Posted on 01/12/2015 2:44:07 PM PST by Perdogg
“Oregon had the ball last. Why didn’t they just take a knee?”
Hmmm. My point for the winning team to take a knee so as to avoid injury makes sense (to me!). But - if a team is down by 3 scores with 28 seconds to go (or whatever it was) - it would also make it reasonable to take a knee knowing that there is only a very remote probability to win the game, and could still tear something up bad going for the big gain. Although I suppose that possibility of getting hurt is also fairly remote.
But - that WOULD really seem like quitting if you are behind.
I just hate to see any player get injured - no matter what team they are playing for.
Good points, but I still don’t see him putting up Hall of Fame numbers there ... unless he played into his 50s, of course. LOL.
.....And they sure did, OSU, 42 to 20 over Oregon.
OSU lead by their traitor of a coach, Organ Meyer.
I always thought that in football when you had the ball the object was to score points. It didn’t matter what the time was left in the game, or how many points you or the other team had, your job was to score points. That’s not “running up the score”, it’s playing the game. My coach always told me you play the game for the whole game, you don’t quit, whether it’s the start or end of the game. Laying down for your opponent is a sign of disrespect, that you have pity for them. A good opponent doesn’t want pity, they want respect, and you give that by playing them with your best effort. You shouldn’t feel bad for the other team because it’s not what they want or should want. Neither should you feel bad for playing the game hard every play and every minute. Play tough but play fair. Respect your opponent. And be friends after the game.
You are absolutely correct! The best is yet to come!
Your assuming that only the 6 majors have any good football. I think every conference needs represented - it’s only 2 more weeks of football to make 16 - they have dead time they can use in Dec so it wouldn’t be difficult.
So Virginia Tech is #1!!!
At 35 to 20 I went to bed.
42 to 20 OSU! GO BUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Was a bit surprised at how badly the Ducks played...even with the 4 turnovers the Buckeyes committed...
The Buckeyes O and D lines won the day...
Congrats to both teams for a great season and to OH for the win.
Amazingly, there was a play last night that was almost an exact replay of that one...creepy.
I didn't watch the end of the game but generally in a blowout backup players come out at the end. They are playing in the National Championship game, so I would expect them to give their best effort because for a lot of them this game will be the pinnacle of their football career.
In this game, I heard that the backups for Ohio State were rotated in throughout the game, more than usual anyway. It was part of the game plan, so that the first string players could catch regular breaks. I think that plan worked out pretty well for the Buckeyes. There was very little drop off in play.
Hey you left coast guys stick together, I see...in Oregon’s game with Florida State the score at the end of the third quarter was 45 - 20. Oregon obviously had the game won. But they kept pouring it on...2 more touchdowns in the forth quarter, obviously to humiliate Florida State and Jameis Winston, for a final score of 59 - 20.
Florida State’s 39-point margin of defeat was the worst ever by a defending national champion.
Pour it on, humiliate, humiliate!
So you can stick your ‘dumbass’ reply in your ear or some where else...
Frankly, I barely watched it. OSU has such a great history of snatching defeat out of the jaws of victory that I give up most times. And, well, I went there. I remember one time that Jack Tatum came flying over me when I sat on ground-level bleachers near the end zone.
It was color. It was spectacle.
I went to a couple of Pac 10 games (which were ok) and to a Northwestern/OSU game—which was, in 2 words, oh dear.
I hate the piling on of high scores. It’s humiliating. Now, if it happens with 3rd stringers who need experience, that’s a little different.
Anyway, my point is that these post-season games are good $$$ opportunities for any team & conference that plays them. That’s a good thing for the other sports and the educational programs that these teams play for.
I thought it might be the undoing of the Buckeyes, it was so similar. Didn’t turn out that way, though.
In that OR-FSU game, OR scored 2 TDs in the 4th qtr, both on runs, the last one with 10 minutes to play. If you knew anything about football, you’d know that that is not considered running up the score.
“Oregon had the ball last. Why didn’t they just take a knee?”
OR was content to let the clock run out when Ohio had the ball 1st and goal with less than 2 minutes to play. OR didn’t use their final 2 time outs. Once Ohio scored and OR received the ball, they ran plays even though they knew it wouldn’t effect the outcome of the game. That was the right thing to do. Ohio scoring when they could have run out the clock by taking a knee was the wrong thing to do.
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