As proof fall camp looms, I offer this video of footballers warming up for a team run:
Only 12 more sunrises until fall camp opens. Maybe it's because I write about the football team seven days a week (as opposed to five days a week in 2014), but I feel like this offseason went a lot quicker than the previous one.
I guess Tecumseh had the right of it when he famously declared "Time flies when you're having fun!" at an illicit rave in 1794.
BRAXTON MILLER'S MOVE GETS ITS HYPE REAL. You knew it was coming, but now it's officially here. Braxton Miller highlights set to intense music/Superman quotes!
From 11Wer @Kpdunphy:
The formula on these things is elementary by now, but I'll be damned if they don't make me feel like I'm about to rob a crack house.
WARREN G. HARDING BLESS JIM TRESSEL. "The Senator" — a criminal overlord still on the run from the United Nations — satellite-phoned into a Columbus radio station yesterday to taunt the authorities/talk Buckeye football.
From 97.1 The Fan:
Among the most notable things, Tressel says he last talked to Braxton Miller in May, and the QB still wasn't able to throw the ball. "I could tell he seemed a bit concerned," the Senator said.
Tressel also touched on the 2007 title game with LSU (wistful sigh), Terrelle Pryor, and the fact he plans to die outside of a prison cell.
OSU RECRUITING SOON-TO-BE-FRESHMAN. What were you doing as a soon-to-be high school freshman? If you were like me, it was nothing as cool as Sam Johnson is currently doing.
From Ari Wasserman of Cleveland.com:
Because the prospect of Southfield, Mich., is a 2019 prospect. He hasn't been to high school yet. Until school starts up, he is technically a middle-schooler.
And Johnson already has six scholarship offers, including one from Cincinnati. He's also heard from Michigan, Michigan State, Notre Dame, Ohio State and Penn State.
[...]
"I don't really feel there's pressure," Johnson said. "There's kind of pressure, but not really because I don't have offers for no reason. There's something good I must be doing in order to get six offers in the eighth grade."
This would've creeped me out a couple years ago, but now I just want to see how long Urban Meyer can bring talented QBs to Columbus.
As fans, we've watched Troy Smith to Terrelle Pryor to Braxton Miller to J.T. Barrett/Cardale Jones (yes, with some Justin Zwick, Todd Boeckman, and Joe Bauserman sprinkled in between). Ohio State just brought in two legendary high school QBs and has Tristen Wallace in 2016 and Danny Clark in 2017.
Can Urban Meyer keep this train rolling into the late 2020s? Because I'm totally down for that, even though we may never see a QB pipeline like this again in our lives.
SUGAR BOWL THE YEAR'S SECOND BEST GAME? Congrats to Michigan State, who finally won something cooler than the Condolence Cotton Bowl.
From ESPNMediaZone.com:
Fans have voted Michigan State’s thrilling, come-from-behind, 42-41 victory over Baylor in the Cotton Bowl Classic as the No. 1 college football game of 2014 and, as a result, it will concludeThe Top 25 College Football Games of 2014 on Sunday, Aug. 2 at 10 p.m. on ESPNU. The remaining top 5 games, which will all air between Friday, July 31 and Aug. 2 on ESPNU, are as follows:
2: Sugar Bowl: Ohio State’s 42-35 victory over Alabama
3: Baylor’s 61-58 victory over TCU
4: Auburn’s 35-31 over Ole Miss
5: Florida State’s 31-24 victory over Notre Dame.
I realize this is fan voting and I'm biased, but I can say without hyperbole that this is the greatest slight to Ohio State football since they came up empty-handed at the ESPYs.
I hope Urban Meyer hands out a copy of this shambolic list to every player before today's workouts. Injustices like this can't be allowed to stand.
INSPECT IT 1,000 TIMES, IT'S STILL A CARNIE RIDE. The Ohio State Fair opens up today. They tell you those carnie rides are safe, but I'm not about to trust the lives of my fictional kids to them.
From Marc Kovac of TwinsburgBulletin.com:
Columbus -- Jon Kaufman and Ron Dean climbed up ladders and looked high and low at the bolts holding together the "Typhoon," one of the rides awaiting thrill-seeking attendees at this year's Ohio State Fair.
Then, the two Ohio Department of Agriculture inspectors checked the bars that secure riders as their seats are swung rapidly skyward, standing back as the operator set things in motion.
Kaufman and Dean and other ODA inspectors have been busy at the state fairgrounds in Columbus since last week, when rides began arriving for the 12-day fair, which starts July 29.
More than 900,000 people are expected to attend this year's event. But before any of those folks step foot on the Typhoon, a Tilt-A-Whirl or the mainstay giant slide, each of the rides has to pass multiple inspections.
Good luck with to those 900,000 souls. They will be in my prayers while I'm inside my air-conditioned apartment with free water and a refrigerator "full" of food that isn't laced with diabetes. This is my design.
THOSE WMDs. Even for a Browns headline, this is sad... Iowa AD has no regrets on Kirk Ferentz's 10-year extension... The World's Leading Loch Ness Monster Expert Thinks He Solved the Mystery... Meet "Minion Yellow"... Can you go to jail for selling fake drugs?
