{"id":682,"date":"2020-12-09T15:29:01","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T20:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigtenelimination.com\/?p=682"},"modified":"2021-08-10T13:26:19","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T17:26:19","slug":"12-9-2020-the-obligatory-use-of-the-word-obligatory-in-the-title-of-this-post-about-the-status-big-ten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigtenelimination.com\/index.php\/2020\/12\/09\/12-9-2020-the-obligatory-use-of-the-word-obligatory-in-the-title-of-this-post-about-the-status-big-ten\/","title":{"rendered":"12\/9\/2020 The Obligatory use of the word &#8220;Obligatory&#8221; in the title of this post about the status Big Ten"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hey everybody!  It&#8217;s been a while (again).  This season has been rough for content&#8230; It&#8217;s just difficult when an article has been preparing all week and is excited to go up on post day&#8230; Then a couple of sections sneak out to a frat party for some &#8220;Words with Friends.&#8221;  A daily spell check comes back with a false negative&#8230; some topics have allegedly given up and are avoiding the next week&#8217;s subject all together&#8230; Next thing you know the season is almost over and several articles had caught Covid and had to cancel their posts&#8230; Well let&#8217;s make due with what time we have left.  We&#8217;re a game away from the end of the &#8220;regular*&#8221; &#8220;season&#8221; which means it&#8217;s time for the &lt;points to headline> &#8220;everybody sucks**&#8221; post.  Here we go:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more Read morE-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Everybody sucks.  See you guys next year!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ok, seriously I know I write this post every year bu&#8230; <em><strong>WHOA WHOA WHOA!  Pump the brakes there superchief&#8230; you can&#8217;t write this article yet!  First you have to write the &lt;points to headline&gt; THE BIG TEN IS TOUGH\/ MAYBE EVERYONE IS REALLY REALLY GOOD article<\/strong><\/em>.  No I don&#8217;t.  1. Maybe I&#8217;m learning*** 2. See the opening paragraph about articles catching Covid 3. When that theory rests on the assumption that Rutger doesn&#8217;t suck&#8230; Well let me explain Flat Earth Theory to you&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Penn State was 0-5.  The Big Ten sucks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Michigan State lost to Rutgers and I was less than disappointed in Rocky Lombardi&#8217;s performance.  The Big Ten sucks<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wisconsin has had half their season cancelled, The Big Ten sucks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> The top two teams in the Big Ten West are Northwestern and Iowa.  Ohio State currently isn&#8217;t eligible, Indiana is probably the best eligible team in the conference and every other team has 2 wins.  The Big Ten sucks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And now for everyone&#8217;s favorite section!  www.youtube.com\/watch?v=D24DhiiO33s It&#8217;s time for Michigan to make some changes.  I&#8217;ve been a Don Brown defender for the past two years.  The &#8220;haters&#8221; would say it&#8217;s a scheme that dominates bad team and gets destroyed by elite teams.  Maybe&#8230; But it&#8217;s hard to justify changing the #2 defense in the country before it gets exposed (2018) and the defense actually gave you a shot against Alabama in 2019 (Shea and a bad offense did not).  This year though?  He hasn&#8217;t adjusted the scheme (ok, for some reason he blitzes less&#8230;) and hasn&#8217;t recruited the talent to even keep it viable against weaker opponents.  You can&#8217;t run that scheme with slow CBs&#8230; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As for the offense&#8230; It turns out &#8220;Speed in Space&#8221; means &#8220;our QB sucks to much to throw it past the line of scrimmage.&#8221;  I don&#8217;t know if Gattis is a bad play caller, if Harbaugh is not letting him call the right plays, if they have no faith in Milton to run anything with a read, or if Milton just isn&#8217;t making the reads&#8230; but it sure looks like Al Borges in a Shotgun whenever he&#8217;s in there.  The playbook seemed to open up a little bit when Cade  went in but 1. Rutgers and 2. his arm was murdered which kinda hurts your ability to play QB.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve said for 4 years&#8230; Can&#8217;t fire a guy whose worst season is 9 wins&#8230; but 7 wins or less before a trip to Indy\/Big Ten Championship\/Playoff birth?  Might be time to look elsewhere.   Well: 2-x.  Embarrassing losses to MSU, winless Penn State, and a tough game against Rutgers?  This has been a pathetic season.  Don&#8217;t get me wrong.  There are reasons for a bad year.  Ambry Thomas makes this secondary completely different.  Early season ending injuries to your 2 best D-linemen plus Cam McGrone.  They lost 4 starting OL in the offseason and then all but 1 starter this year is out\/injured halfway through the season.  Dead QB arms everywhere&#8230;  There are reasons&#8230; but there also has been little if any positives since the Minnesota game.  They&#8217;ve all but benched Ben Mason who was outstanding in game 1 (when you&#8217;re OL is all dead and your team looks like they don&#8217;t care, maybe play the one guy who&#8217;s always fired up and whose biggest downside is taking penalties for blocking too much).  Even when Milton makes a good throw the receivers drop it&#8230; (Rent a damn pitching machine, crank it to 100MPH and practice catching bullets!).  You almost lost to Rutgers&#8230;  This team has been pathetic.  There is talent and I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised at a 8-9+ season next year whether they keep Harbaugh or not&#8230;  But you have to do something.  Can&#8217;t justify 8 Million\/year extension after this &#8220;performance.&#8221;  Can&#8217;t do nothing unless you want to shoot your recruiting in the foot&#8230; I dunno&#8230; Maybe if he wants to take a pay cut for a 2 year extension and makes some staff changes I&#8217;d be ok with it&#8230; Otherwise I hear the Lions are looking for a new coach&#8230;  When does Baseball season start?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">*Not much &#8220;regular&#8221; about this season&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">** Except Ohio State because whenever anything bad is about to happen to Ohio State the ghost of Woody Hayes punches that thing in the throat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">***losing the naive hope of a young adult anticipating the &#8220;return&#8221; of Rose Bowl tinted version of the 90&#8217;s\/00&#8217;s he remembers <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">****Until the ghost of Woody Hayes punches the rule book in the throat&#8230; changing the &#8220;6&#8221; to &#8220;ehhh whatever number Ohio State has&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey everybody! It&#8217;s been a while (again). This season has been rough for content&#8230; It&#8217;s just difficult when an article has been preparing all week and is excited to go up on post day&#8230; Then a couple of sections sneak out to a frat party for some &#8220;Words with Friends.&#8221; A daily spell check comes &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bigtenelimination.com\/index.php\/2020\/12\/09\/12-9-2020-the-obligatory-use-of-the-word-obligatory-in-the-title-of-this-post-about-the-status-big-ten\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;12\/9\/2020 The Obligatory use of the word &#8220;Obligatory&#8221; in the title of this post about the status Big Ten&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigtenelimination.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigtenelimination.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigtenelimination.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigtenelimination.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigtenelimination.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=682"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bigtenelimination.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":692,"href":"https:\/\/bigtenelimination.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions\/692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigtenelimination.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigtenelimination.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigtenelimination.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}