peake wrote:What does that have to do with anything? This is college football. I played and I never once heard from our coaching staff that we are only going to do this in hopes that when we trade film the other team would not see it. You do what you have to do to win. I know they were allowing a lot of players to get time, but I am sure that was not their rational of thinking.
If this is true so be it, but I highly doubt it. Just my opinion.
I'm going to respectfully disagree here...
Did you see Urban Meyer's press conference yesterday? He said they showed tempo changes because they had to for practice, but the rest of the playcalls were "painfully vanilla." He said they typically use 12-15 different sets a game, and they used about 3 Saturday.
Tressel has always been this way. Clearly, it didn't work against USC last year, but take a look at their non-conference mid-tier games for the last five years. The week before Texas in 2006, they beat NIU 35-21, and gave up loads of rushing yards to the RB. In 2007, they beat Akron 20-2, and the score was 3-2 at halftime.
I don't think they will stun USC. I think it has more to do with JT trying to put his offense in difficult situations. Plus, it gives him a chance to see if they can pound away for 2 yards when they need it, or if they need to dial up something else.
I'm not saying OSU wins. I'm like you, I think OSU needs to be able to contain the running game with 7 guys. PSU stopped USC's run with 8, but that caused them to be torched with the pass. However on offense, Nevada claims people will talk about the offense like they did after OSU/PSU of 2007. We'll see. He says that if the defense plays well, OSU wins. OSU will score. Again, we'll see.
BTW, Hines took all of the 1st team reps at Russell's spot yesterday. Or rather, he took them at Coleman's spot, and Coleman moved to Russell's.
