Welcome to College Football Saturday! I will celebrate by drinking exactly one beer.
ICYMI:
- Kendall Sheffield: The potential next DB first-rounder.
- 11W's Young Adam Schefter spoke to WFNY about new Browns CB Denzel Ward.
Word of the Day: Bugaboo.
LITTLE BEAR HAS ROOM FOR GROWTH. Nick Bosa would have been drafted if the NFL allowed it. He was that good and has that much potential as a mere sophomore.
But what will trouble opposing offensive lines is Bosa still has room to grow, and he will play in Columbus for one more year.
From landof10.com:
“I think there is still growth,” Ohio State defensive line coach Larry Johnson said. “He is a young player who played as a young player. There is maturity that still has to come as he goes down the road. It would be hard to say that he is where he is going to be. I don’t think he is.
“I think the ceiling is still high for him because he has got so much more he can do.”
Considering everything Bosa has already done for Ohio State, that might be hard to imagine. But just for starters, the Buckeyes have been working on his conditioning with the expectation that he’ll play more snaps even as the defensive line continues to rotate rushers on the edge. That should give him more opportunities to top his team-leading 16 tackles for loss and 8.5 sacks in 2017.
Takes a special breed to keep an ax on the grindstone for that long. After all, the spotlight has been on him since his big brother started turning heads.
Teams won't be able to block him with a single lineman. And that attention is only going to open things for Chase Young. The combo of Young and Bosa may finally give us insight into what Joey and Noah Spence would've looked like had Spence not exited like he did.
DON'T MIND THE FLAG PLANT. Yes, the No. 1 overall pick of the 2018 NFL Draft attempted to plant a flag into a rubber field last year.
While Columbus was ready to have Baker broken on the wheel for high crimes, it doesn't seem like the incident caused much of a stir with the Browns, who were more concerned about Mayfield's arrest in Arkansas and that time he grabbed his penis while talking shit to lowly Kansas.
From espn.com:
"I said, ‘You know what? You could have played with me back at Miami,'" [Browns vice president of player development Alonzo] Highsmith said.
This is not a statement to be taken lightly. It took a special kind of player to be part of those Hurricanes teams.
Of all his well-known high jinks, probably the least offensive thing Mayfield did in college was plant the Sooners' flag on the Ohio State logo after a win in Columbus. This is not something players are supposed to do; the logo is sacred ground. But it was a touchstone moment after a big win. It also was something the old Hurricanes would have done in a second.
Highsmith is an interesting cat. He also had this anecdote about UCLA quarterback Josh Rosen, which I've been trying to decode all week.
From cleveland.com:
"I was at an airport," he said. "UCLA's volleyball team was in front of me. You heard so much about Rosen. He's this or that. We all know how people talk. So I asked one of the volleyball coaches, 'What's Rosen like?' He said, 'Aaaaa, you should probably ask his girlfriend. She's one of the players. She's over there.'
"I'm like, 'All right coach. That's good enough.'
"I don't know what all this means, but there was something about him that bothered me."
I... I don't know what all this means, either. Let's just move on.
NOT THE SAME. Campus Partners plans to bulldoze Adriatico's Pizza. But don't fret! From those ashes will arise optometry offices.
Also, Adriatico's will be moving to High Street in a new south campus location.
From dispatch.com:
Though the current 11th Avenue Adriatico’s location is set to be demolished later this year to make way for a new Ohio State University optometry clinic and office building, the owner of the popular pizza spot said the business has finalized plans to move around the corner to a building at 10th and Neil avenues.
Adriatico’s will occupy the former Aveda Institute salon, about a two-minute walk from its current location.
“We’re thrilled,” said Adriatico’s owner Greg Fortney. “Staying in the same neighborhood is a really good outcome for us.”
Will it be the same? Not to me, the man who requires everything remain exactly how I want them. Should have better seating arrangements, though.
MICHIGAN MEN: NOT ROCKET SCIENTISTS. I was told Michigan is a superior university to Ohio State and only accepts the nation's sharpest minds. I feel deceived!
From mlive.com:
Toss in an NFL-style playbook that calls for plenty of audibles at the line of scrimmage, two offensive line coaches that emphasize different tasks, and things can get messy.
And they did. Often. Michigan's offensive line ranked in the bottom half of the country in sacks and tackles for loss allowed. Two of its quarterbacks left games after taking big hits.
"Coach Warinner's philosophy -- he tells us he doesn't want to start calculus before everybody can pass Algebra I," said Stephen Spanellis, a redshirt sophomore guard/center.
"I felt like before, we would go to rocket science. We would try and cover everything possible in every meeting. Some guys can't keep up."
You know what they say: You can bring a Michigan lineman to a classroom but you can't teach him Algebra I.
Michigan's offensive line may hold the key to their season, so let's hope even the simplified playbook continues to confound them.
CITIZEN'S ARREST. People running from the cops tend to forget they're also running from vigilantes:
FANCY FOOTWORK: Walking stick-wielding bystander trips up an armed man who was fleeing police in Columbus, Ohio. https://t.co/bwnBi4jh39 pic.twitter.com/Xh59qvXTHD
— ABC News (@ABC) May 4, 2018
That looked like it hurt.
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