It's too **cking late, is what it is.

It was definitely intentional, and the refs called the correct penalty, illegal participation, the Bucks would get the time back and 15 yards.

https://www.teamspeedkills.com/2010/8/10/1614007/know-your-annoying-penalties#:~:text=While%20illegal%20substitution%20is%20a,gets%20called%20on%20the%20defense.

Not sure Day knew the rule in the moment. Refs sure didn't.

Ha! beat me to it, KBN –– posted mine and then yours was right above it. Hope you win, dude.

275 – couple big tosses to Smith and Egbuka, with the run game rolling.

Sure, you can find deals in different ways to get Peacock.

That doesn't help with the garbage announcers, analysis, the picture that's barely HD and goes in and out, and then coming back from commercials late to play already in progress.

Keels and Andrews for hoops on those days.

This team has athletes – 

Pumped to see Bradshaw. Pumped to see what Thornton can do without so much on his shoulders w/ Meechie alongside. Pumped to see how Royal skyrockets. Very intrigued by Njegovan.

It's football season, and I love football – but man, I hope Diebler and crew are successful. After he took over, our team was a can't miss watching appointment.

Thx, Bsk33 – appreciate the heads-up!

Must be a nice change for Andrew Siciliano. Poor guy is tasked with play-by-play for the Browns –– Saturday night he'll have the opportunity to see a functional football program in action.

Color by Colt McCoy, tho.

I'll roll with Keels and Lachey.

and unless you're an offensive player, like a running back, ramming your head into a linebacker.

the way the refs call the rule is uneven and unfair to the defense and only accomplishes their stated goal in a minority of cases.

Imagine paying a dude who was present for the illegal sign-stealing and practice footage hacks $5.5 million to field the stuff that we've seen in the big outhouse through the first three weeks of the season.

I'd need to take a balpene hammer to my prefrontal cortex in order for it to make sense.

boom! lol. 

BF, you forgot the asterisk (*) after "national championship winners".

Except for bought and paid for media (e.g., Klatt, Wetzel, Auerbach), there's only one group of people who recognize yellow and blue's title, and their opinion is worthless.

The cryer will be the oline coach in Baltimore by '26 at the latest.

Don't forget losing to what turned out to be a 3-9 Stanford team in '22.

Maybe beating a perennially overrated A&M team by the skin of their teeth in the last two minutes of the game didn't mean much after all.

and stealing, what is supposed to be secure, practice footage

that's the next shoe to fall

Another self-loathing fan of the yellow and blue lost in message board trolling.

Lame.

seems a taller, slower, mouthier, (somehow) lower-quality passing version of shoelace

ttun qb play is back to normal

Haha, nice BB. Loved that subtle, multi-level dig on the bawling hc and ttun fans, too.

While also tweeting about God blessing him and the cheaters and helping them overcome adversity.

(eyes roll so far into the back of my head they fall out my backside)

LOL, had a similar joke in mind, scrolled to see if it was taken... except my rack-suit was from TJ Maxx.

Great to hear, PS24.

There's been a handful of storylines to follow in the offseason around improvement of different position groups (e.g., oline). If the Buckeyes tighten up the ST units that may very well pay big dividends in tough games (i.e., Ducks and PSU).

Field position, especially –– pinning down on punts and getting decent returns –– and actually executing trickery when needed –– a big, big deal given the talent on offense and defense.

Man.

You all have tears welling up in my eyes.

My pops would take us down from Wooster (where I grew up) for a couple games a year growing up. Always headed to Long's Bookstore (gone, I know) for a new t-shirt or sweatshirt for the game. Reading your recs took me back to being a kid walking down High and around the Shoe. I'm now out west and work for the Ducks doing SPED research, but we never miss a game. Never. I'll be at Autzen on 10/12 in scarlet and gray.

I'm now leaning toward surprising my girl with tix and going to the Akron game!! If not, we'll take you all up on most or all of these.

Thanks so much, everyone.

GO BUCKS!!

McCord didn't trust what he was seeing enough

Maybe what I'm about to say is similar to what you meant by the above phrase, KJ, given you used the word "indecision" a couple sentences later. I'd say it like this...

We saw glimpses...but, over the course of the season and against tcun, McCord did not consistently (a) progress thru reads, (b) quickly diagnose where to go with the ball, (c) set his feet, (d) place the ball where needed, and (e) run when it was open.

All season long the camera would pan to Day, and his face said everything –– "Man, this guy isn't Justin and CJ."

In the context of your analysis of the schemes, which I find both interesting and helpful, KJ...

If McCord hit a few of his inexcusably errant throws, didn't hold onto the ball so long so often, had his feet properly set, and less regularly keyed on a single receiver/route (esp Marv), I think the Buckeyes win the '23 game.

In other words, even with what seemed like overly conservative playcalls and suspect oline play at times, along with any advantage in health/freshness and residual adv from knowing plays that tcun had, CJ and Fields win that game b/c they more consistently accomplished the things I listed above b/c they are night and day better quarterbacks in Day's system than what McCord proved to be last season.