Smart Football Scathing Review of OSU

This is tremendous piece written by Smart Football's Chris Brown. He rips apart Jim Tressell, and rightfully so. I was watching that game and could not imagine being an Ohio State fan having to endure that completely unimaginitive offense.

There were many great points, but the one about the zone read really stood out in my mind. Pryor is supposed to be the best athlete on the field, yet his athleticism was never used. I agree Jim Tressell just is not an elite coach. He is a good coach, coaching at an elite institution.

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To make it more Alabama-centric (no that is not a real word), is that it reminds me so much of the frustration I used to have when Shula was running our offense. I still loathe the term “Jumbo Package.”

by Kenny483 on Sep 14, 2009 12:09 PM CDT reply actions

this article raises an interesting – and somewhat disturbing – point. if his analysis of tressell’s dominance over the conference is correct, then it implies that the balance of power is pretty much cyclical in the Big Ten. when Ohio State is up, Michigan is down, oh look Penn State is playing out of their minds… etc, etc, etc.

this happens in other conferences too (as anyone with a passing familiarity of the history between alabama and auburn will attest) but the problem is usually within the conference, not at the conference level itself. the dominant team in the sec (and other conferences with a championship game) is going to be clearly defined by their success in that final contest – not by the vagaries of the balance of power.

the problem is that without a conference championship to establish the bcs bona fides of the team at the top of the heap, the big ten will always have an edge for the national championship. every conference with a championship games runs a risk of having a one-loss winner making the Big Ten the default opponent for whichever squad is lucky enough for the computers to smile upon.

by kleph on Sep 14, 2009 12:56 PM CDT reply actions

also...

…from now on, chris might want to double check any coolers he has before putting anything into them.

by kleph on Sep 14, 2009 1:17 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs

+1 and rec'd

i seen one first hand… it was the 4th quarter of the 06 BCS title game, as we were leaving through the Westgate parking lot. no lid on a styrofoam one.

welcome to the SEC kiffykins...

by tempebamafan on Sep 15, 2009 2:54 AM CDT up reply actions

The only problem with complaining about this fact is that the conferences with championship games chose to have them. No one put a gun to their heads and said “you must do this.” It’s an optional thing if you have 12 teams, not a requirement.

So if it is that big a detriment to have a league title game, it’s a self-inflicted wound.

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by Year2 on Sep 14, 2009 1:20 PM CDT up reply actions

i’m less complaining than trying to point out one of the ancillary truisms that this analysis seems to imply. the forces that work to compel a conference to hold a championship game (or not) have little to do with the reasoned understanding of how that decision effects the process of selecting a national championship team.

by kleph on Sep 14, 2009 1:39 PM CDT up reply actions