What’s with all the anti-Krenzel and Tressel sentiment coming from Melanie Watkins’ article “Call for Krenzel wrong decision” in the Monday edition of The Lantern? I love how everyone is so quick to jump on Krenzel’s back after only his second loss as a starter. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard in the past two days someone say “Krenzel this and Krenzel that. They should have put Scotty Mac in.”

Are you serious? This is the same Craig Krenzel who won 24 out of his last 25 starts coming into Saturday’s game. This is the same Craig Krenzel that beat Michigan the past two years and this is most certainly the same Craig Krenzel who won us a National Championship last season. Heaven forbid he make a couple bad passes. That must mean he sucks, right? Nothing against Scott McMullen, but if anyone at this university thinks for two seconds we would have had the same season last year or this year with him at the helm is insane. Melanie is obviously oblivious to this fact.

Then I read this little part on how coach Tressel made the “wrong decision for the team.” Huh? Are you forgetting that this is the man that came in here two years ago, took the troops up North after guaranteeing a victory and delivered just that. Something Coach Cooper seemingly couldn’t figure out how to do in his many years here at OSU. Coach Tressel is one of the best college football coaches in division I football today, and if you don’t think so, why don’t you look at that big National Title ring on his finger that he earned after just one year behind the wheel of the football beast known as the Ohio State Buckeyes.

I’m so sick of everyone bagging on Craig Krenzel and Jim Tressel just because we lost to Michigan. Out coached? Dreaming. Out played? Definitely. It happens. If we won the game every year it wouldn’t be the best rivalry in sports today. But since Miss. Watkins thinks she knows all the right calls, I say we just do away with Coach Tressel next year and put her on the sidelines for a season. I’m sure she could take us to the promise land just like Coach Cooper did. Oh wait, he never did, and neither could she.

Jeremy HoughtalingJunior in journalism