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Hello, everybody.
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Welcome to the Buckeye Weekly Podcast. I'm Tony Gerderman here,
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as always, with Tom for Tom.
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How's it going?
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Tony, I don't know how I'm doing because I don't
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know what we're talking about today because I asked you before, like, okay,
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what are we going to talk about? He's like, oh, no,
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don't worry about it. We're just going to, we're just
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going to, you're going to react to things that people
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have sent in. So, Tony, why don't you tell me
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how I'm doing?
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Tom, you're doing just fine. And we're going to talk
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it out. And this is, again, we're continuing our series
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on Fact or Fiction in terms of a tweet that
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I sent out earlier in the week asking people to
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let us know what they believe the issue to be
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with Ohio state football is right now and why they
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have lost four of their last 10. Why have they
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lost two games this year? And so again, a ton
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of responses, a ton of replies. I'm trying to distill
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it down into, uh, more than a big handful of
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answers and interesting talking points. And so we're just going to,
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I guess, use it as therapy for everybody. We'll talk
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through this. We'll eventually get our, all of our, our,
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our thoughts out and, uh, Whether some of this is fact,
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some of this is fiction, that's ultimately kind of what
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we're going to be talking about. But through it all,
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we're just going to allow you to be heard. And really,
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that's all therapy is. I bet that's all it is.
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It's just talking and getting it out of your chest
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rather than leaving it up into a ball inside of
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your stomach. So on top of the first one here
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is from at Gene underscore Ross 23. And this one
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had this response to me. Had 28 retweets and 207
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likes on Twitter.
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I bet it's a mild, not particularly strong opinion then.
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Go on.
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Yeah.
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The head coach got complacent and lowered the standard of
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the program because his fear of losing is greater than
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his desire to win. And to me, like, there's a
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lot to unpack there. There's like three different things here.
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And I guess let's just take the first part of it.
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The head coach... got complacent I don't know that I
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would say fiction on that because where is the complacency
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I guess is what I would ask.
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Yeah complacent is like you're sitting back on your laurels
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and going well my job here is done and I
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don't think that's at all what they've done they have
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I mean like half the team this year is new
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they brought in 51 new players so I don't think
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there's been a lot of sitting around and not doing
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a lot, and they are not just sitting back and going, well,
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we're just going to do exactly what we've always done
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on offense, and that I'm sure is going to be great.
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They brought in a new offensive coordinator this year who
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has a very different philosophy and a very different area
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of expertise than Ryan Day does on offense. So I
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don't think that's the case there. And on defense, you
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went and you went with a very non-traditional defensive coordinator
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before last season. and have had pretty good results there
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by and large since he's been there. So I don't
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think I really think it's complacency there. And on special teams,
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you went out and you brought in a new special
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teams coordinator. How's that going? Shut up. Stop asking impertinent questions,
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but they did bring in a new, a special teams
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coordinator this year. So yeah, I complacency. I think that's like,
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like the most fictional fiction there is.
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I think it's so complacent that are so fictiony. fictitious
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that if like brian herline had not gone to usf
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i don't know that he's back calling plays this year
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i think they needed some changes there as well but
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yeah i mean i i
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don't understand the complacency aspect
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of it other than well you're you keep allowing the
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losing it's like well that's not what they're shooting for
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um and then lowered the standard of the programs because
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his fear of losing is greater than his desire to win.
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Let's just pick up the first part of that of
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lowering the standard of the program. And I'll say this
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with Transfer Portal and NIL now, everybody's standard is lowered
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in terms of how you maintain a program. And, you know,
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everybody will look back to like Urban Meyer's time and
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he would have never allowed this to happen. What would
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the lowering, what would the standards have looked like with
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the portal there and NIL there. We saw what happened
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in 2015 when they came back from a national championship
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and they were very excited and satisfied.
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You want to know what complacency looks like. That's what
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complacency looks like.
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Right. And imagine them now as all millionaires as well.
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And just imagine what that team would have looked like.
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So like the standard of the program is something that
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Ryan Day always talks about. You got to maintain the standard.
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You got to play to the standard. It doesn't matter
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if your backup going in, there's a standard that you
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have to maintain. The problem is, and we've talked about
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it before, the backups that go in now generally are
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third stringers, would normally be third or fourth stringers because
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the backups generally, the backups go in, play somewhere else,
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and start. So the standard of the program, I think,
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is just lowering the standard. I would disagree with that,
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but also agree in a sense, I'd say it's fact
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in that this is not Ryan Day doing this. This
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is the nature of the sports.
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Right. Like, the level has gone down in a way, like,
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the level of the ocean goes down when you're at
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the beach when the tide goes out. Like, it's not
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because the ocean's not trying. It's because that's sort of
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how it's going. Stupid mood. Stupid moon, yes. It is,
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I think... one of these things where people haven't completely
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adjusted their expectations to the new realities of college football.
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Cause we run into this on our message board all
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the time where it's like, I don't understand why Ohio
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state doesn't have a better backup where if Jay Timmons leaves,
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then you know, they, they're playing someone, they have to
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play a true freshman like Simeon Caldwell in that spot.
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And I don't understand why you don't have someone way
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better than that. It's like, well, cause the guy who
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was way better than that, who probably would have been
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in that spot is Bryce West. And he's currently, uh,
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getting paid like a starter and playing as a starter
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for the Wisconsin Badgers, who were also having a pretty
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good season. You don't keep all the guys that you
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would have kept before. Like you go through the 2024,
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2025 recruiting classes. So many of those guys are gone already.
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And some of them are playing other places. Some of
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them are not, you know, I'm not saying Aaron Scott's
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name because we'll see Aaron Scott this weekend at Ohio Stadium.
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He will be standing on the sidelines and not doing
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a whole lot generally because he has not played a
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whole lot. But there are guys who have left who
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have been guys who are playing big roles at their
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new schools. And that's something that everyone's running into. And
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it's like, well, I don't understand why Ohio State can't
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do more to do that. So it's like, point me
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to the school that has as much depth as they
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had five years ago. Like, show me, show me the
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team in the nation that has as much depth as
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they had 10 years ago, five years ago. Like, it
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doesn't exist. And that's why you're getting these results where, okay,
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why is Ohio State losing games to teams where
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a favorite? Like, they lost to They just lost to USC.
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Why are you losing to USC? Well, who is the
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example that you want to follow of the team that's
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playing these good teams and winning all these games? Georgia
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is probably the standard bearer to me this year in
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terms of a team that has actually had to play
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actual competition. Sorry, Miami Hurricanes, you don't qualify there. But
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a team that's had to play good competition on a
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fairly regular basis, they lost at home to a 4-4
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Auburn team. Their fans are looking at that and going,
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I don't understand why you can't beat a mediocre team
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at home. And did that take some weird bounces? Yeah,
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it took some weird bounces. But Ohio State's losses have
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taken some, you know, one weird play here or there. Like,
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that's kind of what it takes to lose at this level. So, yeah,
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I don't think the level of the expectation has gone down.
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It's just sort of like you can't fill all the
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roles that you used to fill. You can't fill all
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the spots that you used to fill. The starters, I
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think the level of play from the starters has been
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pretty good by and large. But when you have had
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some of the injuries that they've had at key spots,
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the drop-off from one to two is bigger than it
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used to be. And that's true everywhere in college football.
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But when you have key injuries at key spots, you
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really notice it sometimes.
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Yeah, and when you lose entire recruiting classes to the
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transfer portal in terms of positionally, like a defensive tackle
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or receiver or a win... you take those hits, you're,
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you're trying to fill that up with either transfers or
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true freshmen. And the transfer hit rate can only be
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so high because there's only so much vetting and things
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that can go on. So yeah, it's just, you're dealing
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with a very different situation than Urban Meyer or Jim
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Trestle ever had to. And I know that's, those are
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going to be the guys that could, that Ryan Day
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continues to get compared to. And it's just a different
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brand of college football. It's, different circumstances that I think
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people aren't necessarily attributing anything to just yet. So the
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last thing on this, Ryan Day has lowered the standard
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because his fear of losing is greater than his desire
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to win. And I don't know that I've ever seen
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him tight in terms of nervous about, boy, we can't
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afford to lose this. Now, he's very matter-of-fact, or like
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on Tuesday, he didn't seem scared or worried. He was
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just saying, like, this is a big game. this is
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an opportunity for the players to, to, you know, start
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to write their legacy. And I, we told them that,
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you know, if you lose this, then your opportunity to
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create something bigger has kind of gone out the window.
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I asked Isaiah West, cause he said that somebody asked
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the mood and he said, you know, it's kind of
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heavy right now. And then he said like, not tight.
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We're not tight, but it's heavy. And so then I
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asked him, like, is that heaviness an obstacle? He's like, no,
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this is Ohio State. There's always going to be pressure.
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There's always going to be big games. So, like, I've
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never gotten from Ryan Day that his fear of losing
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is greater than his desire to win. So I would
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say fiction on that, but maybe I'm reading him wrong.
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Yeah, I don't think that I agree with this one either.
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It's not, they're not playing tight, I don't think. I mean,
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I think there's, I think there's philosophical things they're trying
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to do on offense that don't necessarily match their personnel,
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for example. And I think there's game management stuff, individual
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game management stuff that I disagree with, but I don't
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think this is overall, they're terrified to make a mistake
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or anything like that. I, it just, it feels like
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they are trying to, you know, they, they are making
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judgments about what they feel is going to make them
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most likely to win. And, you know, sometimes that works
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and sometimes it doesn't, but I don't, I don't, I
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don't really agree with the premise of, of this whole thing.
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I think it's a little bit of, I don't like
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what's happening. And therefore that must mean that this is
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the reasoning. Like, I don't, I don't really agree with it.
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I do think, I mean, you don't, it doesn't feel
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like they're playing not to lose. I mean, there, I
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think they're, they were being a little bit cautious about
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maybe on offense, but that's just because you had a
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true freshman quarterback and that's just that one game. I
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don't think they were playing too cautiously against Texas when
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they lost that game. And Indiana and Miami lost a
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couple of games that were, you know, right down to
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the wire or went deep into the fourth quarter among
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the two teams that played for the national championship. Like, yeah,
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you're going to, some teams are going to lose to
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the teams that play for the national championship. Like, you know,
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you can, you can take the, well, they've lost four
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of their last 10 games, and it's like, well, two
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of those were with a different team and were with
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the two teams that played for the national championship, and
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they've lost two games this year, which played out in
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very different ways. I think this is kind of like
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the every Ryan Day loss looks the same. I think
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that was true for a while. I don't think that's
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true anymore. The two losses this year have been very,
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very different games that played out in very different ways. So, yeah,
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I don't... I think... I disagree with the, you know, the,
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the significant majority of this whole, you know, this whole premise.
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I would just like to see proof of the complacency.
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Like what, what, what examples other than they haven't fired
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anybody yet, or he hasn't called anybody out or that
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sort of thing. And the idea that the losses are
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looking different time. I don't know if that makes people
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feel better or worse because I'll great. Now there are
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more ways that they could lose. Um, one other one
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that I'll throw in here before we head out here.
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And this is from at big buck tray. The head
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coach appears to be bigger than the program. And this
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is again, I know people there, there is a bunch
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of Ohio state fans on the internet and off of
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the internet as well. That do not like that are
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ready to get rid of Ryan day because of the
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constant losing. I have never gotten the feeling from Ryan
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day that he's bigger than the program. Like, I, you
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could say the same, you could say maybe like as Dabo,
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you know, did he get bigger than Clemson and refuse
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to adjust to college football? Like Ryan day to me
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has never felt like he has always talked about Ohio
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state more than himself. And the standards, these are Ohio
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state standards. These are not Ryan day standards. So I
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would say that that is fiction. And again, like, In
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what sense? And, you know, and again, they could have expounded,
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they chose not to, that the head coach appears to
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be bigger than the program, Tom. I'm trying to think of, like,
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in what areas, but fact or fiction on that, what
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do you think?
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Well, I think this is pretty clearly fiction, because, you know,
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the Ryan Day identity here, you know, when Ryan Day
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came in, he's the quarterback guy, and he's the guy
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who wants to throw the ball all the time, and
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they're slinging the ball all over the place, and now...
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he's brought in an offensive coordinator who is going a
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very different direction where you're not spreading it out anymore.
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And you're, you're playing more tight ends much to everyone's
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chagrin and you're trying to run the ball more. And yeah, I,
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this is not someone who's obsessed with winning his, you know,
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winning his own way. Like this is when I think
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of someone who like really wanted to do things his
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way and, was like my philosophy, it's my way or
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the highway. Like Mike Leach, for example. And I love
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Mike Leach as a coach. Like he was a phenomenal coach.
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He could win anywhere and he would win his way.
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And when he was at Wazoo, Washington, the Washington defense,
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when Chris Peterson was there, like man, oh man, did
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they have Wazoo's number? And it was like, well, we
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know how to defend this. And Mike Leach, was he
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going to change things? Was he going to do things differently? Nope.
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He was going to run his offense. And every year
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Washington was going to beat them. They were going to
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shut them down. And it was like, well, you know,
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the offense still works in a lot of cases. Like
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he went to Mississippi State and in the first game,
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his quarterback, it was KJ Costello, set the SEC single
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game passing record. It's like, it's not like the offense
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didn't work. It's just when you run up against a
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defense that has absolutely figured it out, you can't just
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keep calling Rock because they know that paper is going
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to beat Rock. And he just kept calling Rock. That's
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an example of someone who, you know, was probably like,
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philosophically was, you know, putting himself ahead of the program.
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And in that case, Ryan day has done like the
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opposite of that. So no, I don't, I don't think
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that at all. And Ryan day has said out loud
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in a number of cases, like Ohio state football is
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bigger than any, any person like the Ohio state program
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is bigger than any person. It's, you know, it, it,
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Woody Hayes got fired. Jim Trestle got, well, Jim Trestle, uh, resigns. Uh,
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Urban Meyer, uh, you know, walked away. I mean, these are,
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these are all hall of fame coaches and they've all,
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they all left. And, you know, John Cooper, hall of
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fame coach got fired. Like this is, this is a
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thing that happens to, you know, and the Ohio state
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football team and the football program just kind of keeps rolling. And,
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you know, Maurice Claret left Ohio state football, just keeps
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rolling trail prior left Ohio state program. Football just keeps rolling.
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I mean, just on and on and on and on
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and on. It doesn't matter. It's like all these guys
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were like, wow, this guy's the biggest star in Columbus.
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There will be another biggest star in Columbus as soon
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as that guy leaves. So, you know, and I think
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Ryan Day recognizes that. So, you know, between the philosophical
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flexibility on offense and the fact that he has said
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all those words out loud, no, I do not think
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Ryan Day thinks he's better, bigger than Ohio State football. Yeah.
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A coach who would think he's bigger than the program
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would be one that brings in a cheating scandal like,
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you know, a advanced scouting coach and then goes years
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and years trying to leave for the NFL while this
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is going on and knowing that eventually he's going to
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get caught. It doesn't matter because he's going to be
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gone when things go awry. That's somebody who feels bigger
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than the program.
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I love when you bring in these hypotheticals and it's like, well, sure,
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if you could point to an example of that, sure.
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But I mean.
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As a for instance, as a yes. Let's all pretend.
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Let's all put our pretend caps on. And think about
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somebody like that. But so, no, a couple of fictions, some,
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you know, the first question, maybe a statement of fact
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in terms of the standards. But again, that's because of
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the game itself. So there's a couple of some of
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those that we wanted to talk about. We've got more.
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But what do you guys think? Has Ryan Day gotten complacent?
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Has he lowered the standard of the program because his
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fear of losing is greater than his desire to win?
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Or is he now, is he bigger than the program? Which,
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what do you think? Give us some examples. And if
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you think that way, why do you think that way?
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and leave tonight.