I'm a Jim Tressel fan. Have been ever since his first championship team at Youngstown State in 1991, with Ray Isaacs running the option. I love how he respects and reveres the traditions at tOSU, how he always seems to have a game plan to beat Michigan, and how he has turned the Buckeyes back into relatively consistent national-title contenders. But the honest truth was, on January 8 Jim Tressel got out-coached, very, very, badly. Not to put too fine a point on it, Urban Meyer coached him right out of that brand-new building in Glendale.

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With the Buckeye necklaces stuffed back into sock drawers for the winter and the last notes of "Hang On Sloopy" fading from the air, it's time for some 20/20 hindsight. This 2006 Ohio State team was very good. Perhaps, as some have asserted, the best in school history, which is saying a mouthful. But perhaps they weren't as perfect as we wanted to believe. Papa Cass chimes in with his thoughts on Monday night's disaster in the desert.

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Back from Arizona, Gary Benz delivers his take on Monday's disaster, which he witnessed live from section 242. Gary says that there's alot to be learned from the debacle, and expect many of the games top coaches to begin stealing pages from Urban Meyer's playbook. And that despite the outcome, this is still one of the greatest Buckeye football teams in the schools history, a fact likely to be lost in the wake of the blowout.

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No, that wasn't a bad dream. That really happened. The Florida Gators shocked and awed the Buckeyes last night, thoroughly dominating all phases of the game after spotting us seven points on the opening kickoff. What the hell happened? What went wrong? Furls gives his opinion in his morning wrap, as he has all year for us here on The Blurbs. God how I hate mornings like this. I feel like I just got punched in the stomach.

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