The big news yesterday was prized offensive line recruit and #Dream14 member Demetrius Knox making plans to officially visit UCLA and Texas. While it'd be tough to turn down a free trip to LA/Westwood, it was speculated by some that Texas and Ohio State would be in a dogfight to secure the Texas product's signature next month.
Enter Urban Meyer and Tom Herman. Those two had already planned a trip to Fort Worth before these rumblings began, and if there's anybody that can shut something like this down, it's these two.
The meeting must have gone swimmingly enough, as Tom Herman basically dropped the mic with this tweet:
Flag FIRMLY planted in Fort Worth. No worries. Just smiles. #ProudBuckeye #Dream14 #NotOnMyWatch
— Tom Herman (@CoachTomHerman) January 23, 2014
As Jason mentioned on Twitter yesterday, #NotOnMyWatch is our new favorite hashtag. I like to read it in my Heisenberg voice.
TO BLAZE UP A REDSHIRT OR NOT. Ohio State's men's basketball team will try to halt their four-game skid tonight as they play host to Illinois at 7 o'clock on ESPN. It's well known the team simply needs to start making some jumpshots, and one person who can shoot the pill is freshman Kam Williams.
Earlier this week Thad Matta declared he would redshirt Williams, and yesterday he doubled down on that despite the team's continued offensive woes at Nebraska. He said it'd be "selfish" of him to do so. One person who doesn't agree with him is apparently Kam Williams, as he favorited this tweet yesterday:
JAYRU CAMPBELL DUMPED A SECURITY GUARD. Teens these days have a really idiotic habit of doing idiotic things around large groups of people.
In 2014, everyone has a camera, and it only takes a few seconds to post your incident of stupidity to the entire world. If four-star, dual-threat QB prospect and Michigan State commit Jayru Campbell didn't know that when he woke up yesterday, he found out by sunset:
Here's video of the incident.
That's the kind of suplex worthy of a WWE squared circle, let alone a high school hallway. (The victim, for the record, is allegedly a Detroit Cass Tech security guard.) Now, I know Mark Dantonio is all chilled out these days and cool with Rich Homie Quan, but I have a small inkling in my stomach he won't be too chill when he sees this video. (The audio somehow makes it worse.)
And yes, Jayru was arrested for this and is currently cooling his heels in the custody of the Detroit police department.
#PRAYFORJACKMEWHORT. Jack Mewhort is on the Senior Bowl grind, and he appears to be solidifying his stock after a rough go of it in the Orange Bowl:
Jack Mewhort beat James Gayle soundly by keeping a wide, balanced base and getting his hands on him.
Mewhort also beat Will Clarke soundly, not giving up much ground off the edge.
... Final rep of 1 on 1s – Jack Mewhort pancaked Ra’Shede Hageman who was rushing from a left end position. Mewhort rode him out and got Hageman turned and then planted him on his backside.
Unfortunately for Jack, his hard work and great performance was rewarded from a visit by a Cleveland Browns scout. Hopefully Mewhort kept some sense with him and told the Browns he enjoys beating women, riding motorcycles and copious mounts of methamphetamine. Hopefully he added a personal insult aimed at Jimmy Haslam for good measure.
Trust me, Jack, from a die hard Browns fan: YOU DO NOT DESERVE TO BE SACRIFICED TO THE RAGING DUMPSTER FIRE THAT IS THE CLEVELAND BROWNS.
CONGRATS TO THE ACADEMICS. We /salute the student-athletes of this fine university! (And Sammy Silverman, who designed this, of course.)
THOSE WMDs. Photographs capture sublime power of super-storms... History professor's flowchart of Medieval legal proscriptions about sex.... Meanwhile, in Ukraine... The Truck Stop Killer... The Chronicles of Andrea "Air" Bargnani... Some OSU professors encourage skim reading... Culture of Cheating Permeates Air Force Missile Corps... How inactivity changes the brain... Inside Monopoly's secret war against the Third Reich... Inside the Incredible Booming Subterranean Marijuana Railroad.... Bill Cosby back?...
