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Pointing out florida's struggles this year and them being able to beat us with comfort only shows how bad the big ten is and how we have taken advantage over the years of playing in the big ten.

What would our record be in the sec in the last 10 years. I am willing to bet barely over .500 in conference play.

Look at the big ten's bowl record in the last 10 years.....enough said.

Let's keep the word "speed" out of the conversation. The elite teams whether they are in the SEC, BIG 12, PAC 12, have great football players....whether they are fast or quick or strong or great vision or whatever other quality you think a great player has these teams have them. OSU has some of those players but we don't have nearly enough. That's the only point I'm trying to make. Did we have bad coaching in 2011?? absolutely!! However, we have a talent gap that needs to be closed. Guys like Sweat, Sabino, Klein, Moeller, Goebbel, Bellamy, Hale, etc. are not even on the 2 or 3 deep on an elite team. How about that 5-star tackle Shugarts or our receivers? We don't have enough good football players and that's the first thing Meyer needs to correct and that's upgrading our roster!!

Agreed, then start adding in better paid assistants and we start to have a more plausible explanation as to why the SEC is dominating. But I agree, oversigning is the biggest reason, which incidentally allows you to keep the fastest athletes.

Fact. Some people don't like facts though, they get in the way of their arguments.

Meyer is going to build Ohio State back up again. It will take some time but I am confident of his coaching staff. This past staff was terrible and they are gone. Thank you Jesus! SEC is better than Ohio State right now in the trenches. OSU defense is alot better than the OSU offensive line right now. Meyer will get his recruits and he is going to tear up the Big Ten conference. Offensive line is going to get overhauled a lot next season. I cannot wait for next season. You are going to see a night and day change in this team. I feel sorry for the juniors who are going to be seniors for next season.

I didn't post much today as I really just sat in my recliner and observed without getting too overly emotional like I usually do. My expectations were low for this game given the coaching staff that we have. I expected to lose this game today and here are a few reasons (that we also saw play out on the field)...

* Florida has superior players -- they have out recruited us for the past ~5 years thanks to Meyer being there during those years
* Florida currently has a better coaching staff on their sideline than we had on ours
* Florida essentially had home field advantage
* Florida had no off-field distractions

And we saw everything play out...I was glad we came back and made it only a 1-score loss, not that it makes much difference, but I enjoyed watching the kids make that last drive happen so that they know they can do it in the future, and I thought Braxton overall did a good job throwing the ball with the exception of that one missed pass to Posey in the endzone -- definitely his area to work on along with pitching the ball on option plays and throwing the ball away when nothing is there.

Overall, our defense really didn't play all that bad -- I see a lot of people in the premium area ripping the defense apart...they only gave up 10 points and the first 7 was a result of some home-cookin' by the officials. That's pretty good given all the talent on that Florida roster. This loss is on the offense & special teams. The offense performed pretty much what is to be expected under Jim Bollman and Nick Siciliano. It looked like a monkey trying to fuck a football out there for the vast majority of the game until Florida went into prevent-defense on that last drive. And our special teams...wow. The fact that we haven't fixed all the problems with the special teams that have existed since 2010 is really disturbing, but I have a feeling it will get rectified this coming year since the ST coach for 2011 (Dick Tressel) is effectively fired after today along with many other assistant coaches on offense (Bollman, Siciliano, and Peterson).

All in all, let's be happy about a few things:

* Urban Meyer is now running the show 100%
* Jim Bollman has been fired
* Nick Siciliano has been fired
* There will be attrition during the off-season and we'll get rid of some dead weight
* Spring Ball is only 12 weeks away

Excellent break down i agree 100%

I only wish Meyer would let me be the one to call Jim Bollman and can his #%*

Meyer said playmakers is what OSU is missing. You don't need world class speed to be a playmaker. Some of you have swallowed the speed thing hook, line, and sinker. All teams have speed, but not all teams have playmakers.

lol. :)

You need to put playmakers in posistion to make plays and Jim Bollman had no clue how to do that his entire stint at OSU. Let's face it when we won it was by defense and having better talent. JT could not gameplan when the talent was equal.

bucki - totally agree. Add to that Florida probably wanted this game more (Urban is not exactly revered anymore down here in Florida where it is tough to be a tOSU and big ten alum) and a couple of special teams plays, and the outcome is totally understandable. We MUST not blow this laugher of a bowl out of proportion and assign any real significance. Urban will deliver on the recruits we need to get tOSO back to an elite program - perhaps more consistently than we ever have!

And we had no server to serve it. Imagine that, this season. We'll be okay, that's the beauty of it in the future.