Shot my boss in the top of the head yesterday at paintball (true alpha worker mentality). He didn't fire me... so I'll do it again after the lunch hour???
ICYMI:
- Safety Wayne Davis announced he will transfer.
- With Davis' exit, Ohio State reaches the magic number of 85 scholarships.
- All-Urban Meyer Squad: Offense.
- Examining the FBS careers of players that left Meyer's Ohio State.
- Mask Off: Aaron Craft updates his overseas career.
Word of the Day: Supine.
URBAN WILL DO WHAT HE MUST. Urban Meyer and Dwayne Haskins seem like an odd match in that Haskins can throw and ain't known for the read option.
After Joe Burrow's exit, Meyer and Haskins are married to each other until death do them part.
For Haskins to reach his potential, Meyer must break old habits.
From dispatch.com:
The Buckeyes’ offense should look different this season with the pass/run Haskins taking over for the run/pass J.T. Barrett. My hunch is the majority of Buckeye Nation equates different with better. The question is whether Meyer agrees.
Will the Ohio State coach tailor the offense around Haskins’ strong and accurate arm, or will he stay in his safe zone by leaning on the quarterback to pick up crucial yards with his legs? (The negative side effect to that plan is that it means fewer carries for the tailbacks.)
Meyer has the highest winning percentage (.851) among active coaches with 10 years or more of service, not to mention three national championship rings. You don’t build that resume by being wrong, so one figures that Meyer will instruct offensive coordinators Kevin Wilson and Ryan Day to fit the offense more around Haskins’ arm.
I might be foolish for thinking thinking Meyer switches the offense this year. Yet there's a reason he called Jeux Tiger's bluff. He knew what he had in the Train.
Now, Meyer has no choice but to utilize Haskins' talents. J.T. Barrett or Cardale Jones won't be sitting the bench.
WE RIDE WITH THREE. Urban Meyer collects quarterbacks like I do pennies.
Unfortunately for Meyer, there are government regulations on quarterback collections. That means the Buckeyes probably won't add a graduate QB before September.
From Bill Landis of cleveland.com:
* With Burrow gone, Ohio State is down to three scholarship quarterbacks in Haskins, Tate Martell and Matthew Baldwin. I floated the idea on Tuesday that the Buckeyes could look at a graduate transfer for depth purposes, because Meyer has expressed a desire to always carry four quarterbacks. I've since been told that won't happen. That makes sense when you consider how difficult it would be to sell a transfer on being a third-string quarterback.
This is the right call for reasons I'll explain...
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#BOARDINGBALDWINBUS. After Joey Burrito announced he would seek a graduate transfer from Ohio State, too many Buckeye fans declared the local team "thin at quarterback."
Do we forget the parable of Cardale Jones? Don't sleep on Matthew Baldwin.
He won't be a factor in September... he could be a force in November.
From landof10.com:
"I saw a kid that had a chance to leave Lake Travis, and nowadays every kid — I’d say 90 percent of those players leave because they have to go get theirs, and here’s a guy who was loyal to his school,” Ohio State coach Urban Meyer said in December. “It was a great high school, one of my first experiences down there. That’s as good a football as there is in the United States of America. Here he comes in and the kid completes over 70 percent of his passes, takes them to a state championship, and is a monster competitor.”
Looking back, Baldwin recognizes that he risked a lot to stay at Lake Travis. But his gamble paid off and the best-case scenario came to fruition. He stayed healthy, beat out his peers and put together a senior season that ended in a commitment to Ohio State.
“You never know what’s going to happen,” Baldwin said. “I could have gotten hurt and then not played at all my senior year and then I probably wouldn’t be playing football in college. So I’m thankful that that didn’t happen."
The difference between Ohio State and Michigan fans is simple. If the Buckeye third-stringer enters The Game, we show nothing but confidence in the "unheralded" player.
As for "Blue," it's nothing but disaster if the Wolverine third-stringer straps on his helmet and waddles into the game.
NEVER ARGUE IRL. Folks! We love to argue online. Just remember not to argue beyond 30 seconds in real life.
From tampabay.com:
One of the Florida Gators' top incoming recruits was released from jail early Wednesday after police allege he kicked a female's car and broke her phone after an argument.
Justin Watkins — a four-star athlete from Clermont — and an unnamed female had a verbal argument last week. Watkins then took her cell phone, left and later threw it on the ground, shattering its screen, according to a probable cause affidavit obtained Thursday by the Tampa Bay Times.
Watkins followed the female to the student parking lot at a Marion County high school. He then kicked her car and tried to let air out of the tires — an action confirmed by the school's video surveillance.
Sounds like Urban Meyer has lost control of Florida's football program????
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