty for Coach Bruce and not because “he put the winning football games above everything else;” we know that because Smith was a poor position coach with a unit that consistently underperformed. Smith should have been fired sooner than he was for several reasons. But the narrative that Meyer covered up the actions of a serial domestic abuser is completely unsupported and pure bulls**t. If you believe a lowlife muckraker like McMurphy over the finding of several police investigations and the purported victim’s mother, well, then I’d suggest that you have a hatred for Urban that occupies significant real estate in your head. The guy has a cyst on his brain. It was operated on unsuccessfully. Docs are telling him he can either have another brain operation or reduce stress by stepping away from the HC position at OSU — and they strongly recommend the latter. It’s incredible that any human would mock and ridicule someone in that spot.

These guys must not watch games.

It’s incredible to me to see so many people mock a guy with a brain issue.

Same. It has truly been a golden era for the Buckeyes. 7-0!!

I agree - he said at the press conference yesterday that the reasons for his retirement are "cumulative" and include the off-field issues. He wants to coach and, if physically able in a year or two, will likely resurface somewhere.

How about his favorite leaders that he loved to gush over: John Simon, Chris Bryant, Zach Boren, JT, Evan Spencer.

This is critical. Tress and Urban grew up with the rivalry hardwired in them so they instinctively elevated The Game above everything else. One of my first reactions this morning was whether Day would see it the same way.

AD when Gene retires?

Pray for Washington.

Huge.

Please keep coach Mick. Please keep Johnson. Please keep Wilson. Coach Stud? A month ago I would have said definitely not. Now I’m not so sure.

Same. I’m bummed out but not angry about the playoffs. The disrespect for Haskins has me worked up though. His stats are better than anyone’s. He played better defenses. He was consistent. He played his best in rivalry and championship games. He had the best season of any QB in 125 years of OSU football and broke a ton of B1G records. If this isn’t a Heisman resume then I don’t know what is.

Murray is electric, but man - Haskins could end up with 5000 yards and 50 TDs against a legit schedule.

I’d love to have Campbell in a Tarik Cohen role.

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