{mosimage} Thankfully I had a 25 minute ride home last evening as opposed to last years nightmare of airports and the like. I'm a Buckeye and have written on this site since its inception, so I guess I have some type of obligation to pen my thoughts post game.

I went into this game believing LSU was the better team and they were. For fans of college football I think it is a shame the Bucks didn't bring their A game to the Superdome. With their A game we could have witnessed a hell of a game.

Mistakes are made on every play, but I'm not skilled enough as an observer to see all the mistakes. I only can see the glaring ones. Obviously you can't give a team like LSU free yardage via penalties. Penalties are a killer and they killed the Bucks last night. The 15 yarders standout, but don't forget having the ball on second down and 5 to go leading 7 to nothing. Procedure penalty and you have second and ten-ultimately settling for a field goal.

It is not uncommon in sports when watching a game it appears one team is destined to win. It struck me that way last evening. LSU had a costly turnover which gave the Bucks some life. At the same time LSU got away with two mistakes that could have, (emphasize could have) been game changers. The first one was the fumbled punt in the first quarter on the 15 yardline. LSU dodged a serious bullet there. Skill, speed, etc. didn't have much to do with that fumble recovery, but right place at the right time had everything to do with that recovery. If OSU recovers that ball they either have a 13 or 17 to zip score. The second mistake was the roughing the kicker penalty on LSU's first possession of the second half. Watching that play a few times the question is how did Spitler miss the block. If he makes the block LSU doesn't go up by 21 and the Bucks, at the minimum, have the ball in awesome field position. Again, although I believe LSU was very lucky on both of those plays, who the hell knows what would have happened had those plays gone for the Bucks. Good fortune is a great thing to have on your side in any game.

Concerning the penalties I really don't have much to say because Fox only chose to show a few of them. I wish I could have seen what the Refs saw.

I suppose there is alot of Boeckman bashing going on today. You won't hear that from me. Boeckman was put in the position of having to win the game and that wasn't going to happen. I don't believe either QB was able to win the game for his team.

I suppose one aspect of the Bucks game last night that troubled me was the play of our receivers. Robiskie's drop in the end zone hurt. Small being outfought for the ball sucked. We obviously wanted to make LSU pay for their coverage schemes, and our QB had the time to do it, but our receivers got no separation. LSU won that coverage gamble.

I should now comment on Beanie, especially because of the stuff on this site. Beanie was the best back out there last night-end of story. Players make plays. Beanie made plays, our receivers did not.

So where do we go from here? I am cup half full person as opposed to the other way. Two years in a row we made it to the big dance and won the Big Ten. I guess we can bitch, but really, we won our conference and made it to The Game. The nation can say what they want to, conferences can say what they want to, but screw all of them. What talking head out there has the right to demean the Bucks and their accomplishments over the past two years? What fan of Arkansas, Auburn, Georgia, Tennessee, and dare I say USC, can say a dam thing worth listenning to. The Bucks have lost three games in two years. Three games! I'll take it and with that, I am out of here.

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Lloyds Apple said:

I agree with pretty much everything you said except for Boeckman. Yeah Robiskie dropped the td pass and the receivers played badly, but TB panics too fast, holds onto the ball too long or turns the ball over way too often. The past 3 games prove to me the job is open next year. Certainly a 2 qb system is possible. Antonio Henton has been said to be playing great in practice. Terrelle Pryor, should OSU land him, would obviously change things up. Pryor would not start but he'd get a shot to play.

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JEH45 said:

	There you go again preferring the black athlete over the white one. PS I'm joking!
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osubucks1 said:

"Everyone was feeling good about themselves," Boone said. "We're thinking this game was going to be a lot easier than it was. That was our mistake. "We score early and we're thinking, 'Man, these guys are nothing.' Then we went back out and got a field goal on the next possession and are thinking this is going to keep happening. Then they stopped us and we didn't know what to do." How can they think that 2 years in a row? The key to beating the buckeyes - let them score earlier, they relax and believe it will be easy. Lack of ‘killer instinct’?

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Lloyds Apple said:

OSU was soft this year. They only won because they overpowered teams--not 'cause they could take a punch. Wisconsin is the only team that challenged them besides their 2 losses. Defensively is where the biggest letdowns occur, particularly on the D-Line. Also, the O-Line has sucked at key moments too. The D that statistically rocks the house has gave up 41 a game in their last two championships (i think). Last year the DB's looked pathetic. This year the D-Line was the weakness. Both years the D was young. Next year they will be experienced. If OSU gets by USC at SoCal---then this group can have something to cheer about because they would have knocked off a team with comparible talent. So again, the last two years they've been soft. Even Troy Smith, who always had a distinct swagger about him, became soft. If Tressel is smart, he makes the lineman eat nails for breakfast.

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