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  1. OK man that’s cool. I just tend to judge players based on a larger sample size than one game. Against 7 common opponents, Ollie had a significant edge in production. And again - Tahj is two years older than Ollie. You’re comparing a four-year senior starter to a true sophomore who has been the full-time stater for less than a season. You think Ollie might be somewhat tougher to bring down consistently two years from now with continued physical development and significantly more in-game experience?
  2. Yeah tbh I’m not a huge fan of all the histrionics during games.
  3. Brooks is really good for sure. But I feel like you are basing this just off Gordon’s performance against Texas, which had more to do with your D-line dominating our OL than anything Ollie did or didn’t do. Brooks and Gordon faced seven common opponents in conference play - WVU, Houston, K-State, Kansas, BYU, UCF and Texas. Their stats in those seven games: Gordon - 163 carries, 975 yards (6.0 ypc), 14 TDs Brooks - 169 carries, 859 yards (5.1 ypc), 6 TDs And because they weren’t common opponents, those exclude two of Ollie’s statistically best games (OU and Cincy). It’s also worth mentioning that Brooks was a senior this year while Ollie was/is a true sophomore. When Ollie is Brooks’ age, he’ll be on an NFL team not playing college ball. Brooks is really good to be sure, but there’s a reason Ollie won the Doak Walker Award.
  4. It wasn’t his best game to be sure, but I mean - he ran for 100+ yards against a stacked box and an entire defensive game plan designed to stop him. You could see that in our approach as well - Bowman threw it 49 times (most attempts on the season).
  5. It’s really more than that. We basically have everyone back except for Bowman (probably). We’re also getting Stribling back from injury which is basically like pulling an elite receiver out of the portal. The fact that spare parts like Leon Johnson and Rashad Owens were out there piling up 100-yard receiving games after Ollie got going really makes me wonder what kind of insane numbers Stribling would have put up in that stretch. He will be a HUGE problem next year for teams stacking the box to stop Ollie. I also am very bullish on defensive improvement next year. For starters it will be year 2 of Nardo, and so there will just be some improvement based on having the same DC for two years in a row, which we haven’t had since 2020-21. The biggest problem BY FAR with the defense this year was our freshmen safeties getting abused by any team with a competent downfield passing game. We kind of knew those guys were gonna take some lumps this year and once teams figured out they were easily confused they were picked on constantly. Some of that will just improve year-over-year based on accumulated experience. The biggest factor for OSU ceiling next year will be what happens with the QB situation. You know what your’e gonna get with Bowman, but we’ll see if we decide to try and pluck someone out of the portal or just roll with one of our young guys. Given everything around them (experienced OL, Ollie, experienced and deep WR corp) it would seem to be the ideal season to break in a young QB, but the normal “young QB” lumps could happen, but then also one of those guys (Flores maybe) could have a much higher ceiling than Bowman. We’ll see. But on the other side of the equation, the schedule is fairly difficult. We are stupidly playing South Dakota State for some reason (currently undefeated and about to play in the FCS championship game) and Arkansas in non-conference and we have road games in conference at K-State, BYU, Colorado, Baylor and TCU and home games with Arizona State, Utah, TTU and WVU. We basically play every serious conference contender next year except Arizona.
  6. Obviously you never saw Teen Wolf Too.
  7. Thanks! Yeah he’s fully recovered. And yeah it was pretty wild having him on active duty in Europe during and after 9/11 and Afghanistan/Iraq, etc. As luck would have it, because he decided to go overseas for his first deployment and was forward-deployed in Kosovo for a time, he had rotated back to the U.S. and was at Leonardwood basically right when the second Gulf War started. Then his back thing happened shortly after that and so he never had to go, but most of his USMA buddies who didn’t do an over-seas deployment did go and, sadly, his best friend from USMA was killed in Falluja. It was wild because it made national news because of what happened (basically some ISIS dudes disguised themselves as Iraqi military, got access to a U.S. base and just grabbed the first few guys they saw and my brother’s buddy just happened to be one of them. So sad.) One interesting thing he did state-side was joined the Army Corp of Engineers down in New Orleans in the aftermath of Katrina/Rita. (He’s a civil engineer). He was there for several months working on re-buidling the levees. The photos he has from his time there are pretty incredible. I remember he sent photos from some kind of command center he was in when Rita hit after Katrina…. They were sitting there watching live video of the levees they had just repaired get breached again. Crazy.
  8. Hey sorry I know this is from a few weeks ago. No he didn't do the full 20 years. He retired from active duty after only about 6-7 years. I don't recall exactly how many years it was, but basically after he graduated from USMA he was in Europe for about 4 years... stationed in Schweinfurt, Germany,... after that he came back the U.S. and was at Ft. Leonardwood in Missouri for a few years and while he was there he fucked up his back in a training thing badly enough where it required surgery. (I don't recall the years exactly - this was all in the early 2000s) Anyway - after the injury he had the option to retire from active duty at that point and so he decided to go ahead and do that. (I don't recall exactly how many years of active duty is required when you graduate... I think it's 7 or 8... I think he basically shaved a year off due to the injury)
  9. I don’t get how this is “shitting all over you.” He literally gives a high-level summary like this about every team we play every single week. Just because the title is some stupid click-baity headline doesn’t mean that was what the actual content was. He’s just talking about general offensive concepts not “predicting the playcalling”, FFS.
  10. Huh? Let's review key players who left and why: Mason Cobb (LB) - got NIL payday from USC Jabbar Muhammad (CB) - got NIL payday from Washington Thomas Harper (S) - got NIL payday from Notre Dame Spencer Sanders - wanted a bigger NIL payday than he had at OSU - settled for Ole Miss when no other options came to pass. Rode the bench all year. Bryson Green (WR) - portaled to Wisconsin because he was behind two other WR starters at X Braylin Presley (WR) - portalted to Tulsa because he said he wanted to be given a shot at RB (lol he's 5'8" and like 165 pounds - barely played on a shitty Tulsa team this year) John Paul Richardson (WR) - really the only head-scratcher. Portaled to TCU. Gets to stay home for the holidays now instead of playing in the Big 12 title game. It would have been nice to have JPR this year with all of the WR injuries we had; really Muhammad and Harper were the only big losses, but not much you can do if you're out-bid by richer programs.
  11. GO ARMY! Both my Dad and brother are Army vets. Dad was infantry in 'Nam (in the shit). My brother went to West Point and retired as an Army Captain. (Retired from the Army, that is. He's currently a VP at a regional construction company.)
  12. 100%. This is what I was saying from the very beginning about Deion. There's VERY FEW programs out there that can win just by accumulating the most talent, and even then it's not just "plug and play." He was able to do that at Jackson State because of the low competition for talent at that level, but life in the P5 can come at you fast, and every game is a battle unless you're one of the 2-3 super elite talent factories. You need to build up quality depth and continuity, especially on the OL/DL and I can't see any way he's going to do that with his current strategy. That HAS to be done through mostly HS recruiting/development and then augmented by the portal, not the other way around.
  13. Good grief that hadn't even occurred to me. That's a run that would make 2022 TCU blush.
  14. I’m not sure I’d put a ton of stock in one game played in a snowstorm where KSU basically had nothing to play for. They were blowing everyone out for about a month. I think they’re a good team.
  15. This has been, without question, the weirdest season in Gundy’s tenure, even if you throw out the non-conference games, which Gundy inexplicably decided to treat like NFL pre-season games, the variability in performance has been all over the place from week-to-week or even within the same games. The team’s only real sustained run of mostly excellent play was the stretch of the K-State game through Bedlam. Then there was the absolute no-show at UCF followed by the bizarre Jekyll and Hyde performances in the Houston and BYU games. It wouldn’t surprise me at all of we get blown out on Saturday, but the only thing I’ll say is this the kind of spots that Gundy typically excels in. We’ll see.
  16. I know. Playing the actual game is basically pointless.
  17. Sure but let's not act like Colorado was firing out 1 win seasons every year for a half decade or something. He basically brought them back to where they were (more or less) before they cratered to 1-11 in 2022: 2021: 4-8 2020: 4-2 2019: 5-7 2018: 5-7 2017: 5-7 So yes it's an improvement over the abject disaster of 2022 but they averaged 4.8 wins in the prior 4 full seasons they played before 2022. (And even managed a winning record in the Covid year) And if you go back one more year to 2016 they were 10-3. (Yes that was kind of fluky but 10 wins is 10 wins) Their 2024 schedule has quite a few landmines: OOC: North Dakota State (high potential for yikes) @ Nebraska (Ruhel in year 2 will probably be much better) @ Colorado State (will be tough) Big 12 home games: Baylor (who knows - maybe winnable) Oklahoma State (TBD based on Ollie Gordon returning and who's at QB) Kansas State (likely tough) Cincy (probably winnable) Big 12 road games: Arizona (likely very tough) Kansas (assuming Daniels is there will be tough) Texas Tech (probably tough) UCF (probably tough) They could very well be 0-3 after the non-conference schedule. There's a lot of roster unknowns right now but getting both OSU and KSU at home will be nice for them. I could see best case for them beating Cincy and Baylor and then one of OSU/KSU at home and then winning one of the 4 road games. Looking at the schedule on its face it seems like it may be pretty tough for them to get past 4-5 wins. But again, we'll have to see where everyone stands after the big game of musical chairs is done.
  18. Honestly what I'm hoping for is we bust these out since y'all are wearing the whites. This is our best uniform look by far. We've come close to basically making this standard, but we just need to bust out the original OSU brand on the helmet.
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    Yep! Had to go find an obscure post from PearlJam.com to figure out which version I got. I guess all of them had the 9 Polaroids, but depending on which song was listed on the back of each one determined which “Version” you got… I guess there were 6 different “versions”: N-O-C-O-D-E. Apparently I got the “C” version.
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    Fun little haul from Josey today. This is the “C” version of the No Code remaster from 2016. I’ve been on the lookout for this for a while and they had this pristine copy at my local store for $40. Couldn’t pass it up.
  21. Yep. This tie-breaker hell is going to be an annual thing that people are just gonna have to get used to. You know a scenario is coming in a major conference where you get like 3 undefeated teams in the same year. That'll make for some fun, level-headed discussions I'm sure...
  22. Was gonna say. Texas losing to Tech is really what potentially throws the whole thing into tie-breaker hell chaos. If Texas wins, it's pretty straightforward and it will likely come down to the OSU-BYU game since we'll know the outcome of OU-TCU at that point. Assuming OU wins then it's either OSU (if they beat BYU) or OU (if OSU loses).
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