Brief Buckeye Rant

Lincoln Riley prior to out-coaching Urban Meyer's sorry ass.

You know that feeling you get when your team has a lot of really great players (except in the secondary) and for some strange reason your coaches can't figure out how to use them? Have you noticed that this problem seems to crop up a lot for Ohio State?

Everybody knows that you can't have an offense that is just a grab-bag full of random
plays. As a metaphor; my basement. I have a lot of great shit down there. All kinds of stuff to fix things and make things and shoot things. But it doesn't work for me because I don't know where most of it is. It's all disorganized and it makes no sense.

Likewise with Ohio State's offense. An offense has to have a personality. Wisconsin does. Stanford does. Michigan does. Let me ask you this. What is the defining characteristic of Ohio State's offensive scheme? Don't say "JT Barrett getting tackled for a loss or throwing it into the stands". That doesn't count.
The last time Ohio State's offense had a recognizable personality was 2014. Ezekiel Elliot and JT Barrett running the football with occasional long balls down field so the safeties couldn't creep up into the box. And, okay, Ezekiel Elliot was a special player and we had two special receivers (Devin Smith and Michael Thomas). But fucking JK Dobbins is special player. Mike Webber is a special player. JT Barrett still runs the ball well though he runs it TOO GODDAMN MUCH. (That's an Urban Meyer thing, and it's getting really old. ) Our receivers mostly can't catch long balls but those are low percentage throws and, lets face it, they get maybe one or two a game.

So what the hell are we doing? We throw on first and second down and then we leave Isaah Prince alone to block an African man-freak who can run circles around him. Sack time for JT. JK Dobbins starts ripping off runs so we start to throw again and we make sure they're really difficult throws so JT Barrett can miss them. Every team we play now rushes three or, at most, 4 and drops everyone else into zone coverage and our guys can't get enough separation to get the ball to them.
Why in the hell are we not running the ball, run the ball, inside zone, outside zone, with the TAILBACK, run-pass-option and okay, play action and throw it to the end zone? Instead it's all crossing routes and rub routes, QB designed runs and quick bubble screens. That shit might work against Indiana but against Oklahoma, well, you saw the game.

We have Urban Meyer (supposed to know what he's doing), Mr. Genius ex-Indiana Head Coach who is supposed to know how to call plays and the QB coach (now famous for picking his nose on national TV vs Indiana) AND Greg Schiano who was a head coach at Rutgers and in the NFL. And who, BTW, couldn't stop a runny nose in the second half when Oklahoma's go-to TE was on the sideline with an ice bag. When you see receivers running around as wide open as Oklahoma's boys were, I don't care how bad the DBs are (and ours are pretty bad) there is something wrong with the scheme.

Fuck this.

If we played Meechy tomorrow they'd beat us by 30.
Somebody better figure some shit out right quick. These bozoes are making millions and millions of dollars. Get some damn coffee and some Red Bull and get in a room with a white board and figure some shit out, you assholes.

Jimbosuke,
Commissioner for Life