http://smartfootball.com/grab-bag/nfl-hits-the-oregon-trail#comments

I do not know whether this guy really is an OSU insider, but he does sound like he knows what he is talking about.

……….I love the comment ” I am no chef, but I know when someone has F’d up my food .” Thats FUNNNY!!!!

“Matt,

Your blog used to be a shining light. A fan of a small, irrelevant school who wrote about everything. That is why I knew you could be trusted. That is why I knew your columns could be relied on. That is why I knew you weren’t full of shit. And your great writing and analysis backed that up. Like I said in my comment, I have read your various blogs for around 5 years. I’ve always appreciated your point of view until now. I’ve been a loyal reader; check your logs, it was me who tipped you about Maurice Clarett’s blog.

That aside, I am extremely upset that you would write that Ohio State should have been “demoralized . . . and lost by thirty.” I won’t lie. I am one of the biggest OSU fans you will ever meet. But really, they lost a hard fought game by 3 points. Not by thirty. They held “4 first round draft choices” on USC’s line to 3 ypc. The Buckeye offense didn’t get it done. But our defense played lights out for 3.5 quarters, and our fans and band showed the country what CFB is all about. I am proud of my team, and for you to denigrate them by saying that we should have lost by thirty is unconscionable.

This has been a pattern. You have been riding up OSU’s ass for a few weeks now. No one in the Ohio State community has been bitching about the goal line call. And yet you pretend that we have by writing about statutes of limitations and whining. We’re not whining. But we also won’t take your bullshit. That’s why I, and hopefully other OSU fans, won’t read your site anymore.

You are a hack. Your site has been on the decline for awhile now, and I certainly won’t be reading you again. What happened to the non-partisan, evenhanded writer you used to be? Working on the big stage too much for you? Had to cave to that MSM pressure of hating on the Buckeyes?

A former supporter signs off. Later, Hinton.

-Scott Baez”

I encourage all Buckeyes fans to tell him the same. The most prominent college football blogger does not deserve our page views.

I agree with the writer on most of his points. JT does need to bring in a OCoordinator. However, the situation is not hopeless.

Its two games into his sophomore ear…patience. people, patience.

http://cfn.scout.com/2/557921.html FWIW

I’d also take a wander over the the forums at Buckeye Planet- while many there agree that a philosophical change is needed, some also point out that attempts to do so this year are being thwarted by poor performance.

Dos centavos..

That could very well be, but it looks like he’s getting his ass handed to him in the comments.

http://smartfootball.com/grab-bag/nfl-hits-the-oregon-trail#comments

I do not know whether this guy really is an OSU insider, but he does sound like he knows what he is talking about.

Probably, during the course of any day, a major head coach would spend 10-20% of his time on the game of football, and the other 80-90% on the distractions: budget, discipline, staff, alumni, media, recruiting, public relations, legal, books, etc… all the more impetus to hire more help for the core business: football. Of course, the NCAA has limits to prevent this from becoming an advantage for big budget programs. Other programs, Florida, Texas, USC, etc… seem to have found a way to focus the football staff on football. If at all possible, any responsibility that a head coach assumes, that doesn’t fall directly in the NCAA category of “coaching” should be delegated to the general athletic department, and on their budget and resources. Things like fund raising, of which Tressel has been significantly distracted, should be given to others (nice library, now can we play ball?)

I guess I’m proposing, with little in the way of facts, an administrative solution. Football resources/manpower are devoted to football, administrative/miscellaneous tasks should be delegated to the athletic department. A more efficient utilization of NCAA regulated resources may just be what we need.

Having worked in large corporations for my entire career, it’s painfully clear to me that the work I was hired to do is actually the least important thing I can do during the course of any given day. The distractions dominate.