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Game Thread Ball State at tOSU, Sat. Sept. 5th, 12:30 ET BTN

Gary has joined the chat……

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.
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B1G (Official Thread)

Probably the wrong thread but I’m increasingly disgusted with the players. It’s never the OSU players TBH and it’s not a homer take either. It’s not OSU kids because if they aren’t good enough they transfer and if they are they’re gone in 3-4 years anyways.

It’s the players that Indiana gets. It’s the MAC level or Diego Paavia kids that can’t cut it in the NFL and decide to Van Wilder their way to retirement money.

Indiana did more harm than good last year by showing the blue print that you don’t really need to be elite. You just need to be old as fuck and willing to drop 10-20 mil.

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

The structure should be somewhere between the old system and this new Wild West.
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San Francisco 49ers (official thread)

ole Jed was down bad, contacted 3 times before "she" agreed to meet up


York
contacted the undercover officer twice Saturday with no response before the undercover officer responded to a third message sent Sunday and offered to meet that morning in East Palestine, Ohio, according to the incident report.
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San Francisco 49ers (official thread)

I own this football team. You don't dismiss owners - Jed York #nfl #49ers  #failarmy #humor #nflmemes


The NFL issued a statement saying the league was aware of the arrest and would review it under the personal conduct policy. Owners are subject to possible fines or suspensions for violating the personal conduct policy. New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft was investigated but not punished by the league after he was arrested in Florida in 2019 for allegedly paying for sex with a woman at a massage parlor. The charge was later dropped after a court ruled that police violated the rights of Kraft and the other customers when they secretly installed video cameras inside massage rooms at the spa.

Just sayin': :sarcastic:.....To save on a lot of bad publicity due to arrests/convictions resulting in an embarrassment for the NFL owners. I'm suggesting that the NFL should just have all future NFL owners meetings at the Mustang Ranch in Nevada where prostitution is actually legal.....:sarcastic:


Mustang Ranch Lounge – Come on by and enjoy great food, great drinks and  great views!
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2027 CA DL Marcus Fakatou is a Buckeye!!!

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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.

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.
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WR Brock Boyd (Official Thread)

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

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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.

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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."
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RB Legend Bey (Official Thread)

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.
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B1G (Official Thread)

I can't stand this defeatist, apathetic mindset and it's so prevalent in society. "This shit already sucks and is fraught with corruption and greed, so why not let it degrade even further". Maybe we start chipping away at making positive changes to the system instead? This seems like a reasonable start. A league still needs rules and regulations to prosper, even if the framework has been drastically altered from what it was. It won't go back to what it was pre-NIL and transfer portal, but we should strive to do a hell of a lot better than this grotesque circus act the sport has become
Or just burn it down and start from scratch
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B1G (Official Thread)

I know this take will not be popular, but I’m gonna show my dumb ass anyway.

The argument of not taking nfl players to “protect the integrity of the game” is futile. The game has long been compromised.

College football is a minor league nfl now.

In the mlb, players get sent down to the minors all the time for various reasons. Same with the band d-league. The nfl has used CFB as a farm system for years, so if a player cst quite make the cut in the nfl, why not let them come back to college?

If you want to say that it would be a total
Shit show, well I’d agree. But it already is regardless, so who gives a fuck really. Plus fuck the nfl for various reasons and if this is a way to stick it to them, I’m all for it.
I can't stand this defeatist, apathetic mindset and it's so prevalent in society. "This shit already sucks and is fraught with corruption and greed, so why not let it degrade even further". Maybe we start chipping away at making positive changes to the system instead? This seems like a reasonable start. A league still needs rules and regulations to prosper, even if the framework has been drastically altered from what it was. It won't go back to what it was pre-NIL and transfer portal, but we should strive to do a hell of a lot better than this grotesque circus act the sport has become
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