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305Buck 20 hours ago
Per Tom Loy, Alabama, Auburn, Ole Miss, Oklahoma and Ohio State are the schools best positioned for Grayden Reid. A reclassification to 2027 is possible here.

305Buck 20 hours ago
Reid is one of Walton’s top two targets in this class along with Jermaine Cobbins. Be interested to see how things change if he reclassifies.

KYBuck4858 19 hours ago
Nice. I think this is Bama vs OSU here. He's been my top guy. I think we can win this one out. I normally hate guys reclassing, but he's worth it.

jwinslow said:

I sense sarcasm,

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None at all. Totally sincere.
My original thought was that the more you restrict where people come from to join your team, the fewer people would want to join your team. If you tell them that if they leave, that door will never be re-opened, it might tell new nerds to stay away.
But your point was really good and I hadn't thought of it. You can tell a player that he's still welcome to come back, just not as a player. You can say that when he chose to move on, he was also saying that he can be replaced.
I think I was assuming there's infinite room for infinite nerds. But infinity isn't a real thing in this case. There is a limit, and teams should be encouraged to protect the ones who made the commitment to be here through the spring and summer, rather than the ones who left after the bowl games. (Or before the bowl games.)

Captain Buckeye said:

Probably the wrong thread but I’m increasingly disgusted with the players.

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You do your work for free so the business can keep more? For the good of the company you have no ownership in?

Captain Buckeye said:

This was never the intention of NIL and it’s bull shit. They win every court lawsuit, they get every opportunity, and the answer is never No.

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False. NIL came about because the players, like every American, have property rights. In this case, control over the use of the Name Image and Likeness. If you want to use it, you have to pay them.

Captain Buckeye said:

Sure there were dozens of decades the opposite was true but two wrongs don’t make it right either.

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Again, not the case. There is no new "wrong". There is just the SCOTUS telling college football you have been violating the actual rules for a very long time and now its over.

Captain Buckeye said:

The structure should be somewhere between the old system and this new Wild West.

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Find a way to do that without inhibiting the ability of an American worker to earn or change jobs and all would be kosher.

AKAK said:

Was Dolly also the name if the girl the 49ers owner was hooking up with round the outside.? Weird

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There are no coincidences
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Oh what the hell, I had the song stuck in my head so...

Let me tell you a story about a man named Jed
Poor football owner, solicited a Fed
He was out one night, looking for some 'cooz
Was busted in the trailer park with criminal tools.

Solicitation that is. Hookers. Prostitutes.

Well, next thing you know ol' Jed caught a case
All over social media, no way to save face
Kin folk said "East fucking Palestine?!"
So he stroked out a check and paid his fine.

Ohio that is. Trailer parks, train derailments.

Ahiacitian said:

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Reverse jinx??? You clever bastard!

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I went to the Sox game last night and my entire section was impressed with the voodoo doll I had of deGrom.

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Only aggy could take being gay to a scientific level.

Thump said:

Gary has joined the chat……

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I was born in Chicago and raised in northwest Indiana. I was a social worker for child protective services in Gary before getting into HR in the private sector.

It is indeed a wasteland. 1 in 3 homes are estimated to be abandoned and there are over 30,000 abandoned commercial structures.

Didn't see this one coming
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DowntownBuck 15 hours ago
Rumor is Fakatou is visiting Texas for OSU game

EBBuck03 6 hours ago
They’re probably paying him and his brother to go to the game. I’m not really worried about him. He clearly wants to be a Buckeye.

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TEXAS VISIT FOR FAKATOU. Marcus Fakatou, a five-star defensive lineman committed to Ohio State in the 2027 class, has scheduled a notable gameday visit.

It's one where the Buckeyes will be playing, but he'll be visiting on the other sideline. Per Adam Gorney of Rivals, Fakatou will visit Texas when Ohio State travels to Austin.

“I’ll be at the Texas-Ohio State game,” Fakatou said via Rivals. “Coach (Will) Muschamp and coach (LaAllan) Clark have kept contact with me since I committed. They haven’t broken it. Even though I’m committed, that shows a lot of love from their side so it’s only right I go show them love, too."

Now, there are many different ways to look at this. The first one is he's visiting for an Ohio State game, so maybe Fakatou wanted to go support his future team. Last year at the White Out, Devin Jackson, an Oregon safety commit, visited on the Penn State sideline. Offensive line commit Immanuel Iheanacho was scheduled to do the same, though he never made it to the game.

The other side of things is maybe he's truly considering a flip if he's willing to spend a weekend with a high-profile opponent for the Buckeyes. There's also the relationship-building aspect, as you never know what your future looks like. That's exactly what happened with John Walker, who originally pledged to UCF over Ohio State in high school, but when he hit the portal, Larry Johnson was right there in contact, building off that previous rapport.

I wouldn't sound the alarm bells right now; I don't think a former assistant of Johnson in Clark will pull Fakatou out of Columbus quite yet.

I won't hyperlink it because his Instagram story will expire by the time this comes out, but Fakatou posted a photo of an Ohio State hat yesterday. Coincidence? Maybe. Maybe not, though.

“One Of One” Brock Boyd Building Off Strong Spring, Continuing Push For Playing Time in Crowded Wide Receiver Room​

Jermaine Mathews Jr. couldn't really put into words what Brock Boyd brings to Ohio State's wide receiver room.

"Brock, he’s different," Mathews said last week. "I don't know. It's something about Brock. He's different. I love Brock."

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Mathews was then asked if Boyd reminds him of anyone, which the cornerback said he didn't.

“He's one of one. He his own player,” Matthews said.
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While many outside the building didn't expect this kind of noise from Boyd when he enrolled in January, it's certainly there, and it's only getting louder.

"Brock's cold, I mean day in, day out you see something new from Brock," Inniss said last week. "He's great. He's very smart. He's probably the smartest freshman I've ever seen."

From 11W: Bey’s accomplishment is noteworthy considering he missed Ohio State’s first two practices for violating team rules. Whatever he’s done in practice since, he has overcome that early speed bump and regained the trust of Ohio State’s coaches. Ryan Day, Carlos Locklyn and Mickey Marotti have been impressed with his performance on the field and in the weight room, as well as his attention to detail in meetings.

NFBuck said:

You forgot dancing.

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And free tickets with your purchase ofCoca-Cola products.

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This dude was high up on my last of most likely to have an early impact here. Glad to see the black stripe come off.

Monken was a reach at HC but it makes sense now….hes the only guy that would allow front office to dictate depth chart.

I vote for HATE

with his hat on you could have told me Arthur Smith was 63 and I would have just said “oh ok.”

I’ll be a CU fan when they play the juggaloes. Just that one game.

JohnnyCockfight said:

I'm enjoying my first round of Suflave. Bottoms up, and out, gentlemen.

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Best of luck.

I will drinking that stuff, for my first time, in 10 days.

Jagdaddy said:

Hard to it to talk with a mouthful of peanut butter …

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Thought it was understood Herbie was the one licking the PB…..

Looks like Ja'Marr Chase hyperextended his knee in practice today and had to limp off. Hopefully no real damage occurred.

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