Perfectly miserable football day.
Mrs Doofus, Swagman, the Sax Man and Saxy lady joined the Alumni club for, what we hoped, would be an evening of reestablishing MSU football. The defense would still be there, the offense improved from last year, it was a chance to see, if not a win, a chance to see where we measured up against a CFP team.
And for a quarter it looked like we did. The offense turned it over twice on four plays and the defense limited the Bucknuts to 3 points. Hang on the the fecking ball and we might actually win.
The second quarter didn’t start out too bad. MSU’s secondary blew an assignment and the refs blew the call (that should have been a touchback) and we’re down 10-0
Mrs Doofus, Swagman, the Sax Man and Saxy lady joined the Alumni club for, what we hoped, would be an evening of reestablishing MSU football. The defense would still be there, the offense improved from last year, it was a chance to see, if not a win, a chance to see where we measured up against a CFP team.
And for a quarter it looked like we did. The offense turned it over twice on four plays and the defense limited the Bucknuts to 3 points. Hang on the the fecking ball and we might actually win.
The second quarter didn’t start out too bad. MSU’s secondary blew an assignment and the refs blew the call (that should have been a touchback) and we’re down 10-0
But State responded with a TD to cut the lead to 10-7. We were hanging tough. In their crib we had responded to adversity three times and were down just a FG.
OSU got another TD as we started tackling the ball instead of the runner.
Once again, the offense responded with a FG. Still hanging tough.
But Ohio State scored another TD, Xavier Henderson took a bad angle and JK Dobbins was off to the races. Josiah Scott has some speed too and actually ran him down but decided to go for the ball rather than the tackle and it was TD Ohio State. Their third in three drives.
OSU has too much NFL talent and our defense is not quite as disciplined as in years past for us to stay with them.
Another OSU FG had us down 27-10 at the half.
A win was out of the question but maybe we could make it respectable. State takes the opening kickoff drives inside the OSU 10, stalls and then….whiffs on the FG. A chance to jumpstart the comeback and pfffft. What is wrong with Coughlin? Kickers are headcases. His head is not screwed on right. It’s time to see what the back up can do. How much worse can it get?
OSU gets the ball back and PICK!! We still have a chance! But it wasn’t the second quarter that did us in. It was the third.
The offense goes three and out and that was it. Two chances to make a comeback and no points.
OSU got one more TD early in the fourth quarter and both teams were playing out the string.
So the debate began. Is it time for Dantonio to retire? No we have an identity. It’s the strong defense epitomized by Dantonio’s coaching.
Better recruiting? Sure, but not the star chasing of 2016. We need some more play makers on offense. (there are WRs in the pipeline) but coaching up 3 stars suits us just fine. We’ve made the CFP with 3 stars with a few 4 stars in the skill positions.
Is the season over? A trip to Indy is out not that was all that likely as the season started. There are still chances against Wiscy, scUM and Penn State to make some noise in the bowl selection.
Another OSU FG had us down 27-10 at the half.
A win was out of the question but maybe we could make it respectable. State takes the opening kickoff drives inside the OSU 10, stalls and then….whiffs on the FG. A chance to jumpstart the comeback and pfffft. What is wrong with Coughlin? Kickers are headcases. His head is not screwed on right. It’s time to see what the back up can do. How much worse can it get?
OSU gets the ball back and PICK!! We still have a chance! But it wasn’t the second quarter that did us in. It was the third.
The offense goes three and out and that was it. Two chances to make a comeback and no points.
OSU got one more TD early in the fourth quarter and both teams were playing out the string.
So the debate began. Is it time for Dantonio to retire? No we have an identity. It’s the strong defense epitomized by Dantonio’s coaching.
Better recruiting? Sure, but not the star chasing of 2016. We need some more play makers on offense. (there are WRs in the pipeline) but coaching up 3 stars suits us just fine. We’ve made the CFP with 3 stars with a few 4 stars in the skill positions.
Is the season over? A trip to Indy is out not that was all that likely as the season started. There are still chances against Wiscy, scUM and Penn State to make some noise in the bowl selection.
What worries me is if we go 7-5 again and end up in another off the radar bowl game. That would be back to back 7-5 seasons after a 3-9 disaster and a potential rebuild next year. Losing Willekes, Butler, Dowell and Panasiuk on the defense and Lewerke leaves a lot of holes.
But I’ll worry about next year, next year. This year – let’s win two of those three and show ‘em State is still on the map.
As bad as the State score was, the picks were worse. When the picks are off they are way off. 0-3 on the Mega Bets and 1-2 on the Mini Megas. The failure of the Mega Bets can be summed up in one stat line. With 3 QBs that will make it to the league albiet on the sidelines with a ball cap and clip board in hand – their combined stats were 44-97, 1 TD and 9 picks. They absolutely sucked. It was one of those days.
When the picking is for real on GO JUMBO I’m going to make the icks spread out over Saturday and if things are starting to go bad I’m going to shut it down.
But I’ll worry about next year, next year. This year – let’s win two of those three and show ‘em State is still on the map.
As bad as the State score was, the picks were worse. When the picks are off they are way off. 0-3 on the Mega Bets and 1-2 on the Mini Megas. The failure of the Mega Bets can be summed up in one stat line. With 3 QBs that will make it to the league albiet on the sidelines with a ball cap and clip board in hand – their combined stats were 44-97, 1 TD and 9 picks. They absolutely sucked. It was one of those days.
When the picking is for real on GO JUMBO I’m going to make the icks spread out over Saturday and if things are starting to go bad I’m going to shut it down.