One thing I've learned on this job: Ohio State news never rests.
- The 2016 class suffered a big blow yesterday; blue chip DE Terrell Hall decommitted. The Lord of Whispers says his likely landing spot is Alabama. As always: I tip my cap to any prospect who looks at everything Ohio State has to offer and says "Nah." Say what you will, but it's a bold choice.
- Video: Braxton Miller making one-handed catches... with five balls in his other hand.
- ESPN'S College GameDay will be in Blacksburg for Ohio State-Virginia Tech.
- Extremely good: Film Study glossary.
- Sweet 16 voting for the Enemy of the State Classic will open sometime before noon.
WELL, ACTUALLY... Oregon's Mark Helfrich claimed Oregon was the only College Football Playoff team to be subjected to NCAA drug testing. It looks like somebody duped Mark Helfrich.
From Bruce Feldman of FoxSports.com:
Uiversity of Oregon football coach Mark Helfrich said at Pac-12 Media Days on Friday he'd been told the Ducks were the only one of the four College Football Playoff teams who'd been subjected to the NCAA's random drug testing. However, a source told FOX Sports on Monday that regarding NCAA championship (or CFP) drug testing, when a semifinal round is selected for testing all participating teams in that round are tested.
If there were an organization incompetent enough to pull something like this off, however, it would be the NCAA.
Regardless, Oregon fans can somehow convince them this matters because they lost WR Darren Carrington to a drug test, but I don't think three Darren Carringtons make a difference in that game.
Sure, OSU could've suffered its own suspensions, but it'd take something cataclysmic to change the course of that game.
THIS IS MICHIGAN'S HOPE. When you mention Urban Meyer's three-year head start on Jim Harbaugh, this is usually the anecdote you get:
From Steve Greenberg of RollingStone.com:
Harbaugh has chased down a Meyer-esque coaching giant before: Pete Carroll. Harbaugh inherited a 1-11 team at Stanford and in 2007, in his initial season there, toppled Carroll's USC monster as a 41-point underdog — perhaps the biggest upset in the history of the Pac-12 Conference. Two years later, Harbaugh's Cardinal machine destroyed the Trojans by five touchdowns in Los Angeles. Does anyone want to raise his or her hand right now and argue that Carroll isn't one of the very best football coaches in existence? Jimbo has kicked Petey's ass and thrown him for a loop. Not every time, of course, but enough times that Meyer should be concerned about what's coming.
"He whooped Pete Carroll," they'll say, as if Carroll doesn't have a Super Bowl ring and a national title — two things Harbaugh lacks.
JUST KEEP WINNING. Ohio State doesn't lack for money, but opulent palaces aren't cheap... and neither are their annexes.
From Doug Lesmerises of Cleveland.com:
Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith recently told the Northeast Ohio Media Group there are three major athletic facilities projects in the works at a total cost of more than $67 million, and the Buckeyes' recent athletic success has helped fuel the fundraising for the buildings.
One of those projects is expected to be fast-tracked and hasn't been previously detailed, but it's a key to bringing most of Ohio State's 1,000 varsity athletes into the same area by attaching a new $30 million home for Olympic sports to the football headquarters at the Woody Hayes Athletic Center.
The current attachment to the Woody Hayes, a much smaller wing housing a few offices and training rooms, would be torn down for the new project.
Let's hope Ohio State's bubble never bursts.
BUCKEYE SPEED. If fast cars are your thing, here's video of Graham Rahal doing the damn thing at the Honda Indy 200:
How they take those corners like that is wild to me. I guess those guys are surrounded by professional drivers, as opposed to these wild-ass, ready-to-die Columbus metro drivers that surround me.
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