Willyville Guy

Sure, what the hell, I'm obsessed with Michigan (mostly to feed my hate) so I'll chime here. As an OL coach, Warriner took a line that underperformed early in 2014, and helped them improve over the course of a season that included surviving OT in Happy Valley, pushing back one of the best defenses at MSU that I can remember, outlasting a game Michigan squad, and then of course the epic run all the way to a national title in front of a QB carousel. Promoting him to OC was a mistake; if you look back at the Go Bucks thread on here I bet you'll find several posts calling for Warriner to move back to OL. This is a high quality position coach who knows the B1G very well, and maybe most important he understands exactly what Urban is trying to do at OSU. GREAT hire for Harbaugh. Regardless of the coaches, Michigan's dreams will rise or fall on whether Shea Patterson is granted a waiver to play this year as a transfer student. Last year that team had plenty of talent but the piss poor QB play completely derailed the season. If Patterson plays I'd expect to see the swagger come back in a hurry and, well, I'm old enough to know what can happen then.

I read today that they have a record eight five-star recruits. Incredible.

The bad news is that the flip means UGA likely has the No. 1 class in the nation instead of OSU, but the good news is that Michigan's class is pretty much gutted. On balance, I'm fine with it.

If by "weird" you mean "amazing," then I agree! BOOM! News about Petit-Frere and Schiano is not a bad way to start the day.

Not ideal. But this is why Urban has two coordinators on both sides of the ball, right? We’ll see how it plays out - there are plenty of great coaches looking to step into the NFL on-deck circle in Columbus.

Very grateful to Eric Wood for what he gave to the Bills as a player and leader. Sucks to see it end like this.

The divide, as I understand it, is really between Tressel-era people and Urban-era people. Vrabel played for Cooper, and I don’t think Buckeyes from the 90s really fall into either camp. (Bruce-era Buckeyes may tend to support Urban because of his time with the program back then.) He’s kind of an enigma to me. I liked him for stepping up for Fickell when the team was in disarray, but he’s never been one of the solid guys around the program from that era like, for example, Matt Finkes. Joey, on the other hand, is part of a family with an unimpeachable commitment to Ohio State. So if Joey thinks Vrabel is BS, I give that a lot of weight. That said, I agree 100% about the rigors of CFB and life on the road. Taking a sweet NFL position and relieving himself of the travel must have been very attractive to Coombs, who was never going to run his own program, regardless of Vrabel and his relationship with OSU. Separately, I see that several Buckeye insiders view Day as a Tom Herman type of coach — maybe even a successor to Urban. I’m not quite there. Day came in to fix the QB position, and in my view he didn’t do it last year. I see the accolades from JT and Burrow and others, and the Chip Kelly endorsement is significant, but the evidence wasn’t on the field in 2017. Herman, by contrast, got the offense going immediately. And his press conferences were must-see internet because he was so smart and forthright about what was happening and why. I don’t see any of that in Day right now.

Joey calling him a fake buckeye is devestating.

I agree with all that, although I'm skeptical about the "altercation" rumors between Urban and Vrabel from a few years back. Not too worried about Coombs's departure with the new guy already in place. I'll miss his recruiting and legendary pep talks more than anything. "Why are you taking water? We're stretching! And you're a kicker!"

Coach Coombs to the Titans just days after Urban held off an effort to recruit Coach Day to the Titans. Vrabel needs to chill out on going after the entire OSU staff.

Love it. I’m pretty pumped up today.

Another weapon returning

This is absolutely insane...

Crazy. I’m getting on a flight at DFW - enjoy the rest of the game fellas.

?? QB change by Nick might have driven the rest of the team’s intensity through the roof.

There is no way Saban would bench Hurts in the second half of a natty game, is there? I wouldn’t. EDIT: I guess so!!

Not sure the Sooners defense would get this many stops. Fowler is no Musberger. I miss rants about girlfriends, betting lines, etc. Instead we get “these dogs are barking”?

I haven’t read this whole thread but Tyrod isn’t even the worst BILLS passer we’ve seen #BillyJoe

Not to make this thread a discussion about hip hop, but I like Kendrick Lamar.

No way. Bama’s punter from the OSU-Bama playoff game still gives me nightmares. Unreal. Bring that guy to Buffalo.

Fromm!

Saban’s punters are the best punters.

The old Statue of Liberty play for Hurts goes for a big play!

Same guy imo.

Lol at that simulcast. JT Barrett was Ohio State’s starting quarterback from 1879-2017.