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Originally Posted by gatorunvrsty  I like what I've seen of tOSU and Pryor trying to get closer together on philosophy... making use of his weapons. I know you talked about Tressel moving gradually to the spread some last year; but this may be the first year he actually has all the pieces available to run it successfully. Whether y'all use it as a primary offensive scheme or not, Buckeye fans should see plenty of fireworks on the scoreboard this year. Are you guys searching for similar athletes for future QB positions, or will Tressel take Pro-style and Dual-threat guys and just adapt his offense to suit their talents?
I read in an SI/Dan Patrick interview with Tressel this week that he and the players have some reckoning on their minds with USC. I actually think you guys will have the decided advantage this time around. You'll have the QB with experience, after Sanchez bailed on Carroll. They also lost a ton of very talented players on defense. And, of course, you'll have home-field advantage. Should be a great opportunity for you to settle the score. I didn't even realize that you two hadn't played the rivalry much lately... it had been 19 years before last year's game. |
Man I really hope we can pop those condoms on Sept. 12th. tOSU and USC has been a rivalry game in the past especially in the 60's and 70's when they met several times in the Rose Bowl back in Woody's day. The players have a chip on their shoulders from that game because of how USC was just very cocky and arrogant throughout that game. I think your gonna see a whole new offense from tOSU this year but it will still contain its traditional vanilla Big Ten parts which Tressel is more conservative anyways if you can't tell when it comes to ball control especially in a tight game. Tressel always molds his offense to his QB. We ran mostly spread and 5 wide in 2005 with Troy and Teddy but then went back to traditional for 2006 in which Troy Smith did not get the chance to use his legs as much which I believe was a mistake by Tressel not to continue what we had in 2005 especially after we steam rolled Brady Quinn and ND in the Fiesta Bowl. I forgot that we also have a recruit from last year in Kenny Guiton from Texas who is a dual threat but built identical to Troy Smith. He will be Pryor's immediate back up next year and is more than capable of running the spread from what i've heard if something were to happen. "knocking on wood" LOL. Pryor is a freak of nature in being 6'6", running a 4.4 forty, and having a cannon arm so his potential is limitless and IMHO could revolutionize the QB position sort of like Tebow has done the past few years. Pryor showed during the spring that he cannot only run and be advasive, but that he can throw very accurately and also has a arm that can loft it about 70 yds with little effort. He had two beautiful deep balls for TD's in the spring game. We also have a lot of really talented young and fast WR's that we've been stockpiling the last few seasons that are going to have their chance. Remember this name: DeVier Posey - 5 star recruit from last year and a clone of David Boston when he was at tOSU in the late 90's. For now, we will take any QB recruit we can get. I'm sure they'll be a day when we go back to playing the traditional offense again. But it seems like after the success with Troy Smith, we have been looking for and offering more and more Dual Threat QBs. Buckeye fans were spoiled with the Troy and Teddy Ginn Jr. show.
