Happy Tuesday everybody, welcome to your morning Skull Session. Last night marked the end of a glorious first week of college football; Ohio State won in very convincing fashion, Michigan looked like a team we might actually be proud of beating at the end of the year, Florida looked hilariously incompetent against Popped Collar U and Ole Miss lost to FCS Jacksonville State (embarrassing the SEC and amounting to a level of karmic balance the universe has not seen for some time), and once again all of Christendom was united in their hatred of Mark May.
Of course, it wasn't all wine and roses: Mark May remains a paid ESPN employee, the OSU special teams were uncharacteristically bad (which is like watching Joey Chestnut refuse seconds at a pizza party), and starting... now, we will get to be reminded of the CONTROVERSIAL PASS INTERFERENCE CALL™ approximately one hundred million times between now and the end of the Miami game.
But those are unhappy thoughts, and the Tuesday Skull Session is a peaceful, serene place. So let's get started.
Depth Charts, Depth Charts For All The depth chart for the week of September 6th is out, and guess what, ladies and gentlemen? This is what a fully stocked and relatively healthy 2010 Ohio State Buckeyes football team looks like. That's right, good ol Nate Williams is back in the fold and ready for action and it looks like everyone else is ready to go as well. We will likely find out more about various injury updates in Tressel's presser today, but for now it seems like all the key components are in place for Miami. Other notes:
- HE ATE ME Hankins is your official backup to Dexter Larimore at DT. Not that anyone really needs reminding, but Big Hank is a true freshman. Backing up one of the most experienced dudes on the team. That speaks volumes.
- I really couldn't tell you about the redshirt status of Sabino but I can tell you that he's 2nd string at MLB, albeit as an OR with Storm Klein
- Star is an officially listed position, which is cool (Moeller, obviously).
- T-Wash is still listed as Posey's backup even though Grant Schwartz caught infinity percent more balls than he did last week: 3-0.
Mr. Smith Goes To (the general vicinity of) Washington (Township) Finally. Rod Smith is on campus and cleared to practice, after spending some time working out some academic issues. The best part about this probably isn't the depth he'll provide at RB, since the Buckeyes are pretty much the Mariana trench in that particular area; it's more that he was able to get this done and handled before classes start up again so that he won't be hurt as a student. Godspeed, O Tardy One, in all sincerity we wish you the best and can't wait to see you in the Scarlet and Gray.
Bad News For Braxton And Wayne Braxton Miller's Wayne Warriors were without his talents this weekend due to the dreaded HIGH ANKLE SPRAIN, and lost in not so dramatic fashion to Canton McKinley 26-0. As previously reported, Braxton is more or less the entire offense of Wayne, which is really really bad for Wayne and really really interesting for anyone to see what it's like for a top recruit to try and run rampant over entire teams all by his lonesome. Hopefully Braxton gets back in action soon, because he is a unique talent surrounded by a unusually comparative lack of it on his own team, and frankly that is interesting as hell to follow (although, again, highly unfortunate for Wayne).
Tyler MoeLOLer Special thanks to reader Matt for pointing this one out, and it is pretty indicative of how happy Tyler is to be back and flying around as he does:
"After that first hit, everything else felt natural," Moeller said. His swagger also returned. "He got a tackle and said, 'I may be white, but I'm fast!'" Buckeyes linebacker Brian Rolle recalled. "He said it out loud." When asked if the comment was accurate, Moeller blushed a bit: "Something like that," he said.
Aside from being hilarious, let me state the obvious here: first, as Luke pointed out, it is awesome this guy is back from a pure "feel good story" standpoint. But secondly, and perhaps just as importantly for the team, Moeller is good. Damn good. The 2010 Buckeyes have a number of players few teams know about yet and probably won't be aware of until a freight train of pain is rushing down the tracks at them. I like that.
Sam McGuffie Cannot Catch A Break Happy thoughts, Sam. Happy thoughts.
