I’m hoping that Damon Arnette has matured and grown in life and can have some type of professional success. This may be his last 2nd chance

Riley Pettijohn Says He Can “Do A Little Bit Of Everything,” Thinks He Can Get on the Field and Make Plays for Ohio State in Year One​

A typical day for freshman linebacker Riley Pettijohn this spring isn’t for the faint of heart.

The No. 2-rated linebacker in the 2025 recruiting class, Pettijohn often starts his day by waking up early and strolling to Ohio State’s practice facility, the Woody Hayes Athletic Center.

He starts by watching practice film from the previous day, making notes of where he thrived and what he needs to refine going forward. Then he’ll either have practice, or if it’s an off day, he’ll lift weights. When he completes those, he’ll have meetings with Ohio State’s coaching staff, primarily linebackers coach James Laurinaitis, who will offer his input on Pettijohn’s play so far.

“Riley Pettijohn, he has a great feel for the game,” Laurinaitis said. “The burst is there … Any time you have freshmen on the field, you get these lumps of clay you’re excited to form a little bit. The most important thing with young players is that you’re learning a lot.”

And of course, he’s also a student-athlete, so following his football obligations, he heads to the classroom. He’ll end his night with some film study, part two.

“I want to know what I did wrong, what I can improve on and help me learn new installs,” Pettijohn said of what he watches during film.

That may seem like a lot for someone who’s just finished his third month on campus, but Pettijohn came to Ohio State with lofty expectations as a top-45 recruit in the nation, and he has lofty goals for himself in his freshman year.

“Just getting on the field and making plays,” Pettijohn said of what he hopes to accomplish in year one. “I feel like that’s a good expectation for me.”
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Meh. To me just looks like new AD cleaning out the old closets and making room for his own hires.

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Why NCAA Committee Denied Colorado, Syracuse's Request for Spring Game​

Here's the reasoning behind the FBS oversight panel's denial.

The NCAA's FBS oversight committee on Friday denied a waiver request, filed last week by Colorado and Syracuse's football programs, that proposed a joint 11-on-11 spring scrimmage game, according to Chris Vannini of The Athletic.

The waiver request also proposed contact and non-contact practice sessions between the Buffaloes and Orange in the 2025 spring practice period. In an explanation of its denial obtained by Vannini, the NCAA listed two main areas of concern with the request:

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"The timing of the request, noting most institutions have already planned their spring practice periods and some are at the end of, or have completed, their spring practice period," the NCAA said.

"The competitive and recruiting advantage gained by the applicant institutions if a waiver was approved to allow these institutions to engage in activities no other institutions are permitted to do. And the potential academic impact associated with student athletes missing class time to participate in spring activities."

However, the committee agreed to further discussions, in a future meeting, that could ultimately lead to joint spring practices in the future. The idea of a joint spring practice and game isn't new, but it quickly picked up steam again after Sanders floated a pro-style alternative to the current format while speaking to reporters last week.
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Redshirt Freshman Cornerback Miles Lockhart Becomes First Buckeye to Lose Black Stripe in 2025​

Ohio State’s first black stripe removal of 2025 came after the Buckeyes’ seventh practice of the spring on Saturday.

Redshirt freshman cornerback Miles Lockhart became the first Buckeye to shed his black stripe this spring.

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A four-star recruit in the 2024 class, Lockhart did not play any snaps as a true freshman.
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pnuts34 said:

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I wouldn't expect him to visit OSU this weekend like planned...

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Bagmen.

Steve19 said:

Yeah, 8-3 is not a good look, especially to a lower seed

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BU was the 2 seed; we were the 3. BU hung around the top 5 most of the year. Not a terrible loss, but I still expected a better showing.

B1G as a whole stunk up the joint yesterday going O-3. The 4 seed pedsters are all that remains. I think we can close the book on the all that "B1G is now the top conference in college hockey" talk.

Tom Lemming looks as sleazy as ever. I wonder if he regrets trading his reputation for boosting ND's recruiting rankings for a couple years right as the recruiting industry was taking off.

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Glad Juni is coming back. With some more conditioning work & another year honing his shot, he should be even better. Ideally, he'll also sharpen up his ballhandling and passing. Juni has a good base to build off of, now it's time to take the next steps in his development.

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I haven't followed him much at IU, but I'm excited about this for my own personal reasons. Gabe's dad was one of my teachers and AD for our high school, and is an awesome person that was extremely intelligent and would go out of his way to help students and athletes. I was so bad at math and when I got ready for the ACT, he would take his time off around lunch to help me prepare and I wasn't even in his class anymore.

I don't know Gabe but if he is anything like his dad, he will contribute to the team in some way. I guarantee you he is a smart kid that was raised right, somehow that seems to translate into helping a team.

Bag’em.

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Former Heisman front-runner at tOSU follows Heisman winner to BGSU.

I guess the title of this thread needs to be changed to reflect his new job but the person who started it has been banned.

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4 posts in and Milli comes off the top rope on Tibor



ahh the good ol days

Edit - Fuck, I missed that he was being replaced with Charles Davis. I think I'd rather have Gary the Shill

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Idk where you've seen that he's visited there a lot. He had 1 3 day visit there, before he visited OSU for 2 days. He also has official visits set up to SMU(early favorite), Texas and LSU. Notice the trend... Probably not leaving the south
But OSU still has PLENTY of OL options. Best of luck to him

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I thought this said he had a "13" day visit until I realized it meant "one 3" day visit

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