Ace_Rothstein

Fine. Blue chip defensive prospects, dogs, dawgs, studs, ballers. Whatever you want to call them.

It will piss off the Penn State fans but that is probably the best they will get. LSU and Florida are better jobs. The only issue is Brian Kelly is basically James Franklin part 2. I think Kenny Dillingham would be an interesting name for one of the openings. A little riskier but I think he will succeed wherever he goes.

This is silly. Kiffin is a helluva a coach and has learned under arguably the 2 best coaches of the last 25-30 years in Saban and Pete Carroll. His offense is plug and play for QBs and he’d be able to get elite skill talent on offense and war daddies on defense if he were to go to LSU.

It won’t matter because my Dodgers are “ruining baseball” and I absolutely love it. The Giants suck and they act like they are not trying to spend as if they didn’t offer the same contract to Ohtani and paid Adames and all these other guys money just to not make the playoffs. Best of luck Tony. You aren’t going to move the needle in SF lmao.

Florida probably is on that list due to local talent that can be recruited there. Notre Dame doesn’t really have a perennial top 5 recruiting ceiling. Neither does Penn State. Florida does. It’s the reason coaches can pull top 10 classes at places like Texas, Florida, USC, A&M, Florida State, Georgia, LSU, and Miami even if they have down years. Those schools are in talent rich areas.

On at least one of the plays OP says the curl is “wide open”, the play isn’t that open. In real time I think the defender is passing off the guy he is on to the safety and about to break hard at the guy curling “open” if Arch turns his head and body towards the curl. Screenshots can be deceiving. Sure, there are some that you’d like Arch to plant his back foot on his drop and let it rip with more anticipation, but some of these are reaches.

Yes. Can they stop letting Tyler Allgier (solid player in his own right) rack up tds on drives where Bijan does all the work to get them inside the 10. I understand wanting to keep Bijan fresh, but it’s annoying how he doesn’t get the King Henry, Jonathan Taylor and Josh Jacobs layups around the goal line despite him clearly being a superb goal line runner. If healthy, his usage should warrant 2000+ scrimmage yards and 20+ tds every year for the next 5ish seasons.

Riley sucks and probably screwed up today by throwing to the endzone to take the lead with 1:55 still left. That said, USC looks much improved on offense (their offense was actually the problem last year) and while the defensive backs are bad outside of Kamari Ramsey who didn’t play today, their defense forces turnovers and their pass rush is legit. The defense took a step back overall from last year but it won’t be felt because they can get to the quarterback and make splash turnover plays. USC will likely be a 9ish win team. Sure, they could choke and go like 8-5 but I think they’ll be 9-4 or 10-3. Maiava, Lemon, Lane and Jordan are legit and the OL is really good. My point is that Riley isn’t getting fired unless they lose 5+ games with a couple of embarrassing performances.

Not arguing against you there. Just saying that he has put some good tape out there and I think his NFL prospects are better than what you initially suggested. He’s rising up draft boards.

obviously fake but hilarious. Would be a HIPPA violation if real which it is not.

especially a thumb.

He’s a lot better than you’re giving him credit for. Have to go look at the Cal tape for more big time throws. Handles pressure well.

Yeah totally agree. The A&M game actually proves your point more than it proves Gerry’s in this case.

As a guy that was high on Zachariah Branch coming out of HS, he got passed over at USC for a reason. If anything Riley should have just benched him sooner. Makai Lemon is an absolute dawg and just a way better, and more complete WR. Same goes for Jakobi Lane. Riley’s offense is relatively simple and Branch was having trouble running the correct routes, catching the ball in key moments etc. Are we sure we really wanted to throw a boat load of cash at a guy that doesn’t profile as a polished, refined WR? i get this thread is talking about Zion, but i think it’s all related and relevant since they were a package deal.

Also a lot of Buckeye fans keep parroting “we were in prevent defense” the entire 4th quarter but that’s not what the tape says on the 4-5 dots Arch threw in the 4th. Each one was either a 1 on 1 win by the receiver or Arch fitting it into to a window or throwing it into a spot. The Livingstone td catch, Endries hole shot (shown in the video above), the Wingo seam route and the dropped td pass to Livingstone on 4th and goal (would have been a tough catch) were all dots.