Chase Young out of the Draft

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(01-09-2020, 10:32 AM)Truck_1_0_1_ Wrote: OSU fans are another breed of weird... I don't know if it's the bandwagon nature or the fact that they puff themselves up to death.

I have a friend who played Div. I Softball in the States (graduated 2 years ago), but just became an OSU fan last year or whatever.

She started posting IG stories about, "because we have 3 guys in the running for the Heisman, we're definitely gonna win it!" After I (VERY) calmly responded back to her that Burrow's year was beyond phenomenal and it was very unlikely he wouldn't win the Heisman, she responded, "he's a senior, the others are juniors; give it to the kids! They did just as well or better than Burrow."



While I didn't write it (I replied, "we'll see how it goes)," I immediately wondered how delusional someone can be lol.

BTW, with switching to a 4-3, the Redskins would be beyond idiots to not take Young. BEYOND.

I think it has a lot to do with the fact that Ohio St is head and shoulders the best college football program in the state of Ohio, so people have gravitated to that.
They will watch every OSU game and see OSU dominate those opponents and think that this team is absolutely the best.
And they are right...to an extent. They are the best when compared to the competition they played against.
EDIT - I see fanbases of SEC, BIG 12, and ACC acting the same. PAC12 used to act that way back when USC had Pete Carroll and Oregon had Chip Kelly, but not really like that in recent years.

What I also know is that not many (keyword = many) OSU fans are watching the other top teams to compare.

I personally got tired of how much people gravitated toward OSU when there were other programs closer to them or the actual schools they went to (UC, BGSU, Miami, OU). So I deliberately avoided rooting for OSU and intentionally tried to look at College Football as objectively as I could by watching the top programs from the other Power 5 conferences to compare. I cared more about watching two ranked teams play each other than I cared about following a particular team.