Suckeyes Victory Formation
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I assume he said nothing. Or Cig was lying when he told reporters when asked if he had any thoughts about it, 'No. He has to do what he needs to do for his team'.
If he'd have said something different to Day he'd probably have said so then. He looked like he wanted to think about his words a little but that's all.
If he'd have said something different to Day he'd probably have said so then. He looked like he wanted to think about his words a little but that's all.
You're a gas bag. You have 3 posts on this board and all are negative to IU with an Ohio bias. Speaking of big dogs, hows your mum?
If you want to run a play and score a touchdown at the end with the game out of reach to send a message, that's fine. But line up, and run a play. When you get into "victory formation", you are sending a universal signal to the other team that you don't intend to score and they can relax so no one gets hurt. It's bush league and chickensh!+ to do otherwise. If I'm playing OSU in the future and they line up in victory formation, I tell my interior linemen to expect a play and blast the qb when the ball snaps. I would expect the Buckeyes not to complain given the precedent set for deception.
Being the "big dog" in that situation means lining up and daring the defense to stop you, man v man. Running a play from victory formation makes you a bitch.
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I have no issues with them scoring on that last drive. I do think increasing the margin, over a top 5 team, had benefits for OSU. I'd have done the same.
Where it became bush league, was the fake victory formation. There's an unwritten rule about not going hard after offensive players when they're in the victory formation. That tactic should have been "beneath" Day and OSU. But he's a douche bag. He proves it over and over again. Whether its yelling on national TV about something Lou Holtz, of all people, said...or running a damn fake victory formation play to get some more points... He's not suited to run one of the premier programs in the country. And when they fizzle out over the next month, like they usually do under Day... I won't have an ounce of pity for him.
Where it became bush league, was the fake victory formation. There's an unwritten rule about not going hard after offensive players when they're in the victory formation. That tactic should have been "beneath" Day and OSU. But he's a douche bag. He proves it over and over again. Whether its yelling on national TV about something Lou Holtz, of all people, said...or running a damn fake victory formation play to get some more points... He's not suited to run one of the premier programs in the country. And when they fizzle out over the next month, like they usually do under Day... I won't have an ounce of pity for him.
Totally agree. Scoring is fine. The fake "take a knee" is trashy as hell.
Yep. That’s the only problem I have. Cig will run up a score if given an opportunity but doing a trick play to do it I’m sure is off the table. It’s one of the reasons we are good in the metrics.
Big dogs don’t run trick playes to send a message. Good win for you guys. Hope 20-25 million is worth it.
Fake victory formation play would more likely come from the sneaky little weasel in the corner. A big dog would have barked out that they were running a traditional dive up the middle, ran it, and plowed their way in to the endzone. That also would have been a more impactful message to IU, and the rest of the college football world. But Day is a whiny little weasel, at his core, so I guess that's the sort of thing to expect from him. I'd wish for better if I had a mini NFL franchise going, like you guys do. But that's just me.
Every team should go after OSU's QB when they're in victory formation and plant his ass in the ground: he could be doing a fake.
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