calibuck said:

Sorry, with the potential to land an uber class at DT feels a bit strange to me. We've had depth, certainly, but DEPTH in the recruiting ranks is a bit overwhelming. Sure, I get that recruiting is a very strange animal, and it ain't over till it's over is the watchword(s). And in this day of information overload, am certain that this recruit (as well as all the rest) are keeping up with current depth chart, and with recruiting potential, as well as rumors or even phone calls to other players - as in 'you feeling the Buckeyes'? etc. On one hand, feel sorry he's not even going to visit, but on the other hand, maybe he (?) has insight as to where these kids might land? Oh well, sometimes I get tangled up with potential outcomes.

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DT recruiting as a whole has lagged for the majority of my days following recruiting for whatever reason. Sure we've had some individual studs, but the units as a whole haven't been great many years. I'm a broken record here, but championship teams have dominant DTs almost without exception (and DL as a whole really). So this class needs to step it up. Parks seems like a long shot, so we're probably looking elsewhere.

Having spent 5-6 years in the Roanoke area I’d like to see the Hokies compete again. They’ve been brutal for about a decade now.

They were always quietly a fun team to watch. Great defense, special teams were terrific, offense had some names.

Pulling for them in the ACC that’s for sure.

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Either he’s not 6’2 or JJ is 6’5

brodybuck21 said:

Yay my favorite match-up vs @Ahiacitian
Can't wait to see my hitters go 4 for 197 this week thpffffft

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Told you.....fml

Watched this on TCM earlier this week:

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A sheriff’s deputy in Florida pulled a woman over for holding a phone in her right hand, which turned out to be impossible. Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office
Her case was, of course, dismissed.

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This is the weird part of this Florida story

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CMic said:

Nothing says hockey like a Vegas/Carolina matchup.

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At least it's not a Canuckistani team....because Fuck Canada.

CMic said:

Underwood doesn’t like getting hit. He’s not going to be effective on the Utah system of the past few years.

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You don't see Cam Rising when you look at Underwood?

Jaxbuck said:

I see the new bullpen guy is fitting in just fine.

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Garbage

DZ83CK said:

Well the government has a supposedly bipartisan bill in the works to remove repeated transfers, it's going to be 1 "free" transfer only with "salary cap" and "legitimate business purpose" NIL deals only. Players could accurately see the federal government as hostile to their interests & could organize in order to try and avoid more punitive actions from the government later on.

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I doubt it passes. This Congress is weak and has no spine or stomach to do its job. Are they even in session?

Jaxbuck said:

I mean, that's a bad headline look but the details don't really support that he was betting on his team. I hope they wouldn't nuke his career over it.

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There’s just no room for betting on teams you’re involved with. If his punishment is only losing his final year that’s a pretty good trade off for what he was doing.

No way he should step foot on another college football field as a player. Question is will the NFL want anything to do with him?

Even in D3 football where I played they couldn’t have made it anymore clear what betting means for your eligibility. This kid knew the risk.

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As I have had two knee replacements, don't listen to those above! Jumping off anything, 4' or not, means that there is zero 'give' to one's knees. It hurts like heck, and gives one those lightening bolts of pain that shoot through you. Go to the edge, sit down, and slide off gently....

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Yes, I baby myself these days. No more prancing around like Lord Flasheart

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What kind of a name is Chaz for a DL. Chaz sounds like a 4-alarm douchebag in college who keeps golf clubs in his trunk and talks about having a Rolex and a black card before he's 30.

Thank you, Miami of Ohio, for taking so many Chaz's (Chazi?) out of our applicant pool.

I've always loved the game of baseball but I'd give almost anything to get back the time and energy spent caring about professional baseball.

LUKE FICKELL

JohnnyCockfight said:

I don't follow recruiting too closely unless it's local kids that I know about coming up. It is interesting to see the comments in the recruit's tweet - folks using Wexner's relationship with Epstein against Ohio State. Seems like quite a stretch to connect anything like that back to the football program, and I wish it wasn't happening directly on the kids' posts.


Yes, those were my thoughts exactly.

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Yeah, well those Wexner allegations will continually follow OSU as long as his name is on so many buildings. Whether we like it or not, there's no escaping it. But its not like its going to be a deterrent to football players. If every school wanted to unveil their past transgressions, than I don't think there'd be a college to attend. Off the top of my head: the entire SEC's insanely blatant racism for decades(ole miss having what looking like a slave master as their proud mascot for decades), Ped St and the Sandusky/Paterno saga, MSU and Larry Nassar, the countless sexual abuse allegations at scUM, OSU wrestling scandal, Oklahoma football drug ring, Miami sex and drug scandals of the 80s and 90s, and the list can go on and on. Fans are quick to be sanctimonious when it's not their program and turn a blind eye to their own.

My bad, back to Marcus

Zurp said:

This reminds me of when Penn State fans wanted to secede from the NCAA (because of their sanctions) and join the NAIA. Their plan included saving money on scholarships, since they only get about 20 or 25 scholarships, making a conference of Pennsylvania teams that would love to be in a conference with Penn State, and Penn State would be able to dictate what goes on in that conference (does that sound familiar?), and Penn State would elevate the NAIA to Penn State's level, rather than the NAIA would pull Penn State down to their level.

I do find it funny that "it would be great if the SEC championship was for their version of the national championship," and yet none of the 6 teams in the last 3 CCG's have made it to a national championship game. It'd be like in 2013 or so when the Big Ten wasn't getting any teams to the national championship game, they just said, "Yeah, we're done trying. We're going to call our conference champion our own national champion." That's what you look like right now, SEC. You look like the Big Ten when the SEC was winning all the championships.

Also, this paragraph is funny:

"If we can't find rules that everybody plays by..." I mean, we had that for a long time, and there was a lot of smoke around the SEC. And, as we were told in 2010 when Ohio State was in the smoke, "Where there's smoke, there's fire." So, by that logic, the SEC was doing some shady stuff en route to winning some championships. Now that it's all above board, things are a little tougher for the SEC. So, now he wants to limit things to where he might be able to hide things again?

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It's a pathetic attempt at leverage in future discussions. HOPEFULLY everyone laughs at it and realizes it's complete BS and doesn't give in and allow the SEC to have more control.

Every year deeper we get into the NIL/Transfer Portal era, it's always some excuse for how things are "unfair" for the SEC. A real thing that I'd wager at some point we are going to see is the SEC and their media pals start campaigning to have the playoff field set by metric systems that are basically cooked to favor the SEC (Like ESPN's FPI that place a heavy emphasis on recruiting rankings that mean almost more than on the field results) instead of a human committee. Like some sort of expanded BCS type system. Then maybe we can get a 24-team playoff with 14 SEC teams!

The Columbus Aviators are handing out 5,000 Ted Ginn Jr. bobbleheads before Sunday’s matchup with the Louisville Kings at Historic Crew Stadium

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Thousands of Jim Tressel Bobbleheads Will Indeed Be Given to Aviators Fans, Actually

5,000 Jim Tressel bobbleheads, thought to be stuck in customs while shipping, arrived in time to be given to fans at the Columbus Aviators' game against the Gamblers on Friday.

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The Aviators enter the finale of their inaugural UFL season at 3-6, still searching for stability in Year 1 of the Ted Ginn Jr. coaching era.

It’s been a year defined by growing pains, both on the field and off it. With one game left, Columbus gets one more look at whether this experiment can reach cruising altitude or run out of runway....

THAT ’94 IMPALA. Cortez Hankton was Mic’d Up during Ohio State’s final practice before the spring game, and the program’s creative team delivered a lively 70-plus-second clip shared on social media this week.

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Tyson Gentry Grateful As He Reflects on Life 20 Years After Ohio State Practice Injury That Left Him Paralyzed​

Twenty years after suffering a life-changing injury during an Ohio State football practice, Tyson Gentry is grateful.

Gentry has been paralyzed from the neck down since suffering a spinal cord injury during a spring scrimmage at Ohio Stadium on April 14, 2006. The former walk-on wide receiver eventually regained use of his biceps, but remains unable to walk or move his fingers or wrists.

Despite that, Gentry has a thriving life. He runs the New Perspective Foundation, which assists others who have suffered spinal cord injuries. He serves on the board and was previously the president of the National Football Foundation’s Columbus Chapter. He shares his life journey through public speaking, and has authored four books, including his new autobiography “Once A Buckeye…: A Story of Football, Family and Faith,” which was published this week.

Most importantly, Gentry is a husband to his wife Megan and a father to his two sons, 10-year-old Adam and 8-year-old Ryan. And it’s because of them that Gentry says he’d still choose to play football at Ohio State all over again even if he knew how his career would unfold.

“I really would. If I was able to answer that question while knowing that I would say I end up where I'm at with my wife and our two sons, Adam and Ryan, undoubtedly yeah, because I don't want to know what my life would look like without them,” Gentry told Eleven Warriors. “My wife is my angel. She makes things so much easier on me and helps me carry a lot of the burdens that come with my injury. So having her by my side is amazing. And then to watch our two sons, who are 10 and 8 now, grow up and to kind of show them so many things that they wouldn't otherwise be exposed to.”

In the immediate aftermath of his injury, Gentry questioned whether he’d ever have the opportunity to be a husband or a father. After undergoing fusion surgery three days after the injury, the pain was so intense that Gentry wished for death.

The following morning, however, Gentry’s parents showed him an inspirational note that told him to “Never give up, no matter how much adversity you face.” The note resonated with Gentry because he wrote it himself after a woman who suffered a spinal cord injury spoke to the Ohio State football team – eight months before his own injury – and asked them to write letters of encouragement to patients at Ohio State’s Dodd Hall, the same hospital where he’d soon undergo his own rehabilitation. Gentry took that as a sign from God, and it gave him the faith he needed to persevere.

“When I reached my lowest point and I was ready to give up, I honestly thought I was going to die. Just the amount of pain that I was in, I was ready to go, I was at peace with everything,” Gentry said. “And I woke up the next morning and realized that it's not the end of the road, and so just from that standpoint onward, my faith has increased.”

The coming months remained difficult for Gentry as he was told to “hurry up and wait” to see if he would regain more function in his arms and legs. But as he gradually came to accept that he would never be able to walk again or do many of the things that he loved to do before his injury, Gentry decided he didn’t want to spend the rest of his life dwelling on what he couldn’t do.

“I don't know that there was a specific point that I recall reaching that phase. But I do remember at some point coming to terms with the fact that like, OK, I obviously can't undo what happened, and I can't suddenly change my function and give myself hand movement or get up and walk or anything like that,” Gentry said. “So I think once I kind of realized like, ‘Hey, if this is what I have to work with moving forward, all I can do is make the best of it.’ Because the only alternative is to sit there and feel sorry for myself and spiral downward, and I didn't want that.”
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Lost 2-1. Guessing clay isn’t their preferred surface anyway.

Guessing they’ll be happier to get on the grass at Wimbledon.