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clyde · #1 11-28-2011, 10:40 AM

You know, it's funny.

The Browns play just hard enough to allow the games to last just long enough so they can lose.

horseofcourse · #2 11-28-2011, 11:08 AM

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Originally Posted by clyde

You know, it's funny.

The Browns play just hard enough to allow the games to last just long enough so they can lose.

maybe Shurmur isn't all bad. Not sure yet. It's been an odd first year with the lockout and such. I think they may be a hair better than they were at the start of the year despite them losing a lot. I thought this LIttle may be a good one then drops about 15 passes yesterday. HE's not AJ Green though that's for sure!! I get mad at Colt, but really, Andy Dalton has a guy he can just throw the ball in the general direction of and good things will happen. colt has none of that. I have no clue what to do with that team to make it better. Keep getting competent players in the draft I guess. They have 4 games left with Ravens and Steelers, I'd love to see them win just one of those. I'd be happry with that to end the season.

horseofcourse · #3 11-28-2011, 11:12 AM

Urban Meyer has so much talent perhaps he can coach both OSU and the Browns. Both will win titles. Nick Saban eventually went pro as did Petrino....I'm guessing in about 3 or 4 years Urban will be bored with OSU. Bowling Green, Utah, Florida, OSU....BROWNS!! Urban will save the whole state.

clyde · #4 11-28-2011, 11:41 AM

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Originally Posted by horseofcourse

Urban Meyer has so much talent perhaps he can coach both OSU and the Browns. Both will win titles. Nick Saban eventually went pro as did Petrino....I'm guessing in about 3 or 4 years Urban will be bored with OSU. Bowling Green, Utah, Florida, OSU....BROWNS!! Urban will save the whole state.

He became infested with sec filth while at Florida.

He comes here...that's it for me.

Won't be an Ohio State fan anymore.Fickell is the right guy..they don't know it, but he is.They would rather buy another one selling out; thereby selling out themselves.

horseofcourse · #5 11-28-2011, 11:49 AM

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He became infested with sec filth while at Florida.

He comes here...that's it for me.

Won't be an Ohio State fan anymore.Fickell is the right guy..they don't know it, but he is.They would rather buy another one selling out; thereby selling out themselves.

I was looking at the schedule OSU played this year and Fickell in all honesty did a nice job. With the Big 10 scheduling you can miss out on playing some of the better teams as you don't play everyone. They played the 5 best teams...every single one and if you look at how they did against them....they beat the best team Wisconsin, and I don't think there is a question W is the best....they lost by 3 to Michigan State, they lost by 7 at Nebraska and without question win that game if Miller didn't get hurt. They lost by 6 to Penn State...didn't play well, and lost by only 6 to Michigan and were in the game the whole way and would have won but Miller overthrew a wide open Posey....he was open by 10 yards.

With a true freshman at qb, they were competetive with the top 5 in the league beating the best one of the 5 and within a TD of every single one. Freaking Urban is going to reap the rewards of Fickell having to take the lumps with a true freshman who is a tremendous talent. They get 10 starters back on defense too. Urban will get all the credit, but they'd have been just a good with Fickell too I think. He'd have gotten better too.

clyde · #6 11-28-2011, 11:59 AM

It's a crying shame,Horsey.

Buying a pig like Bourban Meyer and thanking Fickel for taking on an impossible situation by saying ,"no thanks".

If you read about the guy and saw his pre and post game Michigan press conferences..you would have no doubt.Give Fickel 2 years and the normal power a HC has,he would have done the job and stayed here for years.

Hiring a carpet bagging,take my football and go home pig like Bourbon utterly disgusts me.The moment it is official is the moment I lose complete interest in college football;with no interest in Ohio State,then there is no interest.

Dahoss · #7 11-28-2011, 01:12 PM

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Originally Posted by clyde

If you read about the guy and saw his pre and post game Michigan press conferences..you would have no doubt.Give Fickel 2 years and the normal power a HC has,he would have done the job and stayed here for years.

I'm glad you mentioned the post game conference after the Michigan game, because the guy impressed me. You could tell how much the game and the school meant to him. Similar to what Michigan has now with Hoke.

clyde · #8 11-28-2011, 12:11 PM

I copied this reader comment from The Ozone...responding to the announcement that Bourbon is official.He mirrors my thought perfectly, other than saying he'll " come around."

I won't.

Believe me, the other 7 comments to date were quite the opposite.

Sickening. If you can't beat 'em, open your checkbook & hire 'em. Ohio State honor & tradition sinks even deeper. The fact that I just saw the most selfish drama-queen in Buckeye Football history... Robert (Dr Bob) Smith applauding the hire, just solidifies my opinion. My Buckeye flag is now flying upside down in distress. I'll come around in time, because I'm loyal... but right now I'm ashamed.

horseofcourse · #9 11-28-2011, 01:25 PM

The rot is complete in college sports and this hire just simply verifies it. Even my beloved Penn State where you thought you at least had a loyal guy, the rot was total as he had the entire administration in a noose and his millions donated to the school for academic purposes was just a show. I knew they cheated as they all do but oh well. Meyer didn't want to rebuild in Florida, he had a good qb when he got there, Leak, then rode Tebow through the rest, then quit. Simple to analyze pretty much. It's easy to rebuild at Bowling Green and Utah, not so easy in the SEC with the other schysters in that conference. Big 10's a lot easier to rise quickly and they will and OSU is a perfect setup right now with Braxton Miller despite sanctions. It's all ridiculous.

clyde · #10 11-28-2011, 11:29 AM

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maybe Shurmur isn't all bad. Not sure yet. It's been an odd first year with the lockout and such. I think they may be a hair better than they were at the start of the year despite them losing a lot. I thought this LIttle may be a good one then drops about 15 passes yesterday. HE's not AJ Green though that's for sure!! I get mad at Colt, but really, Andy Dalton has a guy he can just throw the ball in the general direction of and good things will happen. colt has none of that. I have no clue what to do with that team to make it better. Keep getting competent players in the draft I guess. They have 4 games left with Ravens and Steelers, I'd love to see them win just one of those. I'd be happry with that to end the season.

I guess that's pretty much all true.

I'd love what you would, but considering the difference in talent/experience coupled with those 2 in a division winner fight---I'll faint if we win one of those games.