When you consider the disadvantage that Ohio State Women's Ice Hockey starts with you have to recognize what a great job Nadine Muzerall is doing. The fact that is that nobody would ever consider Ohio as being a "hockey state". Look at her roster, she has zero players from Ohio. She might just have the toughest job in recruiting players than any other Ohio State head coach. The team this year has players from Canada, Sweden, Finland, Minnesota, Michigan, Massachusetts, Nebraska, Missouri, and Iowa.

Following the House v. NCAA settlement, Ohio State is allocating $18 million in institutional NIL funds for the 2025-26 season, but this is concentrated on football, men's/women's basketball, and women's volleyball. While ice hockey players can still receive NIL deals, they are not part of this primary institutional revenue-sharing, as the school focuses funds on top revenue-generating sports.
Ice hockey student-athletes can still secure individual NIL deals, such as those facilitated through NIL collectives like the 1870 Society and The Foundation (now under Buckeye Sports Group).
Women's ice hockey players specifically have opportunities to participate in "NIL Clubs" or similar team-specific initiatives.

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It makes you wonder how much NIL money the the "NIL Club for Ohio State Women's Ice Hockey" generates.
https://nilclub.com/ohio-state/womens-ice-hockey

Anyway the Ohio State Women's Ice Hockey team had a GREAT year; WCHA Championship, #1 seed in the Frozen Four, and runner up for the Natty. There is no shame in losing to this Cheese team in the Championship Game. It says a lot for this team how after being down 0-2 they battled back with 2 goals in the 3rd period to tie the game.

On her allowable roster of 18 players only 2 are Seniors (Sara Swiderski, D and Emma Peschel, D) so if everyone else comes back (and gets a couple good "defensive" replacements for the 2 departing players) the team should be very good again next year too.

I was a big fan of the Gary Williams teams. You had players like Hopson and Francis, along with Burson among others. Trying to find those rosters

bipolar as fuck over the last week or so.

28° when i woke up last Monday.
got as high as 104° yesterday
back down to 48° this morning
should be 100° by tomorrow afternoon.

Tough loss, but Wiscy was always the odds on favorite this year. They lose all their stars though while we have most coming back including all our Olympians which includes the top overall scorer (Svensson) and top goal scorer (Dunne). We should be the machine next year that Wiscy has been the last two.

DZ83CK said:

McCollum and Hoiberg have done an outstanding job this season. That being said, Jake Diebler managed to lead a team to the NCAA tournament even though it was one of the very worst in college basketball in terms of scoring off the bench & lacked strength in the post.

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and had multiple injuries....

Absolutely remember an announcer, at one of Tiger's first PGA tournaments, suggesting that his 'reverse C' swing would injure his back. I kinda laughed, because that was what one aspired to. Anyway, after what, 6 back surgeries to date, Tiger is no longer a feared competitor in a tournament. It's been a minute since he was on Ryder Cup, President's Cup, or other honorary team. Anyway, my father is resting easier now that he's not going to take Jack's title of most Majors won.....

Bestbuck, are you suggesting that Walmart, Costco sends NIL money to any team that bests the Buckeyes, just to increase their TV sales? Novel advertising approach, no?

Highest paid WR. I believe that is a good thing;-)

Ho-hum. kinda expected, no? Ty's teams are juggernauts, and we, the unwashed folk, very much expect W's. When it doesn't, then we're flabbergasted. Where's all the New Albany kids?

Well, he certainly exhibited how to turn a tryst into moneytization. PS, on another note, wonder how the new Prez will react to the money spent by the Athletic Department. Even though it's a 'profit/cost center', and self-sustaining, he's an academic at heart, so wonder if he'll try to snake some more into education.....PSS, used to be that the Athletic department would 'give' $20-30 million a year to the academic side of the house. Does anyone know whether that still happens, or no.

Looks like a Buckeye to me.

Good-bye Puff. We hardly knew ye.

Read a report (fake news?) that negotiations between Bjork and Diebs were going on, with the outcome determining whether new coach or not. My mind immediately said, 'not about salary', but about NIL money for the team. (Maybe more for assistants?) I guess in today's college world, it's apparent that one must 'put one's money where one's mouth is'. You cannot just mouth the words, 'we want our basketball team to equal our football team', or somesuch, gotta put some dollars behind it. Something we all see and know. tOSU funds, what, 36 collegiate sports, and only 3-4 are revenue generators, yet we take pride in the diversity. Kinda an obvious question, but wouldn't one want to stimulate those three-four revenue generators to make even more money? Anyway, some mental masturbation for a Monday morning.

Anyone remember Burson (he with the head halo) get drafted by a pro team, and showing up there for practice, and being told was a joke ha ha. Am I remembering a dream, or did that happen? Thought it was a Texas team, but brain is fuzzy.

Seem to recollect, every high school kid that got 'recognized' was a big scorer. Hardly ever (?) does a kid make 'Mr. Ohio Basketball' as a defender or assist maker. Gotta be a scorer. Recognize that at the collegiate level, players have 'roles', scorers score, tall people rebound and swat shots, etc. Anyone else watching the NCAA's and seeing the ball get passed around the court, and players take turns popping 3's? Maybe our guys don't move enough to 'get open' to be able to pop? Cupp was a Mr. Basketball, no? He is an excellent defender, and can dribble rings around you. He sometimes hits the three. Coincidence, dunno. At this level, everyone can shoot the ball. Else they play intra-mural basketball - like me.

Sea a 3

Thump said:

Ditto.

Favorite Buckeye of all-time for me.

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just the consummate teammate and competitor

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Need to see these guys again and soon!

According to the trends........Arizona, Duke, or Michigan is going to win it all.

Since 2002, a team that finished in top 3 of KenPom has won it all except for 3 occasions.

2003 - Syracuse who had the best player in the country at the time, Carmelo Anthony
2011 - UConn who had the best/hottest player in the country at the time, Kemba Walker.
2014 - UConn......still have no clue how they won it that year. That was a weird year.

BuckeyeNation27 said:

Arkansas? Texas?

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I know sometimes we try to put God in a small box, but I feel like he can arrange a disqualification situation.

Thump said:

Wow!

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Right? I’ve done this on water and it’s a blast. To be clear, I was happy to just stay up on the water, I was not getting 30 feet of air like these guys. But, I have the kites and snowboard… I’ve just not had the space to do it on the snow yet. One day... Candidly, I’m more into the idea of kite-buggies than snowkiting. I’m not much for cold weather sports.

Here’s a really good (read: it’s real, not overproduced influencer crap) video of a kit buggy. It looks so much fun, but I don’t know where I’d ever find a beach / field or whatever like that.

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This just makes me want to go get out my kites.

This is another fun video. This guy pretty much flys down the ski hill on a Flysurfer Peak 5 6-meter kite. FWIW: This is my primary kite model. I have it in a 2.5, 4 and 8 meter for different wind conditions for when I want to fly with a bar but I have a couple of small / medium Peter Lynn kites that are 4-line handles for stunting.

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Bestbuck36 said:

His injury absolutely crushed me.

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Ditto.

Favorite Buckeye of all-time for me.