Good for him and probably a good reason to switch and maybe back to TE at Miami. Hope he tears the MAC up, except when they play BG

Bestbuck36 said:

I have a feeling that combination will eat the ACC alive next year too.

Click to expand...

And if it doesn't.....just quit

I'm about as much of, to use the parlance of our time, "a radical leftist, Marxist lunatic" as you can get, yet I want to see this fuck thrown out of a helicopter. Is that wrong?

Wait until he goes for 200+ against GA and scores six TDs for the upset win....THEN go all in....

NIL has ruined college football as we knew it. Lots of players dont come because they want to be a "Buckeye" but because we offer a NIL or a larger NIL. It's hard for me to regard them as such when they are not here for the "team"
Just look at how many players left this year. That's disgraceful.
The OSU is buying and selling players just like the pro's do.
So sad. It seems most fans cheer more for certain players than for my beloved Buckeye's.
GO BUCK!

Login to view embedded media Login to view embedded media
I was big fan of Scott, when he became a Buckeye, but if this is who OG Walt chose to replace him. Then he may have hit a homerun. And I feel even more comfortable with saying this after seeing what @BigWoof31 wrote
One thing that tends to ring true, those that succeed at IMG, tend to succeed in college. These are kids that have essentially been in a college style system, on and off the field. They already see the business aspect, along with playing football at a very high level mixed with being in school

Juist sayin': S/I isn't sure that it was all about the money......

Koi Perich's decision to transfer to Oregon feels messy​

Perich will play in the Big Ten next season, but he will not be wearing maroon and gold.



Everyone in the great state of Minnesota seems to have an opinion on Koi Perich's decision to transfer to Oregon.

When Perich opted to stay home and play for his hometown Gophers in the 2024 high school recruiting class, he immediately became a hometown hero. According to 247Sports, he's the second-highest-ranked recruit to ever sign with Minnesota in the internet era. He turned down offers from top programs such as Ohio State, USC and Florida State to represent his home state. Roughly 25 months later, he decided to transfer to Oregon, so what happened?

Perich immediately lived up to his hype as a true freshman. He finished the 2024 season with 46 total tackles, five interceptions, and more than 500 yards as a punt and kick returner combined. He was named first-team All-Big Ten, and many viewed him as one of the top freshmen in the entire sport.

The hype grew even more before the 2025 season. He debuted a split practice jersey during spring ball, and Minnesota teased an offensive role for Perich as a sophomore. He became the talk of the town, and he was acting like it.

When asked in July if he grew up watching college football, he responded saying, "I would just skip through college if I could and just gone straight to the Vikings, but you've got to do your three years, and I am willing to do it."

He looked like a superstar, he was being covered like a superstar and he was acting like a superstar. But his production was simply not at a superstar level in 2025. He had 23 missed tackles, which was 17 more than his mark as a true freshman; he muffed a pivotal punt in the Cal game, and his offensive role resulted in just seven receptions for 89 yards, most of which came in the bowl game against New Mexico.

After an objectively disappointing 2025 season, he opted to hit the transfer portal and join Big Ten superpower Oregon, which was the type of program and opportunity he turned down as a high school recruit 24 months earlier.
.
.
continued
.
.
It has been nearly two weeks since Perich initially revealed his plans to enter the transfer portal, and there has been no public comment from him, P.J. Fleck or the Gophers football team. It feels like a rather abrupt end to a career that once looked like it would be historic at the University of Minnesota.

Was his decision because of money? Did he want a chance to play in the College Football Playoff? Or did his time at Minnesota just reach a breaking point? We might never know the real answer, but that's the modern world of college athletics.

It shouldn't come as a huge surprise that Perich wanted to transfer to a program like Oregon. They play on a much bigger stage than a program like Minnesota, and they have substantially more to offer, financially. It also shouldn't come as a surprise that Gophers fans are angry; they have every right to be.

I finally rewatched a bit of the Miami game because it happened to be on and was past the ugly beginning. I was watching Julian play rattled and noticed something that reminded me of a Clarett interview that I saw leading up to this game. He was talking about his strip/steal from Sean Taylor - Clarett said he knew he could make that play because Taylor was wearing a visor which ruins your peripheral vision. It's not something I would thought about before, but maybe pocket passers shouldn't do visors because peripheral vision is pretty damn important when maneuvering the pocket.


Am I missing the Julian Sayin 2026 thread or are we still using this one? Is this the Sayin Heisman media day table?

He heard Chestnut Hill and thought he'd be perfect for their Riding Backs coach.

The federal indictment from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Pennsylvania alleges that Dadig waged harassment campaigns against women through his social media accounts and a podcast, referring to them as “sluts” and “bitches” — he was apparently trying to launch himself as an influencer in the mold of various manosphere personalities — and menaced some of them in person. Authorities say Dadig was targeting women who rejected his sexual advances, sometimes making explicit references to bodily harm.

Dadig has yet to enter a plea in court. His attorney, Michael Moser, says Dadig is a college-educated professional with “a large, stable, supportive, and loving family who are very concerned about his health and well-being.” He notes that prior to the charges now pending against him, Dadig “has never been arrested or been in trouble with the law.”

“As his counsel, I look forward to defending Mr. Dadig and protecting his constitutionally guaranteed rights in this matter,” Moser adds. “I hope that the public and all involved will withhold judgment and vitriol as this case moves forward.” Moser did not respond to requests for comment on other details of Dadig’s activities described in this article.

According to a former friend who spoke with Rolling Stone, as Dadig publicly aired his grievances against women, he also developed an obsession with ChatGPT, the large language model from OpenAI. For months, this individual and others who personally knew Dadig maintained group chats in which they documented what they viewed as his increasingly disturbing online behavior, preserving dozens of posts from his Instagram accounts (at least two have since been removed from the platform).

Rolling Stone has reviewed these materials as well as episodes of Dadig’s podcast, which is still available via Spotify. Across his social channels, Dadig frequently spoke about ChatGPT, and screenshots of his interactions with the bot provide a novel dimension to his case. They appear to expose aspects of his mindset and motives, not to mention the way that AI tools can reinforce our worst instincts at moments when human intervention is desperately needed. As his actions started landing him in serious trouble, Dadig would simply turn to ChatGPT to prove to himself that he was in the right — and the rest of the world was wrong.

“Anyone who reached out to him out of concern got told they were jealous or a hater,” says Gary, the ex-friend of Dadig’s who provided Rolling Stone with content from his deleted social accounts as well as evidence of their past social ties. (The two men are both from Pittsburgh and close in age, but “Gary” is a pseudonym used at the request of this source.) “He seemed to be very sure he was perfect and better than everyone else and no one else could deal with it,” Gary adds.

Fueling that overconfidence, by all appearances, was ChatGPT, which in one exchange cited in the indictment told Dadig that his “haters” were “building a voice in you that can’t be ignored.”

Click to expand...

We need to pay more. Can't blame coordinators leaving for 2 or 3 times the salary. Coach Hayes would frown mightily at the gap in pay

Just sayin': Anyone else remember the Brockermeyer twins; i.e. Tommy was a 5 star OT and James was a 4 star IOL? They both went to Alabama and then transferred to TCU. Tommy is out of football now due to injuries and James is the starting center for the Hurricanes. Here's an interesting story of how Sonny Dykes tried to keep James; however, he was outbid by the Hurricanes. It probably a common occurrence with NIL these days; however, the NIL bidding process with the players is not getting a lot of print.

How TCU and a famed Fort Worth football family broke up over NIL money

The Brockermeyer family is one of the most prominent football names in the history of Fort Worth, but its connection to TCU was severed over a few hundred thousand bucks. Center James Brockermeyer should be finishing his final season of college football at TCU, with his twin brother,

Tommy, having recently earned his degree from TCU. Older brother Luke would likely still be on staff as an assistant coach.

Instead, all three alums of All Saints Episcopal School no longer have any ties to TCU football.
.
.
continued
.
.
Father Blake Brockermeyer is a graduate of Arlington Heights, the University of Texas, and was a first-round pick of the Carolina Panthers in the 1995 NFL draft. He played nine seasons before he retired to Fort Worth after the 2003 season.
.
.
continued
.
.
In February 2023, Dykes hired Luke Brockermeyer as a graduate assistant coach.

Following the 2023 season, during which James was mostly a backup at Alabama, he transferred to TCU, where he would be reunited with his brothers on the same team.

In March 2024, Tommy Brockermeyer retired from football because of injuries. TCU said it would honor the scholarship. Early in the 2024 season, when James was the starting center, he openly talked about how much fun it was for his entire family to be so close where they could be together, and attend games.

He had one season of eligibility remaining, and as such, one of the most decorated football families in Fort Worth would strengthen its tie to TCU.

However, late in the 2024 season, people associated with the Miami Hurricanes football team contacted Blake Brockermeyer about James, who had established himself as a solid Big 12 player.

Miami was willing to offer James a few hundred more thousand than what TCU was paying him.

Realizing this was his son’s best opportunity to make money playing football, Blake asked Dykes if TCU could at least match Miami’s offer for James. TCU did match the offer, and the staff believed this was potential departure was prevented.

Miami people then came back to Blake and increased the offer for James. In turn, Blake reached out to TCU again to match. At this point, Dykes said no.

This was all going on during the practice weeks leading up to TCU’s appearance in the New Mexico Bowl; Brockermeyer was practicing with the team to play in the game. When TCU declined to match for James Brockermeyer, he left the team to transfer to Miami, which forced Dykes and TCU to play a new player against Louisiana in the bowl game.

Shortly thereafter, TCU and Dykes did not ask Luke Brockermeyer to remain on his staff. Tommy had already earned his degree.

“In the moment I was irritated, mostly because of the timing of it all; I could have used those practices for another player,” Dykes said. “When it’s all said and done, I am OK with it. I truly wish him nothing but the best.

“I was upset, but I’m not mad at him. I’ll watch for him, and I want him to succeed.”

When asked about his relationship with Blake Brockermeyer at the moment, Dykes said, “It’s probably a little frosty, but give it time, and I’ll get over it.”

Dykes made a similar decision for defensive tackle Damonic Wiliams, who repeatedly kept coming back to TCU asking for money as he was pursued by other Power Four conference teams. TCU appeased Williams multiple times but eventually said no, and in May 2024 he transferred to Oklahoma, where he is a senior starter.

In the era of the transfer portal, and NIL money, these stories are common.

Login to view embedded media It’s a cool tweet, and I’ve seen this story before. I hope he’s comfortable on the bench developing. Not sure how he’ll take it if his brother is starting at his next destination

Columbus Aviators Draft Gee Scott Jr. and Matthew Jones, Seven Former Ohio State Players on 2026 UFL Rosters​

The Columbus Aviators selected two former Ohio State football players in their first UFL draft.

Former Ohio State tight end Gee Scott Jr. and offensive lineman Matthew Jones are among the players the Aviators selected during this week’s UFL draft, allowing them to return to Columbus to continue their professional football careers.

Login to view embedded media
Login to view embedded media .
.
.
Former Ohio State Players on 2026 UFL Rosters
.
.
.
continued


The United Football League season starts on the last weekend of March 27-29 and runs 10-straight weeks. Season ticket memberships start at just $65 and include all five home games at Historic Crew Stadium.

Pops got them training!

Login to view embedded media

Forgot how jacked JT was. He was so intense I could actually see him doing this lol

Login to view embedded media

Merih said:

Will be interesting to see what happens to Innis role next year as well. I’m all in on needing more “work the middle” operators

Click to expand...

We need something from the slot…I think Innis can get the job done too but wasn’t featured.

One thing’s for sure. We are about to see rotation at the WR position. Thank goodness for that.

There’s no way we are bringing in two guys to not play.

Rotation of Smith, Innis, Henry, and now McCuin and Parker is a good rotation

buckeyemania11 said:

Weber State?

They went 4-8 this year and their QBs combined to throw 11 TD / 16 INT

I'd assume he will probably end up being the starter at the beginning of the year.

Click to expand...

NJ-Buckeye said:

Weber State has a football team?

Click to expand...

BuckeyeNation27 said:

I don't know why anybody would assume that

Click to expand...

Just sayin': FWIW, Weber State went 4-8, (2-6 in conference) in 2025. They used 4 different QBs in 2025; however, I have no idea who is coming back. However, if they all come back, Brown could have a QB competition with 5 other players, i.e. these 4 and an incoming Freshman. With that being said (after looking at "the competition's stats" below); I'd say Brown would be the odds on favorite to be QB1 at Weber State in 2026.

Per ESPN Weber State has the following QB passing stats for 2025:

Passing
* where they never saw any game action......

Players in the pros get fined all the time for being late to meetings, events, games, missing curfew, etc. I’m sure it’s not that difficult. You have punishments on a team, there doesn’t need to be a contract to make a kid run extra. I see nothing wrong with this at all. You want to be professionals then you get treated like professionals

RugbyBuck said:

Except actually do it.

Click to expand...

Hey we did do it... Just against rutgers annd UCLA