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Notre Dame, Oregon trending for a major recruit who canceled a visit to Ohio State​

Ohio State was expected to have a pair of elite defensive tackle recruits in town this weekend, but five-star Sierra Canyon (DL) Marcus Fakatou is the only one who will be in Columbus. The Buckeyes had planned to have Brother Rice (Ill) DL Brayden Parks in for an official, but the visit has been canceled, according to Rivals’ Steve Wiltfong.

Parks’ only two visits set to happen this summer are now to Notre Dame on June 12, then Oregon on June 19. Ohio State was set to be the biggest contender to land the 6-foot-3, 305-pound defensive lineman over Notre Dame and Oregon. Notre Dame has been seen as the favorite to bring in a player who isn’t far at all from then, but the latest buzz has Oregon rising in his recruitment.

Here's an interesting article/take/speculation on the Chaz Coleman situation at Tennessee:

Former Ohio State DC Jim Knowles is taking a big loss if the latest trend for Chaz Coleman’s playing future at Tennessee comes true​

The Chaz Coleman situation at Tennessee is an odd one — and it looks like former Ohio State DC Jim Knowles might be hurting the worst in the end of all of this.



Just a few months ago, it was cold outside, and the talk of the town for Ohio State football was their chase of former Penn State EDGE Chaz Coleman in the transfer portal.

Ohio State cooled off on Coleman shortly before he committed to Tennessee, where it’s been a rocky tenure with the Vols ever since. Coleman missed the majority of spring practice with Tennessee, and the latest news is that he’s yet to report for summer workouts.

There’s a solid chance Coleman never suits up for the Volunteers this fall, and a former Buckeye coach will be hurting as a result.

Jim Knowles is one of the biggest losers from the Chaz Coleman situation if it continues heading south

Tennessee paid up big dollars (or at least planned to) for Coleman to be an important part of its defense this fall. Knowles is in his first year as the defensive coordinator at Tennessee after spending last season at Penn State. Coleman followed Knowles to Tennessee, but now may never get to coach him again.

“He was in spring practice for maybe not even a week,” On3’s Chris Low said recently on Fox Sports Knoxville. “He did very little, if anything, during the offseason conditioning program and the weight program. Here we are now, what, three days [after] the players are supposed to be back, and he’s not back. I think it’s really to the point now where he’s left Josh Heupel and his staff with very little [choice]. Unless, again, there’s something else out there that comes to life. But we’re probably to the point where it’s unlikely that we see him play football at Tennessee.

“I don’t ever want to get in people’s personal business, but there are some things that this kid has dealt with. So whatever is out there, whatever those things are, he’s gotta get those things under control. But he doesn’t have a lot of options. I know some people say, ‘Well, he wants to go to Ohio State.’ Well, there is no spring portal. You can’t transfer and play next year.”

It’s a wait and see situation with Chaz Coleman

It sure sounds like Tennessee could soon be cutting ties if something doesn’t change, and that’s tough for Knowles in his first season. The Vols watched EDGE Jordan Ross enter the portal and sign with LSU. Coleman is expected to step in and be an impact player for Tennessee, but now there’s major caution on it happening.
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ScriptOhio said:

It could be 1994 déjà vu all over again....

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nah. The Reds are shitty, so they'll get this resolved without any stoppage.

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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calibuck said:

Maybe Diebs needs to check the cushions of the sofa to see if he can find any loose change there.....That's football money for a rent-a-player for one year.

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Every player is a one year free agent at this point. Basketball or football.

Likewise, if this kid wasn't good, some coach somewhere would have cut him at the end of a year.

Seems like a more rational system to me.

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!

sparcboxbuck said:

Always wondered the same. Then I lived there. It's a basketball town, downtown at least.

There are some pockets, but really who wants as a coach to go in a place where the support really isn't there. Tate came from a school downtown... but he's a pretty rare one.

There's some solid talent in the burbs and the rest of the state, but it's pretty rare air that you're in when you get recruited to tOSU. The density of those types across the entire state is not exactly very high.

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IL and IN HS football recruits are kind of similar imo. Basketball centric states with pockets of elite talent in football

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Sad one. I remember him well in the 90’s.

By suicide as well. Always hurts to know someone was in that pain.

Call a friend, call 988. Try to get help.

DubCoffman62 said:

RIP
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He probably watched yesterdays game