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"We don't give a damn" protocol

Maybe I am off base but I’ve never seen/heard it reserved for the week before The Game.

Personally, I’m looking at this MSU schedule deal as a bonus week of hate week.

It’s the Whole state and it isn’t a part time thing.

I make it a clear point that it's the WHOLE state, the song is pretty obvious on that point. Fuck the whole state up north.
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tOSU Recruiting Discussion

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Urban Meyer and the Jacksonville Jaguars will have their hands full Sunday when the Indianapolis Colts, led by the NFL’s second-leading rusher Jonathan Taylor, play host to Jacksonville. Meyer is certainly no stranger to Taylor, whose college career at Wisconsin crossed paths with the Jaguars coach while he was leading Ohio State.

Meyer, during this week’s press conference, was asked about his past encounters with Taylor while still in college. The first-year NFL coach admitted frustration with his Ohio State assistants for not making an effort to sign him out of high school.

“I used to get so upset with our coaches at Ohio State, like ‘Why don’t we have him?’ We didn’t even know about him,” Meyer said. “They had like five (good running backs) in a row. I mean, every year I would scream at our coaches, back when I screamed a lot. I’d scream at our staff, ‘How did we miss on him?’”
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In fairness, Ohio State was not the only major program to miss out on Taylor, who was a three-star recruit out of Salem, N.J. The 247Sports Composite rated Taylor as the nation’s No. 24-ranked running back and the No. 371 prospect overall in the 2017 recruiting class. Taylor’s only other reported FBS offers came from Rutgers, Virginia Tech, Boston College, Temple and Army.
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Just sayin': Ohio State didn't come up dry with running backs in the 2017 class, they got some kid from Texas named JK Dobbins. That's how a B1G 2nd tier team like Cheese can be competitive; identify, recruit, and get those "diamonds in the ruff" (i.e. those under rated recruits, a 3 star recruits that develops into 4 and 5 star players).
If I were him, I'd be more worried about the assistants who couldn't coach their position groups to save their lives and only had their jobs because of personal relationships with Urban, but that's just me.
While Meyer and Ohio State got the best of Wisconsin in the majority of their head-to-head meetings
The majority? Did I miss a loss to Wisconsin sometime during the last decade?
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Full sized Replicate Helmet shipped to UK

I'm guessing at his advanced state, he has a hard time remembering his own address, let alone a URL. (But I bet he can still find a stripper with a monkey).
My MedicAlert bracelet has 3 important things on it:

My address, my BP password, and the URL for the website of PoleAssassin.
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Niagara at #17 Ohio State, November 12 @ 7PM EST BTN+

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"They've got some guards that are a handful that we struggled to contain, particularly early as they got going," said OSU coach Chris Holtmann. "But I thought our guys had some good responses and some really good moments. I was proud of some of the growth with some of those guys.

"I thought our backcourt with Jamari (Wheeler), Meechie (Johnson) and Malachi (Branham) had some really good moments as well. I thought we took a step forward with our guard play. We also had Justice (Sueing) coming back. This was a hard fought win. Give Niagara a lot of credit for that."

Forward E.J. Liddell led the Buckeyes (2-0) with a career-high 29 points, five rebounds and four blocked shots. He was 9 of 15 from the floor (3 of 6 on threes) and 8 of 12 at the foul line.

"He has been huge for us offensively and defensively," senior forward Kyle Young said of Liddell. "You can see what he can do at the offensive end. I know he saved me on defense when my guy got by me."
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OH OT Aamil Wagner (Notre Dame Verbal)

Read on 11W that his brother is also set to be hired as a GA at UK.

Apparently he is a GA at ND.

Notre Dame football recruiting: Four-star OL Aamil Wagner commits to Fighting Irish on CBS Sports HQ

Notre Dame landed a huge football commitment on Thursday when four-star offensive tackle Aamil Wagner picked the Fighting Irish live on CBS Sports HQ. In an unexpected move, Wagner chose Notre Dame over Kentucky, where his older brother, Ahmad Wagner, is a graduate assistant and former receiver.

"Notre Dame made it easy for me to see life after football. I felt like Notre Dame gave me the best opportunity to be a great person after football," Wagner said of his commitment. "It was really close. Kentucky has my brother there ... I really connected to the players and coaches there. It was really difficult, but I felt like Notre Dame set me up best for my future."

Entire article: https://www.cbssports.com/college-f...r-commits-to-fighting-irish-on-cbs-sports-hq/
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All-NFL OSU team

Now is the best time an all-OSU alum squad would ever field for a 17 game NFL schedule. When comparing to other schools, Alabama seems to be the only other that would be close to as balanced. If mainly healthy this team would figure to vie for a Super bowl. Edit; Ryan Shazier would’ve fit absolutely perfectly as a heat seeking missile at middle or outside linebacker Edit; it’s also crazy how Ronnie Hickman would fit great in that very role on this team when 3 months ago it was wondered by the majority if he’d see much playing time

QB Justin Fields/Dwayne Haskins
RB Zeke Elliott/JK Dobbins/Carlos Hyde
WR Michael Thomas/Chris Olave
WR Terry McLaurin/ Parris Campbell
WR Curtis Samuel/KJ Hill/Garrett Wilson
TE Nick Vannett/Luke Farrell/RashodBerry
LT Taylor Decker/Thayer Munford
LG Andrew Norwell/ Pat Elflein
C Corey Linsley/ Josh Myers
RG Jonah Jackson/ Billy Price
RT Jamarco Jones/Isaiah Prince

LE Nick Bosa/Chase Young
DT Cam Heyward/Dre’mont Jones
NT Jonathan Hankins/DaVon Hamilton
RE Joey Bosa/Sam Hubbard
OLB Jerome Baker/Ronnie Hickman
MLB Raekwon McMillan/Malik Harrison
ROLB Pete Werner/Baron Browning
CB Marshon Lattimore/Jeff Okudah
CB Denzel Ward/Eli Apple
NB Brad Roby/Kendall Sheffield
FS Jordan Fuller/Malik Hooker
SS Malcolm Jenkins/Vonn Bell
K Noah Ruggles
P Cameron Johnston
LS Jake McQauide
ST Nate Ebner

practice squad: Bin Victor, Wyatt Davis, Jonathon Cooper, Tommy Togiai, Justin Hilliard, Michael Jordan, Gareon Conley, Braxton Miller, Devin Smith,

LGHL Column: The perfect storm that led to nine mid-season coaching firings

Column: The perfect storm that led to nine mid-season coaching firings
Meredith Hein
via our friends at Land-Grant Holy Land
Visit their fantastic blog and read the full article (and so much more) here


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It benefits more parties than you might think, but not all.

Gary Patterson got the better of TCU. The second-longest tenured head coach in the FBS, Patterson and the Horned Frogs, “mutually agreed to immediately part ways” after 20 (and a half) seasons.

Patterson can start interviewing for one of the many coaching vacancies arising around college football (and the NFL) at his leisure. He’s just 61 years old, and has built an impressive resume at TCU — the 3-5 mark on the 2021 season notwithstanding. There are already a number of high-profile vacancies, and even more athletic directors who might be sniffing in Patterson’s direction, hoping to snag him rapidly once they can rid themselves of their incumbents at the end of the season.

In the end, Patterson came away as the winner. Speculation says that Patterson could have stuck around Fort Worth through the end of the season, similar to the situation we see with Ed Orgeron and LSU, but the veteran coach opted to split immediately, possibly to better position himself for new roles rather than biding his time as a lame duck.

The losers in this situation, as they always are when it comes to coaching changes, are the student athletes. But more and more, every other group seems to be benefiting to the point where the needs of student athletes who get left behind when there is a coaching change are overlooked.

Already this season, nine head coaches have been fired. Many more assistants have gotten the ax (see: Nebraska’s entire offensive staff this past weekend). That means that at least nine athletic directors thought the best course of action for their program was to leave teams with interim head coaches and players with diminishing hopes of bowl wins, rivalry victories or storybook endings.

It’s not all bad news for student athletes, though it’s less of a benefit for athletes themselves and more of a PR boost for athletic directors. In short, the transfer portal makes these changes less abhorrent. Underclassmen in particular have greater freedom to bounce to a new program. These players might even be more highly sought after, because their transfer wasn’t because of some sort of self-inflicted challenge, and are instead an unfortunate result of a bad coaching situation.

There’s also the power that players have as a result of name, image and likeness. Players have greater optionality in terms of ideal landing spot not only because of possible coaches, but also because of the opportunity to capitalize on their NIL.

Players have more of an advantage and greater bargaining chips than ever before, which has surely played into ADs decisions to cut coaches loose early. If the impact to players is less, there’s less of a public relations crisis at hand.

Then there’s the consideration of future players. The early signing period for recruits has been cited as one of the contributing causes for the uptick in coaching firings as of late. Athletic directors want to signal that changes are coming (and hoping that those changes will actually turn out well), which would drive rising recruits to programs that might have even successfully hired a new coach a la Georgia Southern and Texas Tech.

That’s because Dec. 15 comes much faster than coaches and ADs expect. Initially instituted in 2017, the early signing period adds another season to the recruiting cycle, which gives no wiggle room for programs that want to make a change following bowl season (which doesn’t even start until Dec. 18 in 2021).

Additionally, there is massive instability in the college football universe now, driven by a lack of parity that means anyone not called Alabama, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Georgia and maybe Notre Dame (even Clemson is removed from the list) is fighting for a shot at the outside looking in.

Even LSU, which won a national title in recent memory, agreed to part ways with its championship-winning head coach at the end of the season. Every program is searching for an edge in this College Football Playoff landscape that might just give it a shot at a New Year’s Six bowl.

But now, a 3-5 record (yes, a season that is not yet lost), is not good enough. Continuity, which was an anchor of the TCU program, is no longer as relevant. The college football season is a marathon, not a sprint, and a win over a rival in the final game of the season or a bowl game win to move to 7-6 used to, on occasion, be enough to give a coach one more shot, one more season.

This impatience has been exacerbated by COVID-19. While there were the usual rounds of firings and hirings following the 2020 season, we could reasonably expect that many programs held onto their coaches for longer than they’d anticipated because, frankly, 2020 was just weird. The truncated seasons many coaches saw did not provide enough data points for administrators to make informed decisions on the future state.

In the end, coaches are motivated to leave early (if they’re going to get fired, they might as well cut loose sooner and be compensated, likely as defined in their contracts, through the end of the season). Administrators, ever the scrupulous businesspeople, are keen to cut things that aren’t working as quickly as possible and signal their open roles to potential candidates. Even some student athletes can effectively manage changes mid-season, with some even benefiting — though we do not have enough data points to indicate if mid-season transfers because of coaching changes will become an actual trend.

Yes, the only losers are the student athletes who really want to be there: the seniors for whom this is the last stop, the young players who were not widely recruited and who have no college film, the walk-ons. And this perfect storm of coaching shifts doesn’t work for them.

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