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Ketch's 10 Thoughts From The Weekend (The importance of Hudson Card...)

All great points.

On the demographic side, I'd add that not only is their pool small but it's shrinking. Modern farm equipment allows farmers to cultivate literally ten times what they could have handled a couple of generations ago. Consequently all the little farm towns in the Midwest are drying up. Kids grow up, go to college, leave the state and have their own kids somewhere else. In the meantime states like Texas continue to boom.

The demographics are frankly going to be an ongoing problem for the entire B1G. As an example, where would tOSU be if they couldn't poach Texas?
Ohio and Michigan are talent producing states that given OSU and Michigan a very solid set of naturaL resources.
 
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@Ketchum Good stuff as usual. Wondering what we can expect this week regarding articles/videos leading up to the game. Do you have a day by day schedule to get me even more excited for Saturday if that's possible? Lol

Let me work on that for you.

I know that today we have Sark's PC at 1:30, so we'll have Alex's reaction column to that and Anwar and I will have the podcast.
 
Ok so my concern is this: assume an experienced defense shuts down our running game and takes away first throwing option. Sacks and three and outs follow. Think the spring scrimmage. How long before you try Casey to loosen up the defense with his legs?

You’ve must seen zero film of Card in high school and know zero about him. He was a wide receiver until he became the starting qb and the first handful of plays in his highlights that are in this thread clearly show his mobility in avoiding the rush.
You don't.

His legs are not his strength.

Wait, were you responding to someone else?
 
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a. No, it wasn't. It was a penalty.... that he missed in real time.

b. He ruins every game he participates in.
It was a penalty and a yellow card because his hand stopped the ball from going into the net. It was a RED card because he intentionally moved his arm forward to make sure the ball didn't go into the goal.

Here's a good video explaining the rules. It was 100% a red card. I was rooting for Chelsea, but even I knew it was a red card when I saw the replay.

 
Ohio and Michigan are talent producing states that given OSU and Michigan a very solid set of naturaL resources.
They have some solid recruiting bases because they have some large urban areas (and in Ohio quite a few mid-sized industrial cities) that offset the population drain from the countryside, but I'd argue that at the end of the day their built-in recruiting base is either shrinking or (at best) getting outstripped by the massive influx of population to Texas and the South in general.
 
It was a penalty and a yellow card because his hand stopped the ball from going into the net. It was a RED card because he intentionally moved his arm forward to make sure the ball didn't go into the goal.

Here's a good video explaining the rules. It was 100% a red card. I was rooting for Chelsea, but even I knew it was a red card when I saw the replay.

I thought it was borderline.

Klopp thought it wasn't a red.
 
I thought it was borderline.

Klopp thought it wasn't a red.
Either way, it turned a possible great game into a run out the clock situation for Chelsea. But oh well. Sh!t happens. I can't wait until they meet again.
 
They have some solid recruiting bases because they have some large urban areas (and in Ohio quite a few mid-sized industrial cities) that offset the population drain from the countryside, but I'd argue that at the end of the day their built-in recruiting base is either shrinking or (at best) getting outstripped by the massive influx of population to Texas and the South in general.
well, that's a slightly different conversation. I thought the context was specifically in contrast to Nebraska.

In the last 20 years, the state of Nebraska has produced 22 four-star prospects and only four high-level prospects.

The states of Michigan and Ohio have 25 combined (and three five-stars) in the Class of 2022 alone.
 
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Either way, it turned a possible great game into a run out the clock situation for Chelsea. But oh well. Sh!t happens. I can't wait until they meet again.
+1

Chelsea are already tough to break down, let alone when they do into an actual bunker mode. 😂
 
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I'm not judging the lack of an offer. I'm merely saying that while Weigman plays, it'll likely be a storyline that exists.

Valid. I think all 3 of the stud in state QBs games/seasons/careers will be compared to Maaliks.
 
Is Nebraska even any kind of factor there any more?
Not really, Schiano is getting a lot of good players to at least consider Rutgers but ND, Wisc, Pa State, Pitt, +West Va. keep getting thier share. USC used get top NJ recruits but I think that has dried up in recent years.
 
Not really, Schiano is getting a lot of good players to at least consider Rutgers but ND, Wisc, Pa State, Pitt, +West Va. keep getting thier share. USC used get top NJ recruits but I think that has dried up in recent years.
I just looked.

The good news is that they signed two in the 2021 class - both decent little prospects..

The bad news is that prior to 2021, the Huskers had only signed one prospect from NJ from 2004-2020.

:oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops:
 
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Eventually, all the kids that were going to Nebraska realized they didn't have to livbe in the middle of nowhere to play college football on TV,
Nebraska was able to also be good when it was in a conference where they could recruit Texas. Leaving Big XII and the 6 potential games with Texas teams a year killed their recruiting.
 
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1. Michael J. Fox (Teen Wolf)

I love this movie. I've probably seen it 500 times. That being said, Fox is such a terrible hooper that the those making the movie had to use the same lay-up about six different times throughout the movie.

At least Michael J. Fox had science fiction super-hero werewolf genetics working in his favor, even though he's 5'4" tall.

Michael J. Fox leading a comeback in a high school district game more or less believable than 31 year old 5'10" tall Woody Harrelson dunking a basketball at the end of White Men Can't Jump?
 
Couldn't agree more about making Card the "The One, the Only." Couldn't believe how many posters were thinking, even encouraging rotating QBs for the first 4 games, particularly the Louisiana game. Casey's a great kid by all accounts & deserves to be a starting QB, just not here. Card won the job--no ifs, ands or buts. Dueling QBs in the past was inherently unfair to both involved & what's more, never worked.

Let the Hudson Card era begin. Now. He's going to be a great one. Hook'em!
 
They have some solid recruiting bases because they have some large urban areas (and in Ohio quite a few mid-sized industrial cities) that offset the population drain from the countryside, but I'd argue that at the end of the day their built-in recruiting base is either shrinking or (at best) getting outstripped by the massive influx of population to Texas and the South in general.
It is shrinking some in absolute terms, but I'd argue it's shrinking significantly more relative to the high-end / elite talent. The Sun Belt states are just producing way, way more super-blue / 5-star "athletes". Look at the rosters of Bama, Clemson, LSU, Georgia, basically any SEC school. Even Ohio State, most of their elite talent is from non-Midwest states.

The SEC fans like to tout that they are more passionate and have better coaches and programs. No, that's complete BS. Given the demographic trends in the US over the last 30 years, they simply have better home-grown athletes than the other parts of the country....
 
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Nebraska was able to also be good when it was in a conference where they could recruit Texas. Leaving Big XII and the 6 potential games with Texas teams a year killed their recruiting.
They didn't recruit Texas that well.
 
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At least Michael J. Fox had science fiction super-hero werewolf genetics working in his favor, even though he's 5'4" tall.

Michael J. Fox leading a comeback in a high school district game more or less believable than 31 year old 5'10" tall Woody Harrelson dunking a basketball at the end of White Men Can't Jump?
Woody played college basketball, so I'm going to go with the former... barely.
 
Couldn't agree more about making Card the "The One, the Only." Couldn't believe how many posters were thinking, even encouraging rotating QBs for the first 4 games, particularly the Louisiana game. Casey's a great kid by all accounts & deserves to be a starting QB, just not here. Card won the job--no ifs, ands or buts. Dueling QBs in the past was inherently unfair to both involved & what's more, never worked.

Let the Hudson Card era begin. Now. He's going to be a great one. Hook'em!
we're on the same page.
 
... Garrett Gilbert probably won the back-up quarterback job in Dallas on Sunday, but I'd advise upgrading if at all possible.
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Yeah. I think GG is a very good #3, but he's not a good #2, and neither of the other guys have much of any reason to be on an NFL roster.

Do you have any names in mind to keep an eye out for?
 
... Garrett Gilbert probably won the back-up quarterback job in Dallas on Sunday, but I'd advise upgrading if at all possible.
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Yeah. I think GG is a very good #3, but he's not a good #2, and neither of the other guys have much of any reason to be on an NFL roster.

Do you have any names in mind to keep an eye out for?

Nick Foles?
 
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