It was nice to see the NCAA gave Braxton Miller a mulligan. (You just never know with these people.)
This week's NSFW ANTI-WORK #BANGERS:
- 2015 re-post: Omar Little robs Marlo Stanfield's card game.
- Allow Omar (and friends) demonstrate how I prepare for every 11W function.
- Ted Ginn highlights? Yessir.
OSU AT MAGICAL 85. (No, not that magical 85.) Even with Jamel Dean's controversial exit from Columbus, Ohio State sat at 87 men in a sport that only allows 85 per team.
But we now have some more information about the two other players that won't be playing for Ohio State this fall.
From Doug Lesmerises of cleveland.com:
Also, a source said that one other Ohio State player who committed to this incoming freshman class did not meet academic eligibility requirements set out for him in December and won't be part of the team this year, though it's possible he may enroll in the future.
And one other member listed as part of the 27-member Class of 2015 in February is expected to grayshirt. That move would have the player enroll in the winter, after the season, and not count against the scholarship total now.
After running through a full accounting of the current team roster with a team source, that confirmed the Buckeyes are at 85 players. That includes two fifth-year seniors who took redshirts last year with injuries, quarterback Braxton Miller and lineman Joel Hale.
If you can't qualify, you can't qualify. It's as simple as that.
As for the gray shirt, well, I suppose that's where it's more interesting. It won't be a good look — and it will call into question every other prior roster move — if they force a gray shirt on a player. I see no issue if the player accepts it.
Until then, I'll continue to give the coaching staff the benefit of the doubt. (I'm sure they'll all take a deep sigh of relief when they read that.)
PERRY EARNS WELL-DESERVED PRAISE. Josh Perry earned a lot of shine yesterday. Chris wrote a great piece, and Perry also appeared on BTN:
Joshua Perry sits down to talk about how @OhioStAthletics is prepping to defend their football national title. http://t.co/ABbfZwhXZU
— Ohio State on BTN (@OhioStateOnBTN) April 9, 2015
Oh, that's not all. The football graphics department also put out this pearler:
(IF HE'S SO GREAT WHY WOULD YOU NEED A MINUTE TO PONDER THAT, GENE?)
Woody Hayes said you win with people, and Josh Perry is an embodiment of that principle. Is he the best linebacker in OSU history? No. But he'll be remembered like he is. He was as important as anyone in that locker room in building Ohio State's current culture.
DOLODALE IS AS DOLODALE DOES. If Cardale Jones isn't your favorite Buckeye in history then we've reached the point where I must question your character.
Add me on LinkedIn: Cardale Jones
— Cardale Jones (@CJ12_) April 9, 2015
One of the few sentences in my living will is that the epitaph on the Burger King dumpster that serves as my headstone reads: "Here lies a man who never had a MySpace or LinkedIn page."
That was my greatest accomplishment, and Dolodale truck-sticked it like it was an undersized-yet-still-pudgy Oregon DT.
In brighter news, I hope this caption is 100% true and not the good king having a jest:
I would rather turn up with Urban Meyer and Cardale Jones than Biggie and Tupac Shakur. (I would probably die from excitedly gobbling toxins like a suburban toddler eating Halloween candy.)
12 also appeared on a FoxSports.com podcast:
THE PRICE OF MAINTAINING GREATNESS IS HIGH. I live with three cats in a two bedroom apartment, which means I can't afford to fall behind on the cleaning unless I want to live in filth. (I'm no neat freak but I don't do filth.)
So, I could only imagine the efforts of maintaining a 107,000-seat mammoth like the Horseshoe.
From Eileen McClory of TheLantern.com:
[Building contractor Mike] Smith, along with three full-time staff members, 15 to 25 students and contractors hired as needed, is in charge of taking care of the stadium.
Working on the ‘Shoe means Smith and his team are walking around the stadium a lot. But Smith said that’s part of the reason he likes the job.
“You’re not just sitting down at a computer and running numbers. There’s a lot of variety and challenges you run into,” he said.
You know what, Mike? I believe you, pal.
SETTLE DOWN NOW, GARY. I guess Gary Pattern (note: nice) really thinks his squad could've banged with the Buckeyes. This quote is from YESTERDAY:
“I was told the reason we had a [selection] committee is we were going to take all that stuff out of it. [Conference] championship games shouldn't have mattered,” Patterson said.
“Their job was to watch all this film and pick the four best teams no matter who you played, what you did. All the sudden it came down to, ‘Well, they played a championship game butthey didn't.' That's not what we were told. We were told they were going to pick the four best teams.”
All of those "OREGON NATIONAL CHAMPIONS" shirts should've been sent to Fort Worth. (For my money? Florida State was the worst team in the field.)
THOSE WMDs. How a band of #teen wrestlers built a a pill-smuggling empire... True Detective Season 2 teaser... William Fulkner quit the post office with spectacular fashion... For an artist with amnesia, the world takes place through her pencil... My Quest for Atlantis.
