JOHNNY FOOTBALL TO CLEVELAND!!!!! YES!!!!!!!!
The Cleveland Browns are the greatest sports franchise in the world. When the Browns win the Super Bowl (with Johnny Manziel throwing darts), I will die as the happiest man in the universe.
The Justin Gilbert pick (and a future first rounder) was another boss pick. Ray Farmer, take a bow. You ran a CIA-level counter-intelligence effort in the lead up to the draft.
I love everybody. The world is a good, just place.
ICYMI:
- Ryan Shazier is a Steeler via the 15th pick of the draft because the Steelers always seem to draft quality footballers. Sadly... *switches to Tony Montana voice* that cock-a-roach is dead to me. The funeral will rival when the Celtics drafted Jared Sullinger.
- Bradley Roby was taken 31st overall by the Denver Broncos, an organization that clearly doesn't have a problem with driving under the influence.
BRAXTON'S GOT A LIST; HE'S CHECKIN' IT TWICE. Braxton Miller literally has millions of dollars riding on his performance next year. His goal is to be a first round pick, and he's got a list to make his dream into reality.
From Cleveland.com, it goes a little something like this:
- Dominate the board. Here's Urban Meyer:
“Alex Smith was a photographic memory guy,” Meyer said. “I’ve never seen anything like that. Alex could walk in and lecture you on offensive football for five hours - think about that – and he’d do all the taking. Tebow got to that point. And we’ve got to get Braxton to that point.”
- Stay healthy. This one is obvious.
- Run less. So is this one.
- Lead more. Yeah, this one is too.
- Win a tough game with his arm. Hello, at Michigan State.
Braxton Miller is ridiculously good at football, and this fall he's going to take some corners like he's Marlo Stanfield. I believe his shoulder surgery and having to sit out during spring camp was a blessing in disguise. It allowed him to focus on the mental side of the game.
That said, Braxton has improved every year he's played. Tom Herman is one of the best offensive minds in the game. To me, Brax's improvement is assumed.
MALCOLM JENKINS IS STILL A GOOD GUY. While last night was about Ryan Shazier and Bradley Roby being drafted into the NFL, former OSU cornerback Malcolm Jenkins has been balling in the league for a long time.
From the Eagles' official site:
Malcolm Jenkins' father was a leader by example and instilled that in his son. When Jenkins finally went to Ohio State, he was a leader on the field as a team captain and All-America selection for a team that reached the BCS National Championship Game. Off the field, Jenkins volunteered by reading to kids or serving as a mentor to high school students while earning his bachelor’s degree in communications. When Jenkins arrived in New Orleans with the Saints in 2009, he wanted to use his platform to help children. In 2010, Jenkins started The Malcolm Jenkins Foundation.
"My mom and I really wanted to focus our efforts into one main goal instead of doing something sporadic and bring some kind of cohesion to it," said Jenkins, who won a Super Bowl and was a two-time captain in New Orleans. "We started a foundation and really wanted to focus it on kids, particularly underprivileged kids in underserved communities. We started in New Orleans and had the vision to eventually branch out to Ohio, where I played, and then Jersey, where I'm from obviously.
"I've always had a soft spot for kids, knowing the opportunities and the impact that people have made on my life. To see kids who lack just that one person to pour into them, that gets to me. I've always had that passion to try to bridge that gap or let them know that there are some resources, there are some people out here who care about you."
Malcolm Jenkins... great representative of The Ohio State University. (*The ghost of Woody Hayes nods in agreement.*)
WICHITA STATE COMING TO BOWLING GREEN? After Ohio State's men's basketball team bowed out against Dayton, I hate to revive the specter of Wichita State, but I did find this article interesting.
Bowling Green needed a boost to operate like a Gonzaga or a Wichita State, the mid-major schools that have near-major basketball commitments. Wichita State’s basketball expenses in 2012-13 exceeded $5.3 million per U.S. Department of Education data, for example, while Bowling Green’s were less than $1.5 million. But it should have more resources, and it should have a coach who comes off a seven-year tutorial on how to maximize them.
“That’s the goal,” [Chris] Jans said. “I can’t sit here and tell you that’s the end-all, is to try to replicate what we did at Wichita State, but it’s certainly something to shoot for. If we’re focused and have that mentality that we’re getting there every day and get the right student-athletes in our program, and we shoot for goals like that, the final results will be pretty darn good and everyone in the program will be happy with results and where the program is going.”
Bowling Green has been committed to pursuing athletic success; the football team just won the MAC championship and the women’s basketball team has earned nine straight bids to either the NCAA tournament or the WNIT. Jans doesn’t have to convince anyone that winning in men’s basketball is necessary. That’s also self-evident in the team’s home, the 4,700-seat Stroh Center that is not even three years old.
Jans is a former assistant at Wichita State... so he's familiar with how to make something out of nothing.
I welcome the rise of Ohio's basketball teams. Competition only breeds success, and it's not like any school in Ohio can compete with OSU's warchest if things get dicey.
Hopefully Jans figures it out and makes BGSU a sleeper come March Madness. It'd only be good for Ohio.
THOSE WMDs. The Fake Lantern owns the OU class of 2018... TIL: Hitler wanted to build a 400,000 seat stadium... Painting: Warships in a Heavy Storm, circa 1695... US Air Force: We'd pwn Godzilla... Area Man's Intelligence Probably Just Too Intimidating For Women... Watch the Earth rise, from the moon... Here's a collection of of New Yorker covers from the 1940s... For the record: Rowland said he was done with the Browns...
