re: Update on Joe Burrow visit

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A safe no ranting space? I would welcome more serious discussions, but who decides what is ban-able?

So many "safe ranters" would demand banning for any realistic critique of decisions on or off the field or defensive support of the same could render the site a ghost town.

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People want an echo chamber, not any intelligent conversation.

Most of the good people have left or rarely post anymore. This place is loaded with negative people who see not only see the glass as half empty, but full of poison they can spread


I'm sick of it. I'd clean house if Chicken would allow it.



This is all so true . How can this cycle be broken, surely Chicken is embarrassed at what this has become .

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Believe it.

Let me state one more thing here.

Luke is no fan of Urban. His best friend NFL star Mike Vrabel came to Cols to help Luke. I think Mike knows a little bit about defenses. He blew up one day on Urban when he blamed Joe for some D problems. Rumor is Mike was let go because of that incident.
This altercation was all over OSU boards. I still believe if you google urban meyer mike vrabel there is a post about it on the 247 sports blue board. LINK

My source says it happened.

Luke had aspirations to be head DC at OSU. He was kept around because he was a great recruiter in state. But he soon figured out that he was being strung along just like Joe and his dad figured it out.

Now what happens when you put two spurned DCs in the same room together who are friends. Sometimes decisions happen that are not rational.

Let's hope the family comes to their senses and realizes the opportunity Joe has at LSU.

Good luck.

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Let's go step by step through this.

1. Vrabel states Meyer helped him a ton in his coaching career:

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“I bombed my first interview. Urban Meyer interviewed me and I bombed it. It’s an amazing and humbling story that I shared with [Titans owner] Amy [Adams Strunk] and [GM] Jon [Robinson]. “But Urban had faith in me, and he called me that night and said, ‘That’s the worst thing I’ve ever seen. I want you to come back tomorrow at 6 in the morning, and I want you to do it again.’ So I left the house, and went down and stayed in the office, stayed up all night, cleaned my thoughts up, got things in order, did the interview, and he hired me at Ohio State.”

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LINK

2. Vrabel was the keynote speaker, along with Orlando Pace at the OSU coaches clinic this spring.

LINK

If Mike was let go because of this incident, which if I recall included a busted up whiteboard at the Orange Bowl in 2013, then he wouldn't be praising Meyer for giving him a shot or going to OSU's coaching clinic Hosted by Meyer at OSU.

3. If you don't know Joe Burrow personally, stop using his first name. It's annoying. First names are for people who know the subject.

4. Fickell was head DC of OSU in the 2014 championship season. You can see a picture of Urban hugging Fickell first at the B1G title game that year and Fickell is still calling plays up 59-0 and focused up.

Now, any more bull you'd like to spew about OSU as a fake fan?

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People want an echo chamber, not any intelligent conversation.

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Don't worry.

Chicken has a lot more sense than these O-pollyannas and shills that want said echo chamber.

That's why he's got maybe the most successful college sports message board in the country.

You shills?

Name me some "good posters" who have left here. I've been posting here 13 years now and this site is exponentially bigger than when I joined in 2005.

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surely Chicken is embarrassed at what this has become .

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This website is a business. Fact! While Chicken may be an LSU fan, this is a business ruled by members and ad revenue potential. You don’t gain success by metering members and whether or not someone is pro LSU. More members, more money.

This site should be used for one reason and one reason only: to discuss the uniform colors for upcoming games.

Regardless of how asinine the management of LSU football becomes, it should never ever be discussed. Things don’t improve if you talk about them.

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There is one area that you can not criticize O in, at this point, and its recruiting. I have my doubts about him being able to lead this team, but I have no doubt about his recruiting abilities. The people who absolutely hate O, and want LSU to lose just so he could be gone, will argue that this class was ranked too low, but I think it was a solid class which met our needs.

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Sounds like you are trying to hedge your bet so let me help you out with this one....you don’t have any idea what you are talking. about. There ya go. Want to know how I know? The first sentence you wrote is ridiculous. Did someone tell you what a great recruiter O was as a DL coach recruiting for someone qualified to be a head coach? It’s not the same when you are in charge. you can only dress this shite sandwich up so much.

Sounds like I touched a nerve. Must be close to the mark.

I’m surprised no one has photoshopped an LSU jersey on Burrow yet? At least I haven’t seen it yet.