Had a computer issue over the weekend, so my comments are later than usual. Obviously Ohio State is a great team and maybe the best team in the Country, BUT
1. What on earth was Ryan Day thinking at the start of the fourth quarter? Your team is up 49-7, your top two running backs are injured but You leave CJ Stroud and Marvin Harrison on the field to play about half of the fourth quarter. What sense does that make? All You are doing is tempting fate and inviting an injury to one or both of them. Try playing Michigan two weeks from now without one or both of them. You jeopardized your School's chance to get to the playoff and compete for the national Championship by leaving them in.
A Second issue is the message You are sending to the backups. They are thinking You can't trust Us to play with a 6 TD lead and fifteen minutes to play? But You want Us to go back to practice Monday and give maximum effort running Scout Team stuff to prepare the Starters?
2. The Officiating wasn't a factor in the game, but I have a comment about consistency from Game to Game. WE all remember the Devon Matthews taunting penalty from the Michigan Game. It was the correct call. In the Ohio State Game, one of their DB's sacked our Quarterback, got up and while still on our side of the line of scrimmage and facing the point of the play, brought his hands up to the side of his head like a pillow, moved his head to his hands and shut his Eyes, I guess indicating He rocked our QB to sleep. Why wasn't that called taunting, or at the very least a general Unsportsmanlike Penalty?
The Celebration after Ohio State's last touchdown went on for several minutes on the field an d held up play for an unreasonable period of time. That should have earned a Flag.
1. What on earth was Ryan Day thinking at the start of the fourth quarter? Your team is up 49-7, your top two running backs are injured but You leave CJ Stroud and Marvin Harrison on the field to play about half of the fourth quarter. What sense does that make? All You are doing is tempting fate and inviting an injury to one or both of them. Try playing Michigan two weeks from now without one or both of them. You jeopardized your School's chance to get to the playoff and compete for the national Championship by leaving them in.
A Second issue is the message You are sending to the backups. They are thinking You can't trust Us to play with a 6 TD lead and fifteen minutes to play? But You want Us to go back to practice Monday and give maximum effort running Scout Team stuff to prepare the Starters?
2. The Officiating wasn't a factor in the game, but I have a comment about consistency from Game to Game. WE all remember the Devon Matthews taunting penalty from the Michigan Game. It was the correct call. In the Ohio State Game, one of their DB's sacked our Quarterback, got up and while still on our side of the line of scrimmage and facing the point of the play, brought his hands up to the side of his head like a pillow, moved his head to his hands and shut his Eyes, I guess indicating He rocked our QB to sleep. Why wasn't that called taunting, or at the very least a general Unsportsmanlike Penalty?
The Celebration after Ohio State's last touchdown went on for several minutes on the field an d held up play for an unreasonable period of time. That should have earned a Flag.