Comments on: Block O Table: Elf’s Regular Season Recap

By: Fear the Elf

Fear the Elf — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:12:16 +0000

For the record, I plan on posting the recap either Wednesday the 9th or Thurs the 10th.

By: 2009 Bowl Games

2009 Bowl Games — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 03:19:43 +0000

The one HUGE story that has been a constant since Tressel started, and I think you need to address, is the miserable offensive staff. The defense has saved this team year after year.

This goes along with the Pryor point, but I honestly don’t think we have the capability to properly coach this kid, call the right plays, design the right routes (and consistently USE them), etc.

How many more years do I need to watch a Tressel/Bollman trained offense? It’s pathetic and there’s no more excuses. Tresselball only works in the Big 10.

By: JohnBoy

JohnBoy — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:55:59 +0000

I assume that Heyward goes. I do not like the look of our D-Line next year. We need better athletes and depth at these positions along with the same at O-line to win against these SEC mouthbreathers. We have to be able to physically rush the passer consistently. We will be less talented next year in these areas. Also, we need to stop recruiting white men to play defensive line. It is against the rules. This is a fact in the football “what race plays what position manual”. Ain’t no white boys rushing the passer in the SEC my friends.
I am on record stating that we may have a tougher time next year winning it all than the opportunity we blew this year. The loss to USC is just so disappointing to me. I can’t get past it. What a blown chance to gain credibility and to springboard into the rest of the season.
I am regretfully very upset about this season even though we went 10-2. I worry about the Rose Bowl with Oregon. Could be bad. Sorry to be glass half empty, but this was a season of missed opportunities and poor player development.

By: Ken

Ken — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:04:48 +0000

1. I was disappointed in that I expected TP to show more improvement from Year 1 than he did. Having said that, he did have the burden of; a) working behind an injury/illness riddled makeshift offensive line, b) talented but relatively inexperienced players at skill positions and c) an offensive philosophy that seemed to be meandering through most of the season.

I would dearly love to see TP get instuction from a bona fide QB coach rather than an A/V guy. Pryor will be fine; I think he’ll be with us all four years and we’ll be glad that he did.

2. My #1 guy is Saine; I think he runs with some Zoom and has shown (me, at least) some pretty decent power. Boom disappointed me a bit with his inability to run through tackles. It seemed to me that he got tripped up a lot at the line of scrimmage. He’ll do a good job spelling Saine to keep fresh legs in the game. Hall was impressive and will be in rotation. It seems we are hip-deep in TB’s going into 2010, so I’d guess that Martin may slide back to FB to compete with Boren.

3. I think that if Heyward gets interest to go early to NFL, he should. I’d love to have him back, but if he gets an opportunity.. I think that Gibson probably stays; I’m not sure what his NFL prospects will be. If Gibson stays, then Williams is other DE. If he goes, it’s Thomas. The DT’s should be Larimore, and Simon, with Goebel as 3rd man in.

4. It’s one of those things. In terms of CoY, it’s all public image. Ferentz has the movie star goods looks and some past buzz about moving to NFL, so he has ‘IT’ factor. Tressel looks and acts like a librarian/history professor and all he does is win conference titles year in and year out, regardless of who takes the field for him. Go figure.

Regarding no post-season award love for the players, the Buckeyes were cursed with pretty good depth at most positions this year. There were no “glamour” names (looking at you, Beanie, JL) this year, just wave after wave of quality young men who generally kicked ass. Tough for media and other coaches to pick out a ‘star’, even if they wanted to, with really a total team performance this year.

5. I’d agree with Vico on this one; Oregon State does nothing for us, since Cincy already beat them on the Left Coast this year, blah, blah, blah. I want a piece of Oregon this year becasue they are better (I think) than Oregon State. If Oregon shows up in one of their godawful uniform combinations, and you know they will, I just hope that we don’t counter with our “throwbacks”, or I’ll throwup.. Let’s bring Tresselball to the uni’s in Pasadena.

6. I don’t think a 2nd BCS game does us much good, especially if it means B10 teams have to “move up” in other bowl games. By the time you spread the 2nd BCS loot eleven ways, so what? The conference has to start having success in post-season play, and this year, if it means only one team in BCS, then so be it.

Extra Credit. Oh, I think that TPiC (Terelle Pryor in Cleats) would have played his freshman year and had a pretty good career as a Buckeye. I think the QB’s would have loved him, what a RedZone option he would have been! He would have been the TE of all TE’s.

I think he may have lowered Jenkins and Holmes’ numbers, but I don’t think that he would havew had much of an effect on G&G. I think that with Zwick/Troy, we would have passed more. To LeBron. Also.