Dave23

Night and day difference on O.

Sloppy first half by Texas, not sure what Georgia is doing but if you can't catch the ball I'm not sure what you do.

Georgia's D looking pretty vulnerable on the back end.

I would like to see some big shots down field to Stewart as I don't think they have anyone who can hang with him. If OBD can get up a couple of TD's it's going to be very hard for PSU to come back from.

I'd put Penn State firmly in the middle somewhere on parity with Boise State.

Go ASU!

Mario should be so proud.

Thanks for bringing this up. I was thinking about this during the recent discussion of coach Day and his win percentage. Add in the SEC parity this year and it looks a lot like the PAC-12 with a lot of teams that can knock off just about anyone in the conference. This doesn't mean that the conference was weak but just the opposite making it very difficult for there to be a dominant team.

When it comes down to it SMU hasn't played Alabama and all the musings of the pundits about well Alabama played the tougher schedule are irrelevant when you lose like they have. SMU getting penalized for playing another game and a total of two more conference games than Alabama should count for something. The only way we'll know if SMU is worthy is by putting them in the playoffs and letting them prove it. We already know Alabama isn't worthy.

The depth of this team is definitely a huge advantage. Seems to me that there's 10 guy who can score 20 points in any given game.

Shelstad stepping it up down the stretch. Love this team they take turns being the man to step up.

Keep taking it to the rim and make those free throws.

They're definitely walking and chewing gum. They definitely need to change this insanity maybe just push it all to the late signing.

I get it there is no known entity to replace him and he's probably the best choice out there at this time. I hope they hold on to him forever and he never gets a single bit better at the small things, advantage Ducks! Eventually if you can't beat the Ducks and the Wolverines recruiting will fall off. All the better for us! Go ducks Thanks for the great discussion.

You're not going to win it all unless you have the guys but you also have to have the coach that motivates those guys and puts together a cohesive game plan otherwise you can have all the talent in the world and it won't get you anywhere. Day has had 4 years and hasn't improved upon his big game coaching ability. He's not out there finding every advantage and making excellent game time decisions he's sitting back relying on the Jimmies and the Joes to do it for him. Not that it's not possible for pure talent to win the national championship but it gets easier with a great coach. Small mental mistakes are the difference between sliding a second earlier and setting up a game winning field goal and losing the game. We've all seen this happen in different regards to different teams but well coached players tend not to make this mistake. Lanning is getting better at not making these mistakes. Saban, Smart and other great coaches of the past have grown over the years to become better at the small things that make all the difference in the big games. Will Day grow as a coach or will he continue to make the small mental mistakes. I'm not denying that he easily has the most talented team in the nation this year yet he still has lost two games.

I was referring to Justin Herbert who Mario made look like a mid-tier QB. Sorry I should have been more specific.

The real question is did the coach make the team or the team make the coach? As Mario showed us you can have a top level NFL QB but if you don't use them right or coach them right you're not going anywhere.

Urban Meyer vs Michigan 7-0, Urban Meyers in bowl games 7-1 Urban Meyers vs Oregon 2-0. Ryan Day vs Michigan 0-4, Ryan Day in bowl games 2-4 Ryan Day vs Oregon 0-2. Day does not have a track record of winning the big games like his predecessor. This is the standard that tOSU has come to expect. If Day went to Miami would he have a better record than Mario? He's a great recruiter no doubt but we all know that doesn't win the big games. I like Day and think he would do great at just about any university I just don't think he's an elite coach. With all the talent he has amassed he should be winning at home against inferior competition ie. Oregon and Michigan. You can't blame Chip Kelly for this is he partially responsible Yes. The real problem is who would you replace him with and honestly I can't say there's anyone better out there that they could actually get. Is Lanning really that good at picking out position coaches and coordinators or does he make them better? Is Day learning from his mistakes an elevating everyone around him? To me this is what makes an elite coach not just a great recruiter. Was hiring Chip Kelly a good hire with the power dynamics of who's in charge, probably not and that lands firmly on Day. If you're not a good manager and make poor decisions that's on you. There's so much more to coaching than just bringing in elite talent that can overpower most lesser opponents and where that shows out is in the big games. I don't know the answers but I really hope Day doesn't prove me wrong this year.

I hear you, during the game against OBD they had an advantage over our DBs and was dumbfounded that they didn't throw the ball more. Sounds to me like a pistol formation up the middle problem, maybe they weren't physical enough. Day losing to UM at home is equivalent of OBD losing to Washington this year. Would the Ducks fans call for Lannings head for losing 4 in row to our biggest rival then standing there while Mullen's tries to break up a brawl on the field? I for one wouldn't be proud of that. What's Days excuse, it's not me I hired the wrong guy 4 years in a row. If you're a head coach you're very involved in the strategy and game plan if your offensive coordinator is going rouge then fire him. If Day isn't making adjustments to the game plan at halftime and then making sure the plays are called accordingly then that's on him. You have to be a leader and I'm not seeing that from him. This is football not war and if your shell shocked from losing maybe being the head coach of one of the top teams in the nation is not for you. Can you honestly tell me Lanning, Sabine, or Smart would have sat there. The whole rest of tOSU team was certainly not shell shocked and they defended their field from and unsportsmanlike opponent. It comes down to is this the guy that you want leading your team. Arguably tOSU has had one of if not the most talent team in the nation every year and has not won the big games. If I was a tOSU fan I would start to feel like I had a Mario problem.

I'm not saying Michigan was in the right I'm just saying that Days leadership is lacking and that he doesn't have that leader of men type quality that Sabine, Smart, Lanning or other elite coaches have. I don't think the above mentioned coaches have ever been so shell shocked from a loss as to not keep his guys from continuing a brawl rightfully or wrongfully. Sherrone Moore wasn't sitting on the sideline he was in there tell is players to back off. To me that's a leader of men I'd want as a coach. Two wrongs still don't make a right. Blame Kelly for losing to Michigan this time but he didn't lose the other 3 games against Michigan. Weaknesses is revealed early and he's just never seemed to have the it factor. Him blankly starting at a brawl is indicative of his coaching style.

This is exactly the problem with Day, does anyone here think Lanning would have been sitting on the sideline during that. If you're not going to lead these young impressionable adults, then who will.

I believe Oregon is doing a great job of finding potential and then developing then into premier running backs. If memory serves me right not everyone was very high on Bucky when he started with the Ducks he had a lot of drop balls but the potential was there. Stars don't mean much after you've made it to the team.

I think there going to have a hard time replacing him with someone better but at some point they have to show him the door.

Mario is keeping it interesting, will refs bail him out this time?

Penn St will be very interesting game but ultimately I think our D will be to much for them to keep up on the scoreboard.