Happy trails to OL Marcelys Jones, who left the program yesterday.
It seems like just last week Kentucky media were fanning themselves over its own manufactured reports that Marshon Lattimore, Erick Smith, and Marcelys would commit to Kentucky. Hopefully Jones can find a more compatible program at his next stop.
This week's NSFW ANTI-WORK #BANGERS:
- Busta Rhymes judges YouTubers spitting his rhymes.
- Still hilarious: Stone Cold E.T.
- Iron Mike Tyson vs. Leonard 'Jinx' Spinks
PRYOR MAKES MOVE TO WR. The Cincinnati Bengals cut Terrelle Pryor last night. (Don't worry, Bengals fans, y'all still got A.J. McCarron's hideous tattoos.)
For Pryor, it's his third release in as many professional stops, and it looks like the former OSU QB is willing to do whatever it takes to stay in the league:
Agent Drew Rosenhaus is informing teams that Terrelle Pryor is changing positions to receiver.
— ProFootballTalk (@ProFootballTalk) June 19, 2015
Frankly, I'm surprised this didn't happen sooner, but I respect Pryor for chasing his dreams of being an NFL QB.
Playing WR involves a lot more than just being a freak athlete, but still, there aren't many athletes out there like ol' T-Peezy.
You know who could use a dynamic athlete on the outside? The Cleveland Browns. #JustMyTake.
THE SLOB WHISPERER. LeCharles Bentley's name has been ringing in these parts lately, and the LeChuck hype train continued yesterday with a national profile of the former Ohio State great.
Charles is now one of the most respected offensive line trainers in America, but it wasn't a transition that came lightly.
From Pete Prisco of CBSSports.com:
LeCharles Bentley was once a star NFL center with a fat, new contract from his hometown team, the Cleveland Browns. He had the work ethic, drive and ability to arguably become a Hall of Fame center, with two Pro Bowls with the New Orleans Saints already on his resume.
One play in July of 2006 changed all that. This one play nearly killed him, put him on the brink of actually killing himself and led to Bentley sitting in his basement one day in a prescription-pill-and-wine fog that he now says had him seeing players from his Maddenvideo game come to life on the floor in front of him.
"I was sitting there one night playing a game, and the players came off the screen," Bentley said. "I was a mess. Pills and wine. In my mind, the Broncos and 49ers were playing in my living room. John Madden was in my ear. "Fourth-and-one. Goal-line." I was a mess. I started snot-nosed crying and I called my sister. Please come get me. Something is wrong. People are playing in my living room. That's when I knew things had to change."
That's brutal, but it's a message I think all young footballers should read. No matter how good they are, football is fleeting, and money can't protect you from a life without fulfillment.
That's why I commend Urban Meyer for his Real Life Wednesdays. By all accounts, it's a message being drilled into Ohio State's team.
Be sure to check Prisco's piece in full (there's a sentence I'd never thought I'd type), because LeChuck is that dude.
LEE AND PERRY CROWNED. Neither Josh Perry or Darron Lee are America's best linebacker (yet), but the strength of the wolf is in the pack.
From Chase Goodbread of NFL.com's rankings of CFB's top LB duos:
1. Ohio State: Joshua Perry and Darron Lee
The skinny: How valuable are Perry and Lee to the Buckeyes' defense of the national title? They amassed 205 tackles between them last season, ranking first and third on the team, respectively. Lee has been more of a playmaker, ranking only behind star defensive end Joey Bosa in tackles for loss and sacks. Perry, meanwhile, is a 6-foot-4, 255-pound rock of an inside linebacker with an unparalleled nose for the ball. With 124 stops and 73 of them solos, the senior is indispensable.
Darron Lee, how do you feel?
Hey Squidder @RIP_JEP RT @NFL_CFB: Dynamic duos: Ranking CFB's top 10 LB tandems. --> http://t.co/iGVEZPvMQC pic.twitter.com/2N2MNvpuD8
— Darron Lee (@DLeeMG8) June 18, 2015
Ah, yes, the "Smiley Wearing Shades" emoji, which is how I feel about OSU's LB corps distilled into unicode.
MANY BENEFIT FROM OSU's SATELLITE CAMP. Ohio State's satellite camp came and went, but I thought this look into the coaching staff's ballin' ass lifestyle was humorous.
From Dan Wolken of USAToday.com:
At roughly 8:15 a.m. on Wednesday morning, a private jet carrying Ohio State coach Urban Meyer and seven of his assistants landed on that strip of concrete. By 9:30 a.m., a handful of them were outside the athletic complex at FAU chatting it up with Nick Bosa, the younger brother of current Buckeyes star defensive end Joey Bosa and a five-star defensive end in his own right. By 10 a.m., they were on the field amidst 585 football players wearing red shirts with an outline of the state of Florida and spaces to write their names. By 2:30 in the afternoon camp had finished, and shortly after that, Meyer and his coaches were gone.
Good to see Urban, like me, doesn't mess with rush hour traffic. (Does his morning commute of hopping on a private jet beat my hustle of rolling over and opening my laptop? Folks, it's tough to say.)
Meyer and his staff are basically rock stars at this point, but unlike the decrepit Mick Jagger, they're actually talented and not reduced to stealing money from hardworking people:
Take Quinn Crecy, who has driven his son — a 6-1, 230-pound defensive end also named Quinn — around the state this summer, hoping to land his first college scholarship offer. They already had been to camps at Florida International and South Florida, where Harbaugh famously took off his shirt, and he acknowledged the opportunity to get in front of Ohio State helped them make the drive from Tampa.
"I told him, they want to see potential. They love a piece of clay they can mold," said Crecy, who brought a hand-held video camera to help build a highlight tape for his son to send to colleges. "It's a tool to get you to that next level. If he goes to league or whatever, that's cool. I just want him to get an education, meet a beautiful woman, have a nice family and don't come back home. I told my wife, if we can get him out for four years, the chances of him coming home are very small."
[...]
"We benefit from doing this with Ohio State more than Ohio State benefits from doing it with us," FAU athletics director Pat Chun said. Chun worked at Ohio State, his alma mater, for 15 years before coming to FAU in 2012. "Charlie does an awesome job with camps anyway, and this just elevates the whole camp thing for us. We would have had 400 kids out here today no matter what, and then you throw Ohio State in the mix it's a couple hundred more. The reality is not all of them are going to be good enough to play for Ohio State, but it allows our coaches the opportunity to evaluate more, build more relationships, talk to more high school coaches. It's a win for us to have them come right to our house."
Shoutout to Pat Chun, and the F.A.U. family. I promise not to gloat too much when Ohio State defeats the Owls by 17 points in this year's championship game.
GET YOUR BRAG ON THEN, ZONE6. It ain't arrogance if it's true.
Ohio State. BuckeyeNation. #Zone6 AKA "The House Of Hardware" pic.twitter.com/Wfhe1LS2Lw
— Zone 6 (@Zone6_OSU) June 19, 2015
The funny thing to me is Urban Meyer is only warming up. Even after he broke Oregon in half with a "third-string" QB, these idiots still don't see the dynasty coming.
I guess I shouldn't complain, because that will make the victory even sweeter. Forget I said anything. Ohio State sucks.
OUT OF ALL THE HATS. When I see stuff like this, I harken back to the teachings of my D.A.R.E. officer: If you're going to do crimes, please at least have the decency to commit them wearing Michigan rags.
From Jason Law of WCPO.com:
INDEPENDENCE, Ky. -- Police said they caught the "Sock Hat Bandit" after he robbed a Fifth Third Bank Thursday.
The robber, identified as Brian Parnell of Dayton, Ohio, admitted to committing nine local bank robberies during an interview with the FBI, according to police records.
Parnell fled the scene down I-275 at more than 100 miles per hour, striking several cars on the highway. He crashed near an elementary school about six miles away in Covington and ran, but police quickly caught him, according to Capt. John Lonaker.
Brian Parnell has failed the great state of Ohio. (Don't look now, but "SEC speed" might be making comeback.)
11W GOES GOLFING. Certified street boss Remy is putting together an 11W Grassroots Charity Golf Outing to benefit the Central Ohio chapter of the Alzheimer's Association.
Here's the skinny:
- The Links at Echo Springs Golf Course in Johnstown, Ohio.
- Sunday, July 19, 2015.
- Deadline to Pay $60 fee: July 4th
- Registration at 1:15.
- Scramble Shotgun at 2:00
- Remy's contact email.
Full details (and registration links) can be found here. The prizes are pretty sweet too.
If golf is actually a sport, its gods will strike me dead as soon as I step foot in their temple.
THOSE WMDs. Somebody investigate these Paris Hilton claims... Tim Duncan says he lost $25 million to an ex-financial advisor... Tales from the eBay Crypt... The Zero-Armed Bandit... A Portable Compact Kegerator that Travels... Why Should LBJ let David Blatt pretend to be coach?
