Somebody said the wait for Giordano's pizza (pictured above with wide receiver Eric Glover-Williams) was four hours yesterday at Polaris. Y'all could've just thrown Domino's cheesy breadsticks into a jar of Kroger pizza sauce for the same effect at 1/20th the price and 1/10th the wait.
"Chicago deep dish" is an affront. I would still 100% rock that Canton McKinley sweatshirt.
ICYMI:
- Dabo Swinney watched all Big Ten film last year and told his team Ohio State was "in trouble" ahead of CFP semifinal.
- Urban Meyer updates on Mike Weber's hamstring, J.K. Dobbins playing time, and more.
- Greg Studrawa: RG competition "wide open," trusting backups, and more OL updates.
- Freshman safety Isaiah Pryor loses black stripe.
- Video: Tate Martell rolls bottle-flipping punter in the circle drill.
- 2018 four-star DE Andrew Chatfield finally decommitted from Ohio State.
- Help put a life-size statue of Woody Hayes in his hometown of Newcomerstown, Ohio.
- It's with a heavy heart I report Cam Johnston fired shots at me for my circle drill take:
"Wrecks the punter?" Pretty sure @DChrisman91 drove him backwards and the quarterback bails out by twisting. #reachingforaheadline https://t.co/8qmKI2PnZW
— Cameron Johnston (@Cam_Johnston) August 7, 2017
This blogger disagrees with the Australian NFL punter we all love to know. What I saw was a smaller man win the first step then rope-a-dope the bigger opponent into a hip flip after he tried to fight past the whistle assistant in the gray sweatshirt calling the bout.
Tell me which guy you'd rather be at the end of this exchange:
Hey watch out for that @TheTateMartell @DChrisman91 pic.twitter.com/7o7xzxHGUd
— Zach Swartz (@zswartz0407) August 7, 2017
There's a reason the media staff chose the edited version of Ludacris' classic 2001 anthem, "Move, Bitch!" I don't think it was a positive for the guy looking at the lights.
Just my take. Please favorite this tweet so I don't get fired. Thank you.
Word of the Day: Apogee.
SAY WUT? Greg Schiano said Sunday his current crop of defensive linemen is the best he's ever been around—including those in the NFL.
This anecdote registered as hyperbolic for a lot of people. After all, Schiano's boss and longtime buddy is no stranger to such statements.
As it turns out, Schiano was right.
From sbnation.com:
The 2013 Bucs DL included two first-round picks (McCoy and Adrian Clayborn), a third-rounder, and some later picks. They also had an undrafted guy by the name of Michael Bennett, whom Schiano’s staff moved to DT and who later became a Pro Bowl DE.
We also have to glance at the 1996 Bears, the best defense Schiano was part of in Chicago. It was led by former first-round pick Alonzo Spellman and third-rounder Jim Flanigan, plus another first-rounder and a second-rounder.
This OSU group could have as many first-round DL in 2018 as either of those teams had. Hubbard and Lewis, who both had more sacks than No. 3 pick Joey Bosa in 2015, are considered likely 2018 first-rounders, and that’s just the start.
So yeah, that's where we're at in Year 6 of Meyer... his defensive line can be favorably compared to NFL teams. How anybody expects to block these guys in third-and-long remains a mystery to me.
THE PRINCE THAT WAS PROMISED. Isaiah Prince went to Hell and back last season at right tackle. The Penn State game is probably seared into his mind for the rest of the life, because it's an amateur sport to fans until you surrender your third sack of the night.
Coaches stuck by Prince, who has always had to physical tools to become a rock on the right side. Entering this year, he might have the mentality to go with it.
From cleveland.com:
When I tried to talk with Prince at Fiesta Bowl media day last year, he sat with his head down, buried in his phone with head phones resting on the top of his head. Being there, answering questions about his struggles all season, was the last thing he wanted to be doing. He looked dejected, and wasn't trying to hide it.
[...]
It appears that Prince is gone.
"Am I tired of (talking about) it? I don’t mind. I learned a lot from last year," Prince said Monday. "Without last year I wouldn’t have had this growth. I’m thankful for it."
That would be a welcome development. If Price becomes steady, that only leaves the right guard position. And with four guys in the mix for that and Studrawa trusting his backups, there's no reason to think the OL will be as bad as last year. Easier to type than protect in an obvious pass situation in Ann Arbor, though.
McMILLAN WINS OPENING ROUND. There were reports throughout the start of Miami Dolphins preseason camp that former Ohio State linebacker Raekwon McMillan was contending for a starting spot.
He earned it yesterday. At least to start the preseason.
Raekwon McMillan officially listed as starting LB in Miami Dolphins base D
— Joe Schad (@schadjoe) August 7, 2017
Props to McMillan. He came in as a five-star prospect, contributed to a national championship team as a freshman, got drafted in the second round, and walked into an NFL linebacking corps and pulled down a starting spot. All while acting like a man from the beginning off the field.
Now all that's left to do is put Tom Brady's face in the dirt.
PELINI PUTS NECK ON THE LINE FOR A CONVICTED RAPIST. Youngstown State coach Bo Pelini found out Ma’Lik Richmond, one of two former Steubenville football players convicted of sexual assault in 2012, attended YSU and recruited him as a walk-on for the football team.
A petition asking Pelini to remove Richmond from the team is currently circulating. But it doesn't sound like Richmond is going anywhere.
From vindy.com:
“I believe in him, but I told him, ‘I’ll hold your feet to the fire,’” Pelini said before the start of fall practice on Thursday. “He has to do it better and cleaner than the next guy.”
Richmond was involved in one of Ohio high school football’s biggest scandals. He was one of two former Steubenville football players found delinquent in the sexual assault of a 16-year-old girl.
The sophomore defensive end enrolled at YSU as a student last August and walked on to the team in January, according to sports information director Trevor Parks.
Obviously Jim Tressel signed off on this as well.
I've sat here for 15 minutes trying to figure out a take. On one hand, everything about the Steubenville rape case disgusts me—and that disgust goes well beyond those convicted of crimes.
On the other, Richardson paid his debt to society (albeit only 10 months on a one-year sentence) and walked a straight path since being released.
It's an ethically murky situation, and I'm surprised Tressel and Pelini willfully waded into it. They're putting their careers on the line for a walk-on, and we'll just have to see how it plays out.
A SILKY SPEAKEASY UNEARTHED. Rumors of a speakeasy below the old Long's Bookstore on 15th Avenue and High Street have been around for years. As the demolition of the iconic bookstore revealed, it's because they were true.
From columbusmonthly.com:
An underground, arched, stone doorway was revealed when Long’s was knocked down in October. The mysterious doorway, which was walled shut sometime in the past, appears to lead west, underneath High Street toward Sullivant Hall on the OSU campus.
Keith Myers, the associate vice president of planning and real estate for Ohio State, is helping lead the ambitious plan for the site, which will include $30 million in proposed infrastructure improvements for a 150-room hotel, parking garage, office building with street-level retail, dining and a pedestrian-friendly plaza at the intersection that for decades was home to Long’s.
Myers says he’d heard speculation that there was a Prohibition-era speakeasy in the basement of Long’s before the building’s demolition began. “I never believed it,” Myers says. “I called it urban legend. I figured it was one more story in the storied University District.”
I bet the 1920's version of Too's Under High was quite the scene on Friday night. I can only imagine the stories those walls could tell.
WHEN A BAD MAN IS RIGHT. Colin Cowherd is a hot take artist who will change opinions three times in a week, but when he's right, he's right.
Ohio State will win the National Championship
— Herd w/Colin Cowherd (@TheHerd) August 7, 2017
RT if you agree with @ColinCowherd pic.twitter.com/lRVlEhzgCV
Sorry, folks. The season is now cancelled. Ohio State won the title. See everyone back here this time next year. Dwayne Haskins vs. Joe Burrow should be the topic on everybody's minds.
THOSE WMDs. Fountain pen manufacturing a forgotten empire in Akron... The toxic drama on YA Twitter... The man who wrote those password rules has a new tip: N3v$r M1^d!... By the time Noura Jackson’s conviction was overturned, she had spent nine years in prison.
