College football is changing, and Drue Chrisman's already getting his business partners lined up.
.@dasaniwater whats good? https://t.co/sEQeK6Tl8F
— Drue Chrisman (@DChrisman91) October 29, 2019
I feel like there's a greater than 0 percent chance that's actually an NCAA violation, but even if it is, it was worth it for the retweets.
ICYMI
- Ohio State is a frontrunner for five-star athlete Emeka Egbuka.
- Heisman odds and national title odds increase for the Buckeyes.
- The NCAA Board of Governors moved toward allowing student-athletes to benefit from their likeness.
- Justin Fields, Chase Young and Jeff Okudah are semifinalists for national awards.
- 20 champions against Wisconsin.
- The Rewind
- Snapcounts
Word of the Day: Woebegone.
THE PREDATOR IN CONTEXT. Even using basic stats at face value, Chase Young is the single most dominant player in college football.
Through eight games, he has 3.5 more sacks than anyone else in the country, is tied for first in the nation in tackles for loss, second in the nation in forced fumbles, first in the country in strip sacks, tied for second in disrupted dropbacks, and tied for third in defensive pressures.
You'd think it doesn't get any better than that, but when it's put into context, it actually does.
From Josh Planos of FiveThirtyEight:
Ohio State is bludgeoning its opponents. The margin of victory in each of the team’s eight wins has been no smaller than 24 points, meaning that Young — perhaps in the interest of opposing quarterback safety — is removed from the field of play well before the score goes final. Among defensive linemen, Young is tied for 290th in defensive snaps, playing 261 total snaps this season. Just 17 of those snaps have come in the fourth quarter. His workload consists of little more than half of Ohio State’s total defensive snaps and just 15.5 percent of the Buckeyes’ fourth-quarter defensive snaps.
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But while imperfect, parsing Ohio State’s defensive splits with and without Young is instructive in identifying his value. While Ohio State allows a best-in-country 3.6 yards per play, with Young on the field, the Buckeyes allow 3.0 (the best mark through eight games since at least 2004), according to ESPN Stats & Information Group. Nearly half of all opponent plays gain zero or negative yardage when Young is on the field, a rate that drops 10.1 percentage points when he sits. Moreover, when Young is removed from the field, the Buckeyes pressure rate drops nearly 12 percentage points
So basically, he spends less-than-average amounts of time on the field, but is still the most productive player in the country by a mile.
Here's what that looks like in graphical form:
That's absolutely absurd, and I have a strong hunch that dot is going to be moving even further up and to the left with Maryland and Rutgers up next, since I fully expect him to create multiple crime scenes in the first quarter of both of those games.
MEYER TALKS QB RUN. If Urban Meyer could assemble the ideal quarterback for his offensive system in a lab out of a test tube, the result would probably be damn close to what Justin Fields actually is in real life.
Urban's never going to get to coach him at Ohio State, but that doesn't mean he's not going to swoon about him on television.
No doubt Meyer would have loved to have him, but I'd say that I'm pretty pleased with what Ryan Day's done with him so far.
SPECIAL TEAMS ARE SPECIAL. We're now two years and a couple of days from one of the most absurd comebacks in Ohio State history, and even with how perfect Joe Thomas Barrett IV was down the stretch, that comeback probably falls short without this game-changing special teams play.
2 years ago today. Never underestimate the ability of a single SPECIAL TEAMS play to change the course of history. Down 15, 11:46 left in the game, ball on the +43. Enjoyed scheming this one up with @CoachUrbanMeyer. #TheBrotherhood #WhenINeededYouTheMost #YouGaveMeYourVeryBest pic.twitter.com/GN1J8Axfk4
— Adam Scheier (@CoachScheier) October 29, 2019
I will say, it feels extremely good to be on this side of the game-altering special teams play rather than this one:
LEAVING ON A JET PLANE. Ryan Day doesn't even crack the top-20 highest-paid coaches in college football, but the good news is Ohio State sure isn't running short on other perks.
For example, a damn private jet.
Tom Schad of USA TODAY:
Martin Greenberg, a Milwaukee-based sports attorney and adjunct professor at Marquette University, said these types of perks would have been "unheard of 20 years ago" but provide a tremendous – and somewhat hidden – value to coaches.
"When you look at the rankings of who gets what, even in (USA TODAY), there is no valuation given to these perquisites," Greenberg said. "This is one of the creative ways that agents can actually put more on the bottom line for their clients and keep their clients."
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Some schools have offered this perk to their coaches for several years now. At Ohio State, for example, Jim Tressel and Urban Meyer both received more than 20 hours of personal flight time a year at various points. New coach Ryan Day, meanwhile, gets 50 flight hours — which is tied with Penn State coach James Franklin's annual allotment for the most personal flight time of any FBS public school coach
This might seem like overkill, but come December's signing day, you bet your ass I want my head coach to be able to fly to three schools in three completely different regions of the country to close the deal with a talented teen.
If there's an advantage to be had, I want my team to have every bit of it.
"I FORGOT I WAS MIC'D UP." Joey Bosa should never be allowed to play another football game without wearing a microphone, because everything he says is fantastic.
need joey mic'd 24/7 pic.twitter.com/qVBQMurfZj
— Los Angeles Chargers (@Chargers) October 29, 2019
When the documentary of my life is inevitably filmed, I will accept nobody other than Joey Bosa as the narrator.
NOT STICKING TO SPORTS. A woman faked a pregnancy to try to avoid an excess baggage fee... A woman thought her boyfriend died, then she ran into him at a restaurant... Her body was never found, but 20 years after a woman disappeared, her ex-boyfriend is charged with murder... Netflix angers film-makers with "ridiculous and insulting" speed-up function... A phone sex line number is printed as a suicide hotline on a middle school's student ID cards...
