What do ya have to do to make $1.7million? Check ABC TV 9am Saturday for the broadcast.  Some questions about the new staff, team, and culture will be answered by noon. Others will certainly remain.

Let’s use this thread to discuss expectations, hopes, and what you see as answered questions and those that remain. Maybe hold the “OT” stuff to a minimum?

GO BEAVS!

As mentioned in the prior thread, I’m a bit out of the loop with (a) The Beavs (b) college football (c) Ohio State. This for various reasons. Mostly because I moved, and it’s taken a while to settle in, and we have had some lifestyle changes that result in less time to devote to sports. Then there’s the fact I’m disenchanted with the Beavs (i.e. “The Riley Factor”). It’s just hard to care about any team that has Riley involved, or any team dumb enough to hire him at this point in his career. So, all that has lead to…well…not knowing a whole lot about this team.

From what I have pieced together, we have no depth on defense, a patchwork O-line, a Juco QB still trying to play in a P5 conference, and a HC who talks just like Riley. With that, we’re going to Ohio State. The line is 37. And I wonder if that’s 37 points or 37 body bags.

From the prior thread, some folks wrote their opinion on this game. Given that I know nothing, I’ll post the best excerpts.

Jonathan Smith will be the oldest head coach in next week’s game since he’s 2 months older than Ohio State interim coach Ryan Day. The Buckeyes lost 7 defensive starters from last year including 5 to the NFL. Their offense is supposed to be all-world but their QB is new, and he’s not a runner like Barrett was. If we had Togiai playing, if their game planning was out of sync from the coach situation and if they totally overlooked us like Stanford did against us last year, then I was hoping we could score a few TDs and make a game of it. We’ll need their QB to really lay an egg. If he’s on, they’ll probably score at will.

That seems somewhat realistic.

This opinion seems optimistic.

Almost time for Ohio State game week prep thread. Looking outwardly, visiting Ohio State right now, is about as good of a time as we could expect to visit Ohio State. Inwardly of course there are lots of question marks and areas to improve. But outwardly positives are, first game of the year, their coach is suspended, they are facing a new coached team with who really knows what for schemes, there will be more fans in the stands displeased with their coaching staff than we will show up with. Outwardly I don’t thunk we could’ve found a better time to visit an Urban Meyer Ohio State program. Ohio State has historically seen trouble with season openers, but with home-cooking they historically have been able to tread water, just well enough sometimes, to survive.

My opinion: there is some truth in all of this. It would be a great time to visit Ohio State if (a) we had a good team (b) the Urban situation was years ago and had a chance to negatively effect recruiting. But, neither is true. They’re probably loaded as always, and even an interim coach should be able to figure out this Beav roster. I mean, all those factors definitely give us a chance at using just 14 body bags, but a win? That would be the upset of the century for the Beavs.

I do like our WRs and RBs. Just not convinced the line will give the QB time to find them, that the QB will find them when he has time, or that the line will open any running lanes. Versus bad teams those units might be good, but don’t see it this week.

42-14, Ohio State

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