re: Zeke Elliot trashes OSU coaching staff in post game comments.

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The point is that he's an immature, self-centered player

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Where is your evidence for this?

It seems to me the thing that bothered Elliott the most was that the Team lost.

In the first game of the season vs. Virginia Tech, he had 11 carries.

Ezekiel Elliott Discusses Ohio State's 42-24 Win Over Virginia Tech

Elliott wasn't critical of the play-calling (although, he did mention it was a "pretty simple game plan" based on the opponent's D), and he got one less carry than he did vs. Michigan St. The difference is that the Team won!

I am not an Ohio St. fan. However, I was interested to see what Ohio St. would do on Offense this year with all of the firepower they had. The Buckeyes had the personnel pieces to do all sorts of different things with creative personnel groupings, formations, and play-calling. But they have consistently underwhelmed (Meyer agrees). In my view, on a certain level, the Ohio St. coaches have failed their players, and that is why I said that despite feeling that Elliott's comments are generally better kept in-house, I'm okay with what he said in this situation. Players have obligations to coaches, but coaches also have obligations to players (some people, especially some older guys, often look past/forget about that second part).

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ultimately letting the inmates run the asylum

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This is a horrible analogy because Ezekiell Elliott is not analogous to an inmate, and Ohio St. is not analogous to an asylum (jokes aside).

I've seen a number of people say/repeat this. It's an oddly authoritarian analogy.