Co-sign. When you find "the guy" under center, you've gotta keep him on the field. Some of the past game plans have gotten QBs unnecessarily beaten up.

I'm thinking it will depend on the weather. If we end up getting heavy rain from Harvey remnants on Saturday night, I could see fewer passes and more running. I also agree with the conservative approach. We should be able to handle Hampton without opening up the play book too much. We should save some of the fancier plays for Purdue, Kansas and league play and not let on to what we are all about offensively and defensively this year until we need to.

Yep. For the opener: WWAAA=AJUTM

Wood listed as the starter at RG. I hope that's not a misprint and that he's healthy enough to play. That will assuage a lot of my concerns about OL depth.

Edit: It also has Ball as a starter at WR, soooooooo.....I think my concerns remain un-assuaged.

Except they haven't found their QB. They've been using a 2QB system pretty much most of Frank's tenure. The years with only using Theo or TT were exceptions to the norm.

Fair point. When you're as QB deficient as Ohio has been, keeping the ones that show to be obviously better on the field is important. That's the point I was trying to make anyway. These QB dive/draw plays out of the shotgun aren't my idea of doing that. The QB takes a ton of hits from the big guys up front.

 

Defense Depth Chart for Hampton

DE 96 Kevin Robbins
2nd 98 Chukwudi Chukwu

DT 54 Tony Porter
2nd 48 Andrew Payne

NT 92 Cleon Aloese
2nd 97 Kent Berger

DE 90 Trent Smart
2nd 55 Sam McKnight

SLB 38 Chad Moore
2nd 35 Dylan Conner

MLB 32 Quentin Poling
2nd 36 Austin Clack

WLB 47 Evan Crouch
2nd 40 Cody Grilliot

RCB 3 Bradd Ellis
2nd 41 Ilyaas Motley

SS 2 Javon Hagan
2nd 31 Grant Cunningham

FS 23 Kylan Nelson
2nd 25 Tyler Gullett

LCB 21 Jalen Fox
2nd 4 Jamal Hudson

Thanks for the breakdown LC. I was essentially thinking of the years post TT. Seems like in those years, Vick, Sprague, Windham were often injured. Plus TT was injured his senior season. Maybe I'm exaggerating the affect of too much QB running related to those years?

I think that's just part of recruiting. Every team in the country has scholarship seniors sitting on the bench. Including many who were 4 and 5 star recruits. You never know which of your recruits are going to be players until you get them on the field. Athletic ability and physical measurements are only part of the game. The other parts are the immeasurables, like, desire, toughness, work ethic, instincts, pride, etc. In my opinion, these are more important in determining who ends up playing. Granted, you have to have a certain amount of athletic ability also.

I don't believe this last sentence is even close to accurate. It sounds good as hyperbole, but current numbers do not bear that out. The current senior class would have come from 2013 or 2014, correct (depending on redshirts)? Just using the 2013 numbers, there were a grand total of 33 5 star recruits in the entire country. In 2014, the same number (33).

So, out of 33 recruits in 2013, there are six not in the NFL right now. Kenny Bigelow is a starter at USC, Matthew Thomas is leading returning tackler for FSU, and Frank Herron is starting DT for LSU. The possible questionable ones are Mike Mitchell, formerly of Ohio State, who is now in DII, Thomas Tyner, who medically retired and is now attempting a comeback with Oregon State, Ty Isaac, backup RB at Michigan after transferring from USC, and Max Redfield, who is no longer in DI due to legal troubles.

In 2014, there are 15 of the 33 not currently in the NFL. One, Speedy Noil, is the result of entering draft early and getting cut. The other 14 are all starting in college currently at their positions. The closest you could come to a questionable one would be Racean Thomas, who transferred to Jacksonville State to be their starting RB. Other than that, all other 5 star recruits are starters at their college and many are expected to be first-round draft picks (Da'Shawn Hand, Quin Blanding, Kyle Allen, Sony Michel, Rashaan Evans, Bo Scarbrough, Damian Prince, Chad Thomas, Tre Williams, Tony Brown, Ermon Lane, Quenton Nelson, Andrew Brown).

A 5-star prospect is rare and almost always pans out. There are exceptions, but they are very rare. So to say that many 5 star recruits are scholarship seniors riding the pine, that's inaccurate. Best you could say is that fits maybe 2 or 3 seniors in the entire country.

Channel 4's predicting about a half-inch of rain from Saturday morning to Sunday morning.

I didn't say many 5 star recruits. I said many were 4 and 5 star. So if there are many 4 star and a few 5 star, then how am I not even close to being accurate? Seems I'm at least close. No?