If you're around Miami County today, come check out the food truck festival at the fairgrounds in Troy, Ohio, USA. I'll be the doofy white guy wearing Piqua regalia while shoving shredded pig parts lathered with BBQ sauce into my gaping maw.
ICYMI:
- Women's tennis topped South Carolina to move to the NCAA quarterfinals.
- Torrance Gibson's Cincinnati status is "undecided," Luke Fickell said.
- Cincinnati prep coaches believe Fickell is the man for the Bearcats job.
- Bradley Roby visited his old collegiate unit room.
- Help put a life-size statue of Woody Hayes in his hometown of Newcomerstown, Ohio.
Word of the Day: Deleterious.
ALRIGHT THEN. Despite one electric night in the plains of Oklahoma and a knockout blow in Wisconsin, Ohio State's top receiver, Noah Brown, often looked like he didn't figure into the Buckeyes' offensive plans.
Brown surprised folks by declaring for the NFL Draft, in which he landed with the Dallas Cowboys via a seventh-round selection after Ezekiel Elliott lobbied his front office on behalf of his former teammate.
If Brown blows up in Dallas, it won't stop Ohio State from using him in recruiting materials. In fact, it already has.
.@Nb_Eight5 is on a mission to show the #NFL what he can do with the @dallascowboys #Zone6 #DevelopedHere pic.twitter.com/9d4PWjZVe5
— Ohio State Football (@OhioStateFB) May 19, 2017
It's interesting to hear Brown praise Zach Smith for his development in route-running when scouts consistently knocked Brown's route-running.
LEARN FROM THE BEST. What could a Navy SEAL teach a collegiate softball player about fielding a ground ball? Turns out, a lot.
From dispatch.com:
It might seem like a jarring analogy without context, but leadership coach Scott Daly, a former U.S. Navy Seal of 13 years, has his ways of illustrating points to the Buckeyes’ softball team.
“He was talking about how to reload his gun,” said Kirk, an infielder from Hartley. “When that pressure situation comes, he has done it so many times that it’s second nature. He can do it smooth and quick.
“In taking reps in practice, I’ve worked on that. Now, when there’s a (sacrifice) bunt, I’m throwing more often to second base to (get the lead runner). Slow to smooth, smooth to fast.”
Focus 3, the Dublin-based leadership consulting company first utilized by Urban Meyer, is also involved with the softball team. Seems like Meyer might know a thing or two about leadership.
Unfortunately the softball team lost to USC Upstate, 7-3, yesterday in an NCAA Tournament opener. It plays Longwood in an elimination game at approximately 2:30 p.m.
MILLIONAIRE COMPLAINS. Jim Harbaugh, the second highest paid college coach in America despite never finishing better than third in his own division, has a problem with "football factories" and didn't die from the suffocation of irony.
From sbnation.com:
In a recent interview with Sports Illustrated, he discussed his frustration with getting into certain states for satellite camps, specifically in Louisiana. Tulane was set to have a camp with Michigan’s staff, but the Wolverines were later disinvited.
“It’s definitely a strategy by several football factories to prevent competitors on their turf, the kids be darned,” Harbaugh said via Sports Illustrated.
Let’s just talk about how Harbaugh, a head coach who makes $7 million a year, second only to Alabama’s Nick Saban, who will make $11 million this season, is complaining about “football factories.” I’ll just throw out some numbers for you.
Michigan’s athletic department brought in $152,477,026 during its last fiscal year, fourth in the country according to USA Today. According to PennLive.com, which uses the U.S. Department of Education’s Equity in Athletics’ figures, Michigan football hauled in $97.1 million in 2015-16. LSU brought in considerably less than that, with $55 million reported.
Michigan fans can go on about Michigan's academics compared to LSU's, but it's not like every football player up north is getting an education worthy of the "No. 1 public college in America," or whatever it is they claim.
Harbaugh already knows that too.
SEEMS LIT. God Bless the Eighties, a decade I lived through but don't remember:
May 19 in University District History: Totally Eighties! 500+ turn-out for Buck-I-Robics mass aerobics event at Ohio Stadium. In 1985.
— Univ Dist History (@UDHCMH) May 19, 2017
Should bring those back Sundays following home games to help combat the 6,000 calories I ate and drank the day prior.
PARENTS, PLEASE. I wrote for The Comeback about an issue close to my heart: The epidemic of parents smuggling babies into bars. Please agree with me and share on social media.
Thank you.
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