Touché to Steve Kerr for going small (and to Andre Igoudala for rising from the grave), but I'm still not worried if I'm a Cavs fan. The extra day of rest will help a team with a 7-man rotation, and Cavs have already proven they can knock the Warriors at home.
Even if Cavs drop Game 5, it'd take a Herculean effort to close them out in Cleveland, and you can't rule out a team with LeBron in a Game 7.
If the Cavs win Game 5 then #CavsIn6.
So it was told, so it was written.
This week's NSFW ANTI-WORK #BANGERS:
- This is a textbook example of, "AND THE CROWD GOES WILD."
- Doc Ellis and the LSD No-No.
- Evolution of Dance.
TRESSEL AN "OVERWHELMING" CHOICE. Jim Tressel is on his way to the Ohio State Athletics Hall of Fame, which is only a bit awkward since Tressel resigned "in disgrace."
But Tatgate, rightfully, didn't matter to the Hall of Fame selection committee.
From Tim May of Dispatch.com:
But Varsity “O” president Stephen Chappelear said the selection board “didn’t discuss that at all” and had no qualms about picking Tressel.
“I think the Varsity ‘O’ board recognized the significant contributions Coach Tressel had made to the Ohio State University and the football program during his tenure with the team,” Chappelear said. “The criteria we look at … is not just win-loss record or championships, but also character and contribution to intercollegiate athletics. He was an overwhelming choice for the hall of fame.”
*bangs gavel* This is decidedly good stuff, Mr. Chappelear.
Oh, and Tressel handled it exactly like you'd expect Tressel to handle it:
“The minute they called, I immediately started thinking about the people who really made it happen, like Michael Jenkins, Craig Krenzel, Michael Doss, Jamar Martin, (defensive tackle) Timmy Anderson, extraordinary people like (assistant coaches) Mark Dantonio, and Mel Tucker, and Jim Bollman — the list goes on and on. Here you are getting singled out, and you know darn well that if it wasn’t, say, for that contribution by the walk-on on the scout team, this wouldn’t be happening.”
Ah yes! But for that one contribution by the walk-on on the scout team... Jim Tressel could've ended up in jail or selling dope on the streets of Berea. It's the little decisions in life.
THIEVIN' URBAN MEYER. "Good coaches borrow. Great coaches steal." - Urban F. Meyer. (Now watch me copy/paste the hell out of this.)
From Ryan Ginn of Scout.com:
“To this day, everything in our program came from Earle Bruce or Lou Holtz,” Meyer said. “I’ve been lucky. A lot of times, guys don’t get that. We’ll get a coach that is not used to the kind of attention to detail that we have, and it’s great to see them learn.”
Holtz, who later helped Meyer land his first head coaching job at Bowling Green, embraced the inevitability of staff turnover better than most. The famously bespectacled coach used to spend time working with his assistant coaches to prepare them for what they’d need to do to land (and keep) a head coaching job of their own.
“Lou Holtz would say, ‘We’re having a meeting today, and I’m going to help you become a head coach.’ He’d go through a lot of the things that I now share with my staff. I think Coach Holtz took that as an obligation,” Meyer said. “When I first started, I didn’t even think about that. Some of my mentors like Earle Bruce and Lou Holtz would always remind me – they said the older you get, one of your great legacies will be the guys that worked for you that go on to thrive.”
I take back every negative thing I've said about Lou Holtz's career at ESPN. Lou Holtz — Buckeye legend — is now 100% good (let's just never speak of the Notre Dame connection again).
BABY ZEKE. Folks, I'm not going to lie... babies intimidate me. If I never saw another baby picture in my life, I'd be cool with that.
I will admit, however, part of that reason is because I've already seen the world's greatest baby picture.
From Ezekiel Elliott's father, Stacy:
When he came in the world I had a plan! But Almighty God is the best of planners! @EzekielElliott #InUrbanWeTrust pic.twitter.com/vDE9NmhuKq
— Ambassador Elliott (@stacy_elliott) June 11, 2015
"But what about that shirt tho?"
Fine:
@itz_mizdee @BuckeyeEdge @SurvivinAmerica here you go Mrs. Elliott! pic.twitter.com/X5jggxXuXc
— Zane Stevens (@Mr_OH1O) June 11, 2015
Of course, a gang of idiot trolls had to roll through and have their fun:
LRT pic.twitter.com/OuovBYC0kD
— Ramzy Nasrallah (@ramzy) June 11, 2015
@BuckeyeEdge @Mr_OH1O @itz_mizdee @SurvivinAmerica pic.twitter.com/dhhkP1BjTU
— D.J. Byrnes (@marion_ohio) June 11, 2015
Seriously though: Shut down the baby picture market. It will never be topped.
TYVIS ON THE GRIND. Tyvis Powell — like most people here, I assume — is looking forward to September 7th.
Been grinding so what happened on Sept. 6, 2014 don't happen again on Sept. 7, 2015. Hope y'all been in the lab bc we COMING! #AintNoHiding
— Tyvis Powell (@1Tyvis) June 11, 2015
I don't think Virginia Tech stands much of a chance, but then again, I didn't think Virginia Tech stood much of a chance last year.
MANGOLD TO THE FEUD. Nick Mangold will be on the June 21st episode of Family Feud.
It will be NFC (Calais Campbell, Thomas Davis, Vernon Davis, Matt Forte, and Eddie Lacy) vs. AFC (Antonio Brown, Nick Mangold, Antonio Gates, Terrell Suggs, and DeMarcus Ware). Go Browns.
THOSE WMDs. Block M used to draw boos at Cavs game... Twiggy the water-skiing squirrel performs at X Games... The Computer Collector... Zimbabwe Phasing Out Worthless Currency... Lantern's 1999 review of OAR's second independent album... Paul Ford: What is Code?
