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With today’s official announcement that the Ottawa Senators will travel to Sweden to take on the Colorado Avalanche for two regular season games (November 10th and 11th) as part of the NHL’s 2017 SAP NHL Global Series, Senators owner Eugene Melnyk joined TSN 1200’s ‘In the Box’ to discuss his club’s participation.
Although this midseason road trip and Melnyk’s thoughts on the NHL’s Olympic participation dominated the early stages of the interview, it was Melnyk’s comments on Sidney Crosby’s slash on Marc Methot that generated a lot of league-wide headlines this afternoon.
To listen to the full interview, which begins at approximately the 4:07 mark, you can use the embedded audio player at the bottom of this post.
As always, my thoughts are in bold.
On his team going over to Sweden in November next season to play the Colorado Avalanche and how this deal came together…
“We did this nine years ago, I think it was, that we went over there and I was part of that entourage. It was a great, great time. We’re trying to expand the outreach of hockey to all parts of the world and Scandinavia, of course, is a big hotbed for hockey and we are probably one of the best to represent hockey in Sweden with our superstars. Our last two captains were Swedish and it just… we started talking about when we were going to do this next game and it’s been almost a decade. Everybody jumped on this and we’re just pleased to be part of it.”
It’s pretty ironic that the league is balking at expanding the outreach of hockey to the Far East, but has no problems sending teams to Sweden, where the game is already an intrinsic part of that country’s sport culture. Considering that each of the participating teams are giving up a home gate, I’m guessing that the payout is making this trip worthwhile enough for these owners to ship their players off to a foreign country during the middle of the season.
On what the decision process was for having the games in the middle of the season versus the beginning of the season…
“I should say hockey operations, Pierre (Dorion) especially, came back to us and the coaches and just felt, including the players, they just felt that going over there early in the season kind of… first of all, they’re not fully ready yet and you’re burning them out before the first game of the season already because of the overseas trip. So the thought was, if we could do it at some point in October or November – and it turned out to be November – it would be a lot better for us. We’re into the season, we take a little break overseas and we’d be gone for a week and then come back. So it was just a question of seasoning, I think, and making sure we that have a good team. These are serious games. They’re a full two-points each or up to three and last time we were prepared, but it was tough on us. We wound up getting three out of four points.”
Hold on a second, the players were burned out when they returned from the team’s last European trip and that was at the beginning of the season when everyone is relatively healthy and energized from the offseason? And now they’re being sent in the middle of the season to play meaningful games and there aren’t any concerns about the impacts that this disruption in scheduling or travel could have on the players? Okay, that makes sense…
On having the NHL work with him with the outdoor games, this trip to Sweden and possibly going to the Olympics…
“Yeah, we have… even this year, we dropped the ball. It shouldn’t have happened, but you know we had a fully-loaded (schedule). I’ve got to actually count it today. I think we had like 20 games in November and that’s just way too much on the players and way too much actually on the fans. There’s only so many games that you want to see and that showed in the attendance. Now, it’s a little bit more spread out and we’re going on our playoff run, our attendance is up. (It’s) fantastic and it’s been sell out after sell out and the main thing is that the players are getting rest between games.”
The Senators had 15 games in November, but from a record standpoint, the team actually fared quite well going 9-5-1.
By comparison, their next busiest month were December and February when the team played in 13 games. The team has played 15 games in a month before however. Just last season, the Senators played 15 games in both December and March, but unlike this past November, the Senators fared poorly during those months.
To Melnyk’s point about fan fatigue, 10 of those 15 games were played at home during that stretch, so it’s probably reasonable to assume that this stacked schedule didn’t really help the team at the box office.
The oversaturated volume of home games early in the season isn’t the only reason why the Senators were affected at the gate. Fan apathy, Melnyk malaise, the federal government’s Phoenix pay system, the RedBlacks’ Grey Cup run and the accompanying competition for entertainment dollars, all contributed to the Senators taking it on the chin at the box office during the early stretches of the season.
On whether he feels that the NHL will allow players to go to the Olympics…
“You know, we had a vote – which was very confidential – and we didn’t even know the full results. But, we put our votes in and it was kind of an ad hoc thing to say, ‘Hey, how does everyone feel (about Olympic participation)?’ My sense is I’m just echoing what everybody else is kind of saying and that is it’s tough, tough, tough to take that kind of risk on sending over your franchise players. Some owners, God bless them, they haven’t been in my shoes. But, I’ve been there and done that and it’s really not pretty when you find out that something happened overseas.”
As I wrote yesterday when Melnyk made an appearance on Toronto’s Fan 590 radio:
“It’s weird listening to an owner talk about the possibility of injuries in non-NHL games influencing his thoughts on Olympic participation when this year’s World Cup created a condensed schedule where players have fewer days of rest between games to recuperate.
Of course, Melnyk is the same owner who bragged to Ian Mendes during a fall interview from the Senators’ home opener about being at every World Cup game where he complimented Gary Bettman and told him that the tournament was “one of the greatest things we’ve done.”
I guess so long as it’s an NHL sanctioned event wherein the league and its owners can make money, owners aren’t worried about the impacts of those events. I mean, this is the same owner who has no concerns about the impacts of having his team travel to Sweden in the middle of the 2017-18 season to play two regular season games against the Colorado Avalanche.”
Imagine the Senators’ schedule next season if the league agrees to go to the Olympics. Not only will their best players go there for two weeks, the league will also have to condense the schedule and work around Ottawa’s one-week trip to Sweden, its bye-week and whatever outdoor games the Senators get committed to (ie. Ottawa was rumoured as a prospective opponent should Montreal get their own outdoor game).
And just when you thought Bobby Ryan was over-extended, it’s crazy to think about how condensed Ottawa’s schedule could be next year.
On what the difference is in the NHL’s perspective between a player getting hurt in their World Cup versus a player getting hurt representing his country at the Olympics…
“I think it’s best to ask Gary Bettman about that, but just as an observer, even as a fan, I’d say that ther’s a mutual respect amongst players that you’re not going to slam your superstar because in our game, it’s all NHLers, for starters, and it’s NHL officiating. It’s not in the Olympics, not necessarily, I think that’s part of the negotiations, but the NHL is also an enterprise. The World Cup is an enterprise of the NHL, so everybody participates in that and it’s something to promote the game. It’s hockey on our own turf.”
“Ask Gary Bettman,” is such an amazing answer. In other words, injuries are an acceptable risk provided that the hockey is being played on Bettman’s terms and money can be made from it.
On the risk of an injury being there irrespective of what kind of event it is…
“Yeah, that’s the biggest thing for me and it’s unfair to the fans. To sit there and can you imagine now something happened to any of our top players – top five or six? You just… everybody gets optimistic and everybody has dreams of a Stanley Cup, as do I, but (those dreams) are shattered. This is a repeat performance. We’ve seen this with the Islanders and we’ve seen this in Montreal and many, many other situations where a top player is knocked out and a team tanks. It shouldn’t happen, but it does all the time.”
Injuries to hockey players only happen during the Olympics. They don’t happen anywhere else. They never occur in World Championships, All-Star Games, exhibition games, the World Cup or when players eat pancakes. Injuries are only possible in the Olympics. Dread the Olympics.
On Marc Methot suffering an injury to his finger from a Sidney Crosby slash…
“Yeah, I’m sure this is being taken up with the league this morning. I asked for an update and I haven’t gotten it yet. I’m actually on (the west coast). You do anything that’s almost a certain injury and I think the only way to do it is to wipe the guy off the map for not one or two games, ten (games). How about a season for a few of these guys? Really, he takes my guy, I take your guy and that’s my attitude. The guy that creates the injury should be sitting out. They should watch the games together for the rest of the season. That’s the kind of attitude I have. There’s no room for that and you’ve got to think of it. Marc Methot, that’s who you saw, I see the things behind the scenes of what happens from slashes and they’re ugly. They’re just as ugly as Marc’s, but Marc’s was so visible. It was a terrifying thing to look at those pictures. I don’t even want to think about it, it was that disgusting. So that’s the only way to do it: you hammer these guys and you take away their money because they all understand money. You simply say, ‘You know what? You’re done for ten games and guess what, you guys are not going to get even close to the Stanley Cup if it’s an elite player on the other side.’ There’s no room for it in the NHL.”
The Methot injury was pretty gross, but the result is the consequence of a couple of factors:
If I’m Eugene Melnyk and I look at the kinds of hand injuries that my players repeatedly suffer, maybe it’s time to look into working with equipment manufacturers to deliver products that can keep my players on the ice.
On the league becoming too lenient with its disciplinary penalties…
“Well again, sometimes we miss these things. I hope this guy is… we all know who he is. The guy is a just whiner beyond belief and you do this kind of stuff. I don’t care who you are in the league. I don’t care if you’re the number one player in the league. You should sit out a long time for this kind of crap. I really do.”
Pot, meet kettle.
I get Melnyk wanting to protect his player in this instance, but I can’t imagine the league will want one of its owners shitting on one of its marketable players as a “whiner beyond belief”.
On expecting to hear a timetable from Guy Boucher on when the Senators can expect Methot back…
“The guy lost the top of his finger! I mean, did you see it? It’s ugly. I wouldn’t want to show that to anybody under the age of 25!”
Great, like this organization needed another reason to keep 20-year old Colin White away from the team.
On looking forward to another matchup with Montreal this Saturday…
“I’m looking forward to it. I think our guys are very, very hungry. They’re not going to mess around at all; not that they did. Montreal is a great rivalry. We’re looking forward to it and that’s why the outdoor game is going to be something, I think, spectacular, especially with this team and the build-up of the rivalry is just getting bigger and bigger. So I’m very, very excited about it and we’re looking forward to the rest of the season. Put your seatbelts on.”
Even if Ottawa wins on Saturday, it’s hard to envision them holding Montreal off. The Canadiens’ schedule is incredibly soft with the Senators representing the only opponent that is currently in a playoff spot.
On what he thinks about the divisional playoff setup…
“I do (like it), but only because (Ottawa’s in the playoffs). I really don’t have an opinion, honest to God. I think we just go with the flow and it’s not something we focus on. We’re trying to constantly, everybody is – the NHL, the owners, the players – everybody is trying to make it a better game. I’ll tell you one thing it does: I don’t know if you remember ten years ago, we all used to go to sleep when things weren’t as close as this and the attendance would drop from 20,000 or 18,000 to (10,000) because if you’re not in the playoffs, people lose interest. So here, many, many teams are (in it) right to the last weekend. We don’t like to be in this position, but remember all those points that we gave up in December – like the one-pointers and stuff – that’s now coming back to haunt us and I knew it would. We’re doing great, don’t kid yourself. We are doing great! Marc’s injury is a setback, but it happens with the game unfortunately and we’ve just got to move forward. I think we have the depth. I think we have the depth.”
Artificial league parity, Melnyk’s a fan.
On whether he can shed any light on the Colin White situation…
“Uh, all I know at this point is that they’re deep in negotiations. So no, I can’t comment. I can tell you, I’ve liked Colin very, very much. He’s part of our future and I hope that everything prevails and he becomes part of our organization in an orderly fashion, we enjoy his company, he enjoys ours and we’re going to do well. He’s a good guy. He’s a good player and him and (Thomas) Chabot, we’re looking at them very, very carefully and there are others within the pipeline that are the future of the Ottawa Senators.”
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With today’s official announcement that the Ottawa Senators will travel to Sweden to take on the Colorado Avalanche for two regular season games (November 10th and 11th) as part of the NHL’s 2017 SAP NHL Global Series, Senators owner Eugene Melnyk joined TSN 1200’s ‘In the Box’ to discuss his club’s participation.
Although this midseason road trip and Melnyk’s thoughts on the NHL’s Olympic participation dominated the early stages of the interview, it was Melnyk’s comments on Sidney Crosby’s slash on Marc Methot that generated a lot of league-wide headlines this afternoon.
To listen to the full interview, which begins at approximately the 4:07 mark, you can use the embedded audio player at the bottom of this post.
As always, my thoughts are in bold.
On his team going over to Sweden in November next season to play the Colorado Avalanche and how this deal came together…
“We did this nine years ago, I think it was, that we went over there and I was part of that entourage. It was a great, great time. We’re trying to expand the outreach of hockey to all parts of the world and Scandinavia, of course, is a big hotbed for hockey and we are probably one of the best to represent hockey in Sweden with our superstars. Our last two captains were Swedish and it just… we started talking about when we were going to do this next game and it’s been almost a decade. Everybody jumped on this and we’re just pleased to be part of it.”
It’s pretty ironic that the league is balking at expanding the outreach of hockey to the Far East, but has no problems sending teams to Sweden, where the game is already an intrinsic part of that country’s sport culture. Considering that each of the participating teams are giving up a home gate, I’m guessing that the payout is making this trip worthwhile enough for these owners to ship their players off to a foreign country during the middle of the season.
On what the decision process was for having the games in the middle of the season versus the beginning of the season…
“I should say hockey operations, Pierre (Dorion) especially, came back to us and the coaches and just felt, including the players, they just felt that going over there early in the season kind of… first of all, they’re not fully ready yet and you’re burning them out before the first game of the season already because of the overseas trip. So the thought was, if we could do it at some point in October or November – and it turned out to be November – it would be a lot better for us. We’re into the season, we take a little break overseas and we’d be gone for a week and then come back. So it was just a question of seasoning, I think, and making sure we that have a good team. These are serious games. They’re a full two-points each or up to three and last time we were prepared, but it was tough on us. We wound up getting three out of four points.”
Hold on a second, the players were burned out when they returned from the team’s last European trip and that was at the beginning of the season when everyone is relatively healthy and energized from the offseason? And now they’re being sent in the middle of the season to play meaningful games and there aren’t any concerns about the impacts that this disruption in scheduling or travel could have on the players? Okay, that makes sense…
On having the NHL work with him with the outdoor games, this trip to Sweden and possibly going to the Olympics…
“Yeah, we have… even this year, we dropped the ball. It shouldn’t have happened, but you know we had a fully-loaded (schedule). I’ve got to actually count it today. I think we had like 20 games in November and that’s just way too much on the players and way too much actually on the fans. There’s only so many games that you want to see and that showed in the attendance. Now, it’s a little bit more spread out and we’re going on our playoff run, our attendance is up. (It’s) fantastic and it’s been sell out after sell out and the main thing is that the players are getting rest between games.”
The Senators had 15 games in November, but from a record standpoint, the team actually fared quite well going 9-5-1.
By comparison, their next busiest month were December and February when the team played in 13 games. The team has played 15 games in a month before however. Just last season, the Senators played 15 games in both December and March, but unlike this past November, the Senators fared poorly during those months.
To Melnyk’s point about fan fatigue, 10 of those 15 games were played at home during that stretch, so it’s probably reasonable to assume that this stacked schedule didn’t really help the team at the box office.
The oversaturated volume of home games early in the season isn’t the only reason why the Senators were affected at the gate. Fan apathy, Melnyk malaise, the federal government’s Phoenix pay system, the RedBlacks’ Grey Cup run and the accompanying competition for entertainment dollars, all contributed to the Senators taking it on the chin at the box office during the early stretches of the season.
On whether he feels that the NHL will allow players to go to the Olympics…
“You know, we had a vote – which was very confidential – and we didn’t even know the full results. But, we put our votes in and it was kind of an ad hoc thing to say, ‘Hey, how does everyone feel (about Olympic participation)?’ My sense is I’m just echoing what everybody else is kind of saying and that is it’s tough, tough, tough to take that kind of risk on sending over your franchise players. Some owners, God bless them, they haven’t been in my shoes. But, I’ve been there and done that and it’s really not pretty when you find out that something happened overseas.”
As I wrote yesterday when Melnyk made an appearance on Toronto’s Fan 590 radio:
“It’s weird listening to an owner talk about the possibility of injuries in non-NHL games influencing his thoughts on Olympic participation when this year’s World Cup created a condensed schedule where players have fewer days of rest between games to recuperate.
Of course, Melnyk is the same owner who bragged to Ian Mendes during a fall interview from the Senators’ home opener about being at every World Cup game where he complimented Gary Bettman and told him that the tournament was “one of the greatest things we’ve done.”
I guess so long as it’s an NHL sanctioned event wherein the league and its owners can make money, owners aren’t worried about the impacts of those events. I mean, this is the same owner who has no concerns about the impacts of having his team travel to Sweden in the middle of the 2017-18 season to play two regular season games against the Colorado Avalanche.”
Imagine the Senators’ schedule next season if the league agrees to go to the Olympics. Not only will their best players go there for two weeks, the league will also have to condense the schedule and work around Ottawa’s one-week trip to Sweden, its bye-week and whatever outdoor games the Senators get committed to (ie. Ottawa was rumoured as a prospective opponent should Montreal get their own outdoor game).
And just when you thought Bobby Ryan was over-extended, it’s crazy to think about how condensed Ottawa’s schedule could be next year.
On what the difference is in the NHL’s perspective between a player getting hurt in their World Cup versus a player getting hurt representing his country at the Olympics…
“I think it’s best to ask Gary Bettman about that, but just as an observer, even as a fan, I’d say that ther’s a mutual respect amongst players that you’re not going to slam your superstar because in our game, it’s all NHLers, for starters, and it’s NHL officiating. It’s not in the Olympics, not necessarily, I think that’s part of the negotiations, but the NHL is also an enterprise. The World Cup is an enterprise of the NHL, so everybody participates in that and it’s something to promote the game. It’s hockey on our own turf.”
“Ask Gary Bettman,” is such an amazing answer. In other words, injuries are an acceptable risk provided that the hockey is being played on Bettman’s terms and money can be made from it.
On the risk of an injury being there irrespective of what kind of event it is…
“Yeah, that’s the biggest thing for me and it’s unfair to the fans. To sit there and can you imagine now something happened to any of our top players – top five or six? You just… everybody gets optimistic and everybody has dreams of a Stanley Cup, as do I, but (those dreams) are shattered. This is a repeat performance. We’ve seen this with the Islanders and we’ve seen this in Montreal and many, many other situations where a top player is knocked out and a team tanks. It shouldn’t happen, but it does all the time.”
Injuries to hockey players only happen during the Olympics. They don’t happen anywhere else. They never occur in World Championships, All-Star Games, exhibition games, the World Cup or when players eat pancakes. Injuries are only possible in the Olympics. Dread the Olympics.
On Marc Methot suffering an injury to his finger from a Sidney Crosby slash…
“Yeah, I’m sure this is being taken up with the league this morning. I asked for an update and I haven’t gotten it yet. I’m actually on (the west coast). You do anything that’s almost a certain injury and I think the only way to do it is to wipe the guy off the map for not one or two games, ten (games). How about a season for a few of these guys? Really, he takes my guy, I take your guy and that’s my attitude. The guy that creates the injury should be sitting out. They should watch the games together for the rest of the season. That’s the kind of attitude I have. There’s no room for that and you’ve got to think of it. Marc Methot, that’s who you saw, I see the things behind the scenes of what happens from slashes and they’re ugly. They’re just as ugly as Marc’s, but Marc’s was so visible. It was a terrifying thing to look at those pictures. I don’t even want to think about it, it was that disgusting. So that’s the only way to do it: you hammer these guys and you take away their money because they all understand money. You simply say, ‘You know what? You’re done for ten games and guess what, you guys are not going to get even close to the Stanley Cup if it’s an elite player on the other side.’ There’s no room for it in the NHL.”
The Methot injury was pretty gross, but the result is the consequence of a couple of factors:
- The league and its referees have fostered a culture wherein these types of slashes happen dozens of times per game are accepted as normal. As others have noted, if the slash is made to Methot’s stick and it breaks or he drops it, it’s a penalty eight times out of ten. If the league gets strict on slashes and starts calling penalties more appropriately, maybe this doesn’t happen.
- Players sacrifice their own safety by preferring gloves that are lighter and give them more dexterity.
If I’m Eugene Melnyk and I look at the kinds of hand injuries that my players repeatedly suffer, maybe it’s time to look into working with equipment manufacturers to deliver products that can keep my players on the ice.
On the league becoming too lenient with its disciplinary penalties…
“Well again, sometimes we miss these things. I hope this guy is… we all know who he is. The guy is a just whiner beyond belief and you do this kind of stuff. I don’t care who you are in the league. I don’t care if you’re the number one player in the league. You should sit out a long time for this kind of crap. I really do.”
Pot, meet kettle.
I get Melnyk wanting to protect his player in this instance, but I can’t imagine the league will want one of its owners shitting on one of its marketable players as a “whiner beyond belief”.
On expecting to hear a timetable from Guy Boucher on when the Senators can expect Methot back…
“The guy lost the top of his finger! I mean, did you see it? It’s ugly. I wouldn’t want to show that to anybody under the age of 25!”
Great, like this organization needed another reason to keep 20-year old Colin White away from the team.
On looking forward to another matchup with Montreal this Saturday…
“I’m looking forward to it. I think our guys are very, very hungry. They’re not going to mess around at all; not that they did. Montreal is a great rivalry. We’re looking forward to it and that’s why the outdoor game is going to be something, I think, spectacular, especially with this team and the build-up of the rivalry is just getting bigger and bigger. So I’m very, very excited about it and we’re looking forward to the rest of the season. Put your seatbelts on.”
Even if Ottawa wins on Saturday, it’s hard to envision them holding Montreal off. The Canadiens’ schedule is incredibly soft with the Senators representing the only opponent that is currently in a playoff spot.
On what he thinks about the divisional playoff setup…
“I do (like it), but only because (Ottawa’s in the playoffs). I really don’t have an opinion, honest to God. I think we just go with the flow and it’s not something we focus on. We’re trying to constantly, everybody is – the NHL, the owners, the players – everybody is trying to make it a better game. I’ll tell you one thing it does: I don’t know if you remember ten years ago, we all used to go to sleep when things weren’t as close as this and the attendance would drop from 20,000 or 18,000 to (10,000) because if you’re not in the playoffs, people lose interest. So here, many, many teams are (in it) right to the last weekend. We don’t like to be in this position, but remember all those points that we gave up in December – like the one-pointers and stuff – that’s now coming back to haunt us and I knew it would. We’re doing great, don’t kid yourself. We are doing great! Marc’s injury is a setback, but it happens with the game unfortunately and we’ve just got to move forward. I think we have the depth. I think we have the depth.”
Artificial league parity, Melnyk’s a fan.
On whether he can shed any light on the Colin White situation…
“Uh, all I know at this point is that they’re deep in negotiations. So no, I can’t comment. I can tell you, I’ve liked Colin very, very much. He’s part of our future and I hope that everything prevails and he becomes part of our organization in an orderly fashion, we enjoy his company, he enjoys ours and we’re going to do well. He’s a good guy. He’s a good player and him and (Thomas) Chabot, we’re looking at them very, very carefully and there are others within the pipeline that are the future of the Ottawa Senators.”
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Game Thread CFP Semifinal: Ohio State vs. Clemson, Sat 12/31 @ 7p ET, ESPN
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Yeah, that was probably the difference, the Ohio State offense (basically) had a bad case of "erectile disfunction" (i.e they just went limp).
It is a little sad that it took a dreadful performance in a playoff game to off Beck, but better late than never!
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What Big Ten basketball job is the best?
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We rank them. Surprise! Rutgers is last.
The NCAA Tournament isn’t even over yet, but a few Big Ten programs are already looking ahead to next season with coaching changes. Illinois pulled the plug on John Groce, hiring Brad Underwood away from Oklahoma State, while Indiana is looking for a new coach after firing human meme Tom Crean. It’s entirely possible another Big Ten school ends up having to find a new coach before all the dust settles nationally.
These changes have brought up a good question. Just how good are certain Big Ten basketball jobs? In football, the pecking-order is pretty clear, with a few superpower programs having massive advantages over the rest, while the bottom of the barrel (sup, Purdue, Rutgers and Indiana) are also readily apparent. But given the parity in the league for basketball, the hoops pecking order isn’t as cut and dry.
The Chicago Tribune took a whack at ranking these all recently. But we don’t agree with their final result, or even some of their thought processes. Or with the idea that the D in DMV stands for Delaware. It stands for D.C. Nobody cares about Delaware.
But rather than just throw critiques on Twitter dot com, we decided to come up with our own rankings for y’all to fight over.
Ranking jobs is hard! What makes a job a good gig is more than just a fat paycheck (thanks to TV money, everybody in the Big Ten can pay pretty big money), or geographical access to recruits. That stuff matters a lot, but it’s also about fan support, tradition of winning, facilities, and expectations. If you win the Big Ten twice in four years at Nebraska, for example, you get a statue. At Indiana, they fire you. That matters, no?
With those entirely subjective benchmarks in mind, let’s take a whack at ranking these gigs.
14) Rutgers
This shouldn’t come as a surprise. Rutgers basketball improved dramatically this season, (and yes, they beat Ohio State in the Big Ten Tournament), but they were still the worst team in the conference by KenPom, (131st), and it wasn’t close. Rutgers hasn’t made the NCAA Tournament since 1990, when I was three years old, and well before any current recruits were born, and their fan support, home court, and general infrastructure lags behind most of the rest of the league. This might be a much better job in say, ten years, but the only argument to keep it out of the cellar right now is it’s proximity to New York City, which low-key doesn’t produce as much high level hoops talent as it used to — and the players it is producing, aren’t going to Rutgers.
13) Penn State
The good news is that expectations are pretty low. Pat Chambers, after all, is getting a seventh season, despite not making the NCAA Tournament yet (on the strength of a strong recruiting class last season, but still). The program doesn’t have much of a record of success, and fan support, compared to other conference programs, lags behind (and the sudden growth of their very good hockey program may not help). It’s in a smaller, rural area, and without hiring assistants who are very plugged in to Philly, recruiting the talent needed to compete would be hard.
12) Nebraska
You know the only power conference school to have never won an NCAA Tournament game before? It’s Nebraska! Multiple Patriot League schools have accomplished what Nebraska has not. The Cornhuskers can claim a beautiful new arena that is still attracting fans, without the crazy expectations that come from lots of fans caring. But recruiting and building is a tough gig. There’s a reason nobody has ever really won big here before, no matter how many good tweets they fire off.
11) Northwestern
Don’t let this one good season distract you from the fact that Notre Dame finished 4-8, and Northwestern has mostly sucked for a reason. They play in a high school gym with a nice scoreboard that has been loud for exactly one season, and is one Wildcat swoon from emptying out again (plus, Northwestern has to play in the suburbs next season while their arena gets renovated, and nobody is going to go). Northwestern alumni everywhere want to celebrate their team finally being okay, so you don’t have to worry as much about an adversarial press, and the location is great, but tough academics, little history of fan support, and a low, low program floor still make this a tough place to win regularly.
10) Minnesota
There’s some things to like about this job! Minneapolis is a fun, interesting city. Minnesota fans care, but the expectations aren’t crazy. The facilities are mostly nice, and even though the basketball arena is old and goofy, it has a certain charm to it. But this athletic department has quietly been a mess for a while, and the basketball program is no stranger to scandals and embarrassing headlines. This may be a better gig in two years.
9) Iowa
There are plenty of Iowa fans, and Fran McCaffery has shown with the right player development, you can win games here. But with in-state recruiting pickings slim (and with Iowa State to battle with), that development is critical, because convincing multiple blue-chip types to go to Iowa City is a tough sell. There’s a reason Iowa has only advanced into the tournament’s second weekend twice in the last 30 years.
8) Purdue
It’s tough to know what to think of this job. West Lafayette isn’t going to make the Big Ten’s postcard for best college towns, but Mackey Arena gets loud and can create real home court advantage. Indiana has a lot of great high school talent, but that marketplace is crowded with Indiana, Notre Dame and other Big Ten schools, but Purdue can go to Chicago and Ohio to get players. But could Painter’s success be sustained if he left, given how much the athletic department has struggled in most other sports?
7) Illinois
Full disclosure, I don’t think there’s honestly a huge difference between jobs 1-7 on this list. Illinois is a reasonable drive from St. Louis, Chicago, and loads of Chicago suburbs, where there are plenty of excellent basketball players. It has a great arena, hungry fans, and a new athletic director. But there’s also a reason Illinois hasn’t won much in the last decade, and without the right assistants to build and sustain those recruiting pipelines, you’re another rural Big Ten school. Just because Chicago is in Illinois doesn’t mean Illinois has some sort of birthright to the city, as anybody who has lived there could tell you.
6) Michigan State
Maybe this is controversial, because Michigan State is an elite basketball program right now, bringing in a mix of highly touted national recruits with well developed Midwestern kids from Ohio and Michigan. But if you’re taking this job now, it means you’re replacing Tom Izzo, and stepping in after a master is never an easy job. How much of Michigan State’s success is because of Izzo, and how much is structural now? It’s hard to say, but being the one to find out would be difficult.
5) Ohio State
It’s been a down few years for Ohio State, and it’s true, Value City Arena often has all the electricity and excitement of an empty airplane hangar. But let’s not forget, this is one of the largest, wealthiest athletic departments in the country, so no expense will be spared. It’s in a city that produces quality high school basketball, has an affiliation with LeBron James and has multiple current successful NBA alumni. You can win big at Ohio State. It just takes the right person. And if you lose, hey, you’ll at least you’ll be handsomely compensated.
4) Michigan
I think the difference here is very slim, but Michigan offers a lot of the same advantages Ohio State has, only with the benefit of a better home court advantage and more recent success. Plus, as much as it pains me to say this, Ann Arbor is really nice.
3) Wisconsin
Death. Taxes. Bo Ry—Wisconsin being good at basketball. Despite not having a deep in-state talent base, the Badgers have now sustained strong success over multiple coaches. They enjoy one of the strongest home court advantages in the conference, great fan support (but without some of the crazy expectations), the best college town in the conference, and strong facilities. You won’t get multiple McDonald’s All-Americans, and you probably won’t win a title, but you can win a lot of basketball games.
2) Indiana
Sure, it’s got the most tradition. It’s got the banners. It’s got a great arena, it’s close to great high school basketball, and it has a massive fan base. But like Nebraska in football, it also comes with massive expectations that may not always be grounded in reality. They just fired a coach, a goofy coach whose pants didn’t fit and who certainly had flaws, who won the dang conference last year. If you don’t win, and win big, and win quickly, the pressure is getting ramped up. Maybe that’s okay for some people. But the advantages certainly come with a price.
1) Maryland
To be honest, I don’t feel super strongly about this and could probably be talked out of it. But Maryland is a short jog away from one of the best high school athletics programs in the country. It has a long tradition of basketball success. It’s the Under Armor flagship school. You can recruit elite talent there, it has plenty of fans, but because of the busy D.C. pro sports landscape, it doesn’t come with quite the same media heat as other big metro area jobs. College Park is kind of whatever, but you’re a short Green Line train away from Washington D.C. It’s not a perfect job, but when this gig comes open next, there will be a long line of highly qualified interested applicants.
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We rank them. Surprise! Rutgers is last.
The NCAA Tournament isn’t even over yet, but a few Big Ten programs are already looking ahead to next season with coaching changes. Illinois pulled the plug on John Groce, hiring Brad Underwood away from Oklahoma State, while Indiana is looking for a new coach after firing human meme Tom Crean. It’s entirely possible another Big Ten school ends up having to find a new coach before all the dust settles nationally.
These changes have brought up a good question. Just how good are certain Big Ten basketball jobs? In football, the pecking-order is pretty clear, with a few superpower programs having massive advantages over the rest, while the bottom of the barrel (sup, Purdue, Rutgers and Indiana) are also readily apparent. But given the parity in the league for basketball, the hoops pecking order isn’t as cut and dry.
The Chicago Tribune took a whack at ranking these all recently. But we don’t agree with their final result, or even some of their thought processes. Or with the idea that the D in DMV stands for Delaware. It stands for D.C. Nobody cares about Delaware.
But rather than just throw critiques on Twitter dot com, we decided to come up with our own rankings for y’all to fight over.
Ranking jobs is hard! What makes a job a good gig is more than just a fat paycheck (thanks to TV money, everybody in the Big Ten can pay pretty big money), or geographical access to recruits. That stuff matters a lot, but it’s also about fan support, tradition of winning, facilities, and expectations. If you win the Big Ten twice in four years at Nebraska, for example, you get a statue. At Indiana, they fire you. That matters, no?
With those entirely subjective benchmarks in mind, let’s take a whack at ranking these gigs.
14) Rutgers
This shouldn’t come as a surprise. Rutgers basketball improved dramatically this season, (and yes, they beat Ohio State in the Big Ten Tournament), but they were still the worst team in the conference by KenPom, (131st), and it wasn’t close. Rutgers hasn’t made the NCAA Tournament since 1990, when I was three years old, and well before any current recruits were born, and their fan support, home court, and general infrastructure lags behind most of the rest of the league. This might be a much better job in say, ten years, but the only argument to keep it out of the cellar right now is it’s proximity to New York City, which low-key doesn’t produce as much high level hoops talent as it used to — and the players it is producing, aren’t going to Rutgers.
13) Penn State
The good news is that expectations are pretty low. Pat Chambers, after all, is getting a seventh season, despite not making the NCAA Tournament yet (on the strength of a strong recruiting class last season, but still). The program doesn’t have much of a record of success, and fan support, compared to other conference programs, lags behind (and the sudden growth of their very good hockey program may not help). It’s in a smaller, rural area, and without hiring assistants who are very plugged in to Philly, recruiting the talent needed to compete would be hard.
12) Nebraska
You know the only power conference school to have never won an NCAA Tournament game before? It’s Nebraska! Multiple Patriot League schools have accomplished what Nebraska has not. The Cornhuskers can claim a beautiful new arena that is still attracting fans, without the crazy expectations that come from lots of fans caring. But recruiting and building is a tough gig. There’s a reason nobody has ever really won big here before, no matter how many good tweets they fire off.
11) Northwestern
Don’t let this one good season distract you from the fact that Notre Dame finished 4-8, and Northwestern has mostly sucked for a reason. They play in a high school gym with a nice scoreboard that has been loud for exactly one season, and is one Wildcat swoon from emptying out again (plus, Northwestern has to play in the suburbs next season while their arena gets renovated, and nobody is going to go). Northwestern alumni everywhere want to celebrate their team finally being okay, so you don’t have to worry as much about an adversarial press, and the location is great, but tough academics, little history of fan support, and a low, low program floor still make this a tough place to win regularly.
10) Minnesota
There’s some things to like about this job! Minneapolis is a fun, interesting city. Minnesota fans care, but the expectations aren’t crazy. The facilities are mostly nice, and even though the basketball arena is old and goofy, it has a certain charm to it. But this athletic department has quietly been a mess for a while, and the basketball program is no stranger to scandals and embarrassing headlines. This may be a better gig in two years.
9) Iowa
There are plenty of Iowa fans, and Fran McCaffery has shown with the right player development, you can win games here. But with in-state recruiting pickings slim (and with Iowa State to battle with), that development is critical, because convincing multiple blue-chip types to go to Iowa City is a tough sell. There’s a reason Iowa has only advanced into the tournament’s second weekend twice in the last 30 years.
8) Purdue
It’s tough to know what to think of this job. West Lafayette isn’t going to make the Big Ten’s postcard for best college towns, but Mackey Arena gets loud and can create real home court advantage. Indiana has a lot of great high school talent, but that marketplace is crowded with Indiana, Notre Dame and other Big Ten schools, but Purdue can go to Chicago and Ohio to get players. But could Painter’s success be sustained if he left, given how much the athletic department has struggled in most other sports?
7) Illinois
Full disclosure, I don’t think there’s honestly a huge difference between jobs 1-7 on this list. Illinois is a reasonable drive from St. Louis, Chicago, and loads of Chicago suburbs, where there are plenty of excellent basketball players. It has a great arena, hungry fans, and a new athletic director. But there’s also a reason Illinois hasn’t won much in the last decade, and without the right assistants to build and sustain those recruiting pipelines, you’re another rural Big Ten school. Just because Chicago is in Illinois doesn’t mean Illinois has some sort of birthright to the city, as anybody who has lived there could tell you.
6) Michigan State
Maybe this is controversial, because Michigan State is an elite basketball program right now, bringing in a mix of highly touted national recruits with well developed Midwestern kids from Ohio and Michigan. But if you’re taking this job now, it means you’re replacing Tom Izzo, and stepping in after a master is never an easy job. How much of Michigan State’s success is because of Izzo, and how much is structural now? It’s hard to say, but being the one to find out would be difficult.
5) Ohio State
It’s been a down few years for Ohio State, and it’s true, Value City Arena often has all the electricity and excitement of an empty airplane hangar. But let’s not forget, this is one of the largest, wealthiest athletic departments in the country, so no expense will be spared. It’s in a city that produces quality high school basketball, has an affiliation with LeBron James and has multiple current successful NBA alumni. You can win big at Ohio State. It just takes the right person. And if you lose, hey, you’ll at least you’ll be handsomely compensated.
4) Michigan
I think the difference here is very slim, but Michigan offers a lot of the same advantages Ohio State has, only with the benefit of a better home court advantage and more recent success. Plus, as much as it pains me to say this, Ann Arbor is really nice.
3) Wisconsin
Death. Taxes. Bo Ry—Wisconsin being good at basketball. Despite not having a deep in-state talent base, the Badgers have now sustained strong success over multiple coaches. They enjoy one of the strongest home court advantages in the conference, great fan support (but without some of the crazy expectations), the best college town in the conference, and strong facilities. You won’t get multiple McDonald’s All-Americans, and you probably won’t win a title, but you can win a lot of basketball games.
2) Indiana
Sure, it’s got the most tradition. It’s got the banners. It’s got a great arena, it’s close to great high school basketball, and it has a massive fan base. But like Nebraska in football, it also comes with massive expectations that may not always be grounded in reality. They just fired a coach, a goofy coach whose pants didn’t fit and who certainly had flaws, who won the dang conference last year. If you don’t win, and win big, and win quickly, the pressure is getting ramped up. Maybe that’s okay for some people. But the advantages certainly come with a price.
1) Maryland
To be honest, I don’t feel super strongly about this and could probably be talked out of it. But Maryland is a short jog away from one of the best high school athletics programs in the country. It has a long tradition of basketball success. It’s the Under Armor flagship school. You can recruit elite talent there, it has plenty of fans, but because of the busy D.C. pro sports landscape, it doesn’t come with quite the same media heat as other big metro area jobs. College Park is kind of whatever, but you’re a short Green Line train away from Washington D.C. It’s not a perfect job, but when this gig comes open next, there will be a long line of highly qualified interested applicants.
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The Buckeyes and Gophers both look to start the conference schedule on the right foot.
Ohio State baseball will be opening Big Ten play on Friday at Bill Davis Stadium, and after more than a month of the season, the club’s identity is beginning to come into sharper focus. Depending on how you look at that, who this Buckeye team is could be seen as a good thing or a bad thing.
With a 9-11 record through roughly the first ⅓ of the season, Ohio State has proven to be a team that is ultra-streaky offensively, just as capable of scoring runs in bunches as it is of getting completely shut down. As a team, the Buckeyes are slashing .247/.353/.406, have hit home runs in nearly 12 percent of their at-bats and struck out in over 26 percent of them, and have just two regulars batting above .260.
Those two are center fielder and leadoff man Tre’ Gantt and catcher Jacob Barnwell, who was recently moved up to the two-hole in the lineup. Both players have made the kind of jump in performance that the coaching staff had hoped for before the season started, with Gantt putting together a slash line of .365/.467/.581, team-leading marks of six doubles and 15 runs scored, a pair of triples, two home runs, and nine runs batted in. Barnwell, for his part, has a .300/.377/.383 slash, smacking five doubles and playing excellent defense behind the dish.
One intriguing development within the last week has been the insertion of freshman Noah West into the starting lineup at second base. Noah McGowan, who had been the everyday second baseman, has transitioned to right field, a spot that has been a bit of an offensive black hole for Ohio State. West has put together a .357/.471/.571 slash line in his limited opportunity, and McGowan responded with a three-homer game on Sunday against Xavier. That kind of jolt at the plate is what the Buckeyes will need if they hope to compete in conference play.
Just as confounding as Ohio State’s bats have been, though, the pitching staff has been even more of an enigma. Viewed as the strength of the club coming into the season, the Buckeye mound corps has yet to find any consistency, and the bullpen in particular has had a rocky time of things. Relievers let up a big lead two weekends ago against Florida Gulf Coast en route to a walk-off loss, and last weekend suffered an extra innings defeat and two walk-offs against the Musketeers.
But, also just as with the offense, there have been encouraging signs on the mound. Starter Jake Post has been solid, if unspectacular, keeping Ohio State in a position to win ballgames. And sophomore Connor Curlis has used to two straight superb midweek starts to vault himself into a crack at the weekend rotation. The last two times out, the southpaw from Findlay, Ohio has tossed a combined 8.1 scoreless innings, yielding just five hits and two walks (0.84 WHIP) while striking out 12. Co-captain Adam Niemeyer, who has been in the rotation since opening day, has an elbow injury, necessitating the change.
The real season starts now for the Buckeyes. Big Ten play helped propel them to the NCAA tournament a year ago, but this is a very different team. Ohio State will face a tough road though the conference to find its way back to a regional, and given the identity the club has forged through the first 20 games of the season, the terrain may prove too challenging to navigate.
“So these first 20 games have been ‘get your feet wet, learn the ropes,’” head coach Greg Beals said on Thursday. “The message has been, ‘we’re starting at zero.’ This is a new season, it’s Big Ten play.”
Minnesota Golden Gophers (11-8)
As stalwart as any head coach in the Big Ten, Minnesota’s John Anderson, who took over the program in 1981, is fresh off a regular season conference championship and a trip to the NCAA tourney. The Golden Gophers are trying to replace the production of four players drafted last June, including Matt Fiedler, 2016’s Big Ten Player of the Year, and at 11-8, have showed well against solid competition.
Minnesota has had similar success scoring runs as Ohio State through its first 19 games, averaging just over five per contest. The Gophers have the superior team batting average (.275) to the Buckeyes, but have gotten on base at about the same rate (.351 OBP), and have not produced nearly the amount of power (.380 slugging percentage, nine team home runs).
Leading the charge at the plate is junior third baseman Micah Coffey, a second-team All-Big Ten performer a season ago. Coffey is slashing .308/.387/.446 with four doubles, a home run, and a team-high 13 RBIs, while excelling with the glove at the hot corner.
Complementing Coffey in Minnesota’s lineup with solid starts at the plate are second baseman Luke Pettersen and left fielder Jordan Smith. Pettersen, a junior, has a .379/.408/.379 slash line, though he hasn’t collected a single extra-base hit, and Smith, a redshirt senior, has put up a .303/.387/.530 line, smacking four doubles, a team-high three longballs, and driving in 11.
The issue for the Gophers is that the pitching staff has yielded as many runs as the offense has collected. The staff has a 4.400 earned run average, a WHIP just under 1.40, and has given up 55 extra-base hits in 19 games.
Junior Lucas Gilbreath leads the rotation in his first season as a starter. The left-hander is 1-0 in five starts, posting a 3.13 ERA, striking out more than a batter an inning, and limiting opponents to a .213 batting average. Where Gilbreath has struggled is with his command, having walked 16 batters in his 23 innings of work, and sporting a WHIP just under 1.40.
Behind Gilbreath are senior Toby Anderson and freshman Brett Schulze. Schulze, a right-hander from Maple Grove, Minnesota, leads the club with 25.1 innings pitched in five appearances that include four starts. The rookie is 2-2 with a 3.20 ERA, and limits the opposition to a .191 batting average.
Anderson, also a righty, has had his struggles, going 2-2 in five starts with an 8.62 ERA. Opponents have teed off to the tune of a .343 average against him, and he’s amassed a WHIP over 1.50 while striking out just nine batters in 24 innings.
Out of the bullpen, Minnesota has gotten big contributions from the senior pair of Brian Glowicki and Tim Shannon. The right-handers have combined to make 19 appearances already, allowing just five runs and saving seven games in 23.1 innings. Glowicki, in particular, has been a nightmare for opposing hitters, giving up only a single run, yielding a .105 batting average, posting a 0.44 WHIP, striking out more than a batter an inning, and racking up an astounding 13-to-1 strikeout-to-walk ratio. In a close game late, the Buckeyes will have their hands full against the back-end of the Gopher pen.
Game times and probable pitching matchups
Friday, March 24, 5:05 p.m. ET (streaming live on BTN Plus)
Post (1-1, 3.96 ERA) vs. Gilbreath (1-0, 3.13)
Saturday, March 25, 3:05 p.m. ET (streaming live on BTN Plus)
Curlis (2-0, 2.70) vs. Schulze (2-2, 3.20)
Sunday, March 26, 12 p.m. ET (streaming live on BTN2Go)
Ryan Feltner (0-3, 6.43) vs. Anderson (2-2, 8.62)
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The Buckeyes and Gophers both look to start the conference schedule on the right foot.
Ohio State baseball will be opening Big Ten play on Friday at Bill Davis Stadium, and after more than a month of the season, the club’s identity is beginning to come into sharper focus. Depending on how you look at that, who this Buckeye team is could be seen as a good thing or a bad thing.
With a 9-11 record through roughly the first ⅓ of the season, Ohio State has proven to be a team that is ultra-streaky offensively, just as capable of scoring runs in bunches as it is of getting completely shut down. As a team, the Buckeyes are slashing .247/.353/.406, have hit home runs in nearly 12 percent of their at-bats and struck out in over 26 percent of them, and have just two regulars batting above .260.
Those two are center fielder and leadoff man Tre’ Gantt and catcher Jacob Barnwell, who was recently moved up to the two-hole in the lineup. Both players have made the kind of jump in performance that the coaching staff had hoped for before the season started, with Gantt putting together a slash line of .365/.467/.581, team-leading marks of six doubles and 15 runs scored, a pair of triples, two home runs, and nine runs batted in. Barnwell, for his part, has a .300/.377/.383 slash, smacking five doubles and playing excellent defense behind the dish.
One intriguing development within the last week has been the insertion of freshman Noah West into the starting lineup at second base. Noah McGowan, who had been the everyday second baseman, has transitioned to right field, a spot that has been a bit of an offensive black hole for Ohio State. West has put together a .357/.471/.571 slash line in his limited opportunity, and McGowan responded with a three-homer game on Sunday against Xavier. That kind of jolt at the plate is what the Buckeyes will need if they hope to compete in conference play.
Just as confounding as Ohio State’s bats have been, though, the pitching staff has been even more of an enigma. Viewed as the strength of the club coming into the season, the Buckeye mound corps has yet to find any consistency, and the bullpen in particular has had a rocky time of things. Relievers let up a big lead two weekends ago against Florida Gulf Coast en route to a walk-off loss, and last weekend suffered an extra innings defeat and two walk-offs against the Musketeers.
But, also just as with the offense, there have been encouraging signs on the mound. Starter Jake Post has been solid, if unspectacular, keeping Ohio State in a position to win ballgames. And sophomore Connor Curlis has used to two straight superb midweek starts to vault himself into a crack at the weekend rotation. The last two times out, the southpaw from Findlay, Ohio has tossed a combined 8.1 scoreless innings, yielding just five hits and two walks (0.84 WHIP) while striking out 12. Co-captain Adam Niemeyer, who has been in the rotation since opening day, has an elbow injury, necessitating the change.
The real season starts now for the Buckeyes. Big Ten play helped propel them to the NCAA tournament a year ago, but this is a very different team. Ohio State will face a tough road though the conference to find its way back to a regional, and given the identity the club has forged through the first 20 games of the season, the terrain may prove too challenging to navigate.
“So these first 20 games have been ‘get your feet wet, learn the ropes,’” head coach Greg Beals said on Thursday. “The message has been, ‘we’re starting at zero.’ This is a new season, it’s Big Ten play.”
Minnesota Golden Gophers (11-8)
As stalwart as any head coach in the Big Ten, Minnesota’s John Anderson, who took over the program in 1981, is fresh off a regular season conference championship and a trip to the NCAA tourney. The Golden Gophers are trying to replace the production of four players drafted last June, including Matt Fiedler, 2016’s Big Ten Player of the Year, and at 11-8, have showed well against solid competition.
Minnesota has had similar success scoring runs as Ohio State through its first 19 games, averaging just over five per contest. The Gophers have the superior team batting average (.275) to the Buckeyes, but have gotten on base at about the same rate (.351 OBP), and have not produced nearly the amount of power (.380 slugging percentage, nine team home runs).
Leading the charge at the plate is junior third baseman Micah Coffey, a second-team All-Big Ten performer a season ago. Coffey is slashing .308/.387/.446 with four doubles, a home run, and a team-high 13 RBIs, while excelling with the glove at the hot corner.
Complementing Coffey in Minnesota’s lineup with solid starts at the plate are second baseman Luke Pettersen and left fielder Jordan Smith. Pettersen, a junior, has a .379/.408/.379 slash line, though he hasn’t collected a single extra-base hit, and Smith, a redshirt senior, has put up a .303/.387/.530 line, smacking four doubles, a team-high three longballs, and driving in 11.
The issue for the Gophers is that the pitching staff has yielded as many runs as the offense has collected. The staff has a 4.400 earned run average, a WHIP just under 1.40, and has given up 55 extra-base hits in 19 games.
Junior Lucas Gilbreath leads the rotation in his first season as a starter. The left-hander is 1-0 in five starts, posting a 3.13 ERA, striking out more than a batter an inning, and limiting opponents to a .213 batting average. Where Gilbreath has struggled is with his command, having walked 16 batters in his 23 innings of work, and sporting a WHIP just under 1.40.
Behind Gilbreath are senior Toby Anderson and freshman Brett Schulze. Schulze, a right-hander from Maple Grove, Minnesota, leads the club with 25.1 innings pitched in five appearances that include four starts. The rookie is 2-2 with a 3.20 ERA, and limits the opposition to a .191 batting average.
Anderson, also a righty, has had his struggles, going 2-2 in five starts with an 8.62 ERA. Opponents have teed off to the tune of a .343 average against him, and he’s amassed a WHIP over 1.50 while striking out just nine batters in 24 innings.
Out of the bullpen, Minnesota has gotten big contributions from the senior pair of Brian Glowicki and Tim Shannon. The right-handers have combined to make 19 appearances already, allowing just five runs and saving seven games in 23.1 innings. Glowicki, in particular, has been a nightmare for opposing hitters, giving up only a single run, yielding a .105 batting average, posting a 0.44 WHIP, striking out more than a batter an inning, and racking up an astounding 13-to-1 strikeout-to-walk ratio. In a close game late, the Buckeyes will have their hands full against the back-end of the Gopher pen.
Game times and probable pitching matchups
Friday, March 24, 5:05 p.m. ET (streaming live on BTN Plus)
Post (1-1, 3.96 ERA) vs. Gilbreath (1-0, 3.13)
Saturday, March 25, 3:05 p.m. ET (streaming live on BTN Plus)
Curlis (2-0, 2.70) vs. Schulze (2-2, 3.20)
Sunday, March 26, 12 p.m. ET (streaming live on BTN2Go)
Ryan Feltner (0-3, 6.43) vs. Anderson (2-2, 8.62)
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Buckeyes head South in pursuit of top safety.
For Urban Meyer and the rest of the Ohio State football coaching staff, there seems to be a limitless amount of aspects that are currently selling the program for itself to the country’s top recruits each and every year. An outstanding problem to have nonetheless, the Buckeyes sometimes don’t always have just one key selling point. However, yesterday, Ohio State hosted its annual Pro Day that saw 13 Buckeyes participate. With nine NFL head coaches including Super Bowl master Bill Belichick in attendance looking at the former Buckeye stars, it’s not hard to see why the top talent in the country is flocking to Columbus to suit up for the Scarlet and Gray. With another load of what is sure to be first round NFL Draft picks, Urban Meyer and his staff have created an NFL factory at Ohio State.
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— Alexis Chassen (@Lovelybuckeye) March 23, 2017Vonn Bell 2.0?
When the Buckeyes were recruiting the safety position in 2013, Urban Meyer made it his priority to personally recruit star prospect Vonn Bell. Fast forward to National Signing Day 2013 and Bell shocked the world when he gave his pledge and signature to the Buckeyes with a NSD TV announcement. The top ranked recruit in the Ohio State 2013 class went on to not only win a national championship with the Buckeyes, but also became a second round draft pick by the New Orleans Saints — and started in his first year in the NFL. Needless to say, things worked out very well with his decision to come to Ohio State.
Now, in the 2018 class, Urban Meyer and his staff are looking in the same general region for the next safety to bolster the Buckeyes Silver Bullet secondary. With a tremendous haul of defensive backs in 2017, one may think that 2018 may not be a do-or-die year for defensive back recruiting. However, with the amount of talent Kerry Coombs and Greg Schiano are sending to the NFL with early exiting Buckeyes, every year is crucial for development.
Yesterday, Brendon Harris was the latest prospect to receive the coveted Ohio State offer when he announced via his Twitter that the Buckeyes are now in the mix of his recruitment. The 6-foot-1, 205-pound Chattanooga, Tenn. prospect is currently listed as a very high four-star, according to the 247sports rankings. Also, Harris checks in as the tenth best safety in the country and the fourth best prospect at any position in the talent-rich state of Tennessee for the 2018 class.
Blessed to receive an offer from Ohio State
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— BH² (@harrisbrendon2) March 23, 2017
As things sit currently, Harris has 18 offers to his name. With schools such as Auburn, Clemson, Florida, LSU, Tennessee and many more, it’s easy to see why the Buckeyes liked what they saw. A down hill hitter with speed, Harris has the ball skills to defend the pass, but also the size needed to be a true run stopper at the next level.
Tennessee may be the favorite right now, as they hold the edge on the 247sports crystal ball predictions, but Urban Meyer and his staff have been down this road before in the Tennessee/Georgia corner and if he has his way, that road will be paved in Scarlet and Gray for the second time.
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Currently, Michael holds nine offers from schools such as Michigan, Oregon, Cal, Florida State and Louisville. While the Buckeyes have not yet extended an offer towards Johnson, this visit certainly could change that. The early leaders in this one are Oregon and Michigan, but never count out Ohio State for quarterbacks.
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For Urban Meyer and the rest of the Ohio State football coaching staff, there seems to be a limitless amount of aspects that are currently selling the program for itself to the country’s top recruits each and every year. An outstanding problem to have nonetheless, the Buckeyes sometimes don’t always have just one key selling point. However, yesterday, Ohio State hosted its annual Pro Day that saw 13 Buckeyes participate. With nine NFL head coaches including Super Bowl master Bill Belichick in attendance looking at the former Buckeye stars, it’s not hard to see why the top talent in the country is flocking to Columbus to suit up for the Scarlet and Gray. With another load of what is sure to be first round NFL Draft picks, Urban Meyer and his staff have created an NFL factory at Ohio State.
Meyer and Belichick spoke for awhile at the start of Pro Day pic.twitter.com/CYhLIwMg3p
— Alexis Chassen (@Lovelybuckeye) March 23, 2017
When the Buckeyes were recruiting the safety position in 2013, Urban Meyer made it his priority to personally recruit star prospect Vonn Bell. Fast forward to National Signing Day 2013 and Bell shocked the world when he gave his pledge and signature to the Buckeyes with a NSD TV announcement. The top ranked recruit in the Ohio State 2013 class went on to not only win a national championship with the Buckeyes, but also became a second round draft pick by the New Orleans Saints — and started in his first year in the NFL. Needless to say, things worked out very well with his decision to come to Ohio State.
Now, in the 2018 class, Urban Meyer and his staff are looking in the same general region for the next safety to bolster the Buckeyes Silver Bullet secondary. With a tremendous haul of defensive backs in 2017, one may think that 2018 may not be a do-or-die year for defensive back recruiting. However, with the amount of talent Kerry Coombs and Greg Schiano are sending to the NFL with early exiting Buckeyes, every year is crucial for development.
Yesterday, Brendon Harris was the latest prospect to receive the coveted Ohio State offer when he announced via his Twitter that the Buckeyes are now in the mix of his recruitment. The 6-foot-1, 205-pound Chattanooga, Tenn. prospect is currently listed as a very high four-star, according to the 247sports rankings. Also, Harris checks in as the tenth best safety in the country and the fourth best prospect at any position in the talent-rich state of Tennessee for the 2018 class.
Blessed to receive an offer from Ohio State
️ #zone6 pic.twitter.com/nFyAjJS91R— BH² (@harrisbrendon2) March 23, 2017
As things sit currently, Harris has 18 offers to his name. With schools such as Auburn, Clemson, Florida, LSU, Tennessee and many more, it’s easy to see why the Buckeyes liked what they saw. A down hill hitter with speed, Harris has the ball skills to defend the pass, but also the size needed to be a true run stopper at the next level.
Tennessee may be the favorite right now, as they hold the edge on the 247sports crystal ball predictions, but Urban Meyer and his staff have been down this road before in the Tennessee/Georgia corner and if he has his way, that road will be paved in Scarlet and Gray for the second time.
#OhioState offer Brendon Harris out of Chattanooga. Last S they had from that area worked out . right @TheVonnBell7? https://t.co/74LXY2zp1s
— Barton Simmons (@bartonsimmons) March 23, 2017
Ohio State has an incredible success rate in the quarterback realm of their recruiting process. Landing their top prospect in literally every class, Urban Meyer and newly named position coach Ryan Day are loving their wealth of riches in their quarterback room.
Yesterday, 2019 QB target Michael Johnson Jr. (Eugene, OR / Sheldon) made it to campus to start his two day visit to Columbus and see what the Buckeye football program has to offer. Johnson, a 6-foot-3, 185-pound prospect is currently thought to be the top of the class for 2019 dual-threat signal callers. Fortunately, Ohio State has started the relationship very early which is exactly what you would want in the recruiting process.
Currently, Michael holds nine offers from schools such as Michigan, Oregon, Cal, Florida State and Louisville. While the Buckeyes have not yet extended an offer towards Johnson, this visit certainly could change that. The early leaders in this one are Oregon and Michigan, but never count out Ohio State for quarterbacks.
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