What other message boards are saying (Playoff Edition) (Ohio State)

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Volrocketman said:
I get your point, and I agree to an extent. My point was that based on some criteria (e.g., the ARC) there are areas (counties) in Ohio that are considered to be part of Appalachia, as ludicrous as that sounds. Heck, I live in Huntsville and according to the ARC, we're part of the greater Appalachian region. Not sure I agree with that when comparing it to where I grew up (Athens, TN/McMinn County).
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I'd also go as far to say if Ohio is Appalachian then Scotland certainly is as the range is actually found there prominently and nowhere in Ohio
Halph66 said:
The elevation at the highest point of my property is approximately 1,100 feet above sea-level.
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Depending upon where you want to drop the pin, the elevation of Knoxville, Tennessee is very similar.
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And the highest elevatioin in the state of Ohio is Campbell Hill at 1,549 feet.
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Where I live in Ohio is not flat. I grew up in Elizabethton, Tennessee. Again, the area that I live in looks very similar to East Tennessee without the mountains in distance. Kansas and Nebraska are at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. Yes the Rocky Mountains dwarft the Appalachian Mountains so it is to be expected that the elevation is higher. I was not comparing Ohio to Kansas or Nebraska. I was stating that the entire state of Ohio is not flat as you stated.
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I understand Ohio has a few small hills
 
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Bleeding.Orange said:
Thanks for the laugh this morning! It's clear all these OSU fans do not know ball lolol I'd say most of them didn't watch a game outside of the Big 10 this year. I don't know where they're getting this confidence and how they're talking like Michigan was a bigger challenge than Tennessee. But I hope our players and coaching staff see this and put it on the bulletin. Man. Now I want to crush these fools even more lol
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I used to work a lot in Ohio and would listen to some of their local sports shows while driving. It was interesting hearing these folks bash their coaches and teams that were going 11-1 or 10-2 every year.
 
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hUTch2002 said:
I used to work a lot in Ohio and would listen to some of their local sports shows while driving. It was interesting hearing these folks bash their coaches and teams that were going 11-1 or 10-2 every year.
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Agreed.

I heard this yesterday from an OSU media guy:

Ryan Day and OSU has 3 clearly stated goals every season.
1. Beat Michigan
2. Win Big10
3. Win it all

When OSU gets knocked out of the playoffs this year, Ryan Day will be 0 for 12 on those goals in 4 years. Zero. None.

THAT is why we can get him fired in 2 weeks. OSU has a 4 year recruiting average of their last 4 classes of what? 3 maybe? Bet my left nut its less than 4th. Your fanbase and AD expects Championships and beating rivals when you have 4 consecutive top5 classes on campus PLUS big $$$ portal guys. They have 4 different WRs on that team that will likely all be 1st round draft picks in the next 3 or 4 years. 4 of them. Their defense is loaded too.

Ryan Day is the "Michael Jordan" of James Franklins.
 
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marcusluvsvols said:
Agreed.

I heard this yesterday from an OSU media guy:

Ryan Day and OSU has 3 clearly stated goals every season.
1. Beat Michigan
2. Win Big10
3. Win it all

When OSU gets knocked out of the playoffs this year, Ryan Day will be 0 for 12 on those goals in 4 years. Zero. None.

THAT is why we can get him fired in 2 weeks. OSU has a 4 year recruiting average of their last 4 classes of what? 3 maybe? Bet my left nut its less than 4th. Your fanbase and AD expects Championships and beating rivals when you have 4 consecutive top5 classes on campus PLUS big $$$ portal guys. They have 4 different WRs on that team that will likely all be 1st round draft picks in the next 3 or 4 years. 4 of them. Their defense is loaded too.

Ryan Day is the "Michael Jordan" of James Franklins.
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Wow. Am I seeing this right? In his full years as OSU coach Day has only beaten Michigan once? That’s crazy. He beat them as an interim the year before he took over full time, beat them in 2019, they didn’t play in 2020 due to COVID and UM won 2021-24. John Cooper part 2? Switching gears, Franklin has made a nice living feasting off the lower Big 10 teams. I give him credit for his team pretty much always winning the games they should be he also pretty much never wins against equal or better teams. Of course if they beat SMU I’m sure that will be touted as a “big win”. I’d say it’s a decent win in a big stage. Now if they were to beat one of the big boys from the SEC or Big 10 then ok, credit will be deserved. I sure wouldn’t bet on it though.
 
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207 others said:
I went to rural Ohio before and it is legitimately the closest thing we have to pure dystopia. It was a single road with an hour of corn surrounding the road and nothing else, then a stop sign with a meat store, then an hour of corn. Flat as Kansas without being able to see anything but corn.

On the satellite the county is a yellow square. People make fun of WV but it is pretty with dumb people, Ohio is ugly with retarded people. Every person I met under 30 had Insane Clown Posse tattoos, on drugs, looked like prisoners
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I have family that live east of Cincinnati, maybe 30 to 45 minutes out. It's rual as hell and as red neck as north west georgia
 
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sgtwebb1 said:
"Oklahoma D put out the book on how to stop Tennessee. We just have to follow it."

"Ohio State has the potential to outrush Tennessee and blow them out. Ohio State has played a murderer's row of rush defenses and still managed 5 yds/carry."

"Ryan Day has proven that he needs the better player at all 22 positions to win football games. Gonna be tough because Tennessee might have a
better player at one or two positions."

"Our offensive line won't be manhandled like they were against Michigan either so I expect a little bit more success running the ball..."


These jackwagons obviously haven't watched much football outside their own conference. :po_O
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That book was an early edition. The revised book shows a much offense and defense.
 
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What the southeast corner of Ohio shares with West Virginia and the eastern bits of Kentucky and Tennessee is this: coal.

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That's an Ohio coal mine. Had an Army buddy who grew up around those parts. He identified much more with the rest of Appalachia than he did with the more urban and urbane parts of his own state.

Most fellas from Ohio, they're wimps. These fellas, they work for a living.

Go Vols!
 
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What Bozo thought Buckeyes would be a good name for a football team anyway. “Oh no, here come the Buckeyes!” What the h*ll was that fool thinking.
 
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NO SIR EEE said:
It's going to be way too cold for Tennessee. They won't be able to throw and their rushing offense is mid. We should roll.
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These jokers are clueless. I remember sitting in the nosebleed seats in Neyland at a Vandy game when it was 12 degrees. Knoxville gets downright cold in late fall and early winter.

Also, a “mid” rushing offense? Sampson and Bishop are going to have a heyday.
 
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hUTch2002 said:
Wow. Am I seeing this right? In his full years as OSU coach Day has only beaten Michigan once? That’s crazy. He beat them as an interim the year before he took over full time, beat them in 2019, they didn’t play in 2020 due to COVID and UM won 2021-24. John Cooper part 2? Switching gears, Franklin has made a nice living feasting off the lower Big 10 teams. I give him credit for his team pretty much always winning the games they should be he also pretty much never wins against equal or better teams. Of course if they beat SMU I’m sure that will be touted as a “big win”. I’d say it’s a decent win in a big stage. Now if they were to beat one of the big boys from the SEC or Big 10 then ok, credit will be deserved. I sure wouldn’t bet on it though.
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Saw a post on X about Franklin yesterday:

At Penn st. Vs top5 opponents he is 0-12. Ofer. Ofer 12.

Franklin and Ryan Day have a lot in common. Safe to say that Day has owned Franklin though. I am sure most of those 12 losses are the buckeyes with a couple Michigan mixed in.
 
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207 others said:
I gotcha, I'd say 1 or 2 counties of Ohio qualify but not really. They're only Appalachian on paper because so many people people in the 60s moved to leave Appalachia 😆 ill consider them Appalachian when Tennessee considers itself East California!! Where does Appalachia stop if Ohio is remotely considered Appalachia? Utah?


Sorry to come off strong since you understand completely. You are more ARC Appalachian than the highest portion of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia, one of the most mountainous strips of all of Appalachia!! In fact just about that entire strip in westERN virginia is twice as high as anything in West Virginia with small exceptions and much more cultural Appalachian history than west virginia by 100s of years! Look into the Blue Ridge of Virginia!

They have a town called Appalachia on the Appalachian trail that isn't Appalachian but Ohio is!?!?!

this is not Appalachian but 30 foot high Ohio is!
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Regarding JD Vance

If you grew up in TN and visited China once a year in the summer, are you Chinese? He's a Cincinnati guy.
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I was born in Harlan, Kentucky. I’ve lived in Mountain City, Trade, Johnson City, and Gray Tennessee. Also lived in Morristown, Flushing(Belmont County) and Athens Ohio. I now live in Armstrong County, PA after a short stent in Allegheny County (Pittsburgh).

All of those areas happen to fall under the commission. They are different in many ways, yes. Heritage, history, culture, heck they were on opposite sides of a bloody war. The thing that unites them, though, is that they have sat on natural resources through the centuries and been exploited for them. They have in many cases been taken advantage of. Whether it was timber, coal, iron, natural gas, etc… people not residing in these places have enriched themselves beyond comprehension on the backs and on the land of these people. This has happened over and over. There was such a great need identified for the people in these areas that became depressed after whatever resource is taken from the lands, they needed an advocate. Hence, the only joint Federal/State combined commission of its kind was created to define and hopefully uplift the region.

I’m not sure what your definition of Appalachia is. Seems based largely on elevation, and if so, then ok… but I can definitively say people in rural Ohio and Pennsylvania have more in common with people in rural East Tennessee than they are dissimilar.
 
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aRmo said:
Only 1 WR went off on our team this year, and that was @ Arkansas. Since then our DBs have played pretty well. Our weakness is our LBers, UGA had a great game plan for this, using multiple Motions and different TE sets to have our LBers eyes in the wrong spot and we got tore up because of it. Our DBs are actually pretty good in 1 vs 1 situations. To think our team is soft?????? lmfao.. yall gonna find out why Heupel said Anyone, Anywhere, Anytime. GBO!
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Can't leave Jeremiah Smith in 1 on 1 or he'll pay it off every time.
 
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