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Colonoscopy 2.0 and skirts

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BB73 said:
Had mine yesterday. Went almost 40 hours with nothing but water, 7-Up zero, and the full gallon of tasty flush-you.

I was out for the procedure and came out of it after only about 35 minutes. They cut 1 small polyp so I guess it was worth doing. I did get the doc to laugh when she gave me the picture of the polyp and I said ‘I don’t get a DVD?”
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What I remember most about mine was my doctor was Taiwanese and had the personality of Long Duck Dong. He was singing "It's a Small World" as the wheeled me into to the room. The sleepy juice hit and in a snap of the fingers I was looking at HD pics of inside my colon with the nurse. No polyps.
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QB Luke Fahey (Official Thread)

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Ryan Day’s big decision that showed for Ohio State against Ball State could cost the Buckeyes a former 5-star recruit sticking around long-term

Ryan Day’s quarterback decision is going to be a major talking point coming out of Ohio State’s Week 1 win over Ball State.
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Luke Fahey looks to have won the backup job over Tavien St. Clair​

A lot of the chatter over the last few weeks centered on a legitimate quarterback competition for the backup spot behind Sayin. The expectation was that Tavien St. Clair still held that job. He’s a former 5-star recruit and one of the top quarterbacks in the 2025 class, and he already had a full year in the program under his belt.

That’s what makes Saturday’s development so notable. It wasn’t St. Clair who entered the game as Ohio State’s No. 2 quarterback. It was freshman Luke Fahey.

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Fahey has been a bright spot in Ohio State’s freshman class this past offseason, and he asserted himself as a real competitor in the quarterback room throughout fall camp. Listed at just 5-foot-11, Fahey doesn’t fit the prototypical size profile, but his play earned him the opportunity over a player with more experience and recruiting pedigree. Fahey finished 5-of-7 for 62 passing yards, one passing touchdown, and one interception on a Chris Henry Jr. drop.

Even if the backup quarterback job isn’t fully solidified at this point, Fahey clearly owns the lead in that race. For him to leapfrog St. Clair is a significant statement about where things stand in that room.
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2026 tOSU Special Teams Discussion

I happened to notice that Indiana scored 52 points today despite only having 365 yards of total offense on only 9 drives and only forcing 1 turnover. Ohio State had 671 yards of total offense and put up 56 points on 12 drives while also forcing 1 turnover. So, I did a bit of a deep dive and looked at average starting field position for both teams (and their opponents) today.

Rounded to the nearest yard, IU's average starting field position was its own 42 yard line. This was aided significantly by 67 and 41 yard kickoff returns and a 36 yard punt return. They only started 1 drive inside their own 20, on the 16, which resulted in their only punt, and 1 on their own 23. The worst starting field position for any of their 7 other drives was their own 39, snd they started three of their nine drives in North Texas territory despite giving up 367 yards of total offense to North Texas. On average they only had to go 58 yards per drive to score a TD, and they actually gained 40.55 yards per drive with 7 TDs, 1 FG (49 yards) and 1 punt.

North Texas's average starting field position was its own 25, so they had to go an average of 75 yards to score a TD, actually averaged 36.7 yards on their 10 drives (a number that might have been a bit higher if they didn't have the final drive of the game ended by the clock), and only scored 16 points. They actually outgained Indiana by 2 yards, but needed to go 17 yards further per drive to score and couldn't consistently do that.

Rounded to the nearest yard, Ohio State's average starting field position today was its own 24 yard line, with 5 of its 12 drives starting inside its own 10, two more at the 17 and 22, and none starting beyond its own 42 other than the drive following the interception, which put the ball at the Ball State 28. So, they had to go on average 76 yards,18 yards farther than Indiana, to score a TD. Credit to the offense, which averaged 55.91 yards per drive (over 15 more than Indiana) for mostly overcoming that with TD drives of 99, 94, 90, 83, 75, 62, 58, and 28 yards, but I doubt that 3 90+, 4 80+, or 5 75+ yard drives are likely against any quality opponent.

Ball State's average starting filed position was its own 29 yard line, which isn't too bad for OSU, and credit to Marcello Diomedes for getting touchbacks on all 9 of his kickoffs. So, they had to go an average of 71 yards, 5 fewer than Ohio State, to score a TD. Unfortunately for them, they only managed to gain 12.7 yards per drive, which seems like a testament to the quality of the Ohio State defense. This is basically a wash with what Indiana did as North Texas made the mistake of taking a kick out and getting a holding call, so I think it's fine.

TLDR and I'm sorry that it's so fucking obvious that it's annoying to say it: If Ohio State wants to win a national championship, it cannot constantly put itself behind the field position eight-ball with its horrific kick and punt return game. That's one of the big ways in which games against teams like Indiana are lost even when Ohio State may actually be better on both offense and defense. I'm not blaming Day as he has, finally, made what should be a good special teams coaching hire, but this bullshit with the kick and punt return game really needs to end.

Edit: I poked around some more to see how some other teams did. Georgia had 12 drives with average starting field position of its own 36. Miami had 12 drives with average starting field position of its own 26. USC had 10 drives with average starting position of its own 26. Texas had 9 drives with average starting field position of its own 40 (aided a lot by Texas State turnovers on its own 42, 45, and 16 yard lines). Oregon had 13 drives with average starting field position of its own 37 (aided some by Boise turning it over on downs at its own 31 towards the end of the game). finally, since they were as or more impressive than anyone overall, LSU had 12 drives with starting average field position of its own 30.

It's only one game, but we've seen this movie on repeat for years and I think it was especially glaring that Ohio State managed to have such horrible average starting field position despite allowing less than 13 yards per drive to Ball State. It's not all special teams returns of course as creating more defensive havoc (negative yardage plays of more than the 1-3 yard running game tackle for loss variety and turnovers) will help the average, but the punt and kick return game does seem to me to be by far the biggest issue in Ohio State's case.
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Professional Tennis (official thread)

OHSportsFan
OHSportsFan said:
I know it’s football season but this could be the year for an American to win a grand slam (first since 2003 Roddick).

A lot of Americans with chances at the US Open. Four are already into the Round of 16. Three more have a chance to join them today. Sinner is out, Djokovic met Father Time and Alcaraz is coming off a long rehab for his wrist.

Shelton, Fritz and Tiafoe lead the way, in my opinion.

Carlos still looks the favorite but this is the best chance by pure numbers I can remember.
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L O L

Nevermind.
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