Just sayin': Watching this play never gets old.....

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Portnoy isn't a guy who pays up on his bets? SHOCKING!

Just sayin':

1. If you actually wondered what Santa Ono ias doing now. Apparently Larry Ellison is right up there with Dave Portnoy as a "very wealthy idiot".

Former University of Michigan president picked for education role in United Kingdom​

August 18, 2025
Former University of Michigan president Santa Ono has found a new role at the Ellison Institute of Technology's Oxford campus in the United Kingdom.

The Ellison Institute of Technology announced Monday that Ono will be its new global president, working with others to develop and expand the school's science programs. The school focuses on topics such as health, medical science, sustainable agriculture, clean energy and artificial intelligence.

"I look forward to collaborating with EIT's leadership teams worldwide to advance Larry Ellison's bold vision," Ono said in his statement. "I believe this innovative approach represents the most exciting investment in fundamental and applied research globally, and I am thrilled to be part of this collective effort to create solutions to humanity's most pressing challenges."

2. Speaking of Portnoy, apparently he doesn't pay off his bets when he loses.....

Dave Portnoy hasn’t paid off $1,000 Michigan-Ohio State bet: Urban Meyer
Dave Portnoy hasn’t put his money where his mouth is.

Former Ohio State coach Urban Meyer claimed that the Barstool boss — and Michigan alum — has yet to cough up his $1,000 bet after the Buckeyes trounced the Wolverines on Nov. 29.



“Portnoy still owes me 1,000 bucks, I know that,” Meyer said during his “Triple Option” podcast with Fox Sports co-hosts Rob Stone and Mark Ingram.

The show reposted the clip to its social media and attached the message, “Please pay your debts, Dave.”

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Ahead of the rivalry game in Ann Arbor, Meyer and Portnoy made a bet on Fox’s “Big Noon Kickoff” that the loser would pledge one grand to the winning school’s NIL fund.
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BuckyKatt said:

You can't spell scumbag without an M...

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Just sayin': Hopefully the author will update the list (below) for 2025; it will be interesting to see where he thinks that Moore fits in.

Dumbest Ways Coaches Got Fired in Sports History​

updated on November 27, 2024

1. Bobby Petrino​

Bottom line: Bobby Petrino’s firing at the University of Arkansas operated on several different levels of dumb.

The part that got him fired was his affair with former Arkansas volleyball player and assistant recruiting coordinator Jessica Dorrell. After the couple were involved in a motorcycle crash in which Petrino was severely injured, details of their relationship came to light — that included a $20,000 cash present from Petrino along with securing her job on the football staff.

Petrino lied to athletic director Jeff Long about the affair — including that she was on the motorcycle with him — and only came clean when he realized her name was going to be on the police report. Long fired Petrino, who seemed to have Arkansas on the brink of being a national title contender. That’s the other dumb part.

2. Dave Bliss​

Bottom line: The crookedest, dumbest coach to ever walk a college basketball sideline was probably Dave Bliss — that doesn’t account for how dangerous he was.

Bliss tried to do no less than cover up a murder while he was at Baylor in 2003 when one of his players, Patrick Dennehy, was murdered by teammate Carlton Dotson, and Bliss tried to frame Dennehy after the murder as a drug dealer.

Bliss did so in order to cover up his own crimes — he was illegally paying the tuition of Dennehy and another player and wound up with a 10-year “show cause” notice for his actions.

3. Mike Price​

Bottom line: It’s a shame that you can’t mention Mike Price’s name without recalling the worst incident of his career because it has completely overshadowed an almost 50-year career in coaching, including almost 30 years as a head coach.

Price made the power move of leaving Washington State for the University of Alabama in 2002. But he was fired before ever coaching a game thanks to a wild trip to Pensacola, Florida, in which Price had nearly $1,000 racked up in room service fees on a school credit card by a pair of local exotic dancers. This was after Price had already been warned for drinking excessively at bars near the Tuscaloosa campus.

The Kansas City Chiefs have informed administrative officials that they will announce their move to Kansas today, according to sources who asked not to be named because they were not authorized to speak publicly on the matter.

The move was pending the expected approval of top Kansas lawmakers, who met Monday in Topeka to discuss the proposal. The lawmakers, eight members of Kansas Legislative Coordinating Council, met at 1 p.m. in the Kansas Capitol. Within an hour, they had met in executive session, out of the view of the public, and returned to vote unanimously to approve a Chiefs stadium deal in Kansas. The meeting then adjourned without lawmakers sharing any details of the size of the public subsidy or the location of a new stadium. Rep. Sean Tarwater, a Stilwell Republican, said he expects details to be revealed at Gov. Laura Kelly’s 3 p.m. special announcement at the Docking Building, next to the Statehouse. Arrowhead Stadium The Chiefs have played at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri, since 1972, and it’s been home to the birth of a recent football dynasty. Their current lease expires after the 2030 season.

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ORD_Buckeye said:

I kill a hobo with a hammer.

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A xichigan hobo right?

So the first shoe to drop in their collective hissy fit; they have stopped the USC series and picked up BYU instead starting in 2026.

Clearly the path to an undivided CFP payout is to play as weak a schedule as possible and be top 12.

In the long run this just threatens their relevancy more than it helps but they will make a lot of money this way.

Caesar’s has the line at -9.5 Ohio State.

A 10-point win is appetizing.

With this move, I feel it’s becoming more apparent that Hartline will be making room for a Keinholz transfer. He would be a good fit in Tampa if it happens.

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MGMT said:

I’m not being snide I am genuinely asking:

If you feel confident offensively , why?

Why do you feel anything will be different with the pass protection against a defensive line that might be better than IU’s?

Why do we feel like we are going yo
Score enough points to get this thing? What will suddenly be different about Sayin under pressure? Will he suddenly learn coverage identification in a couple weeks?

Does Day calling the offense suddenly make you feel better? Are we suffenlu
Going to stop 13-14 personnel in the red zone?

I’m not saying I don’t feel good about it but I’m trying to think about what’s going to just be suddenly sifferent and ultimately be the actual difference(s).

I dunno

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My confidence lies in the fact that I think they were underprepared to play Indiana. A ton of distractions. Team was still high from winning the game. Smith and Tate were not fully healthy and had pushed themselves the week before. O line dominated the ttun d line and feeling pretty good about themselves. The last time they played a top 10 Indiana it was a joke. One could assume that Oregon fell for a similar trap earlier in the year. They know the o line is their biggest weakness and that it can cost them a game against a less talented team, so it should cause more adjustments.

Day calling the shots. Sounds like Hartline will be focusing on personnel and the receivers.

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Started new job and waiting on Credentialing before I can start seeing clients. Live stream on YouTube. Ill take it. Easy money! Kicked a bullet to nowhere

History isn’t lost on the young guys. A game 20 years ago when they were just babies night as well have been from last year.

I love this attitude!

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Exactly what I said during the game. Guy has a ton of moves for a big guy and a great touch. He started having a ton of success for us attacking them. Hopefully the light had come on.

What cracks me up is the old guard SEC schools being pissed that Texas is celebrating.

buckeyemania11 said:

There's no Urban type of coach at the end of the tunnel for them like Ohio State had after the Fickell interim year either.

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You don’t see Wink and Biff as the equivalent of Urban?

Gizmo said:

Eh, it's Monday afternoon and I just started holiday leave, it's better than the soap operas.

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I hear you.

Does seem to be some chipiness. Maybe it will get entertaining in that regard

Day is bringing in some outside folks to interview as the WR position coach, but I still think it ends up going to Bailey. I imagine we will end up with an OC/TE coach.

Jaxbuck said:

Two mediocre teams having at it.

This will be a cripple fight until someone makes the back breaking mistake

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Eh, it's Monday afternoon and I just started holiday leave, it's better than the soap operas.

woofermazing said:

They play four playoff teams next year, and it's pretty unlikely the team is better talent wise than this year after players jump ship. Biff is probably their ceiling.

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There's no Urban type of coach at the end of the tunnel for them like Ohio State had after the Fickell interim year either.

Jagdaddy said:

My caveat to this is that the defense has to react to you going faster, and even if the offense’s execution falters, the defense’s execution might, or might not, falter more, resulting in net advantage. Add fluff pre-snap motion or funky formational diversity, without really changing what you’re actually doing, which you control, and maybe you can improve the odds that the defense falters while limiting the execution hit to the offense. Specific to the IU game, if their D was out executing our O, which I think was true generally for two and a half quarters and in high-leverage situations thereafter, maybe the correct adjustment would have been to try the underdog’s strategy of going faster.

With your military background, I’m sure you’re familiar with certain historical battles that have been lost because the losing side gave the other side too much credit and failed to move quickly enough when it had the advantage (l acknowledge that the opposite also happens, and probably more often). When the D seems to have your O’s number, trying to create luck/variance in the form of defensive execution errors through increased tempo may be the way to go.

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Situationally I agree, sometimes a speed up can have a tactical advantage in defined circumstances but given the constraints of the game of football and that up tempo = more offensive plays for opponent then it's the wrong overall strategy if you are the more skilled team.

Gizmo said:

Blue Field Bowl now live

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Two mediocre teams having at it.

This will be a cripple fight until someone makes the back breaking mistake

Jaxbuck said:

Well that gets into why i question the speed up idea.

1) if you are already struggling with execution at anything (football, baseball, life) you don't go faster, you'll just make the same mistakes on higher volume.

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My caveat to this is that the defense has to react to you going faster, and even if the offense’s execution falters, the defense’s execution might, or might not, falter more, resulting in net advantage. Add fluff pre-snap motion or funky formational diversity, without really changing what you’re actually doing, which you control, and maybe you can improve the odds that the defense falters while limiting the execution hit to the offense. Specific to the IU game, if their D was out executing our O, which I think was true generally for two and a half quarters and in high-leverage situations thereafter, maybe the correct adjustment would have been to try the underdog’s strategy of going faster.

With your military background, I’m sure you’re familiar with certain historical battles that have been lost because the losing side gave the other side too much credit and failed to move quickly enough when it had the advantage (l acknowledge that the opposite also happens, and probably more often). When the D seems to have your O’s number, trying to create luck/variance in the form of defensive execution errors through increased tempo may be the way to go.