They must be made to pay. And unlike Hairball's cryptic/non-cryptic comments, when we win, I would love to hear Day say that it feels good to punish them for their sins.
"Entitlement is not the reason OSU lost in 2021. But it was on the list. It's been removed." Agreed. The players are going into this game with a much different mindset. Let's hope it translates into an epic performance.
BEAT TTUN!!!!!!!!
“If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.”
-Jack Handey
"Entitlement is not the reason OSU lost in 2021. But it was on the list."
So what else is on the list? What is the real reason?
A great, engaging write-up from Ramzy, again.
But I'm left feeling like the cartoon by the famous Pat Oliphant, A man falls at the top of the US Capitol steps and tumbles all the way down and down and down. When he lands at the base of the stairs an observer says, "I saw it all. What happened?"
So what happened?
Ua Mau ke Ea o ka 'Aina I ka Pono. The life of the land is preserved in righteousness. (Hawai'i state motto) Aloha nui kakou.
There are others who are probably more qualified than myself to answer this, but based on my understanding, these were some reasons:
1. Our defense was not sound and lost the LOS. We could not stop the run, especially in the second half. I personally think Coombs was mostly responsible for our defensive ineptitude but youth/inexperience probably had something to do with it too. Steele Chamber’s comments in a recent interview were very telling. He basically said we know exactly what to do and where to be and we are confident it will work. Last season when it was third and long, they just hoped for the best.
2. Inability of the offense to run the ball, especially in short yardage situations. This has been discussed A LOT and we have seen the same issues haunt us to some degree this season, but that killed us in the game last year. Again, we lost the LOS and failed to execute.
In response, the savage Day replaced Coombs with Knowles and brought in Frye. The D has certainly, up to this point, shown significant improvement, to put it mildly. I’m not gonna touch on the run game much (leave that to others), but I believe it has improved some and I’m hopeful we can get the crucial yards on the ground Saturday. I believe Hayden could be a key to success, but again, I’m no expert.
Penalties also hurt us last year. We had 10 penalties for 66 yards. No excuse for that and we better play clean.
“If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.”
-Jack Handey
I'd also add that the next time Coombs makes a halftime adjustment will be the first. He's good at coaching guys to play the way he wants them to play. He's not good at doing anything different from what he wants to do.
Yeah, the lack of adjustments was beyond frustrating. Coombs is a great position coach but it became clear that he’s not cut out to be a DC, at least not at OSU.
“If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.”
-Jack Handey
Flu for 12 or more guys was on the list. Home field advantage was on the list. Snow. Telegraphing play calls. Not playing our best run stopping D-lineman (Tyleik Williams) for whatever reason. I think it was LJ "not wanting to put a freshman in a moment that is too big for him."
Hopefully Ryan day truly understands what this game means now and is pushing that onto his players many are from out of state and don’t understand the rivalry. Win the game and your season was a success, lose the game and the season was an epic failure regardless of winning a meaningless bowl game afterwards. This game is a one game season and the winner takes all.
I'm not finished! Before we let you leave, your commander must cross that field, present himself before this army, put his head between his legs, and kiss his own arse.
I mean, Ramzy hits the nail on the head yet again:
This Saturday is not revenge for what happened last year in Ann Arbor. It's not revenge for what didn't happen in 2020 in Columbus, either. Revenge has no real value in The Game; what happened once in the past is merely a blemish in blood feud that predates all of us.
But this rivalry is about the stories, the triumphs, the heroes and the villains.
As I have already posted elsewhere on our forums, it's time to get back to WRITING NEW HISTORY with a fury and full of truck sticking, and stiff arms, big playmaking from our playmakers, and more points than Harbaugh's anus can hold back to leave no doubt who the better team is this Saturday. Leave the history of this game for wall decor. LFG Buckeyes!
"I don't apologize for anything. When I make a mistake, I take the blame and go on from there." - Woody Hayes
I'm not certain whether I buy the overconfidence argument or not. Frankly, it sounds like an excuse. But I want to believe it because it increases the odds of the Buckeyes steamrolling the weasels and leaving them on the bank of the Olentangy!! I want revenge this weekend, but I NEED a reckoning!! Go Bucks!
"We gotta go win this next game and make the State of Ohio proud!"-UFM
I would love to know what Alford told you Ramzy. Good on you for keeping your promise to him, though.
I believe that IF the Scrappy Skunk Weasel's are able to pull off a victory, it will NOT be because we are soft, entitled, lazy, or out-coached (which we saw last year). It would be because they are the better team. I don't believe they are the better team.
We are angry and hungry. I hope to see THAT Buckeye team for 4 quarters Saturday.
I'd also like to rectify Urban's final mistake... which was not hanging 69 on 'em when we could have in 2018.
I grew up in the 90s and am always a wreck going into this game regardless both teams' records. I'm also a Cincinnati sports fan, which usually comes with abject misery and heartbreak lurking around every corner (delayed for a little bit, last year with the Bengals).
Nothing is guaranteed. There's a video link elsewhere on this site with Woody discussing what needs to be avoided like the plague: Apathy.
same - mostly ... (cleveland area = browns / cavs / indians / guardians fan) ... i managed to go to OSU for undergrad AND grad school all during Cooper years. While I love Coach Cooper and don't think he deserved a lot of the crap that was shoveled his way, I have permanent PTSD from the 90's that absolutely does not allow me to enjoy any Game where Ohio State is not in front by a minimum of 21 points.
I would love to hear about what Alford said to you Ramzy, especially on the Pope Fucc IV saga. It felt like OSU had too large of a leadership void and way too many green players last season. OSU lost Fields, Sermon, Togiai, Myers, Davis, Werner, Borland, Browning, among others, who were all guys the team respected, and replaced them with spoiled brats who pouted when they didn't play enough. I think Urban's last recruiting class was a disaster from a leadership standpoint and it came back to bite Day. Add in the worst defensive coordinator in quite possibly the history of the program and we all saw what happened. Day had to coach his balls off to get that mess to 11-2.
Canceling on Dec 8 meant football activities in Ann Arbor should have paused until Dec 15 at the earliest. So one of the following statements must be true, and the other must be false:
Harbaugh is a gloating winner and a poor loser, but most of all he's a coward. Jim Harbaugh and his melon-headed AD PUSSED OUT of The Game in 2020 for fear of being humiliated on national television. Blaming their cowardice on covid is disgusting, and that they brazenly practiced less than 24-hours after PUSSING OUT is the biggest bitch move in football history. Fuck *ichign. Fuck Harbaugh. Fuck Warde Manuel. It's time to pay for your cowardly ways.
...and that bitch is 1-6; you know it, I know it, and he knows it.
Harbaugh wishes he could puss out of the game this Saturday too. He knows what's coming. I'm getting 2018 vibes.
Harbaugh backed out of playing UCLA in the non conference this year too. I'm sure it was mutual with Chip Kelly, another guy that has a history of backing out of games. Michigan and UCLA should have both been automatically dq'd from playoff consideration for those non conference schedules.
I was just getting ready to say I saw a 3rd string QB come in to the game in 2014 when JT got his ankle broken to seal the deal and eventually take them to a Natty,
I'll be there at the Shoe on Saturday to see a 4th string tailback keep the pressure on TTUN while CJ airs it out as they make history on their way to a another Natty.
It already feels written in the stars.
BTW - if you can't get ahold of the Van Winkle Fam Rye - Get yourself a Whistle Pig 12 Old World Rye. It's better, findable and worth it.
Optimist by nature, but lived way too many treacherous Thanksgiving Saturdays to be overconfident about this game. I will be thrilled to win 3-2; that being said I'd love to carpet bomb these bastards and dance on their smoking corpses. If you don't understand this statement coming from a person of faith, you do not understand The Game or did not grow up in Ohio.
This is the state that believed a 70 year old man offering free haircuts was equivalent to setting a herd of Ebola monkeys loose in the middle of a crowded airport.
I disagree to a point. It is about revenge, but it is a layered revenge. I want revenge for 1990, the last Game my dad ever got to watch, and that he went to his grave with a loss. I want revenge for the Cooper era, which made me take so much abuse at work the following Monday. I want revenge for '73, which while a tie, stopped Archie from getting four pairs of gold pants. I want revenge for every scar those bastards put on my heart, for every ounce of grief they have caused me. And yes, I want bone smashing revenge for a POS spoiled coach that cast aspersions upon my coach, and I want revenge for his promise in 1986. I want revenge for every title they cost us, and for every winter that was made bitter and cold with a loss.
Yes, I want cheap, shallow revenge.
To err is human. Really sucking requires having yellow stripes on your helmet.
The saddest thing I ever read in COVID times was, at the height of the death rate, that crematoriums in Los Angeles County had to request an environmental waiver so that they could operate 24 hours a day with an exemption for smog controls.
That's really sad when you think of the number of families - plus you couldn't even have a funeral.
But somehow Jim Harbaugh could use it as an excuse for his team not to play. That's not sad - it's pathetic.
The 2020 game should've been treated as a forfeit. End of story. What's more, is that last year's game should have been played in Ohio Stadium to make up for the cowardly forfeit. The more I learn about TTUN the more I loathe them from the rapist doctor they employed for forty years that sexually assaulted countless athletes, faculty, and children to their callous an cowardly attempt to prevent us from going to the B1G championship due to lack of games (don't tell me that wasn't purposeful!). They are living in a land of illusion and think that they're "on par" with OSU. They are NOT. We are not their "big brother," we are THEIR DADDY.
I have walked this earth for 73 years. The last uncontested championship that ttun won was in the year before I was born,1948. Since that year the overall won/lost record is OSU 39, UM 30, with 4 ties. OSU has won 6 national championships, have had 6 Heisman winners and have won outright or shared 29 B1G championships. UM, not so much. And the real pisser in those stats is that their 2 Heisman winners in that time frame were both from Ohio. Side note, their only other winner was from Indiana. I would like to see OSU best ttun to take the overall won/lost record, but I am very content with what OSU has accomplished in my short stay.
GO BUCKS.
I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.
When in Rome is a late 80's one-hit-wonder, which is less than a normal 80's one-hit-wonder, which is why Ramzy thought it was New Order. They cashed in on the style that came before but couldn't take hold. What does this have to do with anything of immediate importance?
Xichigan's a two-bit whore trying to get on par with our beloved Buckeyes, but they will be shown the door back to mediocrity in 2022.
And for the sake of those telling these stories long after we're all gone, we should archive what actually took place in 2020 before history paints over what a 30-point underdog did in 2020 to avoid participating in an event that transcends sports.
They cancelled that game knowing what was coming. They've run their mouth since last November. If we are motivated to curb stomp them Saturday, we deserve what we get.
I predict Harbaugh will be nervously picking his boogers before we get to halftime, probably thinking, "Shit! What the hell am I going to say to them at halftime?"
I don't hardly ever hear that song because I mostly listen to contemporary jazz (no apologies, and don't call it "smoov jazz"), but when I do, all I can see is Napoleon Dynamite playing tetherball with Deb.
And, the weather is looking favorable for a massacre of the Skunks.
As you get older, three things happen: The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two.
If you are a fan of Pappy, you must read Pappyland by Wright Thompson. Great book.
Thank you Ramzy for another great Situational. I’m going to predict 38-21 Buckeyes on Saturday with Knowles unleashing Mike Hall to wreak havoc on JJ and whoever is playing RB for sCUM.
Michigan ignored guidance from medical experts, health department officials, university administration and broke conference pandemic protocol, putting its players, coaches and football staffers at risk.
A 30-point underdog used COVID as a cover to avoid being embarrassed again by its arch rival.
If Covid has taught me anything from having lived through some of the stupidest and idiotic decisions man could ever come up with.. It’s that both things could actually be true at the same time.
That game was basically canceled the week before when they failed their testing procedures during the week leading up to Maryland. They just hadn’t practiced enough, nor passed enough negative-tests in order to continue to play the Buckeyes.
Big businesses don’t care about you or I. They only care about their bottom line and how they can limit their risk of liability in such a case of something happening they could be held accountable for. Make no mistake, football is a huge business. But the rules and recommendations during Covid were so lax and changing nearly every day that large institutions were basically doing whatever they wanted once they realized that the majority of them were toothless.
I will go to my grave believing they completely dodged our Buckeyes that season, believing they were going to hand Indiana a trip to the B1G Championship Game and not have to take yet another L in the loss column. Spineless bastards every last one of them…
“Michigan doesn't deserve sustained emancipation from the dark hole where it's spent the better part of two decades” This though… poetry. To echo Hayes:
Beat them this year and every year because they won’t let it count for the next!!
We must win this game...and send a statement we are ready to continue to dominate them. I want to see Ohio State take over the all time wins lead on those bastards...though 2010's ass kicking and 2020s blowout that never was somehow counts against us...I want to shut down their rushing attack...i want them to have 7 to 10 3 and outs ...I expect no less than 40 points fromt the Buckeyes. preferebly 50...God Sorry, but I Hate Michigan and their arrogant fair-weather fans..Send them back into their holes Buckeyes...We Love You..Go get em!!
He (Day) talked about how his son took some flack on the school bus the Monday after the team returned from losing in Ann Arbor, and someone made a noise which sounded like a muffled laugh. "It's not funny," he said with a cold stare, which was followed by an uncomfortable silence. "It's not funny at all."
Oh, SNAP.
Go Bucks. Beat TSUN.
I am not very smart, but I recognize that I'm not very smart. --- W.W. Hayes
Chic put Ohio State football on the map. --- Archie Griffin
Cant wait till after we literally beat the crap out of them to watch jimmy h try and fail again to escape to the nfl. They dont want ya booger boy! No one else does either!
"You can't wait until life isn't hard anymore before you decide to be happy"
Their 2020 cowardice was the reason for my screen name. The Xichigan Xan tucked tail and slunk away like a (skunk) weasel. Can’t wait for Saturday! Go Bucks!!
The weather forecast as of 9:00 pm Thanksgiving calls for sunny, 48 degrees, wind out of the South at 7 mph at kickoff team Saturday. Could not ask for better weather for the passing game.
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Fuck ichigan
Principles before personalities.
An absolute RECKONING will be witnessed!
I don’t care what those pricks say. In 2020, they disrespected the rivalry with their lack of fortitude and integrity. Those chicken shits.
"Life is not about how hard you can hit, it's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. THATS HOW WINNING IS DONE!!" - Rocky Ballboa
As a famous American patriot once said: "I only regret that I have but one up vote to give for this comment".
He then naturally enough added: "F*<K *ICHIGAN!! GO BUCKEYES!!"
They must be made to pay. And unlike Hairball's cryptic/non-cryptic comments, when we win, I would love to hear Day say that it feels good to punish them for their sins.
The hills send back and cry - O H - we're here to do or die - I O!!!
^YES^
He could just say home-base feels like home...again.
Bbc11
"As King Google, I now proclaim every Saturday TTUN plays for the next 10 years shall be re-named 'Chickenshit Saturday' for them..."
"Put ya' weight on it"
2020 was a forfeit…. And will always be a Forfeit…
"Entitlement is not the reason OSU lost in 2021. But it was on the list. It's been removed." Agreed. The players are going into this game with a much different mindset. Let's hope it translates into an epic performance.
BEAT TTUN!!!!!!!!
“If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.”
-Jack Handey
So what else is on the list? What is the real reason?
A great, engaging write-up from Ramzy, again.
But I'm left feeling like the cartoon by the famous Pat Oliphant, A man falls at the top of the US Capitol steps and tumbles all the way down and down and down. When he lands at the base of the stairs an observer says, "I saw it all. What happened?"
So what happened?
Ua Mau ke Ea o ka 'Aina I ka Pono. The life of the land is preserved in righteousness. (Hawai'i state motto) Aloha nui kakou.
There are others who are probably more qualified than myself to answer this, but based on my understanding, these were some reasons:
1. Our defense was not sound and lost the LOS. We could not stop the run, especially in the second half. I personally think Coombs was mostly responsible for our defensive ineptitude but youth/inexperience probably had something to do with it too. Steele Chamber’s comments in a recent interview were very telling. He basically said we know exactly what to do and where to be and we are confident it will work. Last season when it was third and long, they just hoped for the best.
2. Inability of the offense to run the ball, especially in short yardage situations. This has been discussed A LOT and we have seen the same issues haunt us to some degree this season, but that killed us in the game last year. Again, we lost the LOS and failed to execute.
In response, the savage Day replaced Coombs with Knowles and brought in Frye. The D has certainly, up to this point, shown significant improvement, to put it mildly. I’m not gonna touch on the run game much (leave that to others), but I believe it has improved some and I’m hopeful we can get the crucial yards on the ground Saturday. I believe Hayden could be a key to success, but again, I’m no expert.
Penalties also hurt us last year. We had 10 penalties for 66 yards. No excuse for that and we better play clean.
“If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.”
-Jack Handey
Mahalo, StLBuck, how we lost the LOS on both sides of the ball is a mystery beyond my ken.
Ua Mau ke Ea o ka 'Aina I ka Pono. The life of the land is preserved in righteousness. (Hawai'i state motto) Aloha nui kakou.
I'd also add that the next time Coombs makes a halftime adjustment will be the first. He's good at coaching guys to play the way he wants them to play. He's not good at doing anything different from what he wants to do.
TLDR: Michigan sucks.
Yeah, the lack of adjustments was beyond frustrating. Coombs is a great position coach but it became clear that he’s not cut out to be a DC, at least not at OSU.
“If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.”
-Jack Handey
In addition to what was said above;
Flu for 12 or more guys was on the list. Home field advantage was on the list. Snow. Telegraphing play calls. Not playing our best run stopping D-lineman (Tyleik Williams) for whatever reason. I think it was LJ "not wanting to put a freshman in a moment that is too big for him."
The one we have ALL been waiting for. Situational just hits different the week of THE GAME.
The Excellence of Execution, the Best there is, the Best there was, the Best there ever will be!
Ramzy's work is always incredible, but THE GAME situational just always hits the right chords...
The truth is in the details...
Hopefully Ryan day truly understands what this game means now and is pushing that onto his players many are from out of state and don’t understand the rivalry. Win the game and your season was a success, lose the game and the season was an epic failure regardless of winning a meaningless bowl game afterwards. This game is a one game season and the winner takes all.
Buckeye4life
We better effin' win on Saturday.
I'm not finished! Before we let you leave, your commander must cross that field, present himself before this army, put his head between his legs, and kiss his own arse.
I mean, Ramzy hits the nail on the head yet again:
As I have already posted elsewhere on our forums, it's time to get back to WRITING NEW HISTORY with a fury and full of truck sticking, and stiff arms, big playmaking from our playmakers, and more points than Harbaugh's anus can hold back to leave no doubt who the better team is this Saturday. Leave the history of this game for wall decor. LFG Buckeyes!
"I don't apologize for anything. When I make a mistake, I take the blame and go on from there." - Woody Hayes
Been waiting for this all season. That’s an interesting note about Day and the summer cookout. The man is ready to murder
"We'd wipe the floor with them" - Evan Spencer
Good.
The hills send back and cry - O H - we're here to do or die - I O!!!
Hell to the Yes....GOOD
PCSjr
The BEST, as always. Go Bucks.
P.S. People will gloss over the 2020 situation forever, thank you for per*anently docu*enting it.
The North Remembers
I'm not certain whether I buy the overconfidence argument or not. Frankly, it sounds like an excuse. But I want to believe it because it increases the odds of the Buckeyes steamrolling the weasels and leaving them on the bank of the Olentangy!! I want revenge this weekend, but I NEED a reckoning!! Go Bucks!
"We gotta go win this next game and make the State of Ohio proud!"-UFM
Maybe complacency is a better word...
Priority #1: Beat Michigan
The hills send back and cry - O H - we're here to do or die - I O!!!
Only three number points are pertinent.
42 27 1,089
Those numbers represent last year's score and the current number of days since Ohio State tasted victory in The Game.
Our honor defend is all that matters in the game and in life.
Too much time spent at the North Heidelberg rather than the classroom. SSD 68-72
Always a brilliant read, Ramzy. Go Bucks!
I would love to know what Alford told you Ramzy. Good on you for keeping your promise to him, though.
I believe that IF the Scrappy Skunk Weasel's are able to pull off a victory, it will NOT be because we are soft, entitled, lazy, or out-coached (which we saw last year). It would be because they are the better team. I don't believe they are the better team.
We are angry and hungry. I hope to see THAT Buckeye team for 4 quarters Saturday.
I'd also like to rectify Urban's final mistake... which was not hanging 69 on 'em when we could have in 2018.
You win with people.
And so forth...
9 Units Strong!
69?
Nice!
Too much time spent at the North Heidelberg rather than the classroom. SSD 68-72
Paraphrasing the outstanding 2007 HBO documentary Michigan vs Ohio State…The Rivalry
Ohio State football is a religion……a secular religion.
I grew up in the 90s and am always a wreck going into this game regardless both teams' records. I'm also a Cincinnati sports fan, which usually comes with abject misery and heartbreak lurking around every corner (delayed for a little bit, last year with the Bengals).
Nothing is guaranteed. There's a video link elsewhere on this site with Woody discussing what needs to be avoided like the plague: Apathy.
same - mostly ... (cleveland area = browns / cavs / indians / guardians fan) ... i managed to go to OSU for undergrad AND grad school all during Cooper years. While I love Coach Cooper and don't think he deserved a lot of the crap that was shoveled his way, I have permanent PTSD from the 90's that absolutely does not allow me to enjoy any Game where Ohio State is not in front by a minimum of 21 points.
As do I.
I don't think I'll go to my grave satisfied, until we beet them by a 7 or 8 touchdown margin. May it happen on Saturday.
Maybe then the PTSD will go away, and I can RIP.
UNTIL THAT DAY:
The hills send back and cry - O H - we're here to do or die - I O!!!
I get that it's hate week but why no preview for today's Basketbucks game?
I would love to hear about what Alford said to you Ramzy, especially on the Pope Fucc IV saga. It felt like OSU had too large of a leadership void and way too many green players last season. OSU lost Fields, Sermon, Togiai, Myers, Davis, Werner, Borland, Browning, among others, who were all guys the team respected, and replaced them with spoiled brats who pouted when they didn't play enough. I think Urban's last recruiting class was a disaster from a leadership standpoint and it came back to bite Day. Add in the worst defensive coordinator in quite possibly the history of the program and we all saw what happened. Day had to coach his balls off to get that mess to 11-2.
Upon us all, a little rain must fall
The Bucks will roll tonight (Saturday, noon on Fox)...to the guitar bite...for those about rock - we salute you.
No entitlement.
Unleash hell.
Fuck Michigan!
Beat Michigan!
Harbaugh is a gloating winner and a poor loser, but most of all he's a coward. Jim Harbaugh and his melon-headed AD PUSSED OUT of The Game in 2020 for fear of being humiliated on national television. Blaming their cowardice on covid is disgusting, and that they brazenly practiced less than 24-hours after PUSSING OUT is the biggest bitch move in football history. Fuck *ichign. Fuck Harbaugh. Fuck Warde Manuel. It's time to pay for your cowardly ways.
...and that bitch is 1-6; you know it, I know it, and he knows it.
When I die, sprinkle my ashes over the 70's
^^^^ Yeah, what he said.
Champions. Undisputed.
^^^ I could not agree more!
"Because I couldn't go for three."
You’re legendary with a win and a foot note in history of THE GAME if you lose. Be legendary young Buckeyes!!!
jNowie
Some things just write themselves...
Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game. -- Michael Jordan
Made me laugh... and this is not the article I would laugh about lightly. Well done!
Steelybuck54
Felix Unger?
Ua Mau ke Ea o ka 'Aina I ka Pono. The life of the land is preserved in righteousness. (Hawai'i state motto) Aloha nui kakou.
Harbaugh wishes he could puss out of the game this Saturday too. He knows what's coming. I'm getting 2018 vibes.
Harbaugh backed out of playing UCLA in the non conference this year too. I'm sure it was mutual with Chip Kelly, another guy that has a history of backing out of games. Michigan and UCLA should have both been automatically dq'd from playoff consideration for those non conference schedules.
If you can win a natty with a 3rd string quarterback, why not a 4th string runningback?
I was just getting ready to say I saw a 3rd string QB come in to the game in 2014 when JT got his ankle broken to seal the deal and eventually take them to a Natty,
I'll be there at the Shoe on Saturday to see a 4th string tailback keep the pressure on TTUN while CJ airs it out as they make history on their way to a another Natty.
It already feels written in the stars.
BTW - if you can't get ahold of the Van Winkle Fam Rye - Get yourself a Whistle Pig 12 Old World Rye. It's better, findable and worth it.
Optimist by nature, but lived way too
many treacherous Thanksgiving Saturdays to be overconfident about this game. I will be thrilled to win 3-2; that being said I'd love to carpet bomb these bastards and dance on their smoking corpses. If you don't understand this statement coming from a person of faith, you do not understand The Game or did not grow up in Ohio.Steelybuck54
Locked in and singularly focused!
Get dumped then
This is the state that believed a 70 year old man offering free haircuts was equivalent to setting a herd of Ebola monkeys loose in the middle of a crowded airport.
THE Game. Now, just play like it’s THE Game, Buckeyes.
Losing, not a damn option. I have no doubt the Buckeyes will take care of business Saturday afternoon!
I hope Michigan never wins another game.
Ramzy to the rescue again. They owe us a win and a home game.
I want this taste out of my mouth, I want bragging rights back, I want the universe to return to normal.
Go Bucks!
Victory loves preparation
I disagree to a point. It is about revenge, but it is a layered revenge. I want revenge for 1990, the last Game my dad ever got to watch, and that he went to his grave with a loss. I want revenge for the Cooper era, which made me take so much abuse at work the following Monday. I want revenge for '73, which while a tie, stopped Archie from getting four pairs of gold pants. I want revenge for every scar those bastards put on my heart, for every ounce of grief they have caused me. And yes, I want bone smashing revenge for a POS spoiled coach that cast aspersions upon my coach, and I want revenge for his promise in 1986. I want revenge for every title they cost us, and for every winter that was made bitter and cold with a loss.
Yes, I want cheap, shallow revenge.
To err is human. Really sucking requires having yellow stripes on your helmet.
Add bloody and I'm all in...
Bbc11
The saddest thing I ever read in COVID times was, at the height of the death rate, that crematoriums in Los Angeles County had to request an environmental waiver so that they could operate 24 hours a day with an exemption for smog controls.
That's really sad when you think of the number of families - plus you couldn't even have a funeral.
But somehow Jim Harbaugh could use it as an excuse for his team not to play. That's not sad - it's pathetic.
Michael
The promise- the final song playing at the end of Napoleon Dynamite. Uncle Rico approves
Buckeye football isn’t every thing on Saturday. It’s the only thing on Saturday
The 2020 game should've been treated as a forfeit. End of story. What's more, is that last year's game should have been played in Ohio Stadium to make up for the cowardly forfeit. The more I learn about TTUN the more I loathe them from the rapist doctor they employed for forty years that sexually assaulted countless athletes, faculty, and children to their callous an cowardly attempt to prevent us from going to the B1G championship due to lack of games (don't tell me that wasn't purposeful!). They are living in a land of illusion and think that they're "on par" with OSU. They are NOT. We are not their "big brother," we are THEIR DADDY.
Round on the ends and "HI" in the middle. O-HI-O.
I have walked this earth for 73 years. The last uncontested championship that ttun won was in the year before I was born,1948. Since that year the overall won/lost record is OSU 39, UM 30, with 4 ties. OSU has won 6 national championships, have had 6 Heisman winners and have won outright or shared 29 B1G championships. UM, not so much. And the real pisser in those stats is that their 2 Heisman winners in that time frame were both from Ohio. Side note, their only other winner was from Indiana. I would like to see OSU best ttun to take the overall won/lost record, but I am very content with what OSU has accomplished in my short stay.
GO BUCKS.
I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.
- Invictus
The rivalry in its true vulnerability. This was good. I’m ready for Saturday, but I’m not.
Read my entire screen name....
When in Rome is a late 80's one-hit-wonder, which is less than a normal 80's one-hit-wonder, which is why Ramzy thought it was New Order. They cashed in on the style that came before but couldn't take hold. What does this have to do with anything of immediate importance?
Xichigan's a two-bit whore trying to get on par with our beloved Buckeyes, but they will be shown the door back to mediocrity in 2022.
"Put ya' weight on it"
They cancelled that game knowing what was coming. They've run their mouth since last November. If we are motivated to curb stomp them Saturday, we deserve what we get.
I predict Harbaugh will be nervously picking his boogers before we get to halftime, probably thinking, "Shit! What the hell am I going to say to them at halftime?"
I don't hardly ever hear that song because I mostly listen to contemporary jazz (no apologies, and don't call it "smoov jazz"), but when I do, all I can see is Napoleon Dynamite playing tetherball with Deb.
And, the weather is looking favorable for a massacre of the Skunks.
As you get older, three things happen: The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two.
Yes, that piano solo does indeed slap.
If you are a fan of Pappy, you must read Pappyland by Wright Thompson. Great book.
Thank you Ramzy for another great Situational. I’m going to predict 38-21 Buckeyes on Saturday with Knowles unleashing Mike Hall to wreak havoc on JJ and whoever is playing RB for sCUM.
Go Bucks!
If Covid has taught me anything from having lived through some of the stupidest and idiotic decisions man could ever come up with.. It’s that both things could actually be true at the same time.
That game was basically canceled the week before when they failed their testing procedures during the week leading up to Maryland. They just hadn’t practiced enough, nor passed enough negative-tests in order to continue to play the Buckeyes.
Big businesses don’t care about you or I. They only care about their bottom line and how they can limit their risk of liability in such a case of something happening they could be held accountable for. Make no mistake, football is a huge business. But the rules and recommendations during Covid were so lax and changing nearly every day that large institutions were basically doing whatever they wanted once they realized that the majority of them were toothless.
I will go to my grave believing they completely dodged our Buckeyes that season, believing they were going to hand Indiana a trip to the B1G Championship Game and not have to take yet another L in the loss column. Spineless bastards every last one of them…
https://youtu.be/KuUhr5MHEVk
Not to mention Big Ten protocols versus SEC...we leave half the damn team home to face An Alabama meat grinder following Saban protocols...
Bbc11
Yes, exactly.. That still pisses me off.. Lol If only we’d have played by SEC rules that year.
https://youtu.be/KuUhr5MHEVk
“Michigan doesn't deserve sustained emancipation from the dark hole where it's spent the better part of two decades” This though… poetry. To echo Hayes:
Beat them this year and every year because they won’t let it count for the next!!
Go Bucks!
When the Buckeyes execute the game plan as well as Ramzy completed his, we’ll have our reckoning and our 69 points.
On behalf of a grateful Buckeye Nation, Thank you.
cincybeerhawk
Win this year and last year is an anomaly but lose and it has become a pattern and Ryan Day will start to lose the fan base.
Lsmizzle
Their fanbase can live in denial all they want.
They ducked OSU in in 2020.
When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less.
This was an exceptional Situational which puts many things into perspective. My thanks to the author!
"The minute we stop expecting greatness, we become Wisconsin."
As if we needed another reason: beat them for nothing else but to let RJ Day talk some shit on the bus, kids are so damn cruel.
If you take everything I’ve accomplished in my life and condense it down to one day, it looks decent!
We must win this game...and send a statement we are ready to continue to dominate them. I want to see Ohio State take over the all time wins lead on those bastards...though 2010's ass kicking and 2020s blowout that never was somehow counts against us...I want to shut down their rushing attack...i want them to have 7 to 10 3 and outs ...I expect no less than 40 points fromt the Buckeyes. preferebly 50...God Sorry, but I Hate Michigan and their arrogant fair-weather fans..Send them back into their holes Buckeyes...We Love You..Go get em!!
Oh, SNAP.
Go Bucks. Beat TSUN.
I am not very smart, but I recognize that I'm not very smart. --- W.W. Hayes
Chic put Ohio State football on the map. --- Archie Griffin
Cant wait till after we literally beat the crap out of them to watch jimmy h try and fail again to escape to the nfl. They dont want ya booger boy! No one else does either!
"You can't wait until life isn't hard anymore before you decide to be happy"
Eichenberg alone could be the difference this year.
Go Bucks
Their 2020 cowardice was the reason for my screen name. The Xichigan Xan tucked tail and slunk away like a (skunk) weasel. Can’t wait for Saturday! Go Bucks!!
The weather forecast as of 9:00 pm Thanksgiving calls for sunny, 48 degrees, wind out of the South at 7 mph at kickoff team Saturday. Could not ask for better weather for the passing game.
A bad day on the water beats a good day at work.