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NHL Trivia: Who are these guys and what were they called?

RB07OSU said:

Longs is still there? That's awesome, I thought all of High turned into corporate America except for Buckeye Donuts (if that ever goes I might find a new team...kidding a little bit). Campus talk aside, he seems like a real possibility and good player.

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The original Long’s is now a Target. Which is sort of nice to have one on campus and now the one on Olentangy is not always a zoo. Fun fact, the Target on Olentangy used to be the highest grossing Target in the entire company, as a result of the one on High this no longer is true. They opened a Barnes and Noble in the gateway district and they have the Long’s sign either outside or inside of that location. So it’s still corporate America.

Also intrigued by the 2026 QB. We have a lot of offers out there it seems so nice to get a lot of these kids in campus. I imagine we will see some more movement after kids visit for games this season.

I voted "other" because I did a deep dive a while back on old ball parks and comparing dimensions through the years.
then compared some ballplayers in their home parks vs other parks of their era.

Babe Ruth in some of today's park sizes would have been impossible to calculate without spray charts.
Ted Williams paying in Tiger Stadium of that era instead of Fenway would have been over 600 HR (would have been up around 775 had he not lost time due to Military).

Joe DiMaggio would have over 500 HR if he played in Sportsman's Park of his era instead of Yankee Stadium of that time.

Pete Rose should not even be listed on the poll.

Denver, first team to 10 national championships. Davis won that game for the Pios.

Realized a few weeks ago that DirecTV now carries Willow channel - the cricket station. they have been showing the Indian Premier League which is one of the top 10 sports leagues in the world in terms of revenue.

Billy Napier is so bad that UFail fans are arguing about whether or not they should have kept Dan Mullen

I mean I think Iowa and Notre Dame has a say

LUKE SIMONS JOINS JAKE DIEBLER'S STAFF AT OHIO STATE AS AN ASSISTANT COACH​

Jake Diebler continues to add to his staff of assistant coaches.

Ohio State announced the hiring of Baylor director of basketball operations Luke Simons as an assistant coach on Thursday.

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“I’m excited to welcome Luke as he’s going to be a great addition to our staff,” Diebler said in a statement. “He has the ability to connect with players at every level and his versatility is really important. He’s been on staff at the collegiate level, and he has international coaching experience as well. Those experiences are going to be valuable for our program as we move forward.”

Simons joins Joel Justus, Jamall Walker and Dave Dickerson on what will be a brand new staff of assistant coaches for the 2024-25 season. Ohio State can still add one more assistant coach.

Simons and Diebler worked together at Vanderbilt for three seasons, where both helped head coach Bryce Drew to a 19-16 overall record and an at-large berth to the NCAA Tournament in 2017.
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I wouldn’t call it a vending machine, but I did pay for that pig.

BuckeyeNation27 said:

I've seen this movie before when it was called Michael Bush. See you at OT in a few years, Luka.

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He's reportedly up to 233lbs, before his senior year... He could graduate HS at almost 250, and easily touch down in Coral Gables at 250lbs. Good luck not gaining anymore weight in college

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“He told me that I’m a high player on his board for the 2026 class,” Jiles said. “He told me to look at all the 2025 commits they have right now and he asked me if I wanted to be just like them. I love seeing a lot of top cornerbacks buying in under a great coach. I love competition so that’s definitely a top thing for me.”

The 5-foot-11, 175-pound Jiles used to be a Miami commit but decommitted from the Hurricanes in February. While he doesn’t yet hold a composite rank from 247Sports, he figures to be one of the top cornerbacks in his recruiting class. So far, he’s earned more than 20 Division I offers, including Miami, Arizona, Colorado, FIU, Florida, Kansas, LSU, Michigan State, Missouri, Nevada, Notre Dame, Oklahoma, Ole Miss, Pittsburgh, Texas A&M, USC, Utah, Washington and Washington State.

Jiles attends football powerhouse IMG Academy (Bradenton, Florida) but is originally from Inglewood, California. Walton and Jiles first became connected in December after Walton made a trip down to his school to have an introductory conversation with him.

“Coach Walton came down to my school a few months ago and got into contact with me. That’s when I’ve been in contact with him and we’ve been in contact since,” Jiles said. “We don’t talk as much since I’m part of the 2026 class (and he can’t contact me directly yet), but as much as I’m able to call him, we just talk and catch up with each other.”

While on campus, Walton and Jiles broke down film together, and the IMG Academy product couldn’t help but notice how loaded the Buckeyes are on defense this spring.

“I was in the film room really, and I got to see how good their defense is,” Jiles said. “Tim Walton showed me his resume and the biggest takeaway I got from that is how Jalen Ramsey talks so highly of him. He said he was the best DB coach he’s ever had so that was a big thing for me. The energy every player had in the meetings was amazing, you can see how much of a brotherhood they are.”

purdue vs uconn

Noah will be a stud for NC St over years to come. Glad he found his home.

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I would support that. It's like someone hands you the keys to a Ferrari of a career after college and you roll down the window and take a dump inside.

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Class: 2026
Position: RB
School: Pittsburgh(CA) Westinghouse
Height: 5-foot-9
Weight: 160lbs

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Nice article (that's really worth reading) on a past head coach:

HAROLD OLSEN BUILT OHIO STATE BASKETBALL INTO A CONTENDER DURING HIS 24-YEAR TENURE AS BUCKEYES’ COACH​

As the final weekend of the 2024 NCAA Tournament begins, we take a look back at Harold Olsen, Ohio State’s longest-tenured basketball coach ever and the first to lead the Buckeyes to sustained success.

After guiding Ohio State to a 53-46 drubbing over heavily favored Northwestern to clinch the Big Ten championship in 1946, the triumphant Harold G. “Oley” Olsen told reporters that his squad performed at “near perfection” and that he “was never any prouder of any ball club I’ve been connected with.”

It was arguably Ohio State’s greatest hardcourt victory to that point and it happened in front of an overflow crowd of 22,822 in the old Chicago Stadium, the largest crowd ever to watch a basketball game at the time. It secured an unprecedented third consecutive bid to the NCAA tournament for OSU and capped what was unquestionably the most successful three-year run in Buckeye basketball history to that point.

Olsen called the upset the “highlight” of his coaching career. And then, as classes began in the fall, Oley abruptly resigned from a job that he’d held for 24 years.

Olsen took what had been a markedly mediocre program and built it into a nationally respected enterprise. Yet, despite a reputation that made him a part of the charter class of the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame alongside some of the game’s greatest luminaries, Olsen’s name is all but forgotten from Ohio State’s hardcourt lore.

Olsen was hired in 1923 to transform Ohio State into a consistent contender. Buckeye cagers struggled during their first decade in the Big Ten, where they managed to win only 34 of their 103 games.

He was a two-time all-conference player at Wisconsin and led the Badgers to two conference championships. He was a disciple of coach Walter Meanwell, whose innovative concepts set basketball in motion in a way it hadn’t ever been before. In the “Wisconsin System,” players moved in criss-crossing patterns using screens to open the floor. As a coach, Olsen’s Ohio State teams posted a .570 winning percentage using the same offense.

TALENT EVALUATOR​

Columbus Dispatch sports editor Russ Needham said Olsen’s greatest gift was “recognizing latent talent in a flash, and the added skill of developing it to the utmost.” Needham pointed to Mel Shaw and Johnny Miner, two players who were cut during tryouts under Olsen’s predecessor. Shaw was “discovered” during spring open-gym workouts Olsen had introduced. Miner caught Oley’s eye while playing in an intramural game in the old Armory.



The 5’8” Miner led the Buckeyes to their first conference title in 1925. Local scribes dubbed him “the Chic Harley of Buckeye basketball” after overflow crowds filled the Fairgrounds Coliseum to watch OSU’s first All-American cager.

Ohio State became more competitive under Olsen, and his teams excelled when he had a roster laden with gifted athletes. If one of those athletes was a talented center, the Buckeyes were competing for championship rings.

The 1925 team was bolstered by a dominant big man named Harold “Cookie” Cunningham. A native of Mount Vernon, Cunningham was such a gifted athlete that he played both basketball and football professionally after leaving OSU.

The career of Wilmer “Bill” Hosket, Sr. may best illustrate how much better Oley’s teams fared with a top-notch man in the pivot. The Buckeyes thrived when the Dayton Stivers product was in the starting quintet. Unfortunately, eligibility issues cut short both his sophomore and senior seasons and those teams finished 9-9 and 8-12. During the 1932-33 season, his junior year, he was able to overcome his academic struggles and the Buckeyes finished 17-3 and won the Big Ten crown.
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Harold G. Olsen
Born: May 12, 1895
Coached at Ohio State: 1922 thru 1946
In 1922, Olsen followed George Trautman as head coach of the Ohio State University. In 24 years he guided the Buckeyes to a 259–197 record, as well as five Big Ten championships (1925, 1933, 1939, 1944, 1946). He served as a chair on the NCAA Basketball Committee. Olsen helped initiate the 10-second rule in 1937, which requires teams to advance the ball over the center line within 10 seconds of gaining possession. In 1939, Olsen spearheaded efforts to create the NCAA postseason national playoffs, now known as the NCAA tournament, one that could compete with the National Invitational Tournament, which started play in 1938 with games hosted at Madison Square Garden in New York. The first NCAA tournament in 1939 saw Northwestern University host eight teams. Oregon beat Ohio State to become the first tournament champion in a format that has expanded several times to go with its popularity as the premier tournament for college basketball.

Died: October 29, 1953