From: atchison@kingkong.cis.ohio-state.edu (Mark Atchison)
Subject: Re: OSU beats Michigan: 13-13
Organization: The Ohio State University Dept. of Computer and Info. Science
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 14:11:17 GMT

Brett Kottman wrote:
>	Frankly, we had nothing to lose by going for it.  Cooper should have. 
>The team wanted to.  The seniors would have killed to get two.  Apparently
>Cooper was thinking about his job instead.
>	THANKS YOU MEDIA IDIOTS FOR AIRING THOSE STUPID RUMORS!!!!!
>	If Cooper had been thinking about WINNING instead of KEEPING HIS JOB
>(which should mean winning) he would have gone for two.
>	Phew.  I feel better now.  I feel better than James Brown. :)

I hope this was more a theraputic post.  Right at the end of the game, with my
heart broken, I felt the same way.  But out of the heat of battle, it was
absolutely the right choice -- the only choice -- to make.  With 4:24 on the
clock, the only situation where they should have even considered going for two
is if a tie somehow meant disaster (losing the Rose Bowl, for instance).  It
was really the best choice.

>	Herbstreit: Peak of his game.  28-43 for 271 yards and a TD.  2nd best
>passing numbers in OSU history. All those who proclaimed Herbstreit a mediocre
>QB please form a line to the right for pennance :).

Boy, it's fun for me to be a pompous I-told-you-so'er, but I would be far over
the the left beside Herbie on this one. ;^)

>	OSU should be very competative in the Citrus Bowl.  Whoever we play is
>in for a real game.

Let's hope the momentum carries over 5 weeks...

>	Cooper:  Really, fire a guy with the best OSU record in 7 years?  I
>think not.  Sure, he has to learn that the Enormous Eleven is *the* focus of
>OSU football.  But his recruiting is starting to pay off.  We have Hoying for
>the next three years and Smith for another two.  Plus some talented receivers
>and backs returning.  Let's not be hasty with the axe.  What coach in their
>right mind 

...or player...

>	   would come to a school that fired an 8-2-1 coach?  Even if Cooper
>lost to Michigan and in the Citrus Bowl, OSU is 8-4.  An improvement over past
>years.  And, as we saw, when a coach is thinking about his job instead of the
>game, you'll get lots of ties.  (Moeller: get a clue, it's obvious your
>strategy is not losing, as opposed to winning.  OSU-Michigan not big?  Ha. You
>deserve to be humiliated in the Rose Bowl.)

In Moeller's defense, I guess, he did finally say right before kickoff that the
OSU/Michigan game was really the biggest one, and that he'd been downplaying it
to keep the Wolverines (and their fans?) relaxed...

You're right.  OSU and Michigan both return a lot of awfully good football
players next year.  Could we be back to the good old Big 2 for a while? ;^) ;^)
That oughta get the Little 8 up in arms!  This is the best Ohio State has
looked since 1985 -- you are right.  It make *no sense* to start over now.

-- 
_______________________________________________________________________________
 Mark Atchison, a.k.a. <atchison@cis.ohio-state.edu>; Graduate Student in the
Computer Science Dept, THE Ohio State University (NOT an Ohio State University)
		Any plagiarisms seen above are not my own...
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