Before our blood gets all lathered up again for the second half of this game, let me just express my excitement that I’d guess many of you share at the first half start. Will we be great all year? Maybe maybe not. Will we even win this game? Maybe maybe not. Will we go to a bowl? Still unsure.

But we at least have a competitive squad again, and that means we can be excited to watch the Cats the next 12 weeks rather than dreading our weekly humiliation. This fun part of our life is given back to us! Let’s have a great year.

There has been a lot of (understandable) kvetching about the failed 4th down wildcat calls and about over using that formation without a wrinkle as the game went on, but the play that set me over the edge was the OSU punt with a little over 8 minutes to go and the score at 14-7. I understand the terrible conditions, but it was a low line drive, and the coverage was both ragged and no where near Navarro. If he fields it, Cats start probably no worse than the 30, and it is the sort of play on a slick field he might rally break a long one. As it was, it was downed for a 45 yard punt at the 11. The Cats simply need better special team coaching. That play was huge in the outcome of the game, as Fitz did not open it up due to field position and went 3 and out, give OSU the opening to seal the game.

I really fell bad for the players. They left it all on the field today.

A late morning national telecast when the Buckeyes roll in.

Time for big changes.

I happened to come across some posted videos simulating the Ohio State game, along a simulation generator. There is significant variation in how these simulations think the game is going to go. A video simulation from August has the game going 62-17 Buckeyes with the game being close (31-17) in the middle of the 3rd Quarter then the Buckeyes pulling away after stopping the Wildcats on a 4th-and-goal at the 2-yard line:
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A video simulation posted earlier today still has the Buckeyes winning but in more of defensive struggle (relatively speaking) 27-3:
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A video simulation posted yesterday has the Buckeyes winning 41-10:
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A game simulation generator run right now has it Buckeyes 49-6:

There are some other simulations out there, but unfortunately, nothing I seen predicts a Wildcat victory.

#57 is the only LB that’s any good. The rest of the bunch are awful!

Interesting decision coming out of half.

Okay it’s Thursday
Carrying the Haiku ball
Time to…. oops… FUMBLE

Just wondering.

Dare we hope?

"how to summon a hurricane"

"Rain and wind dances that work"

"Sell my soul for foul weather"

Don’t need a fumble or injury!

Cancel the new stadium. Wind is our best friend. THATS Chicago.

We forced a punt! Making us the victors!

Limiting the damage and covering and losing maybe only 41-17?

Or losing 77-0 which Fitz can't coachspeak away and with such a Dark Ages result force some change which will of course not happen anyways.

Could not put tent up in west lot. Gusty winds. In the stadium in the East stands, we are having gusts to 30moh with drizzle and rain in our faces. Lots of red here. Rather be here than at home. Go Cats.

I'd use the dOSU in the headline, but that seems kind of weak given how this one seems likely to go.

Time to prognosticate...

Deer eyes 49
Cat eyes 13

I have a couple of friends who are (nice) Ohio State fans...they just texted me asking about getting tickets to the game next week.

I replied, "I might be ready to sell you mine."

There have been times in my life where I'd rather burn my own house down with my season tickets in them to ensure they didn't go to an Ohio State fan...but at this point am I wrong for dreading a trip to the game next week? Ohio State fans everywhere for what promises to be the single worst beating in the last X decades? And let's agree...there have been some really bad ones.

There's that part of me that says "you need to support the players." But at this point I don't know what else we as fans can do to give Fitz a wake up call other than to turn our backs on him.

The floor is open for responses/reactions. Either affirm my disillusionment or talk me out of it because I'm at my life's low with this team that is making Brian Ferentz a candidate for the Broyles Award.

Maybe our loss to Southern Illinois wasn't so bad after all!

The answer is Yes.
Go Cats!

Henceforth to be known as The Oh_o State University. By proving that a program with Integrity can play well and hang in with a program, without. We have done that recently, let's do it again and keep the "I".

Integrity works both ways,though. Cats cannot give up 28 points in the first half from blown explosion plays, without revealing NU's Integrity to be the problem.

What seniors and grad students will be returning next year. Does anyone know?