ICYMI:
- Urban Meyer presser notes.
- Cardale Jones will start against Northern Illinois.
- Jim Tressel will be honored during Saturday's game.
- Ed Warinner is now tied with Luke Fickell as Ohio State's highest-paid assistants ($600k/yr).
HAWAI'I SENTIMENT ANALYSIS. Hawai'i got tombstoned this past Saturday, but that doesn't mean we can't look back at how Ohio State fans viewed the contest from the stands.
From u/sunnydelish, who scraped Twitter and charted the results (click to enlarge):
As you can see, Barrett was preferred over Cardale during certain periods of the conversation on Twitter. The sentiment also went negative for Cardale few times when he was struggling on the field as well.
It is evident that Ohio State enjoyed very positive sentiment from its fans on Twitter; surprisingly, Buckeye fans were also appreciative for the most part of the Hawaii team. Perhaps they did not really consider them a threat and were generally talking in positive sentiment towards the end of the game after a shut out was expected. Interestingly, around the half time mark, there was a lot of trash talking going on against Hawaii.
As a Browns fan, I can attest that the backup QB can be the most popular guy on the team. I'm not a fan of the quick hook/QB carousel — or fans' cries to switch to the other guy after every errant pass — but I'll defer to Urban Meyer on this one. (Bold stance, I know.)
As for Hawai'i, why would anyone talk trash about the Rainbow Warriors? They gave the Buckeyes a better test than anybody expected, they played hard and clean, and the Haka chant was captivating. WHAT MORE DO YOU PEOPLE WANT FROM A MIDDLING MOUNTAIN WEST CONFERENCE TEAM?
OK THEN, SURE. Colin Cowherd is bad and routinely problematic, but yesterday he said something with which I agree:
"Ohio State would run through the SEC" - @ColinCowherd. #HerdHere https://t.co/dnJ0y91JuP
— Herd w/Colin Cowherd (@TheHerd) September 14, 2015
It's funny to watch the SEC's mythical facade get torn apart by the same jokers that were trashing Ohio State's schedule last week.
Would OSU "run through" the SEC? SEC fans would say no. Ohio State fans would say yes.
Only one of them, however, would have the tape of the 2015 Sugar Bowl in their defense. The SEC benefitted from perception for so long — it would've been Alabama vs. Florida State for the 2014 title if the BCS still existed — that it's nice to see people realizing that league has its mediocre members like every other conference in America.
SEC exceptionalism isn't dead yet, but it's on life support.HOKE GAMBLED, LOST. It disgusts me when coaches — who can leave their schools in the middle of the night — try to overlord over recruits' visitation rights.
Brady Hoke tried this with then-Michigan commit Gareon Conley, and in typical Hoke fashion it backfired in his face.
From Cleveland.com:
"It was just the way they presented themselves to him," Conley's aunt, Aisha, told Northeast Ohio Media Group. "There were some things that Michigan didn't do properly. When Gareon made his verbal commitment, from my understanding, Michigan heard he had gone to other colleges and visited. They sort of threatened that they'd pull his scholarship.
"I told him right then, 'Don't do it.' It was OK for him to visit, and he should have. One thing I have always taught him is when someone shows you their true colors up front, that's how it's going to be in the long run. ... It was the way they played their hand."
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"Ohio State showed love from the beginning," Aisha said. "That's who you should attach yourself to. You attach to where the love is. Urban Meyer told him up front, 'You're going to be in the game.' They showed the love. And you see what happens."
Love to see Michigan starved of Ohio talent. Those bums can play the "Worst State Ever" card all they want, but the truth of the matter is their national trophy case would be even more pathetic nonexistent without Ohio blood.
Learn from Gareon Conley, Ohio high schoolers.
TYVIS BALANCES SCHOOL, FOOTBALL, AND FATHERHOOD. Attention reality TV show producers: I detest your brand of television, but I would pay hard money for an unfiltered and uncensored look at the friendship of Cardale Jones and Tyvis Powell:
Me: I have a son My professor: Aww how old is he? Me: He'll be 23 in a couple weeks Professor: 23 weeks? Me: Nah 23 YEARS! S/o to 12
— Tyvis Powell (@1Tyvis) September 14, 2015
Of course there's always a miserable person waiting to tsk-tsk a college student for taking 20 seconds out of his day to send a hilarious tweet:
@1Tyvis I hate to be rude, Tyvis, but you have a big game this week against a top notch opponent. I would like to see a little more focus.
— Kevin Dasd (#23) (@Kevin_Dasd) September 14, 2015
That tweet is so bad it should be put into a textbook on how not to tweet, and that textbook should be sent to every bitter, lonely man with a WiFi connection. (The possible flaw in that plan? Assuming people like that read books.)
WHEN THE CPD HELPS YOU TURN UP. If I did something like this it'd end with a cop shouting, "We've got bath salts on our hands!" before pumping me full of 50,000 bolts of electricity:
PSA: I was on campus about a year ago, and I walked into Formaggio's with a hankering for some of that delicious pizza with raw cheese that I had come to know and love while in college.
Much to my horror, some blasphemers tore it all out and put some seedy little bar in there. Worse yet, these kids looked at me like I was high on bath salts when I asked about ordering a pizza.
So don't be fooled. That's an imposter Formaggio's.
THOSE WMDs. Larry David: Handicap Your Enthusiasm... Reminder: Popeye was a savage... This crocodile leaps into your nightmares... R.I.P. Moses Malone... I was a #teen computer virus author.
