M-Borg vs. THE Flavortown U Thread, Orig. by Buckeye Paul, absconded w/by talent.

[crashcourse]

smarty jones lock

[Jeff Buchanan]

osu's back end is getting abused by Peyton Ramsey and Mike Debord. MIKE DEBORD! Getting beat on the regular in single coverage. Shiano better figure out how to tighten that up because it's been there the whole game. Ramsey has missed two deep balls and made about 5 others, two for TDs.

[Hannibal]

[Jeff Buchanan]

OSU is dead last in giving up plays over 40y. Tom Allen has seen this weakness and is taking advantage.

28/20 osu at the half. I don't think IU can shut down osu's offense but they might be able to keep up and snatch a win late with a big play down field v. osu's weak back end play.

Go Hoosiers

[Jeff Buchanan]

The problem with osu's shitty back end play is that they are really good on offense. They don't care. Haskins with 6 TDs v. IU. Awfully hard to keep up with that and IU's D isn't chopped liver.

[WingsFan]

Meyer had a headache on the sideline. He went down to one knee in the fourth quarter needed attention from the trainers, stayed in the game. I get lots of headaches, never went down to a knee though, never even heard of someone going to a knee from a headache. Jeff?

[iam416]

OSU is trash. Should finish 2nd in East, but jesus

[Jeff Buchanan]

He went zinging down the side line after a play and collided with another coaching staff member taking a blow to the head. When I first saw him kneeling with his hand on his head and no mention of getting hit, I thought brain aneurysm ! Nope, he just got whacked.

[Jeff Buchanan]

OSU is trash. Should finish 2nd in East, but jesus

Sandbagging alert.

[WingsFan]

Oh thank you I didn't see that part

[Dr. Strangelove]

Fairly typical Indiana game. They score a lot; we score more.

[WingsFan]

I have notice UM has been prancing around like a girl on the sidelines (even more than usual) this year, its was only a matter of time he ran into someone or tripped over his feet.

[Detroit Dan]

I just watched the Haskins highlights against Penn State. https://youtu.be/xpZDMzavmvk I saw him throw one pass over 10 yards, which went about 12 yards in the air. In other words, he did not complete a single long pass (through the air, YAC were off the charts). I haven't seen any other OSU games, but what impressed me in this one were the OSU athletes and YAC.

[Dr. Strangelove]

Purdue delayed, delayed, and delayed announcing a game time and finally do: it's a 7:30 PM start.

Boooooooooo. That kills my road trip plans.

[Jeff Buchanan]

The delay was because here's what the networks were dealing with this particular weekend's BIG match-ups:

Maryland @ Iowa
Michigan @ MSU
NW @ Rutgers
Illinois @ Wisconsin
PSU @ IU
Minny @ Neb
osu @ Purdue

The question first involves contractual issues - who gets which games in the pecking order - and which games have the best TV draw for marketing purposes. At one point the M/MSU game might have been a good ABC national game pick at 3:30 or even 7:30. Not anymore .... too regional and Sparty isn't that good. I think ABC gets the first pick in the pecking order and went with a regional game at 3:30 and Prime time game in West Lafayette. Weird.

The rest is shit except osu at PU and PSU at IU could be marginally interesting. Don't think Purdue will be in it ("they score points we score more") but it draws a nice mid-west audience that includes Chicago. Without white out IU, featuring Tom Allen/Mike Debord v. James Franklin. could give PSU a run and be an interesting game.

So FOX draws the M/MSU game at noon, ESPN2 gets Maryland and Iowa also at noon. The BTN gets NW and Rutgers and Illinois and Wisconsin goes to FS1. Nobody is going to watch these games and it is why they are where they are.... and I think that is the pecking order for choosing games after ABC gets it's slots for 3:30 and 7:30.

PSU @ IU is the ABC/ESPN Regional game at 3:30 (NCSU @ Clemson is the other regional), Minny at Neb is the BTN 3:30 game and finally osu, Purdue is the ABC's national prime time game at 7:30. Woof!