NJ-Buckeye said:

Interestingly, a coach that had Inniss, Tate and Smith all at the same time in HS.. told me Inniss was THE one to watch... So I've always expected Smith-Njigba level.. we'll see.

Inniss is often open but I guess when you have Smith and Tate, you look for them first... but he's almost always open.. and seldom drops a pass

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That's it exactly, he's ALWAYS open but his routes are usually the check downs. Sayin could probably make a whole game of it if he just tellss himself throw to Inniss every snap. But that would get boring.

I heard today that Friday was the first time since 1992 that on a single day that didn't have a single 10+ seed advancing.

The first 40 years of NCAA tournaments with 64 teams (1985-2024) before NIL and massive portal moves

#13 seeds went 33-127 (20.6%)
#14 seeds went 23-137 (14.4%)
#15 seeds went 11-149 (6.9%)
#16 seeds went 2-158 (1.3%)

In total 69 wins in 40 tournaments with only 5 tournaments out of the 40 years going 0-16.

2025+2026 about to be 0-32 for 0.0%

Pretty safe to say the NIL error and massive portal movement has killed the true mid majors.

The days of 2011 VCU, 2010 Butler, 2011 Butler, 2006 George Mason, 2013 Wichita State, 2023 Florida Atlantic, 2018 Loyola Chi making the final 4 are gone forever.

Even a St Peter's 15 seed making the Elite 8 won't ever happen again.

We got the High Point win but they were a 12 seed and VCU and they were an 11 seed and is VCU even a true mid major ?

That is about what we will get each year a couple back in the day we used to have 5 or 6 true mid majors and almost always got a 13-16 usually 2 of them each year. Some years we got 4 of the 13+ seeds.

All that is all but over we might get a lucky one here and there but the years of them having all 5 seniors gone. If anyone are good they are taking the money and moving up.

buckeyeintn said:

So the guy who has leveraged averaging 4.3 seconds per game over his basketball career at tOSU (No, I did not do any statistical analysis. I made that number up.) into a career has decided tOSU fans (who helped make his career) are the worst in the world? If it were not for tOSU fans supporting him, especially early, does he really think he would currently have the career he has? How much experience does he have with the other fan bases?

And no, I am not defending the idiots in tOSU fanbase. But as has been mentioned earlier in this thread and many other threads tOSU has the largest fanbase in the world. Which means we may well have the largest number of idiots. But the largest percentage? Not necessarily. But we appear to have the largest number of former walk-ons who never saw the court except in meaningless time and who have turned that meaningless time into a career and are now taking pot shots at the fans who supported them. (Talk about a run on sentence.)

Now get off my lawn!

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I saw where Twitter/X turns 20 this year. My bent has always been the dumbing down of society due to the advent and growth of social media. On a day-to-day basis the idiocy is on full display.

Oh look at me I’m a social media influencer. Well as far as I’m concerned these people can fuck all the way off.

I like the cut of your jib sir!

Kind of a casual second half so far. McGuff got an appropriate T both to call out both clownish officiating and his own team’s sloppiness. Still up 24 though.

Poir Elsa gets no respect from the refs. 3 times hacked while shooting today and no calls. Lauren Betts gets the calm if you breathe on her!

Good warm up for the legs today. Blowout that we needed.

Karchla is up now too, on Mat 4.

Cannon is on Mat 3 right now, but he is getting handled.

Paddy fell short to his high school teammate from Lakewood St. Eds.

29-3 run! Jaloni doing it all now. Howard the Duck is pate.

Paddy up now on Mat 2 going for 7th!

Turds

Heard on the radio this morning that Royal may ask for a pay raise and I agreed with the host, “Go look for one.”

Defense is ratcheting up now. Nice little run and Howard can't buy a bucket. Good times

Bestbuck36 said:

Tommy John forthcoming

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Thump said:

Book it!

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Only after they waste so much time this year trying to rehab it without surgery that the inevitable surgery takes away the 2027 season too.

Timing matters as much as the career threatening injury. Any amateur can just run off and get something fixed as soon as it happens.

These are professionals we are talking about here.

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Great read, thanks for sharing. Been so busy keeping up with wrestling and March Madness that I kinda forgot about spring practice. One early prediction I have is that our OL will be among the top 5 units in the country. They took some lumps in pass pro late with IU and Miami, but then we realized literally everyone did because their fronts were ridiculously good. They'll be improved.

Kharchla advances to go for bronze. He looked utterly exhausted. I can't imagine what it's like to be in a tournament like this.

I think Kansas and Duke are the right programs to look at.

You look at their expectations and commitment to football and that is what we should probably shoot for in basketball.

The fundamental truth is, if you build it they will come. Put the resources into it, build a winning program and you will get fan support (good and bad) BUT 1) It isn't ever going to mean as much as football to the fanbase. It just isn't. and 2) ROI. It's a business like anything else-you invest in it proportionate to what you expect to get back out of it so see my point above about Kansas/Duke football. How much are you really going to get back out of OSU basketball? I mean financially.

The arena holds a fair amount so you could shoot for that being full. The B1G TV money is already flowing through, not sure how you raise the water level there any. It gets back to needing some billionaire who needs to solve self identity problems and tax write offs in the same vehicle.

I don't know for sure but from 10,000 ft I don't see a big lift to the revenue proportionate to a big capital investment.

I think it's stuck where it is and you may get occasional variance if you catch lightning in a bottle on a certain player or coach.