What it is, Buckeye fans?
I'll tell you what it is: it's Football-Freaking-Eve.
That glorious news was delivered like a tight spiral as Ohio State released what is known of the fall camp schedule that begins the 123rd season of Buckeye football.
The inaugural season under Urban F. Meyer begins Friday at Snoop o'clock (six in da malwnin) with a practice for returning players followed by a 5:15 session for freshmen only. Just one more day to go folks; things is about to get real.
The release notes the team will take Saturday and Sunday off before a slate of six straight practices including a two-a-day next Friday, August 10th.
Following an off-day on Sunday, August 12th, the Buckeyes will get back to it with seven straight days of camp including two-a-day sessions on Monday (8/13), Wednesday (8/15) and Friday (8/17).
There are no specifics regarding a potential kick or jersey scrimmage but other worthy bits were announced. The media will only have viewing, video and photog access to portions of three practices, and Media Day will be at the WHAC on August 12th.
Finally, Meyer's first press luncheon will be Monday, August 27th at high noon.
YOU MOCKING ME? The BTN marched on with their 2012 B1G Writers' Mock Draft in which 12 beat writers, including one devilishly handsome Kyle Rowland, select a team of QB, RB, WR, TE, any defensive player and a kicker in a six-round showdown for fantasy supremacy.
In Round 1, Braxton (3rd) and Simon (4th) came off the board early before Kyle swooped up Big Hank with the 9th pick. The Buckeyes struck out in the 2nd round though Moxie went 15th before Kyle stole Indiana QB Tre Roberson with the 16th selection.
Rounds 3 and 4 were posted yesterday and three more Buckeyes came off the board. My man Carlos Hyde was the 26th pick before Stoney went 29th, ahead of Kyle taking Purdue RB Akeem Shavers with the 33rd pick. Devin Smith was the only Buckeye taken in the 4th round, by Kyle at number 40.
Looks like Kyle has a very solid foursome thus far with Roberson, Hankins, Shavers and Smith. Looking up north, Ann Arbor dot com's Kyle Meinke has Nathan Scheelhaase, WR Kevonte Martin-Manley, RB Stephen Houston from IU and John Simon. Undoubtedly, Simon will refuse to report leaving the Ann Arbor squad extremely thin on defense.
Early Line: Team 11W by eleventy billion.
WE GOTTA STICK TOGETHER, MAN. Just barely over a week since a chunk of the players and coach Bill O'Brien vowed the team would stick together, the tally of players bolting from the slowly deteriorating corpse of Penn State football has reached six.
Yesterday, Robert Bolden arrived in the Bayou and will join LSU for the first practice this morning. It's an interesting match on multiple fronts. On one hand, you look at Bolden's 39% accuracy a year ago complete with a 2 TD / 7 INT line and the knowledge he currently is only good enough to be the 3rd stringer behind Moxie and sophomore Paul Jones, and you wonder why even Otterbein would be interested. On the other hand, the Tigers are woefully thin at QB behind starter Zack Mettenberger and seem recently partial to turnover-prone signal callers.
Also on the move are LB Khairi Fortt and incoming DE Jamil Pollard. Fortt recorded 33 tackles last year as a sophomore, leaving a nice hole in the LB corps. He's bound for the 'kind' campus at Berkeley while Pollard, a Rivals 4-star, is staying home to play for Rutgers.
The trio join the previously departed Silas Redd to USC, DB Tim Buckley who transferred to N.C. State and new Florida State Seminole TE Kevin Haplea.
Fry: 3-12-1 vs. OSU with 3 of those L's as Top 10 teamRUNNING BACK U. The curse Hayden Fry's mistress (let's pretend she was Gene Keady's wife) clearly unleashed on the running back position at Iowa is still packing mad heat. The newest victim of the bad mojo is De'Andre Johnson, a redshirt sophomore from Miami, FL.
Johnson got mixed up with the fuzz twice last week to seal his fate in Iowa City. His first run-in came after a Banger at his crib didn't end timely, resulting in a charge of 'suspicion of a disorderly house' which quite frankly seems harmless enough. Unfortunately, he backed up that run-in with a charge of eluding police after being clocked at over 60 in a 25 mph zone and failing to pull over with the quickness.
That leaves Iowa with exactly one RB, Damon Bullock, who can say he has one carry in a conference game. Incoming freshman Greg Garmon already has a drug paraphernalia charge on his resume which came after last year's leading rusher, Marcus Coker, was forced to transfer to Stony Brook following a bout with shenanigans. Oh, and another backup, Mika'il McCall hit the bricks after being suspended last year.
I hate slideshows but Lost Letterman has a solid edition breaking down the best years of the Iowa RB Curse.
I DEMAND JUSTICE! Can't they just hurry up and unleash a pack of rabid wolves on Sandusky already? His attorney, Joe Amendola, came out yesterday to tell us all that dammit, Jerry is pissed at how the NCAA treated his enabling former employer.
I'm sure PSU fans are so delighted to hear that Jerry still loves the program and the university and feels the NCAA was "unjust" in its actions.
As for Sandusky's continued delusion when it comes to his crimes and punishment, Amendola gave us an update:
"He continues to believe that the truth will come out at some point, and that he'll get another trial or another opportunity to establish his innocence."
Maybe he'll change his mind over the course of the next 442 years.
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