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Brandon Castel was at practice and you were not. The O-Zone's force to be reckoned with reporter culminates a laundry list of thoughts and observations from Tuesday's quasi-slightly-sort-of-open practice and shares some thoughts on the quarterbacks as well as a few tailbacks. Amongst them:
This quarterback competition is shaping up nicely for Kenny Guiton. He may not possess all the natural tools that a guy like Miller has, but he has some other attributes that I like to see in a quarterback. The coaches will love the fact he knows the system, but I like the fact he seems to be on the same page with his receivers.
For those of you also on the Team #AnyoneButBauserman party bus, this is precisely the sort of news we've been waiting to hear. Here's hoping as the Spring and Summer progress, if Bauserman takes the first meaningful snaps of the Fall, it's done so as a strictly procedural honor.
So About This New AOL Sporting News... Maybe the usually awesome Matt Hayes has been in Columbus this week. Or maybe he's just been reading Adam Rittenberg like the rest of us. None the less, whether he got the talking point from one of OSU's state media propaganda controlled environment interview videos, "Ohio State's tenuous QB situation puts season in jeopardy" is a mighty pointed lead for an article that totals all of 3 paragraphs. None the less, let's shift gears (can you tell I have ADD?) and rehash the aforementioned Vest quote on Braxton Miller, shall we?
"Braxton is lost. Kenny and Joe have the best grasp on it. Taylor's somewhere in between. We've had four practices. I hope in the next 11, we get a lot more looks that will really make you think, 'OK, this guy.' If I had a game tomorrow, Joe would start, but Kenny has looked good and the two young guys, they're so hesitant because they don't know much, and we have to wait until we get out there and chase them when people are allowed to tackle them."
I think I speak for everyone with a school girl crush on Miller when I say, "FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU"... I mean, hey, it's still April. /redsoxfan
Because I Probably Don't Link Him Near Enough. Matt Markey is still doing the darn thing (and quite well I may add) for the Toledo blade. Can you believe his fabulous write up from earlier this week focused on multiple positions of questions in lieu of the suspensions facing the Buckeyes in the early going?!? But in all seriousness, Matt's work is great, and this blurb from Senator Tressel is worth consuming:
At running back, Herron did most of the first-day work with the top unit, while backups Jordan Hall and Jaamal Berry also spent time with that group. Redshirt freshman Rod Smith and sophomore Carlos Hyde have worked with the second and third teams.
Tressel downplayed the significance of a player being assigned to work with any certain group at this point, five months before the start of the season.
"The beauty of spring practice is, whether a guy is working with the first unit, the second unit, or whatever it happens to be, everyone is getting all of the reps," Tressel said.
Not sure that's much substantive on the part of the ol' Vest wearing head ball coach, but that's why he's our Tressel! *laugh track*
More earnestly, I'm hoping Berry and Smith/Hyde prove every bit the versatile weapons their makeup suggestions they could.
Auburn/Alabama -- Still Supplying The Cray-Cray Unlike certain sites out there today who were merely quoting whole sale content intended to be behind paywalls, I'll refer the strange case of Brent Calloway to David Wunderlich's recap:
Jeffrey Lee went on Mobile radio station WNSP this morning (Morning Sports Center hour two, around the 50-minute mark) to level an accusation of foul play in Calloway's recruitment. He says his sources tell him that the person who took Calloway out of state right before signing day was a person "very involved with the athletics department there... Just a big fan who's really involved, I guess you could say." He also says that "allegations are out there" that this mystery person gave cash to Winston.
TL;DR (seriously, you have no excuses. That wasn't long at all) - Kid long thought to be Alabama recruit changes mind at zero hour, adopted father ostracize him publicly, he flees states, return conspicuously having changed his mind back to Alabama. BONUS: accusations of money changing hands! Auburn?! Alabama?! Unpossible!
Certainly a strange case, but given that Auburn has "the best (and like Holly says, we don't mean what Jacobs means whe says that) compliance department in the SEC," it's likely to fizzle and go away without the actual truth ever coming to light. Convenient!
Gallimaufry. This little guy certainly seems to have a proclivity towards going ham. You have chosen... Poorly, Soulja Boy (NSFW language). It's not exactly wrong. Sam Raimi seriously loses all of his cool points for The Evil Dead series for this mess.
