What kind of a name is Chaz for a DL. Chaz sounds like a 4-alarm douchebag who keeps golf clubs in his trunk and talks about having a Rolex and a black card before he's 30.

Is anyone as surprised as I am? A good midwestern boy, saying no thanks to the Buckeyes? Don't believe (but also don't KNOW) that the two-deep at either of those schools is any better/worse for him than the others. Can anyone drill a bit deeper on this? A free trip, with all the trimmings, to Buckeye-land is a hard thing to pass up, but either he did, or tOSU feels good enough about Fakatou to discourage him. Recruiting is still a very baffling business, that simply has to be experienced, not understood. Thanks in advance, Go Bucks!

buckeyemania11 said:

I'm really hoping for this too, every time they have Underwood go on a designed run and take the RBs out of the game is a win for their opponents. Underwood has not shown that he has the intangibles to be a constant running threat. It'll work great against scrubs like Western Michigan and UTEP where you can get by on athleticism alone, but most of their B1G schedule will corral him. If they think they are going to get what they got out of Dampier (a true dynamic runner) against much weaker Big 12 defenses with Underwood against their schedule this year it's gonna be fun to watch.

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Does Kalshi have bets open on the September Heisman, yet? I have a mortgage I'm willing to wager.

I've always loved the game of baseball but I'd give almost anything to get back the time and energy spent caring about professional baseball.

People who bring their dogs into supermarkets when they're obviously not service dogs. This would have been unheard of maybe 10 years ago but now it's the new normal. I guess people think that if people can steal why can't they bring their dogs to the store?

LUKE FICKELL

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Houston lawyer accused of bestiality involving family dog

A Houston lawyer is facing charges following an incident that occurred in November 2025, according to court documents.

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Herbie just started deleting security video and hiding the peanut butter

DZ83CK said:

Well the government has a supposedly bipartisan bill in the works to remove repeated transfers, it's going to be 1 "free" transfer only with "salary cap" and "legitimate business purpose" NIL deals only. Players could accurately see the federal government as hostile to their interests & could organize in order to try and avoid more punitive actions from the government later on.

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The show bill would have to be law first. Then maybe.

No current player is likely going to have to worry about it.

USA U20 National FS Team
57 kg Cortez by TF
61 kg Seidel by TF
65 kg Bassett by TF
70 kg Robideau by TF
74 kg James 4-2
79 kg Burton 8-1
86 kg Sinclair by TF
92 kg Mastny by TF
97 kg Boyle by TF
125 kg Ross wins 9-2 in three matches. Only weight to go three.

Hokies put three on the U20 team.

Between Sept. 2, 2022 and Oct. 22, 2022, Sorsby made at least 40 wagers on Indiana football and/or individual members of the team. According to the documents, the bets ranged from $1 to $114 and totaled at least $850.
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during his two seasons at Cincinnati, Sorsby provided more than $60,000 to a FanDuel account registered to his brother-in-law that was accessed by Sorsby and a friend, according to the stipulated facts. Sorsby placed at least 165 impermissible bets on college and pro sports, but none related to Cincinnati's football team.

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I mean, that's a bad headline look but the details don't really support that he was betting on his team. I hope they wouldn't nuke his career over it.

ashcraft to 60 day IL with forearm issue.....nice knowing ya!

JohnnyCockfight said:

I don't follow recruiting too closely unless it's local kids that I know about coming up. It is interesting to see the comments in the recruit's tweet - folks using Wexner's relationship with Epstein against Ohio State. Seems like quite a stretch to connect anything like that back to the football program, and I wish it wasn't happening directly on the kids' posts.


Yes, those were my thoughts exactly.

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Yeah, well those Wexner allegations will continually follow OSU as long as his name is on so many buildings. Whether we like it or not, there's no escaping it. But its not like its going to be a deterrent to football players. If every school wanted to unveil their past transgressions, than I don't think there'd be a college to attend. Off the top of my head: the entire SEC's insanely blatant racism for decades(ole miss having what looking like a slave master as their proud mascot for decades), Ped St and the Sandusky/Paterno saga, MSU and Larry Nassar, the countless sexual abuse allegations at scUM, OSU wrestling scandal, Oklahoma football drug ring, Miami sex and drug scandals of the 80s and 90s, and the list can go on and on. Fans are quick to be sanctimonious when it's not their program and turn a blind eye to their own.

My bad, back to Marcus

Zurp said:

This reminds me of when Penn State fans wanted to secede from the NCAA (because of their sanctions) and join the NAIA. Their plan included saving money on scholarships, since they only get about 20 or 25 scholarships, making a conference of Pennsylvania teams that would love to be in a conference with Penn State, and Penn State would be able to dictate what goes on in that conference (does that sound familiar?), and Penn State would elevate the NAIA to Penn State's level, rather than the NAIA would pull Penn State down to their level.

I do find it funny that "it would be great if the SEC championship was for their version of the national championship," and yet none of the 6 teams in the last 3 CCG's have made it to a national championship game. It'd be like in 2013 or so when the Big Ten wasn't getting any teams to the national championship game, they just said, "Yeah, we're done trying. We're going to call our conference champion our own national champion." That's what you look like right now, SEC. You look like the Big Ten when the SEC was winning all the championships.

Also, this paragraph is funny:

"If we can't find rules that everybody plays by..." I mean, we had that for a long time, and there was a lot of smoke around the SEC. And, as we were told in 2010 when Ohio State was in the smoke, "Where there's smoke, there's fire." So, by that logic, the SEC was doing some shady stuff en route to winning some championships. Now that it's all above board, things are a little tougher for the SEC. So, now he wants to limit things to where he might be able to hide things again?

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It's a pathetic attempt at leverage in future discussions. HOPEFULLY everyone laughs at it and realizes it's complete BS and doesn't give in and allow the SEC to have more control.

Every year deeper we get into the NIL/Transfer Portal era, it's always some excuse for how things are "unfair" for the SEC. A real thing that I'd wager at some point we are going to see is the SEC and their media pals start campaigning to have the playoff field set by metric systems that are basically cooked to favor the SEC (Like ESPN's FPI that place a heavy emphasis on recruiting rankings that mean almost more than on the field results) instead of a human committee. Like some sort of expanded BCS type system. Then maybe we can get a 24-team playoff with 14 SEC teams!

The Columbus Aviators are handing out 5,000 Ted Ginn Jr. bobbleheads before Sunday’s matchup with the Louisville Kings at Historic Crew Stadium

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As far as I know, these bobbleheads were not held up in customs like the ones honoring legendary coach Jim Tressel earlier this month. If that changes, I’m sure someone at Eleven Warriors will write about it....

Thousands of Jim Tressel Bobbleheads Will Indeed Be Given to Aviators Fans, Actually

5,000 Jim Tressel bobbleheads, thought to be stuck in customs while shipping, arrived in time to be given to fans at the Columbus Aviators' game against the Gamblers on Friday.

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The Aviators enter the finale of their inaugural UFL season at 3-6, still searching for stability in Year 1 of the Ted Ginn Jr. coaching era.

It’s been a year defined by growing pains, both on the field and off it. With one game left, Columbus gets one more look at whether this experiment can reach cruising altitude or run out of runway....

THAT ’94 IMPALA. Cortez Hankton was Mic’d Up during Ohio State’s final practice before the spring game, and the program’s creative team delivered a lively 70-plus-second clip shared on social media this week.

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Tyson Gentry Grateful As He Reflects on Life 20 Years After Ohio State Practice Injury That Left Him Paralyzed​

Twenty years after suffering a life-changing injury during an Ohio State football practice, Tyson Gentry is grateful.

Gentry has been paralyzed from the neck down since suffering a spinal cord injury during a spring scrimmage at Ohio Stadium on April 14, 2006. The former walk-on wide receiver eventually regained use of his biceps, but remains unable to walk or move his fingers or wrists.

Despite that, Gentry has a thriving life. He runs the New Perspective Foundation, which assists others who have suffered spinal cord injuries. He serves on the board and was previously the president of the National Football Foundation’s Columbus Chapter. He shares his life journey through public speaking, and has authored four books, including his new autobiography “Once A Buckeye…: A Story of Football, Family and Faith,” which was published this week.

Most importantly, Gentry is a husband to his wife Megan and a father to his two sons, 10-year-old Adam and 8-year-old Ryan. And it’s because of them that Gentry says he’d still choose to play football at Ohio State all over again even if he knew how his career would unfold.

“I really would. If I was able to answer that question while knowing that I would say I end up where I'm at with my wife and our two sons, Adam and Ryan, undoubtedly yeah, because I don't want to know what my life would look like without them,” Gentry told Eleven Warriors. “My wife is my angel. She makes things so much easier on me and helps me carry a lot of the burdens that come with my injury. So having her by my side is amazing. And then to watch our two sons, who are 10 and 8 now, grow up and to kind of show them so many things that they wouldn't otherwise be exposed to.”

In the immediate aftermath of his injury, Gentry questioned whether he’d ever have the opportunity to be a husband or a father. After undergoing fusion surgery three days after the injury, the pain was so intense that Gentry wished for death.

The following morning, however, Gentry’s parents showed him an inspirational note that told him to “Never give up, no matter how much adversity you face.” The note resonated with Gentry because he wrote it himself after a woman who suffered a spinal cord injury spoke to the Ohio State football team – eight months before his own injury – and asked them to write letters of encouragement to patients at Ohio State’s Dodd Hall, the same hospital where he’d soon undergo his own rehabilitation. Gentry took that as a sign from God, and it gave him the faith he needed to persevere.

“When I reached my lowest point and I was ready to give up, I honestly thought I was going to die. Just the amount of pain that I was in, I was ready to go, I was at peace with everything,” Gentry said. “And I woke up the next morning and realized that it's not the end of the road, and so just from that standpoint onward, my faith has increased.”

The coming months remained difficult for Gentry as he was told to “hurry up and wait” to see if he would regain more function in his arms and legs. But as he gradually came to accept that he would never be able to walk again or do many of the things that he loved to do before his injury, Gentry decided he didn’t want to spend the rest of his life dwelling on what he couldn’t do.

“I don't know that there was a specific point that I recall reaching that phase. But I do remember at some point coming to terms with the fact that like, OK, I obviously can't undo what happened, and I can't suddenly change my function and give myself hand movement or get up and walk or anything like that,” Gentry said. “So I think once I kind of realized like, ‘Hey, if this is what I have to work with moving forward, all I can do is make the best of it.’ Because the only alternative is to sit there and feel sorry for myself and spiral downward, and I didn't want that.”
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Lost 2-1. Guessing clay isn’t their preferred surface anyway.

Guessing they’ll be happier to get on the grass at Wimbledon.

MGMT said:

It wouldn’t surprise me — only because I don’t care as long as the offense is scoring like it should given the talent it has at its disposal.

My worthless opinion is that the best and most effective players should get snaps regardless of how long someone’s been in the program. If he’s better in the slot than Inniss and Henry/Parker get snaps on the outside, then so be it.

Score at any cost

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How does this approach give touches to David Adolph tho?

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Ohio State true freshmen corners Jay Timmons, Jordan Thomas made strong impression during spring​

"They're very mature," OSU co-defensive coordinator/secondary coach Tim Walton said. "They love to compete. They pay close attention to detail. They're very coachable. They can process the game. You know what I mean?"

"So, they've got a lot of great qualities. And football is important to them. So, they're serious. It matters to them; it's important to them. So, those things are great qualities. And they don't get flustered by situations or hard coaching."

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According to Rivals, Ohio State is now neck-and-neck with Tech for Easter Jr.

Buckeneye said:

I'm going to go against the grain here. Julian, like Manziel referenced above, is of a similar physical mold. But that also means his mobility doesn't have to be tuck and run like Johnny was. Preferably more so the classic 'run to throw'. Truth be told, he isn't big enough where he (likely) wants to consistently escape vertically into traffic. And he isn't gifted enough laterally to be RG3 or Lamar.

I'm fortunate to have access to the all-22 for the offense. When I chart the trends from the last 3 games of the season, the film is telling me there are two big components that need serious increased command.

- Eyes to safety play.

Not just having your eyes there, but understanding leverage, rotations and body language then processing all of that in real time.

- Throw timing.

JS can have a nasty habit at times of not throwing with timing and anticipation that I would expect from a player of his caliber. I don't want to say "questioning" what he's seeing. But there was some clear hesitation against Indiana on a number of snaps that cost him completions. (along with the damn ball tapping) This also ties into the first thing - understanding and processing rotations.

College Football defenses are winning right now. They're winning for two reasons. For the better part of 20 years, we've taught these young QB's pure progression while reducing the burden of educating them and advancing their understanding of coverage geometry. Defenses can get away with their rotations because they don't do, as the NFL says, "get eyes to safeties at this level". There's more movement not only on the backend, but the front as well. I've never seen more pre-snap stem & post snap movement along the Dline at the highest levels of college football than I have this past year.

Those two things are asking QB's and Offensive Lines to do one key thing - play smarter. To play as cerebral as you would play physical.

If Julian (and the OL) can speed up that thing between their ears, he won't have to use his legs anywhere near as wished. That's a last resort improvement and tends to come at the cost of passing efficiency. In 2026, I hope to see the Drew Brees comparison rightfully and deservedly used. Because right now it's just another white-boy cliche'.

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GPA!