The Almighty Cleveland Browns are playing in Ohio Stadium today. Let's hope this doesn't end with western civilization's architectural crown jewel doesn't getting swallowed by Earth's gaping maw.
This week's NSFW ANTI-WORK #BANGERS:
- Bounty hunters mistakenly raid police chief's home.
- Lady Leshurr - Queen's Speech, Ep. 4.
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Blood Boat: Inside a Florida Fight Club's Quest for the High Seas,
THAT TIME NICK SABAN LAUGHED IN EARLE BRUCE'S FACE. It's Friday, so let's relive the time Earle Bruce canned Nick Saban's smirking, insubordinate ass.
From Doug Lesmerises of Cleveland.com's interview with the author of Saban: The Making of a Coach.
It seemed like Urban got a lot of good things from Bruce and Saban's tenure was really rocky. The only time Saban has ever been fired is when he was an assistant at Ohio State under Earle Bruce. They clashed a lot. It was the beginning of the transition period where offenses became a lot more potent. Saban saw that transition happening, and Bruce was very old school, so they went head-to-head.
One coach said there was one meeting where Saban laughed at Bruce over his old school ways and you could hear a pin drop. So they seemed to come out of working for Bruce with two very different experiences.
The big difference of course is the offense (Meyer) vs. the defense (Saban). According to people I talked to, Saban just can't stand that (spread) offense for a number of reasons. One is he had trouble in the past dealing with it. And he's kind of a purist, with that old school mindset where defense was king. And what that offense does has almost taken out defense out of the equation. The chess match becomes more like checkers.
So now Saban is the old-school coach stuck in his ways. Time is a flat circle.
I bet Bruce unfiltered on Saban is comedy gold too. I would pay for that DVD.
URBAN IS AT THE HEIGHT OF HIS POWERS. The Wall Street Journal looked at coaches' track records against then-Top 25 competition, and it turns out Urban Meyer resides in the upper crusts of the sport.
From Darren Everson of WSJ.com:
At the top of the win-percentage list happen to be the two coaches who met in the national-championship game last season: Oregon’s Mark Helfrich and Ohio State’s Urban Meyer. In the case of Helfrich, that is partly owed to small sample size; in Meyer’s, it is further proof that he is without question the top coach in the game today. Meyer’s .707 career mark, which includes the period when he didn’t have the advantage of coaching powerhouses Ohio State and Florida, even exceeds Nick Saban’s stellar .702 winning percentage at Alabama.
As for Meyer’s new rival: First-year Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh’s career record against top-25 opponents is 6-6. That may not sound like much, but three of those losses occurred during Harbaugh’s first month at Stanford, which had gone 1-11 the season before. The following month began with the famous road upset of 39-point favorite Southern California, which was ranked No. 2 at the time.
Urban Meyer is 29-12 vs. then-Top 25 teams, which seems pretty good.
OSU 'DOING AWAY' WITH PLAYER NUMBERS. Ohio State is protecting itself from eventual final judgements in the Ed O'Bannon case, so they've scaled back the variety of numbers available on official retail jerseys.
From Michelle Rotuno-Johnson and Jerod Smalley of NBC4i.com:
An ongoing federal court case focuses on the ability for schools to make money on merchandise sales representing their student athletes without the athletes receiving a portion of the profit.
Ohio State is among the schools already changing their jersey plan, this year allowing the sale of only two numbers: 1 and 15.
One is used as a generic number and 15 is to mark the year 2015.
"They're not wearing Ezekiel Elliott jerseys, folks! They're observing the Year of Wario."
SEEMS LIKE MIKE BENNETT IS GOOD, ACTUALLY. Remember that time earth-mover Mike Bennett fell all the way to the fifth round because anonymous scouts said he was small and overhyped? The bill is about to come due on that bullshit.
Mike Bennett vs Zane Beadles. Yeah, https://t.co/kLUC2MKNsT
— Mike Kaye (@mike_e_kaye) August 6, 2015
Sure, it's just a camp rep, but Beadles was an All-American at Utah and a 2012 Pro Bowler. He's no slouch.
GINN CAN STILL COOK. Ted Ginn is the fastest person I've ever seen in person, and it's a bit rattling to learn that he's 30-years-old now. At least for my sanity's sake he's still got that #BuckeyeSpeed.
From David Newton of ESPN.com's article on finding the fastest North Carolina Panther:
“Oh yes," Ginn said.
Teammates will concur that, even at 30 years old, Ginn is among the fastest – if not the fastest -- on the team.
“I still have to give the trophy to Ted," veteran safety Kurt Coleman said. “[Corey Brown] is right behind him. Then I might have to say [safety] Colin Jones might be there."
Ginn, Coleman, Brown, and Jack Andrew Norwell... I think I'm a lightweight Panthers fan this year too.
I CAN'T STOP LIKING HARBAUGH. How do you hate this man?
VIDEO: ICYMI -- Kid asks Jim Harbaugh about milk...Harbaugh answers like only Harbaugh can.. pic.twitter.com/3WxeHDHy01
— Jordan Strack (@JordanStrack) August 7, 2015
Hopefully he kept it real with that tyke though. No amount of milk — not even the divine elixir known as Fairlife Chocolate Milk — can protect that kid's bones from the eventual Silver Bullet onslaught.
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