enjoy

BuckeyeNation27 said:

I think it's wild that the B1G, who have been holding Penn St down for decades now because they're not old school B1G, just allowed the newest B1G member to win the conference on their first try.

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They didn't allow it, it was forced upon them through will and might

Good catch DZ. Yeah, you're right, and I'm wrong. Don't have my 'number' scorecard, and tOSU doesn't print names on the back of away jerseys. Still thought it was a good post though....Go Bucks!

OHSportsFan said:

Barry Odom.

Would be a great hire from a football standpoint. It likely still won’t matter there.

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Best Purdue could hope for is his Missouri record of 7-8 wins.

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This dude is the winner of football for 2024

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if you own an asset you can sell it, or a portion of it, to anyone you want to. No stock market needed.

These sports teams that Universities find themselves owning can be/are money making enterprises. This is what I have been talking about when I say they will split off the pro sports team from the university.

The business model of running a university is completely different than that of running a pro sports team. Some universities are going to recognize this simple reality sooner than others, work a deal to sell the team, just sit back and make money off the licensing and stadium deal then use the extra resources freed up to improve their core business-the university.

BB73 said:

Would love to hear that speech.

They were actually #7 in the AP poll when the Buckeyes beat them 14-9 in Ann Arbor. Vaughn Broadnax blocking for Art Schlichter on the winning TD.

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Vaughn used to post on here under "1XBuck" I think it was. I don't hang out here too much any more except for the contests and not sure if he's still around. Had some behind the scene conversations with him about his and his brothers High School Wrestling careers at Xenia. To me, in that moment in Ann Arbor in 1981, his block of pretty much the entire scum defense to get Art in to the end zone was the greatest block in the history of football.

Big Ten announces that the 2025 complete schedule is being released on Wednesday.

Opponents have been known - dates not until Wednesday

the wheels have fallen off, and they are stranded behind the woodshed.

Les Miles and Ed Orgeron won championships at LSU and neither had 1/3 the resume of Kelly. But they fielded some tough LSU teams during their stints. Kelly’s teams have all been soft as Charmin in his first 3 years.

Peoples. We already have him.

I like this kind of pettiness.

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I kind of want Rich Rod WVU back like I want Beamer's Va Tech back.

ScriptOhio said:

Re: They have discussed firing him for cause if he doesn’t agree to the new contract. He's owed nearly $25 million on his current contract.

Do they have a legitimate cause that would hold up in a court of law?

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Cause they don’t wanna pay him no more

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Fickell going back to the smash mouth football that got him the job in the first place.

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Seems to work for some other no talent ass clown factory I can think of.

ScriptOhio said:

Inter Miami star Lionel Messi named MLS MVP

Lionel Messi on Friday won the Landon Donovan MVP Award for the 2024 MLS season, beating out the Columbus Crew's Cucho Hernández, the Portland Timbers' Evander, Christian Benteke from D.C. United and his Inter Miami teammate Luis Suárez.

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Miami star Lionel Messi named MLS MVP, sets goal-scoring mark​

Lionel Messi was named winner of the Landon Donovan MVP Award for the 2024 MLS season Friday, beating out the Columbus Crew's Cucho Hernández, the Portland Timbers' Evander, Christian Benteke from D.C. United and his Inter Miami teammate Luis Suárez.

Messi, 37, won thanks to his 20 goals and 16 appearances in just 19 matches.
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The Miami captain won the award despite playing in only 55% of competitive matches of the 34-game regular season. He missed 62 days between June 1 and Sept. 14 with an ankle injury sustained during Argentina's win over Colombia in the Copa América final.

During this time, the Herons played well, winning eight of nine games without him.
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The MLS Cup final is on Saturday in Carson, California, where the LA Galaxy host the New York Red Bulls. The Galaxy look to win a record sixth Cup, while the Red Bulls seek their first.

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Inter was arguably better when Messi was nursing an injury, while Columbus looked like a wet, steamy fart anytime Cucho was out.

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2024 - r-Junior ???? did he even play in 2024 ????

2023 – r-Sophomore
• Transferred to Kentucky after two seasons at Ohio State
• Missed the season with a knee injury

2022 – r-Freshman (Ohio State)
• Saw action against Indiana

2021 – Freshman (Ohio State)
• Redshirt season

I hope OSU isn’t that stupid. It’s as easy saying “well what are the other teams offering?”and then when you find out you either say no thank you or you match.

I really hope it wasn’t “well Oregon is offering 250k per year”and then OSU goes “ok we’ll do 25k but we’ll make sure he gets a free car lease!”.

Like if you can’t do it then do offer anything.

At any rate we didn’t blow anything. Kids took the money and we didn’t match it. Provided we actually are aggressive in the portal for OL and DL this is a good trade off. If we don’t do anything in the portal though then i assume we just have no more money lol

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Monitoring closely....

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Honestly I think he is a great player, we just have a logjam at the position right now. Can't blame him for the move and some team will benefit from his move.

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Sources: Ball picks up $21.4M option with Bulls

Chicago Bulls guard Lonzo Ball exercised the $21.4 million option on his contract for the 2024-2025 season, sources told ESPN on Saturday.

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Sources: Bulls' Lonzo Ball picks up $21.4M option for 2024-25​

After missing the past two-plus seasons with a knee injury, Chicago Bulls guard Lonzo Ball has exercised the $21.4 million option on his contract for the 2024-25 season, sources told ESPN on Saturday.

Ball has undergone three surgeries on his left knee, the most recent a cartilage transplant in 2023. There remains some guarded hope that he could return next season, but there are no assurances that the damaged knee will allow for him to play again.
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His inactivity has caused his contract to become a blight on the Bulls' salary cap.

Just sayin': That sure was "no brainer" for Ball......

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Lonzo Ball wonders if his father's Big Baller Brand shoes caused his career-threatening knee injuries​

Ball wore the shoes, which were the creation of his father, LaVar Ball, during his rookie season​

Ball has thoughts on that, and his father, LaVar Ball, who constructed one of the all-time hype machines around his three sons, isn't going to like where Lonzo's finger is pointing. What did Spike Lee say to the great Michael Jordan? It's gotta be the shoes!



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Did Lonzo actually want to wear Big Baller Brand shoes?

"I was an Adidas kid since high school, so I was thinking that was going to be the route," Ball said. "But what was told to me, I guess, wasn't what really happened. I was told that nobody wanted to partner with me, so my dad was like, 'Just rock the brand.' And I was like,

'All right.'"

The problem, Ball said, was that the first shoes his dad had made for him to wear at NBA summer league in 2017 were unwearable.

"They were like kickball shoes," Ball said. He wore them just twice that summer. He and his manager, Darren Moore, went out to Foot Locker stores in Las Vegas to buy a different pair of high-end shoes for each game. Ball played one game each in the Air Jordan XXXI, Nike Kobe A.D., Adidas Harden LS and Under Armour Curry 4 en route to winning summer league MVP.

Eventually, Big Baller Brand set up an arrangement with Skechers to manufacture its shoes, which Ball wore for his entire rookie season. But Ball said he wasn't happy with those shoes either and believes they could have contributed to the first meniscus injury he suffered as a rookie in January 2018.

"I think it's a possibility for sure, to be honest with you," Ball said. "I wasn't really getting hurt like that until I started wearing them."

Obviously nobody could ever say whether these shoes, which were selling for an outrageous $495 despite being a clearly inferior product, had any part in Ball's injury troubles.

But if Lonzo isn't ruling it out, I guess nobody should.

My buddy just sent me this. And man, that class looks even worse on paper

A lot like Brock Bowers in my opinion. We'll see though

That was fun, and a brutal reminder of just how precise a lot of these spreads are. Congrats @jakenick06