I still disagree. Recent receivers benefit from a completely different offense that runs more plays and passes the ball more. You also need to consider TDs, drop ratio, yards, yards after contact, yards after catch, and offensive percentage. You can catch a bunch of pop passes, but if they go nowhere then you had a crappy season. So catches don’t tell the whole story. 
What percentage of the offense did Terry Glenn and David Boston take up? 

Someone needs to explain to me how Bowers made the first down. Even the two pictures in that tweet shown above are not at the same time. He simply did not make the line to gain while the ball was in the field of play.
Now, is he not down until his body or the ball touches the ground out of bounds? If that’s true, can you just leap as far forward as you want out of bounds and still be advancing the ball forward? If that’s true, there was a specific 3rd down later in the game where our player was tackled out of bounds but didn’t touch the ground before he made the line to gain. If that’s true, there are SO MANY plays that have been ruled incorrectly.

ASK YOURSELF:  Can you envision Treyveon breaking tackles? Or are his highlights mostly him speeding through big holes? It’s the latter, and those plays aren’t what makes or breaks OSU against top competition.

Too many of our drives stall out because we can’t convert 3rd & short. We can’t get the tough yards. That was evident against Northwestern this year, a game where we HAD to run the ball and yet Day was forced to pass 26 times in 50 MILE PER HOUR WIND. 

Trey has averaged 4 YPC or less against all of our stiff competition (Oregon, Michigan, Penn State, Iowa, Maryland). I’m gonna say it: Even when he is healthy is not what’s best for OSU…

Miyan is a better back and gets the tough yards we need. The problem with him is he is hobbled. But I’m gonna say it: Even when he is healthy he isn’t our best back…

Dallan is better than Miyan or Trey at this point. Confidence hasn’t gone to his head and he just hits the hole like he’s supposed to. And yet, he isn’t our best back….

Chip is our best RB. Against the toughest defense we played all year, Chip looked like a man amongst boys. He logged 5.9 YPC, despite Day’s refusal to stick to running between the tackles. Against a BIG Georgia team we need the man who looked like Zeke Elliott reborn. Chip blocked well, ran through tacklers, and even received well. RUN CHIP. 

WHY ARE WE TRYING TO GO BACK TO TREVEYON OR MIYAN. CHIP WAS A BEAST AGAINST MICHIGAN. 5.9 YPC AGAINST ONE OF THE BEST DEFENSES IN THE COUNTRY. THE ISSUE WASNT HIM, IT WAS THE PLAYCALLING.

It seems very simple to me. 
#1) Have Chip start. He is our best back.
#2) Commit to running between the tackles. We have been successful there, and then Day abandons it.
#3) You gotta run it sometimes on 3rd & short.
#4) When we have momentum, skip the reads and audibles from the sideline, hurry up to the line, and PUNCH IT DOWN THEIR THROAT.
#5) Stroud needs to be willing to run on RPOs and broken pass plays. Do what Trevor Lawrence did to us a few years ago.
#6) Force the QB out of the pocket (rush from the middle) and have a spy. 
#7) Use designed plays to get the ball in your best players’ hands: namely Marvin and Chip.

These have been the major issues, as I see it.

What I Noticed:
-Chip Trayanum looks just like Ezekiel Elliott running the ball. He needs to be our lead back next year. I’ve said all along that Treyveon is overrated, and Miyan seems to have regressed. Chip looks like the most complete back. 
-Ryan Day’s West Coast offense tendencies have to go. He refuses to run between the tackles, which worked great when we did it.
-Day’s refusal to run on 3rd and short is a problem. 
-The constant adjustments at the line don’t work. Day is overthinking it. Hurry up to the line and pound it down their throat.
-Day abandons the run too much altogether. This was extremely apparent in the Northwestern game. We obviously needed to run it down their throats and Day refused.
-Stroud’s lack and refusal of mobility has proven to be an issue.
-I really don’t blame Knowles that much. Day’s offense was on the field for like 2 seconds, and that puts too much pressure on the defense.

I just gotta say….

I TOLD Y’ALL SO

GIVE MIYAN THE BALL

I have an idea: GIVE MIYAN THE DANG BALL AND HAVE LESS PREDICTABLE PLAY CALLING.

Miyan was successful almost every time he touched the ball. He averaged more YPC than TH. He has more power and does way better in short yardage. GIVE HIM THE BALL.

Our play calling (primarily under center, in the pistol, and on zone read) we’re SO OBVIOUS. We ran it something like 85% when under center or in the pistol. That’s too predictable. CJ never ran it on zone read. Too predictable.
Mix up the play calling in the pistol and under center. If CJ isn’t going to run it, then every zone read needs to be an RPO or don’t do it because NOBODY is falling for that crap. Do the Wisconsin thing where they send a WR in motion behind center and choose between a WR hand off and RB dive. That doesn’t give you a post-snap read but that’s better than a zone-read without the read.

 So there you go Kevin Wilson. Everyone else might think that our run game was so amazing, but at least one person knows it was a key factor in us losing to Michigan and Oregon.

Yards Per Carry

vs ……OSU: 2.1….Miyan: 2.9 (7 rush)

vs MSU……OSU: 4.8….Miyan: 8.8 (4 rush)

vs Neb……OSU: 3.0….Miyan: 4.0 (1 rush)

vs PSU…..OSU: 4.7….Miyan: 3.0 (3 rush)

vs Ore…..OSU: 4.1….Miyan: 5.5 (14 rush)

PFF can obviously look at things way deeper than me, but I feel like these stats and their ratings are validation of what I felt all last year. Our running game was terribly predictable and inconsistent. Sure, we could run over the Tulsas of the world, but when real competition showed up our running game was not good. 
I’m not sold on Traveyon, and I always felt like Miyan performed when he got his chances. Traveyon plays small, whereas Miyan plays like an absolute bowling ball with moves. That’s key in short yardage situations, where Traveyon always seemed to get stood up. Go watch our first couple drives against Michigan and you’ll see evidence.

Additionally, what about the stats that 11W showed us on our run game play calling predictability. We ran it something like 90% of the time when in the pistol. That’s horrible.

Sorry but Georgia has it best. Top three state for recruiting and they have it all to themselves. Georgia Tech is less of a threat to UGA than Cincinnati is to Ohio State. 

Two things:

1) Basketballs should universally be the same.

2) The bald spot on the back of Kyle Young's head looks like a tiny middle finger emoji.

Regarding freedom of movement....I don't think there's a single fan in the world that cares about that. What we DON'T want to see is college basketball turn into the NBA where fouls are drawn every single time down the court, and defense can't be played at all. That basketball sucks. I want to watch basketball and be able to see more than one possession in a row...pleasssssse

There's a lot of reasons, but a big one is the fact that college football is getting repetitive and boring, and fewer teams are engaged throughout the year. It used to be that the goal was to win a Big Ten championship and go to the Rose Bowl, because the natty wasn't realistic every year. That meant every conference had a few teams engaged throughout the year. It also ends up keeping players and resources more spread out. Also bowl season meant there was more success to go around, and now no one cares about bowl season with the playoff around.

We add two teams to the NC mix and now everyone expects to go to the playoff every year, which is impractical, and makes people check out earlier. Also results in a few teams that actually do make it every year, and people are losing interest in college football overall.