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The Jerome Schottenstein Center (Official Thread)

Been to the Schott several times during the past several years. Both men's and women's basketball. I do have a bit of trouble with spending $5.2 million on a scoreboard, that to me, does all that it's supposed to do. OK, maybe it's not the shiniest apple in the B10 stable, but hey? Who gives a rip. Doubt seriously whether any recruit has stood on the floor, looks up, and say Not going here, the scoreboard is a mess.....maybe I'm wrong. PS, cannot some of these computer whiz bangs do some reprogramming to have it show whatever one believes is missing? I demand an audit of all Athletic Department budgets/funds/cash and contracts!
5.2 million in nil for basketball players might just make a difference though huh?
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Ohio State vs. #15 Virginia, (Nashville, TN), Saturday Feb. 14, 8pm EST, FOX

It was the first game of the season they didn't start Mobley. You act like missing one of your leading scorers is no big deal, but OSU refused to put competitive NIL resources into building up this roster, so it's a huge deal.
On Mobley, yes he might have contributed or he might have scored about 3 points as he did against Pitt or Washington. He probably would have taken some of Thornton's 28 pts, so that could have been a wash. But he wouldn't have made much difference in the rebounding deficit, which was 14! They outrebounded OSU 40 - 26. If you saw the game you saw our guys lose rebounds they should have had, not be in position for rebounds, etc...

E.g., two Buckeyes under the basket, boxing out a UVA player who jumps over them and swats it to his teammate. Our guys didn't bother to jump or even raise their arms for the ball. Another one, ball is bouncing under the basket, our two guys stand there and let the UVA guy pick it up, *then* Tilly decides to do something, ties it up, possession arrow to UVA. Other plays where OSU is nowhere near in position. Buckeyes have the size to be better than 103rd in rebounding. UVA is 12th in rebounding because of good coaching and mentality (from good coaching).

It is obvious OSU does not run a well-coached offense even with Mobley. This is in contrast to their opponents that have seasoned coaches that know what they are doing. Game on the line, under a minute to go, it's Tilly for the 3. Da fuq? With Bynum and Thornton on the court? That's bad coaching. That's why we can't win these close ones.
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The Paul Finebaum Show (Official Thread)

"Why would any SEC team agree to a challenging home-and-home with a Big Ten powerhouse when they’re already navigating what they believe to be the toughest conference schedule in college football a schedule the ESPiN FPI index has already determined that all 12 teams on their schedule are top 10, with 9 of them top 5?"
No reason to actually play a legitimate top program.
I think they should be forced to play B1G teams. What? With the additional opportunity for ‘quality losses’ by picking up an additional conference game? Someone needs to keep this SEC juggernaut in check. I mean hell, with all those quality losses, they are going to be demanding 8 teams make it to the playoffs.
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2027 TX DB Taelyn Mayo (Verbal Offer)

Yeah very few CBs excel being that tall(Sherman, Browner, Woolen). But if he can still keep his hips loose and stay low and not lose speed or athleticism at that size, then you have something very special

There are ways you can structure certain coverages to protect tall corners. A lot of what Seattle does is a great example. Their Trix call let's at least 1 corner sit in MOD to cap fades and/or any MRO tags.

They have another that was used in the Superbowl, the zero tag sim pressure with that allows outside align even in MEG.

I have complete confidence in Coach Pat to play tall corners to their strength.
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OSU vs. USC, 6:30 PM EST 2/11 BTN

Was also nice to see our awesome arena have multiple clock failures too. Classy
It's like we're trying our best to further announce we don't care about basketball in Columbus smh. I think back to when I was at Ohio State when there was so much (deserved) excitement with Matta and players like Sully, Craft, Thomas, etc...the student section and fans were doing much better in terms of attendance and most, but it seems like that was short lived. Can't really blame anyone at this point though, there's a chance I might just go to the RPAC instead to lift and chase some Lulu Lemon wearing college girls (assuming we turn back the time).

But aside from that, glad to get a win at home. Who knows, maybe we can fart our way into the Tourney somehow. Even if it's a one and done, I see another NIT appearance being a near death sentence for Diebler's career here. Maybe this win gets us there if we can pull off an upset or two in the conference tourney.
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2027 NC DL John Archer (Verbal Offer)

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KYBuck4858 15 hours ago
DT John Archer is planning 5 spring visits: Ohio State, NC State, UNC, FSU, and TX. No dates finalized yet.

He's near the top of the board for our big beefy NT target. Also, he grew up an OSU fan.
Big fan, glad it appears we have a legit shot. Reminds me a bit of McDonald at the same stage (a tad lighter maybe).
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Deion Sanders (HC Colorado, Father of SubPrime)

Any NFL franchise that would even consider hiring a guy who has a 16-21 record coaching major college football as their head coach deserves to fold. It's easy to say "no way" when nobody is ever going to ask.
5 games under .500?

Arizona Cardinals offered Kliff Kingsbury the HC job in 2019 after he compiled a 35–40 record at Texas Tech. He had Patrick Mahomes there too.
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