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Capt Straight

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We have to wrap up their running back, he is a lot like Jamal Lewis, but not as fast. We need to press the receiver and get some QB pressure. On offense we will need to throw some deep balls to free up the running game, we can expect to see 8 in the box. If they look at the Kansas game they will see our WR core as no threat, but they will be sadly mistaken. Tim Albin and Burrow will need to earn their money this week, if we expect to win.

The team will have to have flawless execution and some leprechaun paradise luck: I am saying we can win this one. UT is as over rated as they are talented.

I still feel as if we are completely overmatched. I say we cash the check and not suffer any more injuries. This is not our most important game.

Frank's pre-game talk to the team: "I want you guys to lay an egg like we did against Louisville a few years ago. No need to be relentless in this game. Just let them blow us out from the start. Just stay healthy for the Gardner Webb game. You guys aren't nearly as good or talented as my team that beat Penn State or the ones that beat Temple and Marshall every year, and I don't want you to try to be relentless like they were. In fact, I received a letter recently from an OHIO alum in California who said he was a Certified Pigskin Analyst. This expert said you sucked and that we hadn't recruited a decent class in the last three or four years. He said that I sucked even worse than you. He is right. There is no way possible we can win this game against an actually good football team. So, save your energy, and go out there and have some fun and don't worry about the score. I've got a lifetime contract here, so I don't worry and you shouldn't either. Now, just go out there and play our normal mediocre brand of boring, conservative, sleep-inducing football. Perhaps, if we are so boring that we put Tennessee to sleep we can slip into the endzone a few times and no one will even notice. Go OHIO! Our motto -- beat the weak sisters and forget the rest."
Last Edited: 9/12/2016 12:31:52 AM by OhioCatFan

Sounds like they have a lot of confidence! LOL
 
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I was reading their board earlier. The "What would Frank say" post are pretty funny. Lol
 
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I attended Ohio University when Frank Solich was hired.

Fun fact: his first night in town Frank got drunk, drove the wrong way down the one way main drag in Athens (Court Street), and proceeded to ram a parking meter with his vehicle.

Earning him the obvious nickname: Frank the Tank
Carry on
 
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ohvol40 said:
i attended ohio university when frank solich was hired.

Fun fact: His first night in town frank got drunk, drove the wrong way down the one way main drag in athens (court street), and proceeded to ram a parking meter with his vehicle.

Earning him the obvious nickname: Frank the tank
carry on
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jesus.
 
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OHvol40 said:
I attended Ohio University when Frank Solich was hired.

Fun fact: his first night in town Frank got drunk, drove the wrong way down the one way main drag in Athens (Court Street), and proceeded to ram a parking meter with his vehicle.

Earning him the obvious nickname: Frank the Tank
Carry on
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Good foot.
 
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OHvol40 said:
I attended Ohio University when Frank Solich was hired.

Fun fact: his first night in town Frank got drunk, drove the wrong way down the one way main drag in Athens (Court Street), and proceeded to ram a parking meter with his vehicle.

Earning him the obvious nickname: Frank the Tank
Carry on
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Please tell me it was outside of a KFC.
 
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Where's chatt-town when we need him. This is an old post. We deserve the good stuff. Wake up c-t.
 
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chatt-townVOL said:
Haha won't happen this week unfortunately. Not enough material to make a thread out of.

I know, I'm a failure
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You sir are never a failure. Glad you commented. I know we'll see some of you're great stuff next week. Take care and enjoy the game.
 
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This is their Bob Kesling with a preview of the game

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbPrvAaxOMY[/youtube]
 
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We should just ignore the thought of laying down. Ohio University is not chump university. It is not fair to our players to give up on them before a game. I remember we played Tulsa in basketball and Tulsa had just beat a ranked opponent and a fan suggested we would get shellacked, however we outplayed them and should have beat them. This is why the player play, they believe. It disgusts me to think that people think this way, but this is their freedom and their heart, two things I have no control over. The coaches need to believe and the players need to feel they believe and we need to go there and punch them in the mouth. Go Bobcats
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Punching a team in the mouth can go two ways. Va Tech punched them in the mouth Saturday night and went up 14-0. 31 consecutive points by Tennessee later, the rout was on. I won't say it's impossible to win but I will say if we don't find a way to convert more red zone chances into TD's, we won't keep it close. It has been a problem in the first two games, settling for 3. Way too many short FG's. With this stable of runners, I'm a little surprised this has been an issue. It seems like more often it's passing teams that get stalled out in the red zone when the field shrinks.
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You lose to Texas State at home and think you can go on the road to UT and hang with them?
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Tennessee barely beat App State and we should have beat them. We are not scared of tennessee.
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Tarell Basham was asked during the Solich radio show last night what he thought of Tennessee's offense ~ "Their offense is...stoppable...I'm going to say that, their offense is definitely stoppable." I'm glad they are ready and up for the challenge.
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I tip my hat to the history of the Tennessee program. It's been a great program for a long time.

In the 40s and 50s, Gen. Neyland was one of the finest coaches ever. The greatest college coach of all time, Bear Bryant, basically couldn't beat Neyland.

The late 60s and early 70s was a classic time with some of the best defensive players in the country, especially at linebacker. I recall a great Orange Bowl in 1968 between Oklahoma and UT. Karl Kremser, one of the first soccer style kickers, missed FG on the last play of the game and the Sooners held on for a 26-24 win. I remember some great battles during the late 60s and early 70s with Joe Paterno and Penn State. I remember Condredge Holloway, the first African American starting QB in the SEC who went on to a great career in the CFL and eventually returned to be an Assoc. AD. Some titanic struggles with Alabama during these years. Good coaches like Doug Dickey and Bill Battle. I remember the great wide receiver Richmond Flowers, whose father was the atty general of Alabama...Flowers decided to attend UT in part because his father took flack for some sympathy to the civil rights movement.

Under Dickey and Battle, UT recruited the state of Ohio. Players like Paul Naumoff and the famous Jack "Hacksaw" Reynolds.
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No predict the score thread here - and maybe good or not sensible since we are 28 pt underdog on most spread sites. Vols fan sites have hundreds of pick the score posts - with the average prolly beating the 28 point spread. I predict we will beat the 28 pt spread - it will be less than 28 point loss - or it will be a pick'em squeaker.....
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Likely means nothing, but, last season's opener for Tenn went 59-30 over Bowling Green. Coach Jones, I think, takes games vs the MAC personally.
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"Now, Butch Jones, there's a haircut you can set your watch to!"

Also, in an alternate universe — a more just universe — I'm pretty sure Butch Jones teaches physical education to junior high students. Always wears those swishy 1990s warm-up pants. Smells like Old Spice. Gets to the school's weight room to lift at 5 a.m. Chews gum constantly. Has 12 year olds run laps to start class while "Jock Jams" plays. Has students take written tests about archery. Gives up midway through the year and makes every class kickball. Or triangle kickball. Or baserunning relay kickball. Or Alaskan Kickball. Or Triple Kickball.
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Their QB has small hands. We need to look for opportunities to strip him
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There are two ways to read this post.
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Getting this thing back on track, weather forecast has changed dramatically. 92 with a 10% chance of rain. I'm trading my poncho for sunscreen. It's going to be a hot one.
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This is a tough one to call. I don't think Ohio fans really know if we're any good, whether Texas State is any good and whether Kansas is really any good (by all rights, they are in their second year under a new coach and should have improved a bit). History tells us that Texas State and Kansas probably weren't good, but it's still positive to go out and dominate a Big 12 school. No doubt they have some athletes and hopefully they'll figure out how to get them involved.

Tennessee's strength plays to our strength so this might be a good matchup for us... or it might not.

I know we have some good numbers, but I'm still very concerned about our offense's overall effectiveness. The passing game with the dropsies and our ineffectiveness in the redzone are absolute disasters in the making Saturday. I think our run game and our run D combine to eat clock and keep us in this thing, but I'm also guessing UT is more effective at making some big plays and putting this one away. I don't see a hugely productive day on offense for Ohio.

I'm going 35-16 Tenn. I think we need to go +3 on turnovers to have a shot.
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If we couldn't stop Texas State, I don't see how we're going to stop Tennessee.

Tennessee- 42
Ohio - 10
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Tennessee 49
Ohio 10

I was there the last time we played there. That kickoff return was gigantic in that game. If we get a special teams play early or a fluky touchdown, I could see us worrying them into the third quarter.

From what I've seen, we're just not that giant killer type of team. We'll win the games we should and lose the ones we should. I'm okay with that. But I don't see this team as a particularly dangerous one. Tenneseee is the kind of volatile program that could put 60 on us, or panic and keep us in it. So much talent, yet so many ghosts from last year's collapses just waiting to be let out from under the bed in SEC play.

Not yet though. We won't be the ones to do it.
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I've watched about 6 quarters of Tennessee football this year. From that, I gather that they prefer to run the ball than throw, and when they throw, they like to throw short- to medium-range passes. It strikes me as fairly similar to #Albinball, honestly.

It is imperative we not let Hurd get rolling. If he does, their offense will get in a rhythm, and that's that. I don't hate our front 7's chances in that match-up.

So, if they play conservative against us, I think we can keep it interesting. Get some TOs, and who knows? Chaos is fun when you're a 4 TD underdog. But if they decide to open it up and take deep shots, I think our secondary gets toasted a la the first 5 minutes of the 3rd quarter versus Kansas.

Tennessee's defense seems prone to mental mistakes. The TD App State scored on the throw to the RB sticks in my mind. It was just a bad defensive call and bad coverage from a player out of position on a little bit of a trick play. And VT had some success too early on.

That being said, I don't see us hanging with Tennessee for more than two quarters. I'll go with 21-13 at half, and 35-13 as a final. If you're gonna bet, take the points (something like 42-16 with a late FG as a backdoor cover wouldn't shock me).
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Smokey is a good dog.
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Ohio 28 Tennessee 24. Pocket protectors in the air and medi's go wild.
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Capt Straight said:
We have to wrap up their running back, he is a lot like Jamal Lewis, but not as fast. We need to press the receiver and get some QB pressure. On offense we will need to throw some deep balls to free up the running game, we can expect to see 8 in the box. If they look at the Kansas game they will see our WR core as no threat, but they will be sadly mistaken. Tim Albin and Burrow will need to earn their money this week, if we expect to win.

The team will have to have flawless execution and some leprechaun paradise luck: I am saying we can win this one. UT is as over rated as they are talented.

I still feel as if we are completely overmatched. I say we cash the check and not suffer any more injuries. This is not our most important game.

Frank's pre-game talk to the team: "I want you guys to lay an egg like we did against Louisville a few years ago. No need to be relentless in this game. Just let them blow us out from the start. Just stay healthy for the Gardner Webb game. You guys aren't nearly as good or talented as my team that beat Penn State or the ones that beat Temple and Marshall every year, and I don't want you to try to be relentless like they were. In fact, I received a letter recently from an OHIO alum in California who said he was a Certified Pigskin Analyst. This expert said you sucked and that we hadn't recruited a decent class in the last three or four years. He said that I sucked even worse than you. He is right. There is no way possible we can win this game against an actually good football team. So, save your energy, and go out there and have some fun and don't worry about the score. I've got a lifetime contract here, so I don't worry and you shouldn't either. Now, just go out there and play our normal mediocre brand of boring, conservative, sleep-inducing football. Perhaps, if we are so boring that we put Tennessee to sleep we can slip into the endzone a few times and no one will even notice. Go OHIO! Our motto -- beat the weak sisters and forget the rest."
Last Edited: 9/12/2016 12:31:52 AM by OhioCatFan

Sounds like they have a lot of confidence! LOL
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they shouldn't beat us deep
they shouldn't be able to contain Hurd and Kamara.
Ideally I would like to see Dobbs and co throw the ball around the yard to at the very least try and gain some confidence and keep his legs fresh.

*** Please O line show up and set the tone and remind us you can actually block correctly and not get whipped play after play.

That said I bet we see the same ole story line
run everyone to death and show no growth in areas that need it desperately ultimately leading to some wtf moments from the fans.
 
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"He's a lot like Jamal...."

I have a pair of pants just like that, except their red, have stripes, and their shorts.
 
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