My questions to Jim Tressel would be, when are you going to trust your athletes to go out and make plays for you? When are you going to start mixing up your play calls? Maybe the best question of all would be, when are the people who sit at home NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO CALL PLAYS FROM THEIR COUCHES?
Guess what, Mr. Tressel: If Joe Schmo the plumber can figure out what offensive plays you're going to call, I'm pretty sure Pete Carroll, Urban Meyer, and Bob Stoops are gonna have a hint too.
Do you honestly think other top college programs and head coaches aren't aware of those numbers above as well? Do you honestly think they don't use these numbers and the philosophy against the Buckeyes in trying to pull in the best of the best in offensive talent?
I know for a fact that it cost us Fred Davis and Dwayne Jarrett right off the top of my head. Cordale Scott was the most recent that I could think of that chose Illinois over the home state Buckeyes because the Illini offense was viewed as more "dynamic."
Look no further than the lack of talent in the upperclassmen at the wide receiver position to see that "Tresselball" has hurt recruiting. To put it in perspective, this is the alma mater of David Boston, Terry Glenn, Joey Galloway, Cris Carter, Demetrius Stanley, Dee Miller, Michael Jenkins...great wide receivers.
No offense to Brian Robiskie and Brian Hartline, but can you think of a weaker WR tandem than this combination at Ohio State in recent memory? Ohio State or not, wide receivers are cocky playmakers, and they want to go where they know they are gonna touch the football and get into the end zone.
Ohio State's offense is known as a safe ground attack across the country.
"Tresselball" works when you are playing marginal, inferior competition and talent. You can throw your talent out on the field and win with better players.
But when you step up to play the best, you'd better have the offensive athletes to stretch the field, you'd better be prepared to trust the athletes you have to make plays, you'd better be prepared to open the coaching vault up and play call for the opposing coach's jugular, and you had better be prepared to take chances and risks to GO OUT AND WIN THE FOOTBALL GAME...TAKE THE GAME!
"Tresselball" hasn't done any of those things, and it's gotten hammered every time it counts since the 2002 National Championship.
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