Column: I’m thankful for the nicknames I’ve used in articles for Michigan over the years
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Not gonna lie, I’m pretty proud of some of these.

Look, I am a simple man; it doesn’t take much to entertain me. So today, when we are gathering with family to celebrate the things that bring joy to our lives, I want to give thanks to the thoroughly idiotic things that I have called Ohio State’s rival over the years here on the fine journalistic pages of Land-Grant Holy Land rather than the team’s actual name.

Now, this list is in no particular order and is in no way exhaustive, as I am old and my feeble mind no longer has the capacity to retain information that does not directly pertain to my immediate survival. So, I might be adding to this list as I remember more — or as I come up with others — but for now, here are some of my tried and true favorites.

Please feel free to add some of your own in the comments below — but keep them PG, this is a Mot#er F*c%in’ family site!

Nicknames for the team


Weasels
Meerkats
Muskrats
Otters
Ferrets (and the natural, alliterative byproduct: The Fighting Ferrets)
Skunk Bears
Striped Polecats
Nasty Cats
The Fighting Timon and Pumbas
The Nervous Chickens
Mitten Men
Michigan State’s Little Brothers
Pompous Princes
Corn and Blue
Harboys
Winged Helmet Wingnuts
and of course... That Team Up North (TTUN)

These names often lead to variants as well. I will often combine things to something like “The Mitten State Weasels” or something of the sort.

Nicknames for their coach


Now let’s get into what I’ve got for the man who runs TTUN, the weirdest dude in college football (other than Mike Leach).


Jimbo
Jimbizzle
Jimmy Cleats
The bekhakied one
Screech Powers’ cousin
John’s baby brother
Mama Harbaugh’s third favorite son
Bo Schembechler’s bastard offspring (that one’s probably in poor taste in retrospect)
The Michiganiest Man
The best quarterback on Michigan’s roster (that was a few years ago and I still stand by it)
The worst X-Man
Coach for Life


Alright, so what do you have? Let me know what your favorites are and what you call OSU’s rivals.

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FUCK MICHIGAN.

That is all.

PS: Fuck @Buckeyeskickbuttocks too...but not as much so.

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They will be even more shorthanded than they were against the Musketeers, which saw fifth-year senior forward Justice Sueing miss his second straight game with an abdominal injury that could sideline him until at least January. Sueing didn’t make the trip, nor did second-year guard Gene Brown III, who exited the Xavier game late in the second half after coming down hard while grabbing an offensive rebound and striking the back of his head hard on the Cintas Center floor.

What sections are considered visitors section at Michigan stadium? Was looking to make the game and wanting to get tickets where buckeye fans will be.

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Here is the torrent for the beatdown on Michigan State. Buckdubbs07 has been working hard and it is the holidays so maybe this can give him a break to catch up before the big feast. Watching this game will get the holidays off on a great start (unless you are a Michigan State fan).

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Here is a list of games that matter this week:

THE GAME

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This thread was triggered by my poor memory. I was at the game when MSU beat us in 1998, but for some reason thought it happened on Senior Day. It did not. Nonetheless I did a little research on our Senior Day record and it wasn't all that pleasant. Since I did the research you get to share the pain.

I arbitrarily chose 1980 as a starting point, so we are covering 41 years (Due to cowardice on the part of UM I counted Indiana as Senior Day for last year, although that is a stretch.)

During that time OSU has lost on Senior Day 13 times and tied once. That is a winning percentage of 66% - well below the norm.

The good news is that the worst of that occurred from 1980 thru 2001 when our record was 11-10-1. Ouch!

Of course, the team that has the most wins against us is UM because of how the schedule works. A total of 6 wins - but none since 2000.

Only one team other than UM has beaten us more than once and that, much to my surprise, is Illinois. They did it three times (1999, 2001 and 2007). MSU, PSU, Iowa and Wisky have each done it once.

Three times an undefeated OSU team has lost on Senior Day. To UM in 1996, Illinois in 2007 and MSU in 2015 (for some reason I can't remember that one).

Only three times did OSU lose by more than one score. Two of those were to Illinois and all three happened in consecutive years - 2001 (22-34 to Illinois), 2000 (26-38 to UM) and 1999 (20-46 to Illinois).

Since Urban took over our record is 16-3 (84%) with two undefeated seasons derailed on Senior Day.


After analyzing this data I have come to three conclusions:

1. We are going to kick MSUs ass

2. Fuck Michigan

3. These are the good old days.

Didn't see a game thread....

Sorry this is so late. Had stuff going on.

Just got word from my nephew, he scored two tickets to watch Kelly turn purple and we’re going!

Games:
Game 1 vs West Virginia
Game 3 vs Missouri
Game 4 vs State Penn
Game 6 vs Minnesota
Game 9 vs Mich St
Game 10 vs Iowa
Game 11 vs Mich
Game 12 vs aTm

Missing Toledo, Illini, NWestrn, & Indy (if anyone has, help fill in the gaps please)

Assholes

Here's a thread. Whatever.

Buckeneye said:

Friendly reminder -

Not some of it, not a part of it, not half of it.
We don't give a damn for the WHOLE state.

Just in case anyone was getting soft on me.

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This brings up a question I had with my brother. We couldn't come to a decision. One of my favorite mini-traditions is singing the fuck out of "We don't give a damn for the whole state of Michigan" during the ending of whatever game is before The Game. Bonus points for when you're on the road and still get it loud enough for the TV to pick up. However.....when the game before The Game is Michigan State, should that be sung during the ending of the game before Michigan State? Is it sacred and reserved for Michigan only? Don't sing it before MSU but sing it a little extra during the ending of MSU? I don't want to anger the CFB Gods.

BASKETBALL PREVIEW: OHIO STATE HOSTS BOWLING GREEN IN FIRST MEETING SINCE 2008



Ohio State’s third home game in a six-day stretch to start the new season will see Bowling Green take the court at the Schottenstein Center for the first time in 13 years.

The Buckeyes made it out of two tough tests against mid-major programs last week unscathed, defeating Akron and Niagara by a combined 11 points, and now the focus for Chris Holtmann and company turns to a Bowling Green team that finished fifth in the MAC last season with a 14-12 record overall.

Michael Huger is two games into his seventh season as the head coach at Bowling Green, and the Falcons are 1-1 after a nine-point season-opening upset loss to Western Carolina and a 41-point thrashing of Division III Ohio Wesleyan three days later.

While each of Huger’s Bowling Green teams have accrued double-digit losses since he took over in 2015, the 2021-22 roster has been bolstered by a few transfer additions, including former Samford guard Myron Gordon and former Old Dominion forward Joe Reece, who are both expected to start on Monday. Only four players on the Bowling Green roster actually hail from Ohio.

“Another really good MAC opponent coming in here. We’ve got some familiarity with guys on our roster, I know they do with guys on our roster as well,” Buckeyes assistant coach Ryan Pedon said Sunday. “It'll be a very challenging game, I think a very physical game. As we watch them, one of the things that sets them apart is their physicality. They’ve got some older bodies, some are new, some are veterans that have been there for a few years. But I think a really talented team, competitive team, and we’re gonna have to be ready to go.”

In three 2020-21 matchups against Akron, which Ohio State beat 67-66 last Tuesday, the Falcons lost two of three games. The final installment in the season series was a seven-point loss to the Zips in the conference tournament.

For the Buckeyes, the emphasis as the non-conference schedule continues will be improvement in the backcourt, where Ohio State has a slew of new pieces, and finding the kind of balance on offense that won’t necessitate a Herculean effort from E.J Liddell every night.
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LINE: OHIO STATE -15, O/U 144.5
After one very close call against Akron and another tight, four-quarter contest on Friday, there'd be no better time for the Buckeyes to get a proper blowout under their belt before taking on a tough Xavier team on the road Thursday. However, Ohio State may continue to struggle at separating from opponents until it finds its identity this season. Still, the Falcons will be hard-pressed to find an answer for Liddell, even if their experienced guards could make things interesting in the backcourt.

Prediction: Ohio State 79, Bowling Green 66

Entire article: https://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio...sts-bowling-green-in-first-meeting-since-2008

Interested in thoughts.

I don’t have a clue and wouldn’t be upset if we stand pat.

Jury may still be out and contingent on the final 3-5 games.

Has Barnes done enough to get the official DC title.

Will Coombs come back.

Would Washington be cool with us going outside and bringing in a DC given the fact he turned down the Tennessee DC gig.

Week 12

Tuesday, Nov. 16

Toledo at Ohio | 7 p.m. | ESPN+
Western Michigan at Eastern Michigan | 7:30 p.m. | ESPN2
Bowling Green at Miami (Ohio) | 8 p.m. | ESPNU

Wednesday, Nov. 17

Northern Illinois at Buffalo | 7 p.m. | ESPN2
Central Michigan at Ball State | 7 p.m. | ESPNU

Thursday, Nov. 18

Louisville at Duke | 7:30 p.m. | ESPN

Friday, Nov. 19

Southern Miss at Louisiana Tech | 8 p.m. | CBSSN
Memphis at Houston | 9 p.m. | ESPN2
Arizona at Washington State | 9 p.m. | Pac-12 Network
Air Force at Nevada | 9 p.m. | FS1
San Diego State at UNLV | 11:30 p.m. | CBSSN

Saturday, Nov. 20

Charleston Southern at Georgia | 12 p.m. | ESPN+/SECN+
Michigan State at Ohio State | 12 p.m. | ABC
Iowa State at Oklahoma | 12 p.m. | FOX
Prairie View A&M at Texas A&M | 12 p.m. | ESPN+/SECN+
Wake Forest at Clemson | 12 p.m. | ESPN
New Mexico State at Kentucky | 12 p.m. | SEC Network
Purdue at Northwestern | 12 p.m. | Big Ten Network
Tennessee State at Mississippi State | 12 p.m. | ESPN+/SECN+
Florida Atlantic at Western Kentucky | 12 p.m. | Stadium
Florida State at Boston College | 12 p.m. | ACC Network
Wofford at North Carolina | 12 p.m. | ESPN3
Rutgers at Penn State | 12 p.m. | Big Ten Network
UMass at Army | 12 p.m. | CBSSN
Texas at West Virginia | 12 p.m. | ESPN2
South Florida at Tulane | 12 p.m. | ESPN+
Kent State at Akron | 12 p.m. | ESPN+
Texas State at Coastal Carolina | 1 p.m. | ESPN+
Illinois at Iowa | 2 p.m. | FS1
Arkansas State at Georgia State | 2 p.m. | ESPN3
Georgia Tech at Notre Dame | 2:30 p.m. | NBC
Washington at Colorado | 3 p.m. | Pac-12 Network
Arkansas at Alabama | 3:30 p.m.| CBS
SMU at Cincinnati | 3:30 p.m. | ESPN
Michigan at Maryland | 3:30 p.m. | Big Ten Network
Nebraska at Wisconsin | 3:30 p.m. | ABC
Virginia at Pitt | 3:30 p.m. | ESPN2
UAB at UTSA | 3:30 p.m. | ESPN+
Marshall at Charlotte | 3:30 p.m. | Stadium
Old Dominion at Middle Tennessee | 3:30 p.m. | ESPN+
Minnesota at Indiana | 3:30 p.m. | Big Ten Network
East Carolina at Navy | 3:30 p.m. | CBSSN
Appalachian State at Troy | 3:30 p.m. | ESPN+
BYU at Georgia Southern | 4 p.m. | ESPN+
Syracuse at NC State | 4 p.m. | ACC Network
UCLA at USC | 4 p.m. | FOX
Florida at Missouri | 4 p.m. | SEC Network
Rice at UTEP | 4 p.m. | ESPN+
UConn at UCF | 4 p.m. | ESPN+
Louisiana at Liberty | 4 p.m. | ESPNU
Kansas at TCU | 4 p.m. | Big 12/ESPN+
Temple at Tulsa | 4 p.m. | ESPN+
Baylor at Kansas State | 5:30 p.m. | FS1
Auburn at South Carolina | 7 p.m. | ESPN
Cal at Stanford | 7 p.m. | Pac-12 Network
North Texas at Florida International | 7 p.m. | ESPN3
Oregon at Utah | 7:30 p.m. | ABC
Vanderbilt at Ole Miss | 7:30 p.m. | SEC Network
Virginia Tech at Miami | 7:30 p.m. | ACC Network
South Alabama at Tennessee | 7:30 p.m. | ESPNU
Oklahoma State at Texas Tech | 8 p.m. | FOX
Wyoming at Utah State | 8 p.m. | CBSSN
UL Monroe at LSU | 9 p.m. | ESPN2
New Mexico at Boise State | 9 p.m. | FS1
Arizona State at Oregon State | 10:30 p.m. | ESPN
Colorado State at Hawai'i | 11 p.m. | Spectrum Sports PPV

BASKETBALL PREVIEW: OHIO STATE HOSTS GREG PAULUS AND THE NIAGARA PURPLE EAGLES IN FRIDAY NIGHT NON-CONFERENCE MATCHUP



Ohio State opened its 2021-22 season with a closer-than-expected last-second win on Tuesday, and its upcoming opponent found itself on the flip side of a similar situation on the very same night.

While the Buckeyes survived their 67-66 scare against Akron, Niagara dropped a 63-60 game against Xavier, a team that was favored to beat it by 17 points. Ohio State, which gets a crack at the Musketeers next Thursday, will close out the opening week of the new season with a matchup against the 0-1 Purple Eagles on Friday.

WHO WHERE WHEN TV
Niagara (0-1) Schottenstein Center 7 p.m. BTN+

Despite the fact that the Buckeyes are favored to roll Niagara with relative ease, Ohio State head coach Chris Holtmann is not guaranteeing a complete turnaround from his team just three days after an uneven performance to start the year.

“Listen, it’s not going to look like a finished product right now,” Holtmann said Thursday. “We’re not going to and our backcourt’s not. And it’s too much to expect for that to be the case. We just have to keep getting better. But we are very much a work in progress as a team, and very much a work in progress with our backcourt, for sure.”
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LINE: OHIO STATE -19.5, O/U 133.5
Exhibition games aside, Buckeye fans have every right to be wary of Ohio State's ability to blow teams out given the end of 2020-21 and the start of 2021-22. Still, the Buckeyes have no business losing this one, even if it would surprise no one to see the final score play out closer than the odds suggest.

Prediction: Ohio State 76, Niagara 63

Entire article: https://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio...purple-eagles-in-friday-nights-non-conference

I need some help . I know very little about Ohio State College Football Team as Im from UK but my son is a big fan and i want to surprise him with a replicate helmet for his Christmas. I see a black one and a silver one on ebay but dont understand why the two colours. I dont mind spending a few $ but i need help and advice on getting a good one. can anyone help me source a good one which my son would really appreciate

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,

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