A real gut check for sure, we'll see if the team can get fired up and play with more intensity, pride and passion the rest of the season.

Coaching is a very "precarious" career, you can be a good human being and have good X's and O's knowledge, good success at one point in your career, but things may just not work out for one reason or another.

I'd love Gene Smith to come out and proclaim "we are going to go full bore on being a top basketball program" and make facility, infrastructure, and sadly, coaching changes to bear that out.  But, right now he's struggling to get enough NIL money in reserve to keep the football program at elite levels, there is no easy answer.

Go bucks and hope everyone has a great day.

Was watching the Bengals game and saw Sam Hubbard's runback in real time and my daughter and I were going wild.  I did say "oh crap it's coming back" when I saw the Bengal player push the Baltimore player in the back, but luckily the refs missed that.  Boy, Hubbard has long strides and has amazing speed for a guy his size.  Also, great reflexes and hands scooping the ball out of the air.

Oh snap ...

This article is more poetry than prose, beautifully written and puts things in perspective in a very personal way, as a journey and an evolution of one's tribal instincts and behavior.

Wow, this is a YUGE pickup, welcome Ja'had to Buckeye Nation!

Apparently mommy and daddy did not give you enough attention.  Your juvenile, narcissistic playing out in order to be noticed has really gotten old.  You're boring, unoriginal, not all all witty or amusing.  Quite the opposite, you come off as dim-witted, bitter, predictable and basically just an embarrassment to our fan base.

Do any of YOUR kids play football?

Enforce the rule consistently, a helmet-to-helmet collision is potentially VERY dangerous.

The only thing for sure in life is death and taxes ... and uninterrupted commercials.  I do agree that one unseemly aspect of our free market enterprise is running ads during a life-and-death situation like this, pretty crass, but it is what it is.

I know you are feeling bad about this young man and just venting, some people on here don't get that.

If some of the advertisers from tonight would make some donations to Damar's favorite charities, that would be a nice gesture. 

I'm stunned and sad beyond my ability to express.  Crossing my fingers and holding my breath that Damar survives and recovers from this freak incident.  Life is so fragile.

Proud of their effort, concerned about the back-to-back big game fourth quarter collapse and our defense giving up so many big plays.  Hopefully next season the defense takes a big step forward.

Captain Obvious over and out.  :P

Still, its defense continued to suffocate Northwestern

Buckeye Nation appreciates and wants good defensive effort!

Georgia scored 18 points in the 4th quarter and that's not (at least partly) on our defense???

Great effort by the bucks but man that 4th quarter.  Maybe the program needs a new approach to conditioning, what happened the past two big games in the 4th???

We should be respectful and hopeful but we do NOT have to be total homers.  This is a pro-Buckeye site for sure, but not a dim-witted fanboy site.  Thoughtful analysis and honest opinions should not be rejected out of hand.  My opinion, you may disagree, and that's fine.

Chase, the Skully is your baby and you have every right to add your unique take on things, which you have, and you've done an admirable and bang up job to date.  Your journalism abilities are strong, I could see you moving up to the mainstream media at some point in time.

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Evil Day all the way!  I'm hoping the bucks open it up full throttle and embrace the underdog role and the opportunity to play in a dome.

I've sipped a bit of my dad's scotch back in the day, and nearly choked every time (my sister on the other hand was his drinking buddy and could match him shot-for-shot).  He preferred Glenlivet 15, sometimes splurging for the 18.  Anyway, what is the difference in taste between scotch and bourbon?  Can you really tell the differences between different brands of bourbon?  I assume so, I can definitely tell the difference between a $12 bottle of red wine versus a $30 bottle of the same type, but hard liquor is so strong I would think it might be a little more difficult to do so, but someone who is not a wuss like me probably can lol.

Sam is uber talented, another great poster!

Football is obviously a physical game and the bucks of course have to be physical at the lines and the running and blocking aspects of the game BUT to beat UGA the bucks are going to have to "out skill" them at the QB, WR, corners and safeties positions.

Playing under a dome may help the bucks, I like their chances indoors better than in harsh, outdoor conditions as per Northwestern and TTUN.

That was GOOD.

Go bucks!  Let's go Ying Yang on the Dawgs and rip 'em to shreds!

Awesome article Chris, I love your attitude!

Wow, Mr. Hartson has an impressive resume, I get why he got a lot of offers.  He is confident in his abilities and believes he will be on scholarship soon and get playing time, gotta admire that.  I'll be rooting for him, this could turn into an amazing feel-good story.

Solid class, hope they all have great careers at tOSU and get coached up, get their degree, and make lifelong friendships.

Oh yeah, and have four seasons of beating TTUN!

I never get too excited about a recruit until they've arrived on campus and signed up for their classes.