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with hindsight, how much of that was prepping for the Judgement Day he knew had a pretty good chance of coming?

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IIRC his NFL flirtations began following the 2019 offseason. He was ignored then and then tried again following their disastrous 2020 season...when he found his ass firmly on the scorching hot seat up there. So that was 2 years where he was relatively "clean" but after being ignored by the NFL, he decides during the 2020/21 offseason that he has to do better so...he starts cheating his ass off. Even then, he went another 2 hiring cycles without any offers before they finally win a NC* and at last somebody from the NFL is willing to give him another shot. I think he knew damn well the mob was coming after this was all found out, and we was lucky the Chargers were desperate enough to pluck him out of the jackpot.

It's kind of funny - when they hired Cheatin' Jim, everyone was very aware of his flaws and personality defects, but I don't think anybody really thought of him as a "dirty" coach. I sure didn't. No coach is squeaky-clean, so of course there would be minor stuff...and I think there was some small stuff his first couple of years, wasn't there? Hell, even the "cheeseburger" stuff is pretty small potatoes, but that's where he "broke bad" (hat tip Walter White). Instead of fessing up and being accountable (something he preached), he lied his ass off. Then, with his path back to the NFL burnt because he was massively underachieving at tsun, he decided "fuck it" and looked for an edge on the field. So here we are, a guy who was once seen as a titanic asshole and weirdo but not really a "dirty" coach now on the verge of going down as the dirtiest coach in the history of the sport. And the program that spent a century thinking they were better than everyone looking down at the supposed "football factories" being outed as a football factory of the very worst kind. Fuck them, I hope it hurts.

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I always love the revisionist history by DFBIA that Brady was some beloved scUM player in his time there.

They constantly hated on him and booed him to be benched for Drew Henson. scUM had absolutely nothing to do with his development into a NFL mega star. Hell Brady himself even had nothing to do with scUM until fairly recently.

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He spent his last 3-4 years up there trying desperately to get back to the NFL

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with hindsight, how much of that was prepping for the Judgement Day he knew had a pretty good chance of coming?

Ohio State 2028 Quarterback Target Neimann Lawrence A Big Fan of C.J. Stroud, Wants to Emulate the Former Buckeye in His Game​

By Andy Anders on June 19, 2025 at 7:02 pm @andyanders55

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It’s hard to get more instantaneous than Neimann Lawrence’s answer when asked who his favorite Ohio State quarterback of the Ryan Day era is.
“C.J. Stroud,” Lawrence interjected as the question was proposed at Ohio State’s final one-day recruiting camp on Wednesday.
The 2028 quarterback prospect is early in his recruiting journey but already attuned to the lore of great Buckeye signal callers under Ryan Day. He’s an early name to watch in the sophomore class as Ohio State seeks to extend that lineage.
“For the past five or six years, they've had the best quarterbacks come out of here,” Lawrence said. “Justin Fields, C.J. Stroud, Dwayne Haskins. So just the QB development and the quarterbacks they have helped raise to the next level is definitely what stands out for me.”

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I'd say these penalties pretty well align with what we've been hearing in the endless rumor mill & what most feel they deserve (though I'd argue 3 year postseason ban is more appropriate given they tainted 3 seasons with their bullshit). We'll see what it ends up being.

The "lifetime ban" for Cheatin' Jim is kind of laughable because that feeb would never return to CFB anyway. He spent his last 3-4 years up there trying desperately to get back to the NFL. But, I guess they have to slap him with something. It would seal him as probably the dirtiest coach in CFB history. I'm unaware of any coaches receiving "lifetime bans." I can recall basketball slimeballs like Dave Bliss, Donnie Tyndall, Todd Bozeman, and Clem Haskins receiving LONG show cause penalties, but I don't think they were actually "lifetime" bans.

RJ Day Emerging As Power 4 Quarterback Prospect Entering Junior Year of High School​

By Dan Hope on June 20, 2025 at 8:35 am @dan_hope

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RJ Day’s recruitment is picking up steam entering his junior year at St. Francis DeSales High School. It was easy to see why during Ohio State’s final 7-on-7 tournament of the summer on Wednesday.
Day, who recently added offers from Cincinnati, Purdue and Syracuse to a list that now includes offers from 13 FBS schools, was among the biggest standouts of Wednesday’s 32-team tournament that concluded Ohio State’s high school football camp slate for 2025. The class of 2027 quarterback showed substantially improved arm strength from his previous years camping at Ohio State. His ball placement shined as he accurately fit throws into tight windows throughout the day while leading DeSales to the tournament semifinals.

Day, the son of Ohio State head coach Ryan Day, has already had plenty of success in his first two seasons of high school football. With 2,933 passing yards and 29 passing touchdowns as a freshman and sophomore, RJ is already DeSales’ career passing leader with two more years as a Stallion still to come. He’s worked hard this offseason to keep getting better, and he’s seeing that work pay off.
“From where I was as a freshman to now, I feel like I've made big jumps,” Day told Eleven Warriors after Wednesday’s camp. “Every year you try to focus on different things, and I'm starting to complete that.”

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believe it when it's real

(but that's about the size hammer I'd be looking for if true)

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Hell-Brady probably had a solid chunk of those 600 rushing yards

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NFBuck said:

Kirk Barton's presence taints anything he's involved in for me. He comes off as a guy whose absolute peak in life was being a CFB player and now he's clinging to that in any way he can because he cannot do anything else.

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Do you know who he is?

God knows how, but Fisher actually let him into the mba program, and the best that he could do with that was to be a Ricart car salesman.

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Excited about landing Johnson. The best comp I've heard for him is Raekwon McMillan