The sports world enjoyed a casual Sunday yesterday.
ICYMI:
- 2020 four-star QB Jack Miller committed.
- Miller's offensive coordinator compares him to Carson Wentz.
- My Big Ten Share-a-Beer with a Coach Power Poll, which a satisfied customer called "literal hot garbage."
- Have a tailgate recipe the world needs to know about? Submit it to the Official 11W Tailgate Cookbook. The author of the highest-voted recipe receives a $50 gift certificate to Eleven Warriors Dry Goods.
Word of the Day: Ectopic.
CHASE YOUNG... BIGGER AND BETTER? Chase Young looked like he could play defensive end in the NFL as a true freshman. He would be a beast this season if he only improved 10%.
Larry Johnson is out here saying he's made a leap twice as big… since spring!
From dispatch.com:
This is what Chase Young looks like now. Good luck, offensive tackles..“I think he’s probably about 20 percent better from spring ball to where he’s at now,” he said last week. “That’s a pretty good increase. He’s stronger in the weight room. His work ethic has really taken off. You can see the sense of urgency to be great, and that’s what you want to see in a young player.”
He said that Young was like most blue-chip players. They dominated in high school and don’t realize right away what a jump the college game is.
“He came with a lot of expectations and he probably put too much pressure on himself that it was going to happen easily,” Johnson said. “But it’s college football. You’ve got to work at it, too. I think that’s what he found out as the season went on.”
Meyer is operating at the height of his powers when it comes to recruiting. Five-star freshmen aren't walking into starting roles. Even guys like Young have to sit behind someone before they can break out.
And people who understand good things come to those who put in the work tend to work harder than those that don't. Young obviously gets it.
#LABRON. It happened. Larbon Jim the Kang abdicated his northeastern Ohio throne for the second time in his career Sunday afternoon, heading west to join the Los Angeles Lakers.
It's a win for me. I grew up cheering for the Lakers because my father, Magic Johnson, played for them from the early 1980s to early 1990s.
Some Ohio State fans will follow me to the promised land. Others will wallow in self-loathing and terrible opinions, while others are already sprinting to the comments to talk about how much they don't care about LeBron James.
Whatever your opinion, the decision still puts Ohio State's athletic department in a precarious position:
Legitimately curious how Ohio State handles this moving forward. The program is never going to stop supporting LeBron, but it was much easier for the Buckeyes to be vocal about supporting the Cavs than it might be for the Lakers.
— Austin Ward (@AWardSports) July 2, 2018
No matter what piece of laundry he dons, LeBron will always be an Ohioan. His logos appear on Ohio State's clothes.
They may not push the angle as much, but it wouldn't make sense to abandon it. James is still one of the most electric athletes in the world even if most people his age can't shovel six inches of snow off a standard residential driveway.
THE MOST OHIO THING EVER. Thirty years ago, Ohio State and Ohio University went to court over the word "Ohio," which may be the pettiest thing OSU has ever sued anybody over.
Just found the first thing I ever recorded off TV onto the computer. November 17, 1998, Today Show: a segment about Ohio State suing Ohio over the word, "Ohio." (Forgive the quality. It was 1998.) https://t.co/NmY9j4cmTm
— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) July 1, 2018
btw we won the lawsuit
To all the dumb young millennials and Generation Z goofs laughing in the back... no that's not what TV looked like in 1998. The recording technology just wasn't what we have today.
No surprise Ohio State lost, either. I'm a Buckeye fan with a Twitter law degree and I would have laughed them out of court. The worst part is it gives Ohio University a reason to be smug outside of inventing journalism and Halloween parties. Never acceptable.
ONE-HANDED CATCHES. We have reached the point in the offseason where I say, "Screw it. I am just posting video highlights from last season."
Here are the best one-handed catches of 2017-18, via r/CFB:
Not bad even if none compared to Devin Smith's one-hander against Miami in 2012. That may have been the most impressive catch I've seen.
BOBBY BO = PATRIOT. You did not have as good a Sunday as Bobby Bonillia:
in 2000, The Mets bought out Bobby Bonilla for $5.9mil. Instead of cash they agreed to 8% interest w payments beginning 2011-2035. Today Bonilla got his check. Comes every July 1st. $1.2 Million every year. Adds up to $29 mil when all is said and done. Hasn't played since 2001.
— Don Harris (@DonHarris4) July 1, 2018
We need a 30 for 30 documentary on what the hell the Mets were thinking when they signed this contract. It gets more perplexing by the year. Big shoutout to Bonilla's agent, too.
THOSE WMDs. Scientists may have a solution to the nickel's seven-cent price tag... "Somewhere in Australia," explained... The soccer ball that survived the Challenger explosion... Taking another person's perspective doesn't help you understand... Counterfeit queen of soul.
