Does his high school ranking make any difference after three years in college? The coaches saw enough on tape to bring him in.

I agree. Not comparing him to Paris but look what happens when a player gets to play his natural position. Nice pick up.

The article said he wants to be a coach for his future career so that is what he is focusing on rather than playing for no name team. I would assume he wants to learn how to coach from Day and Hartline. Seems more like a coaching apprenticeship.

Anyone who has played sports knows that improvement "primarily" happens in practice. Day has commented on this saying they improve with practice reps. Hours and hours on the practice field is where improvement mainly occurs. Does game experience help? Yes, but the players have said the practices are harder than playing at the end of a blowout game.

Now here is my caveat as a former "low level" NCAA athlete, nothing in practice compares to actual game experience. Playing in a game my level was elevated more mentally than physically. Responding to a specific action, with a another action, with a higher level of stress is a mental function. That does make a difference, but I don't believe as much the poster is attributing to it for player development.

It is almost as if many posters on the site are not taking Hicks at his word about being patient and just throwing crap against the wall. ;-)

Realized my whole comment did not get in. I think we still need one additionally mechanism is the trolls if they have been downvoted continuously some mechanism to freeze their accounts. Given the are in most every single forum and article I'd give the community a change to kick them off the island as I noted in another post.

Your exactly right.

Nope.  I'm saying the community should.

If the community down votes someone to the extent that it pretty much identifies a troll then that account can be frozen. Again, this is a fan site that some people pay for. This is not Reddit. If someone is so obnoxious, repeating the same negative comments over and over it ruins the experience for other people in the community, then the community should be able to vote the person off the island.

Sorry...can't let this go so one more thought.  This is a fansite for Ohio State. It is not Reddit. Some people pay money to support this site and be part of the community to support Ohio State.  I don't think I am being being narrow minded as I've said people can say what they want, I just want to get rid of the trolls who really don't support Ohio State. I've got no problem for them to post the same stuff every day on Reddit, but I believe the community should be able to control the trolls, unlike on Reddit.

From another post below someone said freeze the serial trolls accounts rather than kick them out. That seems more reasonable.

I agree. Above I said if we could find some way to get rid of the trolls through some auto moderation. But similar to when you signed up for the account on you have to wait a bit until you vote, an option to trolls from commenting is all that is needed.

Yeah...I get your point....but this is a fan site that I like to read and exchange ideas/thoughts with other fans, not trolls.

I'm not saying people can't complain.  What I am saying that if all a person does is complain all the time, or, make the same negative point in 10 different articles it really means your a troll not a fan.

I saw one person's history and basically he posted several times a day over multiple weeks and it was all about Day, Stroud, Knowles, etc...over and over and over.  Isn't that a troll? If your OK with trolls on this site then that is just a different opinion than I have.

This is supposed to be a fan site. I get it fans can say whatever they want and I'm not saying that stop.  What I think is truly troll like behavior should be voted off by the community with some rules.

I agree. I just think with some automatic rule changes the site can be cleaned up so we don't have to see the trolls which make up the very small percentage of people who are not fans. 

This is what I believe should happen. Remove serial trolls with some method around tracking down votes. If someone goes let say negative 250 the account gets frozen. I haven't researched it but this problem must have been solved some place with some reasonable policies for eliminating trolls.

Most anyplace you look in social media it is the .01% of people engaged in a topic who cross the line.

A few thoughts:

1) People cross the line because of anonymity. I try to not write anything I wouldn't say to the person's face. Has to be some golden rule around this.

2) Instead of ignoring these people we all run to them to argue...which is what they want. They "antagonize of attention".

3) Not saying you can't complain complain about something, it is our right to complain given you just traveled across 3 states to support your team. The issue is when you do it for the 10th time your just a troll and not a fan.

4) Someone noted a few articles back that we need to get rid of people who are continuing to be down voted. This needs to be done, the community has spoken. Could it become an echo chamber? I don't think so. If all you do is post negative comments I really don't want you here as you are a troll, and it would be those people who got kicked off. You can still complain, just not all the time.

Unlike a lot of college coaches Hartline walked away with nearly $40 million from his NFL Career. I'm guessing he managed that well so he is much more well off than other coaches working their way up. I would help that would temper his need to leave OSU and hopefully family has put down roots to keep him here for more than a couple years.

The CFP system we have now is the only invitational in college sports. Not even at D2 and D3 football do they do it this way.

Lets watch classic Mike Leach moment and his thoughts on the committee system and how to solve the problem

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YE5WIILnClc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5gvMYd4E9c

Agree. I believe Fields can play as well as Hurts with the same talent around him. Just look at the difference with the Eagles adding Brown.

This ^^^^^

I was going to respond...again...on this topic as I had before in other posts, but I think OSUNut covered everything I would have said...again.

Time to watch the game.

A player who would be drafted would need to get paid a lot of money to take that deal. Even if your drafted in rounds 4-7 most players get four year deals with money between 3.5 and 5 million. Mr. Irrelevant Brock Purdy got 4 years, $3.7m, 77k signing bonus and the rest distributed yearly.

Assuming you stick with the NFL team your payout would be higher unless the fund is really going to pay out. Also, another year and you risk injury or your draft stock going down also.

By this criteria both Smart and Swinney would also have been gone from their programs.

This ^^ and I have a 10+ on you. :(

Smart has been Georgia coach since 2016 so three years on Day and now having CFB success. Crazy some people giving up so early on coaches when goals are not reached. I've said it before the players and coaches feel this 100x more than we do. As fans we have a choice to either get behind them or not.  

We scored 57 on Iowa.  TTUN scored 27 mainly through ground and pound. 172 yards rushing and 155 passing.

Until they play elite offenses they will continue to have great stats.

That being said I can't wait to see USC or UCLA playing in Iowa in late November in the future.

I'm trying to find a stat that supports this. Would you point me to that?  Couldn't find site for plays over 20 yards on sites that have states.

I'm just finding items like this for 2022.

They ranked sixth in FBS at 91.2 yards per game, fifth with 2.74 yards per rush, and fourth with just 38 runs of 10-plus yards. The Pokes limited six opponents to fewer than 70 rushing yards, and held Iowa State's Breece Hall and Baylor's Abram Smith (top 10 runners, both) below 100 yards in all three combined meetings. 

For the season, Oklahoma State led the Big 12 and tied for seventh nationally at 16.8 points per game. All 12 opponents were held under their scoring average. Lest it be forgotten, Oklahoma State was also outstanding against the pass. Opposing passers averaged 6.3 yards per attempt, 187.2 yards per game -- both 12th nationally -- and the Pokes' 116.21 rating was 13th in the nation. 

Interesting stat I did find is OK St 2021 defense average age was 21.9.

Per Gundy “The majority of our defense are 22 and 23 years old,” OSU coach Mike Gundy said. “There’s no substitute for age and experience, period. That’s where it starts.” 

This as the third year in the system. Knowles as the track record. Lets support the guy, not tear him down until he has time to build the program. He said "You don't have the luxury of time at Ohio State" but realistically you need it, unless your Dykes i guess.

I'm a defender of Knowles, so take this with a grain of salt, but while we need to see improvement I see year 3 as the "Judgement Year". I'm pretty sure Knowles is burning up about this 100x more than any of us, and I expect he would say the same thing.