My new favorite thing on this site is when commenters click into threads to declare how much they don't care. And by "favorite" I mean "something that makes me want to crawl back into the Pasadena gutter from which I was hatched."
Do these people not know Twitter was literally invented for passive-aggressive griping? Anything else makes them a petulant child who ate a box of crayons in effort to gain attention from its unloving parents. (Alas, the joke's on you, kid.)
GENE SMITH DROPS SOME #TAKES. At what point does the OSU Athletic Department just become its own university? I'm tired of the broke-ass Humanities department holding OSU athletic teams back from the true goal of winning every title in every sport every year.
From Evan Weese of BizJournals.com:
Q: Do you have to remind people that Ohio State’s athletics program doesn’t take away from other university programs?
A: We do, we constantly have to remind people we’re self-supporting. We don’t receive tax dollars – in fact we transfer about $32 million a year to the university. Close to $18 million pays for (our) scholarships. We pay for every scholarship. We help a number of programs on campus, the one most people realize is the library. We help them pay for their debt, $1 million a year to pay off $9 million (total).
How many people would come to the Horseshoe for a Geology lecture? Do y'all even realize what sort of havoc a small but talented army of bagmen could wreak with $32,000,000 in unmarked bills? Libraries aren't even that cool. I carry the summation of human knowledge in my pocket, and my cell phone doesn't kick me out for watching 100% street legal pornography.
(Let me stop this bit before I give some poor scholar an aneurysm.)
We also knew Ohio State hadn't 100% killed the idea of selling booze in the Horseshoe, but it doesn't look like the suds will be flowing anytime soon:
Q: Have you studied how much money it could generate for the athletics department?
A: We know it’s north of seven figures, based on what other schools talk about. Last year you had Texas talk about it - 99,000 seats and they knew it would be north of a million (dollars). We talk about (the potential revenue) on occasion, but these aren’t formal conversations. At some point we will and actually drill down on it and work with our concessionaire ... because more schools are starting to do it. You had Maryland’s announcement. Minnesota was four years ago, that brings up (questions of), “Ohio State, what are you doing?” But we’re a different place, we’re huge.
Smith, in another answer in the interview, said Ohio State would make "seven figures" if it sold booze in the Horseshoe. I'm not sure I buy that, because that would mean Ohio State turned down a massive payday. (Please don't think this means I would ever turn down a payday.)
UNDISPUTED MATRYOSHKA. Are you a millionaire? Then perhaps you should consider this $300 championship matryoshka that will undoubtedly sit untouched on your mahogany bookshelf for the next two-and-a-half decades:
I understand the '14 is for 2014, but did you know Ohio State didn't field a No. 14 last year? It's true. (No, it's not retired, either.)
JEFF GREENE MAKES A POINT. I like watching footwork drills because I have disgusting cankles and the lateral quickness of a dead man, but Jeff Greene is not wrong here:
I forget where I read it, but some basketball coach went off on trainers who make their clients dribble two basketballs at the same time. (The summation of the argument: When in the hell will you dribble two balls in a game?)
This reminds me of that.
FOCUS3 IN FOCUS. I've written about Focus3 before, but if you're unfamiliar with their work (or even if you are), this is a great piece from NBC4:
You might be skeptical of consultants. That's okay; I am too.
But let me tell you this: I've met both Tim and Brian Kight, and those two, no joke, are the two most-genuine people I've ever met.
People have asked why I was confident in Cardale Jones before he took the reigns against Wisconsin, or why I said Ohio State was going to beat Alabama (when the Buckeyes were down 21-6).
The main reason is because I 100% believe in the culture that Urban Meyer and the Kights instrumented.
E+R=O is the truth.
OSU RESEARCHERS CRACK ANOTHER CODE. I have trouble sleeping sometimes, but it's because I stare at a computer screen for a couple of hours before bed seven nights a week. (I then sometimes have nightmares about typos. I wish I was making this up.)
From 10TV.com:
COLUMBUS, Ohio - If you have problems getting a good night's sleep, you may have high blood pressure. New research from the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center finds that medicine may not help as much as it should, until you use a device to give you the sleep you crave.
[...]
Doctors Magalang and Christopher Valentine analyzed sleep studies worldwide and found that millions of people may have trouble getting high blood pressure under control despite medicine, because they have sleep apnea.
"The fact that they're not getting adequate oxygen during sleep is causing changes in hormones that are elevating their blood pressure,” explains Dr. Valentine, OSU Resistant Hypertension Clinic Director
There are only 115 days until Ohio State kicks off its championship defense.
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