I think you may be in denial. Rally the troops and somehow go undefeated. I don't think that is in the cards this year. See Texas from last year. Star QB gone!!! Lost 7 games and 6 in conference. You are better off hoping you are bowl eligible with wins and no probation.
Texas still had their "star head coach", if you can call him that and lost 7 games with a wealth of talent.
Chances are even if you were undefeated, your star QB and great head coach set this team back 5 years.
It is already on the news that your top prospect is running away from OSU and heading to UM. He is on record saying that many more Ohio players will be following him to UM. That is very troubling.
I think you should start a thread that says "how long is OSU screwed"?
It is very troubling how corrupt Tressel and tOSU has been with the cars, Clarett, tats, etc. I feel sorry for all the kids that got beat by kids that should of never been on the field last year. Even with vacated wins, the schools you beat don't get credit for the wins. So it is like both schools take the loss but in reality only tOSU should have the loss in those games. So sad.
So, my answer is NO, you don't have my support until you stop cheating and admit you have cheated the game for many years. I don't think Buckeye fans think any rules were broken and that is obvious by this thread. They honestly think Tressel misled some people and got into troubling for looking the other way.
The stuff that tOSU has been doing under tressel is very SMU like.
Wow.....just wow.
One he said supposedly....this thread was about conference loyalty in the postseason against the team that beat you. That was it. So you go and attack a hypothetical situation as if he posted it as fact.
Two, SMU really? 2 Violations for Ohio State, 10 for USC, 9 for UNC, 12 for Tennessee, 22 for Boise St. ESPN only reported constantly about Ohio State's. And you wonder why we think ESPN has it out for Ohio State? Other than USC's, all others have happened this year. All of them violated 10.1 which was Ohio State's worst violation. Only USC received a post season ban and scholarship reduction. And there other violations not only were far worse, but encompassed three different sports. So if USC doesn't get the death penalty, and Georgia Tech doesn't get a post season ban for far worse transgressions than Ohio State, how the hell can you even compare Ohio State to SMU?
What Coqui said. It was a completely hypothetical situation. I know perfectly well that we won't go undefeated and it doesn't hurt to dream, I'm just curious as to how well backed we would be by our conference mates or if we would be totally shunned. Also not to sound arrogant but we pretty have been the flagship program of the B1G since for the past near decade. Personally I feel Wisconsin, Nebraska, and for a stretch maybe even Sparty have a better chance at getting to the title game than we do but that's not going to stop us from trying or better yet (if we actually do get a postseason ban), play spoiler to everyone else's season as best as we can.
He also brought a great point about ESPiN constantly reporting our transgressions while conveniently leaving out UNC, GT, Oregon, and the lax reporting on Auburn along with sweeping the constant arrests by Florida/Bama/Georgia players under the rug. I posted this elsewhere on the board but I thought it would be a good supplement as to why we get the front page news everyday about our mistakes and everyone else gets ignored.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/college/ct-spt-0701-big-ten-nebraska--20110701,0,5568175.story