It's been a while, y'all need this:
A little Dwayne Haskins, Terry McLaurin connection time start your morning pic.twitter.com/mZJZOj4LGT
— Rhiannon Walker (@InstantRHIplay) August 18, 2020
Word of the Day: Coinage.
FINALLY, A PLAN. It's now been more than a week since the Big Ten pulled the plug on the fall football season without so much as even having a conversation about the viability of playing a spring season, much less actually like, having a plan for a spring season.
Kevin Warren and the conference leadership have been basically nowhere to be found since the announcement, but it seems like a plan might actually be coming together, after all.
Big Ten officials are working on a revised football schedule that could feature teams starting their season in early January.
Penn State athletic director Sandy Barbour said Monday during a Zoom meeting with reporters that the league could release the revised 2020 schedule within a week or so.
Multiple college football sources told the Journal Sentinel that Big Ten officials have decided to start the season as early as possible. That would allow players to finish their season before the 2021 National Football League draft, set to be held April 29 through May 1.
This is cool and all, and I appreciate their effort, but I sincerely wonder how many players would actually play in this format. Obviously, quite a few will just leave to go prepare of the draft, but I bet we'd see quite a few players that aren't even draft eligible opt out of a spring season that has no national title implications.
If everyone in college football moves to the spring and you can preserve the national title race, that's one thing. But if it's really just the PAC-12 and the Big Ten, it really could look like a "JV season," like Nick Saban suggested.
TRAINING WITH THE CHIEFS. Generally, you have to wait to come to Ohio State to practice against the best players in the world and sharpen that iron with iron, but the newest Buckeye commit, Dasan McCullough has skipped a few steps on that front.
Our own Zack Carpenter caught up with Dasan a few months ago to hear his tales about practicing with the current World Champion Kansas City Chiefs.
Mathieu lives just 10-15 minutes away, and many of the other Chiefs players live close by and train here three days a week – Monday, Wednesday, Friday – during the offseason. This is where McCullough has taken the field and lined up against many of the Chiefs' top players, including tight end Travis Kelce, receivers Tyreek Hill and Mecole Hardman and second-year running back Darwin Thompson.
McCullough has learned from all of them.
“I have a really good relationship with them, especially Kelce and the running backs,” McCullough said. “Tyreek, Mecole and Kelce. Those are the real top three. Some of the running backs like Darwin I’ve gone up against. I only guarded Mecole once. He was definitely a real bad dude. Him and Tyreek.”
And, of course, Patrick Mahomes, who he’s proud to say he’s defended against well, here and there.
“I’ve got a couple pass breakups, but I’ve never picked him off. Not yet,” McCullough says with a laugh. “I mean, it’s pretty cool because you’re basically going against pros – not even basically. You are going against pros. The best receivers and the best quarterback in the NFL. What high schooler can give you that type of work?”
I love the swagger of "not yet" when asked if he's picked of Patrick Mahomes.
Imagine coming to Ohio State and the practices somehow being a step down in competition. That doesn't happen.
EDDIE HAS A MESSAGE. Dasan McCullough seems to have collected quite a bit of attention for himself from both the best in the game. He's out there practicing with the World Champs, and getting congratulations messages from a Buckeye Heisman winner.
Man...nothing but respect for Buckeye Great, 1995 Heisman winner, who was then coached by my dad with the Tennessee Titans. Appreciated this message to @Dasan2022 ... pic.twitter.com/Ewd7dQ0PbN
— Deland McCullough (@coachdmc) August 18, 2020
Eddie George didn't hit me up with a congratulatory message when I committed to Ohio State. I guess that's what I get for having a father who wasn't an NFL running backs coach, smh.
NEVER FORGET. Darron Lee was in a reminiscing mood yesterday, and it seems his mind wanders to the same places as mine.
We really beat grown ass men, 59 to nothing...
— Darron Lee (@DLeeMG8) August 18, 2020
Luke Fickell INTENDED to embarass Wisconsin. Why the hell did the Coach leave THE VERY NEXT DAY?
— Darron Lee (@DLeeMG8) August 18, 2020
No Cap. If any team would be lucky enough to beat my ass into the pavement, 59-0? I'd hang up my cleats.,,
— Darron Lee (@DLeeMG8) August 18, 2020
I've not taken Wisconsin seriously as a football program since that day. They will now and forever be just a pawn to assist Ohio State in its national championship pursuits – nothing more and nothing less.
TP GETTING READY. "Almost dying of stab wounds" would be a pretty solid reason to retire from one of the most physically demanding professions on the planet, but it would seem that Terrelle Pryor ain't done yet.
Feeling great! pic.twitter.com/CWd4RcTj1O
— Terrelle Pryor SR (@TerrellePryor) August 18, 2020
That helmet, though...
SONG OF THE DAY. "These Walls" by Kendrick Lamar.
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