Imagine your team’s school record for receiving yards in a single game is only 346

Submitted by Cousin Larry on January 1st, 2022 at 10:05 PM

Lulz.

Durham Blue

January 2nd, 2022 at 10:54 AM ^

I just re-watched that 2013 game against Indiana on YouTube.  Michigan scored 63 points and gave up 47 points.  The 369 yards by Gallon was amazing.  But how in the hell did a defense with Des Morgan, Frank Clark and Jake Ryan get lit up for 47 points?

And Fitz Toussaint was a beast.  Incredible combination of speed, elusiveness and power.

I mentioned in a different thread that I have very vague memories of the Hoke era even though I watched every game.  Re-watching this game on YouTube was like seeing it for the first time.

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andrewgr

January 2nd, 2022 at 12:36 PM ^

I assume this was shorthand for, "Utah wins that game with a healthy QB while Ohio State still needs to play the whole game without 24 scholarship players, including two 1st round wide receivers, their first-day draft pick starting right tackle, and four defensive starters."

In which case, yes, you're probably right.

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Cam

January 1st, 2022 at 10:25 PM ^

Imagine giving up 45 points to a depleted offense that averaged 35 ppg in the PAC-12 when you have 5 stars at every position. 

Ryan Day is a shitty Lincoln Riley.

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andrewgr

January 2nd, 2022 at 7:00 PM ^

Julian Fleming was the #1 rated recruit at any position when he came in, and barring bad luck, will be healthy for the first time next year.  Marvin Harrison is as talented as any wide receiver on the roster.  Emeka Egbuka has been the best kick return Ohio State has had since Ginn, and the only reason he's not already a household name at WR is because he was sitting behind everyone else.  That's before you add in their four incoming WR's, who are rated the #9, #10, #15, and #23 WRs in the country.  Ohio State's WR corps next year will be as good, if not better, than this year.

The Buckeyes' success next year will depend entirely on what their new Defensive Coordinator can do.  There is too much talent there to be performing as poorly as they have in recent years.  Part of it is their secondary being so talented that they get drafted early, having 'learned on the job' but not having stuck around long enough to pay dividends; but mostly, it's coaching.  Even average defensive coaching would produce a top 30 defense with the kind of talent OSU trots out every year, and a program like Ohio State should be able to do a hell of a lot better than an average DC.  It wasn't crazy for Day to give Coombs his first ever crack at being a DC, but it was a gamble, and it failed big time.  

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Wendyk5

January 1st, 2022 at 10:46 PM ^

Didn't want to start a new thread but what's going on with Marcus Williamson, who "retired" before the Rose Bowl? He's lighting up Twitter tonight with some anti-Urban Meyer anti-OSU fan stuff. I know nothing about this -- kind of odd, no?

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Hotel Putingrad

January 1st, 2022 at 11:09 PM ^

It's mostly a reaction to Herbie's comments about today's players "not loving football" enough to suit his tastes. Williamson was just providing fuller context to what these guys went through at OSU and how no one should question their level of commitment when there are so many other questionable things about big time college football.

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LSAClassOf2000

January 1st, 2022 at 11:12 PM ^

I was reading some of that, and all I will say is that we all knew that Urban Meyer was a piece of shit, but to read these things from someone who had the misfortunate of having to face the man every day.....the picture gets rounded out in unexpected ways. I think much of it is more about what Herbstreit said today, but there are a few tidbits about Meyer, yes.

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Wendyk5

January 2nd, 2022 at 9:30 AM ^

He apparently retired from the team right before the Rose Bowl and didn't travel. He was a 5th year guy. I think the Twitter stuff was set off by Kirk Herbstreit criticizing players who opted out of their bowls for financial reasons. In a long thread, he laid out how athletes, and particularly athletes of color, are used by the system, from high school on up to college and the NCAA, without compensation of any kind. He also called out Urban Meyer in no uncertain terms but I didn't read all the tweets -- it seemed to have a decidedly racist bent to it. Others can probably fill that one in. The tweet above was him calling out the Ohio State fanbase, saying they had a low football IQ, but maybe he took that one down. I'll click on it and find out. 

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Qmatic

January 2nd, 2022 at 1:26 AM ^

Good for Williamson. Use his platform to show all of this. These are young men who have been given an opportunity. Coach them. Help them to achieve in life. 

As an inner-city coach, the exploitation of young men; in-particular men of color for personal gain disgusts me. To think someone would treat my athletes (or my son who also is black) like how he claims he was treated is beyond despicable. It is one thing to challenge and push someone to better the person, it is another to berate them and make them subhuman. 

F anyone who does that no matter what university you represent

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