Script Ohio: Did Cardale Jones Hurt his Draft Stock?
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Clair Crawford and Joe Dexter discuss the latest from Monday’s Urban Meyer Press Conference, Jim Harbaugh commencing Catholics, and Cardale Jones tweeting out fire at the NCAA.
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Which Big Ten basketball team benefitted most from the league's unbalanced schedule?
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The Buckeyes received one of the more favorable league draws.

The Big Ten's regular season slate was already unbalanced before Maryland and Rutgers joined the conference prior to the 2014-15 season. After all, it's impossible to play a true round robin league schedule of 18 games with 12 schools. But the inclusion of Maryland and Rutgers meant each Big Ten team would now play five teams twice and eight teams once. That set-up creates a lot of variance.

I crunched the numbers to see how the unbalanced schedule played out for the 2015-16 season. But first, a primer on the giant table to follow.

First column: where the team finished in conference play.


Second column: where the team finished among the 14 Big Ten teams in Ken Pomeroy's (KenPom) efficiency rankings.




Third column: where the team finished among the 351 Division I teams in KenPom's rankings.


Fourth column: where the team finished among the 14 Big Ten teams when averaging out each team's conference slate to determine the strength of a team's Big Ten schedule. (1=hardest schedule, 14=easiest schedule).




Big Ten Finish


Big Ten KPom Ranking


National KPom Ranking


KPom SOS


Indiana


1


3


15


13


Michigan State


2


1


5


14


Maryland


3


5


25


1


Purdue


4


2


14


5


Iowa


5


4


23


4


Wisconsin


6


6


33


3


Ohio State


7


9


80


10


Michigan


8


7


58


8


Northwestern


9


8


78


12


Penn State


10


12


146


2


Nebraska


11


10


98


9


Illinois


12


11


132


11


Minnesota


13


13


223


7


Rutgers


14


14


291


6

The Buckeyes took care of business against their relatively undemanding schedule


As the table indicates, the Buckeyes’ Big Ten schedule was the fifth-easiest in the league; playing Rutgers and Illinois twice will do that. On the other hand, Ohio State did what it was supposed to do, going 7-0 against teams that finished below it in the Big Ten's KenPom standings, and even went 3-0 against KenPom's No. 7 (Michigan) and No. 8 (Northwestern) squads.


On the flip side, Ohio State was 1-8 vs. the top six Big Ten teams in the KenPom rankings.

Indiana and Michigan State were two really good teams that were assisted by easy league schedules


Michigan State and its cumulative opponents’ ranking of 11.16 was by far the lowest in the Big Ten, with Indiana (12.19) coming in second. The Spartans played Rutgers and Penn State twice, and only had to face Indiana and Maryland once, with both contests coming in the friendly confines of the Breslin Center.

As for the Hoosiers, they drew Minnesota, Nebraska, and Illinois twice, and also had the benefit of playing their lone matchups with Maryland and Purdue in Bloomington.

And while it’s appropriate to point out the lucky flaws in both Michigan State and Indiana’s league slates, the fortuity of each program should not cloud the fact that both teams enjoyed very good seasons, which was reflected by their place in the KenPom rankings and their respective accomplishments: Indiana won the regular season Big Ten championship and advanced to the Sweet 16, while Michigan State won a record fifth Big Ten Tournament.

Wisconsin overachieved


The Badgers shook off the surprise mid-December resignation of Bo Ryan and a 1-4 start in Big Ten play to finish 12-6 in the Big Ten and advance to a third consecutive Sweet 16.

Wisconsin's accomplishment is even more impressive when considering its league slate, which was the third-hardest in the Big Ten. That schedule included home and away tilts with Indiana, Michigan State, Maryland, and Purdue -- four of the five teams to finish ahead of the Badgers in the regular season standings. Wisconsin also played its lone game vs. fifth-place Iowa in Iowa City.

Top to bottom, the Big Ten was not as strong as it was in 2014-15


The cumulative KenPom total of the 14 Big Ten teams in 2015-16 was 9.793. In 2014-15 that total was 10.345. Using the final 2015-16 KenPom's rankings, this season's average Big Ten team (.695 efficiency; 2014-15 was .739) was akin to a slightly better version of this season's 14-18 (6-12 Big Ten) Nebraska outfit, which reflects just how much much the awfulness of Minnesota and Rutgers dented the entire conference's reputation and bogged down the Big Ten's overall efficiency.

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Big Ten baseball tournament to be held in Omaha from 2019-2022
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The conference announced an extension with TD Ameritrade Park to serve as host venue for four additional years.

The Big Ten is going to get very comfortable at the site of the College World Series. Conference commissioner Jim Delany announced this afternoon that the Big Ten baseball tournament will be hosted at TD Ameritrade Park in Omaha from 2019 through 2022.

The 2016 and 2018 tournaments are already scheduled to be held in Omaha, meaning TD Ameritrade will be the host venue for seven out of nine years. This year's event will take place May 25-29.

"We are pleased to announce that TD Ameritrade Park will be the home of the Big Ten Baseball Tournament in 2016 and from 2018 through 2022," Delany said. "It's been a terrific venue for us with incredible fan participation and we're excited to be back."

In 2014, the conference tournament in Omaha smashed both overall and single day attendance records. For the week, over 62,000 fans took in the action, with an NCAA record 19,965 in attendance for the championship game between Indiana and Nebraska.

The Hoosiers won that game 8-4, claiming their second consecutive Big Ten tournament title. That team put five players on the all-tournament team, including Most Outstanding Player Kyle Schwarber, who until his recent injury was a budding big league star for the Chicago Cubs.

Last year's tournament was held at Target Field in Minneapolis and won by Michigan, 4-3, over Maryland.

Ohio State has won eight Big Ten tournament titles, with the most recent coming in 2007, and has appeared every year during head coach Greg Beals' tenure.

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Big Ten announces extension of baseball tournament in Omaha
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With the Big Ten Baseball Tournament set to return to Omaha, Nebraska, this season and 2018, the conference announced an extension for TD Ameritrade Park to serve as the host venue from 2019 through 2022, it was announced Tuesday.

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Former Ohio State assistant Chris Jent to reportedly rejoin Buckeyes' staff
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Jent is a former Buckeye player who coached under Thad Matta from 2011-13.

Thad Matta needed to make a splash when it came to replacing Jeff Boals on Ohio State's coaching staff. Re-hiring former assistant Chris Jent would qualify as such a move.

As evidently broken by former Buckeye Mark Titus (and previously speculated by Scout.com's Brian Snow), Jent appears to be returning to Columbus, where the former Buckeye player served as one of Matta's assistants from 2011-13. Jent, who scored over 1,000 points during his playing days at Ohio State from 1988-92, has been an assistant coach for four different NBA teams and served as LeBron James' personal shooting coach for four years while he was as assistant with the Cleveland Cavaliers.

Jent left Ohio State after the 2012-13 season to take an assistant coaching position with the Sacramento Kings under head coach Mike Malone. After Malone was fired in December 2014, interim Kings head coach Ty Corbin chose not to retain Jent. Last August, Jent was named the coach of the Bakersfield Jam, the Phoenix Suns' developmental team.

Ohio State ranked fifth (2011-12) and 11th (2012-13), respectively, in Ken Pomeroy's offensive efficiency metric during Jent's first stint with the Buckeyes. Since then Ohio State has finished 128th, 28th, and 151st in those same rankings, albeit with less talented offensive personnel than it had when Jent was around.

As a player, Jent logged two seasons in the NBA and five seasons in the Continental Basketball Association. He also spent time playing in Australia, Greece, Italy, and Spain. In addition to his time with the Cavaliers and Kings, Jent has been an assistant coach with the Philadelphia 76ers and Orlando Magic. In Orlando, Jent went 5-13 as the team's interim head coach during the final 18 games of the 2004-05 season.

Titus seemed excited about Jent's possible ceiling with the program:


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Ohio State men's basketball | Chris Jent likely to return to Buckeyes
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The Big Ten's satellite camp loss isn't only Jim Delany's fault
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The Big Ten came up short on a big NCAA vote, and the Big Ten's commissioner makes an easy target. But the truth is more complicated.

The biggest recruiting story of the last two years finally reached a legislative solution, and on paper, it seems the Big Ten lost. The NCAA Division I Council voted to prohibit schools from holding satellite camps (camp away from their campuses), a practice multiple Big Ten programs, most famously Michigan, had taken to using recently. The Big Ten was the only P5 conference to vote to continue the camps, as an effort publicly led by the SEC and ACC won 10-5.

A 10-5 vote meant that plenty of other conferences joined the SEC and ACC in voting down camps. The Big 12, Pac-12, Mountain West and Sun Belt also voted to end the practice, even though on paper, that doesn't make sense. Mike Leach of Washington State said that most Pac-12 coaches actually supported satellite camps.

The Sun Belt's explanation for voting to end the practice couldn't be more vague. When I asked the Mountain West Conference why it's representative voted against what appeared to be their best interests, I was told, "The Mountain West's vote on NCAA Proposal No. 59 reflected the majority position of our member institutions and of our Student-Athlete Advisory Committee". Again, not a stirring defense.

Non-power conferences used satellite camps at bigger programs as important evaluation tools, and almost certainly got more value from them than bigger programs do, but multiple leagues voted against their own interests. Why?

The most likely explanation appears to be that many of the individuals voting on this legislation didn't really understand the issue or its consequences. They did, however, seem to understand that they really didn't like what Harbaugh and Michigan was doing, and voted against that.

On some level, that's understandable. Michigan wasn't the first big program to run satellite camps (Penn State under James Franklin did this first), but they're the first program to make such a big dang deal of it, spending hundreds of thousands of dollars parading around the entire country, drawing as much attention as possible, and then getting into Twitter spats with other coaches. SEC and ACC coaches might have opposed the entire production primarily out of self interest, but it isn't hard to see other, less-impacted administrators looking at the entire spectacle and deciding "nah, we don't need that."

This entire event essentially became a referendum on Jim Harbaugh. So it isn't a surprise that the Big Ten lost, and now there are ugly, unintended consequences.

A popular person to blame for this legislative failure is Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany. On some level, that's fair, as Delany didn't make nearly as full throated of a defense, especially not in public, of camps. Given that the SEC and ACC were unified, and public in the declarations of their view, maybe that passivity hurt the Big Ten's legislative cause.

But Delany was also in a tough spot. Unlike other conferences, there wasn't the same consensus among Big Ten programs about camps. Iowa's Kirk Ferentz, after all, wanted to ban outside coaches at camps, just like the SEC. Was Delany empowered to go to the mattresses over this without the full support of his membership? Would it have looked like he was favoring Michigan? I get the feeling this wasn't something every Big Ten program was truly willing to go to war over.

While Delany needs to play a role in situations like these, it's also up to Big Ten coaches and administrators to advocate for their own interests. If the rest of the college football world is going to take adverse legislative action to get back at Michigan, then Michigan needs to fight to rectify those misconceptions. That's a job for Michigan athletic director Warde Manuel and other administrators. It's a job for other Big Ten coaches. And it's also a job for Harbaugh.

There's nothing wrong with a major program trying to hold satellite camps, even in "SEC territory", in my view. But Michigan's aggressive use "NCAA loophole exploitation" as a recruiting strategy, especially in such a public and flagrant manner, has legislative consequences if the Big Ten doesn't have the votes or the support to back it up (which it seems that they don't right now). It seems that Michigan, and really, the Big Ten, would benefit if there was somebody who could tell Harbaugh, "look man, can you just be cool for like, five minutes?"

It's unfortunate, because this stupid pissing match not only unquestionably hurts student athletes, it's also completely avoidable. There are plenty of potential compromises that could pass legislative muster that could work for everybody. You could disallow only power conference coaches from attending camps elsewhere. You could allow a limited number of Power 5 camps a year, or during a very specific window, so coaches can still have planned vacations or family time. You could limit the money spent. There are lots of possible ways to make a deal.

There's potential time to fix this, or to advocate for other rule changes that could help the Big Ten. Perhaps Urban Meyer can be the one with the credibility to advocate for them. Maybe it might be Jim Phillips and Pat Fitzgerald at Northwestern. But when the fact of your program is doing this and this, it might hurt your ability to win legislative floor fights.

The funny thing about all of this, of course, is that Michigan doesn't really need the camps. Without the aid of a cross country tour, and with a coach far less able than Harbaugh, the Wolverines signed the No. 4 ranked class in 2013. They signed the No. 6 class in 2012. Given the talent on their staff, and the financial, historical and brand resources at their disposal, Michigan is going to be fine, no matter what kinds of barriers the rest of the sport tries to throw in their way.

But at the end of the day, all of this has created a policy that hurts not just multiple Big Ten institutions, but student-athletes generally. And there's plenty of blame to go around.

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Ohio State has a bunch of open roster spots after the mass exodus of the 2015 freshman class, but one of those is now filled, as the Buckeyes picked up a commitment from junior college guard C.J. Jackson today. What's next for the Buckeyes? Make sure ...
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Son of former NFL star has Ohio State in his top 10
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2016 JUCO guard C.J. Jackson commits to Ohio State
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Ohio State gets some guard depth in a big way.

Thanks to a rash of transfers, Ohio State basketball finds itself with multiple scholarships, and an urgent need for guards. After all, the Buckeyes only have two true guards on scholarship at the moment, in JaQuan Lyle and Kam Williams, and don't have any committed in the class of 2016.

Well, that's about to change, as 2016 JUCO guard C.J. Jackson, of Eastern Florida State College, tweeted this morning that he had committed to Ohio State.

Jackson, a 6'2 combo guard out of Charlotte, North Carolina, originally committed to George Mason, but opted to head to a JUCO after a coaching change. He averaged 16.9 points per game as a freshman, and had offers from other big name college programs like Cal, Missouri, UConn, UNLV and Seton Hall.

Jackson should be able to help give the Buckeyes some depth as a ballhandler, and also improve their three-point shooting, as he hit 45% from downtown last year. Jackson will have three years of eligibility.

The Buckeyes still have two other open scholarships for 2016, which they could elect to use on a freshman, like Andre Wesson, or a graduate transfer player, like Cullen Neal out of New Mexico. The Buckeyes bringing in another guard in this recruiting class certainly isn't out of the question.

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Ohio State will wear helmet decals to honor Will Smith at their spring game
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Smith's gone but not forgotten.

Former Ohio State defensive line great Will Smith tragically lost his life over the weekend. The ensuing aftermath has caused reactions from many in and around pro football to his former college coaches Jim Tressel and Mark Dantonio and even LeBron James.

Urban Meyer said at media availability yesterday that the team had a moment of silence and used the situations that culminated in Smith's tragedy as an educational experience for the student athletes.

On Tuesday, Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith announced the team would more directly honor Smith's memory during this coming Saturday's Buckeye spring game.

The team will wear 'WS' decals on their helmets as well have a moment of silence in Ohio Stadium before the game gets underway. Here's what the decals will look like:



Continued thoughts with his family and friends during these trying times.

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Heard Around the ‘Shoe – 4-12-2016
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Todd McShay’s Latest Mock Draft (3 Rounds):

Round 1:

Joey Bosa #6 – Baltimore Ravens

Ezekiel Elliott #8 – Philadelphia Eagles

Taylor Decker #16 – Detroit Lions

Darron Lee #17 – Atlanta Falcons

Round 2:

Michael Thomas #32 – Cleveland Browns

Eli Apple #33 – Tennessee Titans

Vonn Bell #35 – San Diego Chargers

Nick Vannett #57 – Green Bay Packers

Braxton Miller #59 – Kansas City Chiefs

Round 3:

Joshua Perry #83 – New York Jets

Adolphus Washington #86 – Minnesota Vikings

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Buckeyes CB Marshon Lattimore laid out QB Joe Burrow at practice
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Buckeyes look to get lines straight
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Son of former NFL star has Ohio State in his top ten
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Ohio State lands in an elite DB's top ten, while Baylor's four-star QB commit sets visit to Columbus.

Asante Samuel Jr., son of former NFL defensive back, is a hot name in the 2018 recruiting class. The association with his father's success alone, would be enough to grab the attention of most college coaches and recruiting analysts. However, Samuel has also been able to step out from behind his father's shadow and make a name for himself.

It is early in the recruiting process for those in the '18 class; the kids in this class are just that, kids. With only two years of high school football behind them, it is tough to accurately predict the path these student athletes will take. Samuel has on numerous occasions, flashed play making ability, causing many college football coaches to take notice.

Already seen as a four-star recruit, Samuel hold offers from many elite college football programs across the country. Schools like Ohio State, Alabama, Florida State, Michigan, Clemson, Oklahoma and Miami have already offered him a scholarship. Look for many more to be added to that list in the next couple years.

There is still plenty of time left in Samuel's recruitment. Currently, The Canes are the favorite to land Samuel's services, with all of 247Sports crystal ball predictions favoring Miami. The St. Thomas Aquinas star, released his top ten yesterday, with Ohio State making the first cut.



Samuel's high school has produced multiple highly talented recruits for the Buckeyes throughout Meyer's time in Columbus, most notably former Buckeye DE Joey Bosa and his younger brother and teammate of Samuel, Nick Bosa. If the coaching staff continues to pursue Samuel's talents, look for the team to try and set up multiple visit to Ohio State in the next couple years.

Baylor 4-star QB commit set to visit Buckeye's spring game


Speaking of visits, Ohio State will be hosting a four-star QB at their spring game this weekend. Kellen Mond, the fifth best dual-threat QB of the 2017 recruiting class, committed to Baylor 10 months ago. Despite his commitment, Mond has still been visiting other schools.

The spring game has traditionally produced a great atmosphere for recruits. Urban Meyer has said he would like to see 100 thousand fans attend the event this year. Their are few environments comparable to this for recruits, as Ohio State typically has one of the most-attended spring games in the country. Meyer and the Buckeyes will have a chance to make a big impression on Mond.

Mond is the second QB to visit the Buckeyes this year while being committed to another School. Five-star QB and Texas A&M commit, Tate Martell, visited the Buckeyes just last month. While it wouldn't be the first time Meyer has poached a recruit from a different university, it would take a lot of work for Meyer to earn a recruitment from either of these QBs.

While a commitment from at least one of these two recruits would be a great addition, Ohio State already holds a commitment from four-star QB Danny Clark in the 2017 class.

Ohio State offers 3-star PG


The Ohio State basketball program watched four of their five freshmen leave this season to other schools. What was once a nationally acclaimed class, has now dwindled down to one final remaining member: JaQuan Lyle.

This suddenly left the coaching staff with multiple open scholarship offers.

Late last night, three-star PG, D'Mitrik Trice announced that he received an offer from Thad Matta and the Buckeyes. Trice is originally from the state of Ohio, but recently transferred to IMG Acadamy. The Buckeyes already have one player on the team from the Florida prep school in Lyle – who also happens to be the only returning freshman.



The Buckeyes also recently offered another Ohio recruit in Westerville South three-star SF, Andre Wesson. Wesson's younger brother Kaleb Wesson is also committed to the Buckeyes for 2018.

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