OH---IO

[bengalboomer7]

I am about to jump out of my pants thinking about this game tonight. I look at this game and just can't see how the Buckeyes don't win. We are stacked at LB, QB, WR, and the secondary is great. Hopefullly other AD's are seeing the hype this game is getting and will think harder about scheduling tougher non conference games. For those of you that don't know, over the next decade OSU is also scheduled to play USC, VT and Miami in non conference games. Tressell has balls the size of a car!

I've just been hollering out at random time OH and everywhere I go I get the perfect IO response :player:

[Stripes]

After watching sports shows and hearing the hype all over the radio, this game has me almost as pumped as the Bengals game! This weekened was handed to us all by God himself, and we're going to see two wins! Notre Dame is about to beat Michigan too!

I looooooove it!!!!

Go Bengals!

Go Bucks!

Go Reds...

[rizzy]

The keg is tapped and it will be flowin until 4pm tomorrow.

[bengalindian]

Rizzy, lemme know if you need help finishing that keg.

[rizzy]

haha will do, but I think it should be easy to finish it off with two straight days of drinkin.

[cincy9275]

tressel is a bum his ofense is very disgusting he has no balls and has done nothing since he won the championship but drag this team down to be very average at best .i think it is time for this jerk to be gone f#*K tressel

[PMThor]

How can you blame Tressel? That loss is squarely on the shoulders of the QB. The Defense shut down, yes, SHUT DOWN Penn States O on every possession in the second half. Blaming Tressel for this loss is ludicrous. He had good play calling, the QB just couldn't pull it off. Plain and simple.

[Stripes]

I blame this loss on the offensive line primarily. I also was rather displeased with the playcalling. I don't mind us trying to employ the spread offense, but it seemed we ran 90% of our plays from the shotgun. This team is built to be an I-formation type team, and I wanted to see more of that. It seemed they weren't very confident in giving the ball to Pittman early in the game, and what carries he did get were primarily coming out of the shotgun. This strategy probably would have been more successful had the offensive line not been dominated all night long, and had Troy Smith not gotten happy feet. Then again, when you call at least two quarterback draws on every drive, that is bound to happen.

I am not blaming Tressel for the loss, because I think his plan would have been somewhat more successful with better execution. Still, I think he did play this game a little too conservatively, until finally taking some shots downfield to Santonio Holmes in the second half.

One last thing...What on Earth is wrong with Teddy Ginn Junior? It seems that every time he gets the ball in his hands, he is pressing. That is understandable for a sophomore that enters the season being hyped as a heisman candidate. I have a feeling he will get going again as the season wears on, and he regains trust in himself to make things happen with those shifty moves we know he has in him. I expect his junior year to trump the freshman year, given he solves whatever problem that seems to be keeping him grounded.

[cincy9275]

tressel is the total reason we lost his play calling is very bad and the spread ofense is garbage tressel needs to hire and oc and let him put in a real ofense not this bulls**t tressel trys to pass off as a good o. and yes tressel gets the total blame from this one . no bollman is not a oc he is tressels puppet

[schweinhart]

While the defense is as good as any in the country, the offense is very average at best vs. a good D. Holmes looked hobbled and Ginn couldn't run a route to save his left or right nut.

The RT problems didn't help the Bucs O either. Ryan Simms? switching from LG to RT for too long awhile didn't help and on the whole the RT play combined w/ relying on the RB and TE to go one-on-one with Penn State DE Tamba Hali in the 4th Q bit the Bucs in the backside.

But after watching AJ Hawk for the 2nd time, he'll be the top LB picked in the draft -- no later than #10 overall. Chad Greenway is a great WSLB (and Boilemakers fans are proly still cringing at the deflection he had vs. TE Charles Davis in the end zone for an Iowa pick to turn that game into a Pudue loss) but Greenway can't go all 3 LBs spots like Hawk can and certainly is no where close to the inside power that Hawk has.

In both the Texas and Penn State games, Bobby Carpenter has stood out big time. He's as quick as any LB in the draft class to the point of attack and boosts his value considerably with his ability to play down. 3-4 teams should prize Carpenter and he looks like he's a late first to early second rounder.

[bengalboomer7]

I think Carpenter will be the better NFL player! I haven't decided if OSU's porblems are the coach or the QB. They are certainly not using the weapons they have, primarily the recievers. With all that crap talk of the spread offense is is the playcalling(too conservative) or is Smith just not that good throwing the ball. I still blame the UT loss on Tressel(how do you let Mack Brown outcoach you? ) but OSu just flat out has the weapons and they are not using them

On a side note, is it me or does it look like Ginn is half assing it sometimes. I think it's obvious he doesn't like to get hit either.

[schweinhart]

Carpenter is definitely the real deal.

OSU offense wise, they've got a decent possession receiver in Roy Hall who they don't utilize enough IMO. Going to him more would help them move the chains better. The reality is vs. most teams the Bucs can run what they run and win, but when they face a decent D, they've got to gameplan better to win.

No doubt a lot of fans still blame the TE Hamby for the Texas loss. He didn't do anything to allay the hatred some fans apparently harbor for him. He dropped another key pass and I belive he was the TE who blew the block on Hali that got Smith crushed for the fumble at the end of the game. It's not really his fault, though, because that was a mismatch that shouldn't have been allowed to happen from a playcall standpoint at that point in the game with the Bucs in the middle of their best drive all night.

For Penn State fans, their delusions of grandeur ought to crash down on them next week in Ann Arbor. I've watched 2 PSU games (Minn. and OSU) to see how Alan Zemaitis holds up at CB vs. a real threat at WR. Thought the Bucs would test him but he never did get tested deep and only allowed a couple short passes underneath to Holmes. The other senior PSU CB Anwar Phillips did get tested deep a few times and looked fairly decent.