DubCoffman62 said:

ASU is a complete dumpster fire. Speaking of which if any of you all have been down to Tempe and Mill Ave in recent years it's turned into a bizarro world dystopia. I can't imagine the goings on on campus is much different, most likely a reflection.

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Oakland-lite?

Blaze just beat Megalduis in trials. We cannot, I repeat, cannot miss on this kid. He's beating All Americans and champions before his senior year of high school. Dude is an animal. Absurd that he can compete with and sometimes beat these international veterans in their prime.

Steve19 said:

The face of someone beginning to realize that the millstone hanging around his neck is career altering. He probably does not yet fully realize that his professional toxicity will be at Chernobyl levels before this is all over. Good luck tough guy.

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Yeah, but that's a beard you can set your watch by!

Sam Forencich, a long-time photographer with the NBA, clicked this photo of Rodman when the latter was with the Bulls. In Forencich’s words, it was surreal to watch the Hall of Famer sacrificing his body to snatch a point in the 1997 game against the Golden State Warriors. Capturing the five-time NBA champion flying was a high point in Forencich’s career.

dragurd said:

Still likely a thing cause they will occasionally use hand signs to adjust the play or go fast but easier to negate when you think someone has them. Just huddle up and use comms

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I would think that any hand signals from the sideline now be a thing of the past. They could communicate the change with the QB and he would change the play via an audible at the line of scrimmage.

Zurp said:

I wonder... how easy is it to hack into the opposing team's headset? How could that be caught? I know they use this in the NFL, and I can't recall any NFL teams being accused of hacking. So maybe this isn't a thing. But... maybe?

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It must hard or impossible to do. If it could be done you know Belichick and the Patriots would have been accused of doing it. Apparently in the early days some teams might have tried to "jam" the visiting team's communications late in the game. Now the Patriots were accused of that:
Here's a good article (from 2012 and I'm sure that the technology is even better today):

https://www.espn.com/blog/playbook/tech/post/_/id/2573/robert-griffin-iii-helmet

Are NFL teams hacking helmet headsets?​

“The radio spectrum at NFL games is usually monitored pretty close by the league's frequency coordinator,” he said. “They have special equipment set up to locate almost any interference problem. If there was an overriding signal, they may be able to see it and record it.”

Fortunately for NFL coaches, Viglione adds that actually intercepting communication would be very difficult, and hackers would need to record it and then use special software to decode the signal.

Still, conspiracy theorists might want to know why only the offensive helmets are reportedly malfunctioning and not the helmets of defensive players.

Viglione offers some possible insight: “The radio signal from the coach does not go directly to the helmet. The radio signal goes to another transmitter higher up in the stadium, and then that radio signal is sent to the helmet on the field. If there are two repeaters, one for the home team and one for the visiting team, and if they are located in different locations in the stadium, then I can see where only one would be affected. The jammer could position himself close to one of the repeaters and cause a problem to only the home team or the away team.”

SEREbuckeye said:

Ohio kid? Groza winner? Free Agent? Need!

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Need!

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Just sayin':
1. With Jesse Mirco gone we may need a punter more than place kicker.
2. Jayden Fielding is just a Sophomore and has 3 more years of eligibility. He made 80% of his field goals, 100% inside the 40 last year. If we bring in Graham Nicholson, Fielding will likely transfer out. How much improvement will be make in the next 3 years is the question.
3. The NIL money isn't unlimited. I'm just thinking that it could better be used to help get another "top tier" offensive lineman which is a position of much greater need.

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Gene Smith Reflects on Career As Ohio State Athletic Director, Talks Future of College Athletics

Outgoing Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith reflected on his career and the future of college athletics in an hourlong conversation on Thursday.

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GENE SMITH REFLECTS ON CAREER AS OHIO STATE ATHLETIC DIRECTOR, TALKS FUTURE OF COLLEGE ATHLETICS​

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GENE SMITH BELIEVES COLLEGE FOOTBALL SUPER LEAGUE IS WORTH CONSIDERING BUT REVENUE MODEL MUST MAKE SENSE FOR OHIO STATE​

Conversations have ramped up nationally in the last few weeks about the potential for a Super League.

Sportico recently obtained a “pitch deck” circulated among college sports stakeholders in mid-February detailing a specific 80-team plan for how a new league could look. The model features 70 teams split across seven 10-team regional divisions, featuring each of college football’s power conference teams. Ohio State is in the Midwest division under the plan, joining Cincinnati, Illinois, Indiana, Louisville, Michigan, Michigan State, Missouri, Northwestern and Purdue.

An eighth 10-team division of smaller schools, determined by a system of relegation/promotion similar to how European soccer leagues function, rounds out the 80-school model.

Smith’s biggest concern with the concept is how money from TV contracts and the like will be split among such a large field of teams. While he doesn’t mind the fact that massive brands like Ohio State, Michigan, Penn State, USC and others will share those revenues equally among 18 teams – some of which clearly don’t hold the same stature as those brands – in the Big Ten, the numbers for a Super League worry him.

“I would be more concerned about the revenue share,” Smith said. “Seventy teams (is what) I think I’ve read about and heard about, but the Ohio States of the world aren’t gonna feed everybody.

“We’ve fed some of the teams in our league and they’ve fed us. We’ve gotta play somebody. So at the end of the day, you’re talking 70 versus 18 and you’re talking 16 in the SEC. So it’s simple math. And then, by the way, we’re not the only school in our league that feeds others. So now you’re talking 70. I struggle with that.”

Smith also acknowledged that perhaps there’s something he hasn't seen yet that the private equity side of a potential Super League could cover, one that ensures Ohio State is pulling in a similar revenue to what it is earning under the Big Ten’s current form. The conference started a new seven-year, $8 billion TV deal in 2023.

Structural change is undoubtedly going to keep happening in college football. And it may just have to come from outside the NCAA, whose power is continuing to wane. Smith feels that while at one time the organization did its job well and has tried to innovate in recent years, irreparable damage was done near the end of Mark Emmert’s tenure as president.

“I think it’s worked exceptionally well during my tenure,” Smith said. “What it didn’t do was shift. I think there was a period of time where the association was strong, where the governing structure was strong. But everything is about leadership. And I have a lot of respect for Charlie Baker, our executive director now, our president now. But he’s probably four or five years too late and he’s trying to recover. The organization didn’t shift with the times or the ecosystem that we served, which is why you have all these interest groups, pressure groups in it right now. Lawyers, politicians, everybody. When there’s a leadership void, people will step in.”
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“I have a concern about the length of the season, and I’ve actually had concerns about the football student-athlete experience practice-wise overall,” Smith said. “I don’t worry about the games. Football players don’t play that many games, frankly. So it’s really about making sure that you have a culture where the coach and your support staff, everybody understands, you’ve gotta manage practice. You’ve gotta take care of their bodies.”

But as the Super League conversation continues, Smith believes it’s something that the powers that be have to be open to – with revenue considerations.

“We’ve gotta listen to that, we’ve gotta learn, because maybe that might be the right model,” Smith said. “I know this, I won’t be in the seat but places like Ohio State, if they’re in that model, it can’t be like the NFL model where revenue is shared equally. We don’t draft, we recruit. We chase championships and make investments to chase championships in football. Everybody else doesn’t do that.”

EBONI WALKER RETURNING TO OHIO STATE WOMEN’S BASKETBALL AFTER RECEIVING EXTRA SEASON OF ELIGIBILITY​

The Ohio State women’s basketball player announced Wednesday that she was granted an extra year of eligibility by the NCAA and that she will remain with the Buckeyes for the 2024-25 season.

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Walker already used her COVID-19 season last year as a fifth-year senior, but was granted a redshirt season by the NCAA for her lone season at Syracuse in 2021-22, in which she played only six games before suffering a season-ending injury.

A Las Vegas native who started her career at Arizona State for two seasons before transferring to Syracuse, Walker transferred to Ohio State in 2022. She started 11 games for the Buckeyes in 2022-23, averaging 4.9 points and 3.6 rebounds in 15.6 minutes per game across 34 total contests. Her role decreased this past season as she played just 10.5 minutes per contest in 23 games, averaging 2.4 points and rebounds per game each.

awwww....don't make me sad

Over/under on how long it takes the same ball sucking "journalists" to declare him a bust?

Two-time WWE Hall of Famer Ric Flair has said he turned down an offer to meet his biological brother.

Soon after birth, Flair was taken from his mother and placed in Tennessee Children’s Home Society, separating him from his brother.

On his To Be The Man podcast, Flair said he was contacted by his brother recently.

“My actual brother reached out to me, about a year ago. He wanted to get together. I declined.

“Where do you go from there? What are you going to talk about? That used to exhaust me. Wanting to know.”

The Tennessee Children’s Home’s Memphis branch operator Georgia Tann was later discovered to have kidnapped children and put them up for adoption.

Flair was one of the children taken without consent by Tann.

Speaking about his kidnapping, Flair said that parents were told by Tann and others that their child had died.

“My mother probably thought I was stillborn. That’s what they told a lot of the girls whose kids ended up with the Tennessee Children’s Home Society in Memphis — their babies were dead, and they just needed to sign a couple of papers.

“Adoption papers. Most of these girls were poor and uneducated. Some were even under sedation.”
Tann is believed to have kidnapped an estimated 5,000 infants, including Flair.

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buckeyebri said:

I’m getting too old to deal with the ineptitude of the clients I deal with on a daily basis. The constant paralysis by analysis, at least that’s all I can think to call it, is disconcerting on all levels.

I constantly sit through meetings where no one can make a basic decision and they just kick the can down the road. Then they can’t understand why the project is stuck in neutral and freak out when I tell them that we’re not going to make our timeline.

Then our brain trust is like why are all are projects experiencing the same issues where we just can’t get things accomplished? How do we fix this?

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You think that's bad, I have a boss from corporate that claims something I buy for $120 and give me 12 units that retail for $14.99 gives me a 77% gross.

buckeyemania11 said:

My worry is the bullpen running out of gas. They’ve been lights out so far but They are getting a lot of usage with the shaky rotation and I doubt we see that usage slow down. The offense is definitely encouraging though

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They won't be alone. Starters making it past the 5th inning is becoming a rarity. There are going to be a lot of gassed bullpens by June across the country.

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Ohio State landed Woodby’s commitment back in October and since then the Buckeyes have built the best defensive back recruiting class in the 2025 cycle. Woodby was back in Columbus on Saturday for the Ohio State spring game and really liked what he saw on the field and what he heard from the coaches. He also liked spending time with fellow Ohio State commits Devin Sanchez and Na’eem Offord. The Buckeyes aren’t the only program Woodby is in contact with. Oregon and Auburn are trying to get him to rethink his commitment. He was recently at Auburn and liked how much experience their coaching staff has on the defensive side of the ball. Woodby has visited Oregon in the past and he has a former teammate in

Ify Obidegwu
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Weaker conference this year, so I'm going to say, 7 losses.

IMO.. in order of importance... of who needs to step up & come thru
1) Mobley - needs to some day match his early hype
2) Allen - I think he's the heart of this team
3) LeVert - inconsistent but I'm finally OK with him... just need him to be big the days when one of our guards are off

The others I expect them to play as anticipated

Big game to start off