Few things worse in this sport than hearing about a signee suffer a serious injury. Get well soon, Dre'Mont Jones (I stand by my #take that ACLs should be outlawed.)
TV PROGRAMMING NOTE: The men's basketball team's regular season finale is today at 4:30 p.m. (CBS). The Big Ten-leading Wisconsin Badgers are in town.
If you're around Columbus (and have the requisite money), head on over to the Schott and support the hometown team. (They're attempting a whiteout, by the way.)
11W WEEK IN REVIEW. Here are some good items you may have missed:
- Why not enjoy another viewing of OSU's championship highlights?
- Ohio State hopes to contain Frank Kaminsky.
- Citro examines Shannon Scott's legacy.
- Maks on the resurrection of the linebacking corps.
- Zeke and King Cardale love the kids.
- Remembering the time OSU kill-shotted the Heisman field.
- Shoemaker revisits Matt Sylvester's shot against Illinois.
- The Winter Swollstice was a success.
- Get to know OSU football's first South Dakotan.
- The blessing of Basketbucks' front court depth.
- Five things to ponder before Meyer's fourth spring camp opens on Tuesday.
WELCOME TO #QBGEDDON. I hadn't even realized Urban Meyer will drag out naming a starting quarterback as long as possible since the first game of the season is at Virginia Tech. There's nothing to gain from publicly declaring a starter.
From Ted Miller of ESPN.com:
1. Don't expect quarterback clarity at Ohio State until September: Not to be hyperbolic, but the quarterback competition at Ohio State might be the most fascinating position battle in the history of college football. Seriously. You have a two-time Big Ten offensive player of the year winner (Braxton Miller), a guy who finished in the top five of the 2014 Heisman Trophy balloting (J.T. Barrett) and a guy who turned in arguably the best run of three victories in program history while winning a national championship (Cardale Jones). You also have a new co-offensive coordinator/QB coach in Tim Beck, late of Nebraska. Further complicating matters, Barrett and Miller won't be able to participate in spring practices due to injuries (Barnett will have limited availability). Those injuries seem to have many favoring Jones, owner of the best arm of the three, even though he finished third in previous competitions. While Jones certainly can impress Beck and head coach Urban Meyer this spring, the only certainty is that Meyer owes Barrett and Miller a legitimate chance to win back the job. That means they get all of August to make their claim. Beyond that, Meyer probably won't feel much of a rush to publicly name a No. 1 guy, even if a clear pecking order emerges by mid-August. No reason to make things easier on Virginia Tech, the Buckeyes' opponent in their season opener.
I like when writers say things like "It may be the most interesting position battle in history." Not that it is or isn't, but that it may be. Who's to say? Not Ted Miller.
Pedantic semantic analysis aside, if there was every something to live up to the hyperbolic hype, it is the 2015 Ohio State quarterback derby. How could it get more intriguing at this point? I don't see a way.
KAMINSKY IS IN LOVE WITH THE SPORKS. I'm the type of that, when going into an unknown situation, just convinces himself everything is about to go awry. Why? Because if it does go awry, I don't end up in a mental hospital.
I'm not saying it will go down like this, but I am prepared to be humiliated on national television by a guy named Frank who unironically loves sporks.
From Jesse Temple of FoxSports.com:
"It's not anywhere close to what I thought it would be like just from an attention standpoint," Kaminsky said after Tuesday's practice. "It's overwhelming at times and I wish honestly sometimes it would just go away. But you've got to handle it. There's nothing I can do about it, so I've just got to keep performing."
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-- On some of the hecklers he encounters during road games:
"I've been getting a lot of posters this year from fans. It's actually quite funny some of the stuff they come up with. Like Frank Kaminsky uses sporks. Actually, sporks are great. It's a spoon and a fork all in one . . . If a spork is available, I'm definitely going to use it."
Actually, Frank, sporks are bullshit, which you would know if you actually ever tried to use one. (If Amir isn't fired up to bang on a guy who likes sporks, then I can't help him.)
WOMEN'S ROWING RECOGNIZES THE SWOLLSTICE. These women are buffer than me:
The Ohio State Novice Rowing team takes on the #WinterSwollstice #RowBucks #GoBucks pic.twitter.com/D0xparuMMB
— Mia Francisco (@miamatata) March 7, 2015
THOSE WMDs. I'm moving to Japan's cat island... R.I.P. @HeaftyLefty... If only they'd do this to every golf club in the world... Shaq was wild... The Original Corporate Raiders.
