TIME FOR A BREATHER After adding 91 commitments over the previous three weeks the B1G "only" added 15 commitments between 6-27 and 7-3. The schools adding commitments this week were Northwestern (4), Iowa (3), Maryland (3), Penn State (1), Purdue (1), Rutgers (1), That Team (1) a...

There are 65 days that separate us from Ohio State's march to Blacksburg. To help pass the time until the Buckeyes put the Sandman to sleep I will countdown Ohio State's top 100 players according to the rubric* listed at the bottom of this article.   Aaron Brown was a three-ye...

If you haven't been able to tell from the previous blogs that I have posted, one of the biggest reasons I love football is the immaculate pageantry that occurs pre-game Friday night. The Crowd. The banner. The band. The brotherhood.  I've been through this before. In a few of those blogs I w...

There are 66 days that separate us from Ohio State's march to Blacksburg. To help pass the time until the Buckeyes put the Sandman to sleep I will countdown Ohio State's top 100 players according to the rubric* listed at the bottom of this article.   Fritz won three Big Ten Ti...

  This is for you, Mothra.  You posted a Topic today asking for "UFO stories".  I answered and found even as I posted, the Topic had already skittered out of view.  So here it is, and as I stated...be forewarned.  It is not a story for the faint of Hart...or the skitti...

This series will highlight the commitment anniversary date of Ohio State players. I have commitment dates from 2003-2015. Note: I don't have all of the commitment dates for all of the players from those years, but I'm working on it.    Drew Basil did not have a comp. rat...

There are 68 days that separate us from Ohio State's march to Blacksburg. To help pass the time until the Buckeyes put the Sandman to sleep I will countdown Ohio State's top 100 players according to the rubric* listed at the bottom of this article.   Lukens is left of Dan Marino...

Methodology With some of the speculation regarding who might move to another conference, I thought that I would examine how the various conferences stack up academically.  My source was US News & World Report rankings from 2014.  I started tracking this in 2012 when the major moves ...

There are 68 days that separate us from Ohio State's march to Blacksburg. To help pass the time until the Buckeyes put the Sandman to sleep I will countdown Ohio State's top 100 players according to the rubric* listed at the bottom of this article.   Staysniak earned five acad...

This series will highlight the commitment anniversary date of Ohio State players. I have commitment dates from 2003-2015. Note: I don't have all of the commitment dates for all of the players from those years, but I'm working on it.    Rod Smith had a .975 comp. r...

There are 69 days that separate us from Ohio State's march to Blacksburg. To help pass the time until the Buckeyes put the Sandman to sleep I will countdown Ohio State's top 100 players according to the rubric* listed at the bottom of this article.   Cusick was named All-Big T...

This series will highlight the commitment anniversary date of Ohio State players. I have commitment dates from 2003-2015. Note: I don't have all of the commitment dates for all of the players from those years, but I'm working on it.    Nick Vannett had a .912 comp. ...

In my blog on Friday, I asked if anyone had something they would like to see me write about.  I got a suggestion from GrandTheftHarley (my sixth blog, The McClain Game, was off a suggestion by him too) to write about the following topic: It's said that it's not if you get injured in footba...

There are 70 days that separate us from Ohio State's march to Blacksburg. To help pass the time until the Buckeyes put the Sandman to sleep I will countdown Ohio State's top 100 players according to the rubric* listed at the bottom of this article.   Will Smith embarrassed off...

This series will highlight the commitment anniversary date of Ohio State players. I have commitment dates from 2003-2015. Note: I don't have all of the commitment dates for all of the players from those years, but I'm working on it.    Joshua Perry had a .941 c...

There are 71 days that separate us from Ohio State's march to Blacksburg. To help pass the time until the Buckeyes put the Sandman to sleep I will countdown Ohio State's top 100 players according to the rubric* listed at the bottom of this article.   Mangold is a born and bred...

B1G WORK NEVER ENDS The B1G had 41 commitments last week. Over the past three weeks the conference picked up 91 new commitments. 91. The schools adding 2016 commitments this week were Iowa (6), Illinois (5), Indiana (5), Rutgers (5), Penn State (4), Purdue (4), Wisconsin (3), That Team (3), Neb...

This series will highlight the commitment anniversary date of Ohio State players. I have commitment dates from 2003-2015. Note: I don't have all of the commitment dates for all of the players from those years, but I'm working on it.    Michael Hill  had a .924&nbs...

There are 72 days that separate us from Ohio State's march to Blacksburg. To help pass the time until the Buckeyes put the Sandman to sleep I will countdown Ohio State's top 100 players according to the rubric* listed at the bottom of this article.   Barton won three consecutive...

Two guards took the field that evening for Unioto High School.  Both of them Juniors. Both of them about 5'10" tall.  Both of them had earned their spot.  But there were differences.  One, the left guard, a slight bit stronger and forty-five pounds heavier than the other, had a b...