Hello... Long time lurker here that just signed up recently.
Toss this into the rumor mill with everything else, but there may be a good explanation as to why the Blackshirts may be playing so poorly. I have on pretty good authority that, while it may sound preposterous, it seems that a linebacker in particular has been causing all sorts of trouble between himself and the coaching staff. Not only that, he has been trying to turn other players, on both sides of the ball, against the coaching staff all year. For whatever reason, it's working! You can see it on the field, especially when this player seemed to be fighting with the other linebackers during the game as OSU just waltzed into the endzone.
This person? Corey McKeon.
Even his Myspace page headline reads "He's BACK!", of course, referring to TO.
Does something like this make sense? Would it only take one person to turn an entire team on the coaches? It might explain what happened to his fire from last year.