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So it's your fault...dude...come on man. 
I was looking for bits and pieces of hope...I found a few, but others will laugh so I won't share them. We have some talent, we just don't have an Oline to save our butts. We will recover defensively and win this weekend....IF we don't I'm going to be calling for someone's head whom I absolutely think is the best coach to ever happen to us...sad deal if that occurs. Like everyone else, I expected to lose Bedlam, so I was already pissed about the game BEFORE it started. I'm over it now.
I was looking for bits and pieces of hope...I found a few, but others will laugh so I won't share them. We have some talent, we just don't have an Oline to save our butts. We will recover defensively and win this weekend....IF we don't I'm going to be calling for someone's head whom I absolutely think is the best coach to ever happen to us...sad deal if that occurs. Like everyone else, I expected to lose Bedlam, so I was already pissed about the game BEFORE it started. I'm over it now.
i too am old. i hear or read the younger people say osu should be this or that. should hire this guy or that guy. but i know the deck is stacked against osu. for a myriad of reasons. name me 3 schools in the last 20 years who have jumped from being a decent program to the upper echelon of college fb. then, if you can name any, tell me where they're located. that'll give you the inside scoop on why the same teams go to NY's bowl games and the playoffs.
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Oregon is one of those teams and has a familiar story to OSU. Rich guy puts a ton of money into the program, located in a small college town, had a nice run and head coach retired. Hired a new HC and things went sideways for a couple of years. Hired a new coach who is recruiting his butt off and Oregon is back to being relative.
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relative, but elite? clemson is one program that has climbed to elite status in recent years. located in the southeast in a hotbed of talent with plenty of money.
here's the point i was trying to make. it's really, really difficult to move up the ladder. we made the jump from terrible fb team and tradition to a good program. facilities, focus on fb, coaching stability, boones money, etc. have elevated our program. but we're facing an uphill battle to move up. facing a geographic location issue. not only because stillwater is kinda in no mans land but because we're 4 hours from any DI, P5 talent. there's some in oklahoma, but not enough to make a living on. if your baylor or tcu (our real competitors for talent) you can swing a dead cat and hit 250 DI players. clemson is in the same boat, only they have access to even more players.
here's the point i was trying to make. it's really, really difficult to move up the ladder. we made the jump from terrible fb team and tradition to a good program. facilities, focus on fb, coaching stability, boones money, etc. have elevated our program. but we're facing an uphill battle to move up. facing a geographic location issue. not only because stillwater is kinda in no mans land but because we're 4 hours from any DI, P5 talent. there's some in oklahoma, but not enough to make a living on. if your baylor or tcu (our real competitors for talent) you can swing a dead cat and hit 250 DI players. clemson is in the same boat, only they have access to even more players.
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We never going to be elite. We are actually quiet content for being a consistent winners year in year out.
What is sad is that we came into a rivalry game where our rival for a very long years NEVER did admit that we were their rival.
BUT. They came to the game well prepared, more fired up, well executed than we were.
We came out Flat, No energy, No new wrinkles, ..... Same Old Gundy 101 Offense.
Out coached every year!
This is very upsetting.
....and we abandon our the pocket passer Offenses that initiated by Holgerson in the Weeden era into the Chelf, Rudolph and Corndog era where the whole nation admires our offenses. Now we back stuck into Bobby Reid era where the QB is a liability. This Gundy 101 Offense with no tweaking with an external OC is sad.
Without Bone Pickens now, I am afraid Gundy head may get too BIG.
What is sad is that we came into a rivalry game where our rival for a very long years NEVER did admit that we were their rival.
BUT. They came to the game well prepared, more fired up, well executed than we were.
We came out Flat, No energy, No new wrinkles, ..... Same Old Gundy 101 Offense.
Out coached every year!
This is very upsetting.
....and we abandon our the pocket passer Offenses that initiated by Holgerson in the Weeden era into the Chelf, Rudolph and Corndog era where the whole nation admires our offenses. Now we back stuck into Bobby Reid era where the QB is a liability. This Gundy 101 Offense with no tweaking with an external OC is sad.
Without Bone Pickens now, I am afraid Gundy head may get too BIG.
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Considering many of our team were apparently positive in the summer and they are talking about immunity possibly lasting years, I'd say most of our team should be fine.
This does make me wonder when you add up the fact that as late as Thursday they were talking about possibly postponing our game, how many guys did they play that were positive? Is it possible they did fudging on numbers so they would have plenty of people to play us?
I mean, the ou basketball team had to postpone their opening game today.
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This does make me wonder when you add up the fact that as late as Thursday they were talking about possibly postponing our game, how many guys did they play that were positive? Is it possible they did fudging on numbers so they would have plenty of people to play us?
I mean, the ou basketball team had to postpone their opening game today.
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