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but we are in year 4 of this nightmare, i'm done assuming he will fix it. so really it's the hopeful vs. the pessimists. and the pessimists have thrown their hands up and said, fuck it, just kick the FG. which I recognize is also a futile exercise.

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49 minutes ago, Park Gothic said:

This is the whole fucking thing here. Everyone is using stats to support the argument for going for the TD or settling for a FG, but the real problem is that Sark's playcalling inside the 10 has been terrible. I swear he was better at playcalling in the RZ when we had worse athletes. It's like he loses all feel for the game and for the defense. He's so worried about doing something stupid (like the final RZ sequence at the end of last season) that he decides to basically do nothing at all.

Run inside the tackles three times? With a QB sneak to cap it off? Everyone saw that coming. An idiot phoning in plays from his couch could have called those plays. You cannot play bully ball with a team like OSU. If you are going hard up the middle, do it when they aren't expecting it, or at least do it when they have to worry that you might do something else. 

Exactly.  I swear there is something about the field shrinking and the defense compressing that makes Sark's usually proudly swinging nuts retreat all the way up into his torso. 

I think it's mostly that he doesn't want to ruin a good drive with an interception and take points off the board.  But, Sark, my guy, we don't get the points half the fucking time anyway.  Let your nuts back out.

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On 8/30/2025 at 7:21 PM, mdmost said:

Going for it wasn't the issue. The play calling on 4th was. 

Yeah.  Against that defense, if I was going up the middle I would have used Baxter.  Arch is for going off tackle or outside in that situation.

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21 minutes ago, bullet said:

Yeah.  Against that defense, if I was going up the middle I would have used Baxter.  Arch is for going off tackle or outside in that situation.

Years back, Arky had a goal line specialty back who was  high-jump track guy. With the D-line going low, the O-line did, too, and the ball carrier went up and over, six feet high... not a hurdle, but a high jump. Seemed to work pretty well. 

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cbssn inside college football just now....

rick neuheisel said the way to prove to your team that you believe in them is to take 3 and tell the team it's on the defense, and sark didn't have to go 1 for 5 on 4th to prove his belief in the offense, and if he had taken some points maybe the game ends differently

 

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4 minutes ago, Hagbard Celine said:

cbssn inside college football just now....

rick neuheisel said the way to prove to your team that you believe in them is to take 3 and tell the team it's on the defense, and sark didn't have to go 1 for 5 on 4th to prove his belief in the offense, and if he had taken some points maybe the game ends differently

 

Everyone has been flipping out about Arch having a sub-par game, yet I'm really not worried about him in the least.  It's Sark's miserable decision making that's been our Achilles heel and it doesn't seem like it's going to get better anytime soon.  Take the points or just decide to make some smarter decisions besides run it up the gut repeatedly on the goal line and we win that game easily.  

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yup

haven't read the arch thread

there is so much win waiting to be sprung across the entire program

the ONLY ISSUE right now is the topic of this thread

at some point the hue and cry throughout the land will force the issue

the question is going to get asked whether cdc or sark want to hear it

coach, why do you run up the gut on every 4th down?  you are 10% on those calls - what does the binder say?  what should your success rate be?  what about taking free points in the red zone?

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