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Just the opposite.

Your post cant be any more wrong.

Luke is setting the table for a whale.

Replacing Tressel if he had gone out like we thought he would of been impossible.

Now a coach like Meyer can be viewed as a "savior".

Not going to DV you but I think that's total rubbish.
OSU has the 2nd wealthiest athletic dept in the nation, a great tradition and world class facilities, a young but talented roster, a top recruiting area, and the largest fanbase in the nation.
OSU is a destination job.

There is no way Fickell could destroy the short term. Coach Tressel already did that. Although Coach Tressel said he consults Bollman on the offensive play calling, it's woefully obvious that he surrounded his offensive staff with puppets who are below par coaches with the exception of Drayton (and Hazell when he was here). Usually a team has an OC that instills the offensive philosophy, but when he is your HC, Coach Fickell was screwed. I'm embarrassed that Coach Tressel allowed these guys to come in and collect a paycheck. We deserved better before and deserve better now.

Still, I'm not really angry with those that remain, but with those that left us in this position: the ultimate betrayal.

A couple of points:

1. LF will not hurt the program NEARLY as bad as JT and Terrelle Pryor have hurt the program. LF is truly in a "no win" situation - he's using Tressel's hand-me-downs, he's never been a HC before, and he inherited a team that is very young. None of this stuff is his fault, it's JT's fault.
2. Urban's head was not in it his last year at UF. Remember what happened around Christmas-time before his final season? He resigned, then came back - but his head was clearly not in it.

We're all going to have to endure this miserable year, but Gee/Smith better dig deep and get THE RIGHT coach for OSU. Personally, I'd like to see them grab Nick Sabin, but I don't think they would pay him enough.

False, the talent is there. A HC knows that if he brings his guys in, we'll be a winner in 2-3 years.

What an inane post.

First, Fickell is not going to hurt the team. He can go 3-9 and this team will be fine in the future. If anything that would help, if you brought in a new coach. If Fickell goes 7-5 and next year a new guy goes 8-4, it doesn't look so good. If it's 3-9 thhis year, 8-4 next year lloks like miracle work.

Secondly, Fickell is operating without a QB and without an OC. Tressel was the OC of this team, Bollman was just the senior offensive position coach and Tressel's eye in the sky. That's why this team has a good defense and no offense. Let's see how much they improve in Lincoln next weekend. Hopefully having Boom and Posey and Adams back will improve things. And hopefully Bollman getting humiliated for the second time this season will force him to loosen up, or force Fickell to loosen him up, or force Smith to let Fickell loosen Bollman up if Smith is holding Fickell back.

A lot of what happened today begins and ends with the offensive line play. Again, Bollman's responsiblity.

Fickell doesn't deserved to be judged until the season is over.

this team is coached and led so poorly that coaching candidates should be licking their chops to turn this around. most coaches worth a crap have an ego the size of ohio. if they watched today's game, don't you imagine they're thinking "i could do WAY better than this."? we could very easily win 5 games this year and 10 next year and the HC next year would look like an oracle.

As has been said before, we are all now dumber for having read your original post. Could we pay you to stop posting ?

Meyer said on the broadcast how much talent Ohio State has. He would love to step in and be a winner right away. Those kind of guys thrive on that!

Wasn't he offered the job in between the end of the season and the bowl game? I know he left while Tressel was still HC.

The entire premise of your post is DEAD WRONG. You have no idea what you are talking about.

TOP COACHES WON'T TAKE OVER REBUILDING PROJECTS:

Meyer took over UF in 2005. The 3 years prior (2002-2004), UF went 8-5, 8-5, 7-5. If that didn't look like a program in need of rebuilding when he took over, I don't know what does. Prior to that, he took over a Utah program coming off a 5-6 record.

Saban took over Bama that was 6-7 the prior year (2006). Prior to that he took over LSU when it was coming off a 3-8 record (1999).

Pelini took over Nebraska in 2008, after they ended 2007 5-7.

I think the point is proven. However, the same story is true of most of the top coaches.

IT'S ALL LUKE'S FAULT:

I too believe he is not ready to be a head coach...at least not at one of the top 5 programs in the country. However, he didn't put a gun to Smith's head and demand the job. The job was given to him. Should he have turned down his dream job, while it was in crisis and COULD NOT GET ANY DECENT CANDIDATE due to unknown NCAA findings/sanctions and it being JUNE 1? Hell no.

Luke is doing OSU an INCREDIBLE SERVICE taking over a job he's not ready for yet, while a NCAA / Media shit storm is underway, 5 top players are suspended half a season and fans were expecting a run at the NCG. He's doing the best he can and taking one for the team.

So if you need to assign blame for the bad performance, IMHO you start with Wexner/Gee/Smith for crumbling in the face of an SI article (which has since been shown to be false allegations from biased sources).

After that, you have to put some blame on Tressel for lying and the Tat-5 for doing what they knew was wrong (even if it should not have been a violation in a fair world).

Then you've got to put A LOT of blame on the offensive staff Fickell inherited. "Bollman is a joke" has been an often heard mantra around here since a few days after he arrived. And it's not like Fickell was empowered to replace that staff (or could find a decent one that close to the season). And since Luke has ZERO Offensive experience, it's not like he can fix it himself.

After you've handed out all that blame, then you can blame Fickell for not motivating the team or miraculously finding a way to turn the OL around or turn Bauserman/Miller into Andrew Luck or turn our WRs into Justin Blackmon.

SUMMARY:
You're premise was completely flawed and dead wrong. Then your assignment of blame is largely misdirected. Other than that, you nailed it.