Here's some stuff you may have missed yesterday:
- Jason came off his luxurious mountaintop and dropped a look at national APR scores. (Spoiler: Ohio State is still sittin' pretty.)
- The baseball team is filled with quality human beings.
- Stone Cold Ramzy Nasrallah dropped another dime.
- You can't tell by the results, but at least the B1G is starting to throw some cash at recruiting.
BAD NEWS: KENNY GUITON AIN'T COMIN' HOME: Here's friend of the site Jeff Svoboda's (free) talk with the Smooth Sensation:
“This is my livelihood, really, this weekend,” Guiton told BuckeyeSports.com. “That’s how I’m looking at it.”
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“It’s a three-day shot. That’s all I’ve wanted in my life is a shot, so that’s what I’m getting. It’s a great situation I’m walking into, too. There’s only a few quarterbacks on the roster. I’m the only one coming in this year, so it’s a great opportunity.”
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“I know what I can do. I feel like if I go in and have the type of weekend I know I’m capable of, I feel like this summer, I’ll be in Buffalo.”
Guiton heads to Buffalo and, "I have a flight (back) for Monday morning, and they said that flight could be canceled depending on me."
— Jeff Svoboda (@JeffSvoboda) May 14, 2014
This is probably the closest I'll ever come to dropping my kid off at their first day of school. KILL 'EM SOFTLY, KENNY.
URBAN TEACHES HIS TEAM TO COOK THE BUCKEYE WAY. We had a similar class like this in Marion, but it was about cooking crack:
Teaching our players how to cook - Buckeye style! pic.twitter.com/CNRl7xx6OU
— Urban Meyer (@OSUCoachMeyer) May 14, 2014
When I was in college, I did a lot of cooking too, but it usually involved peanut butter and jelly and toasted Kroger-brand bagels. (Who am I kidding? This is still par for the course these days as well. It would disgust most people to find out how much peanut butter and jelly I've consumed in my life.)
THIS IS COOL. So this appeared on Reddit's college football subforum yesterday:
I'd definitely rock that on a shirt.
Speaking of shirts, is it me or do Ohioans wear a lot of Ohio-related clothing? I'm not talking about college-related stuff, but gear centered around the state itself.
I have three or four shirts with the outline of Ohio in various designs. Hell, I have the state outline — including Put-In-Bay and Kelly's Island — tattooed on my body. Granted, I haven't traveled recently, but I feel like Ohioans have a ridiculous amount of state pride.
Does this happen anywhere else besides transplants in California or New York? Hard for me to imagine people rocking Pennsylvania stuff, for example. But then again, Pennsylvania is a pretty stupid state. (No offense to anyone trapped there... it's obviously not your fault.)
THE NCAA IS GOOD. Like I said yesterday: The NCAA is good. Remember that homeless player Boise State and their fans couldn't help because it'd mess up the NCAA's tax-shelter?
The generous people at the NCAA are willing to turn a blind eye on this one:
After Boise State's request last night, the school may provide immediate assistance to football student-athlete Antoine Turner.
— NCAA (@NCAA) May 14, 2014
The NCAA administers a lot of tough love, but it's always fair. Gotta give them credit for that, even if you're a rabble-rousing hater.
WUT R U DOING PURDUE. As much as I love the NCAA – I keep a picture of a naked, winking Mark Emmert by my bedside, and I kiss it every night before I fall asleep – I was a little perturbed by these tweets yesterday:
Purdue's Morgan Burke: The general public basically doesn't support the collegiate model anymore. That's concerning.
— Nick Baumgardner (@nickbaumgardner) May 14, 2014
Burke says if college athletics doesn't look markedly different in 5 years or so, 'then we're in trouble.'
— Nick Baumgardner (@nickbaumgardner) May 14, 2014
Morgan Burke (Purdue) doesn't know if everyone can afford the cost of attendance model, 'but fundamentally it's the right thing to do.'
— Nick Baumgardner (@nickbaumgardner) May 14, 2014
Morgan Burke again on stipends: "We'd better find the money. We find it for everything else."
— Nick Baumgardner (@nickbaumgardner) May 14, 2014
What really ticks me off is this coming from an athletic director of a school that can fill football stadiums with 105,000 people every Saturday. Sure, Purdue is rich – I get it – but what about the little guys in the Big Ten, you know? Is nobody else thinking about the executives and their bonuses? Why is Morgan Burke selling out his colleagues?
Loyalty just ain't what it used to be, folks.
THOSE WMDs . Tom Herman will soon be planting flags on the west coast... The perfect crime: vehicular homicide in New York... Steve Kerr pulled off a heist last night... Turns out, Kliff Kingsbury could have his way with a lot of women... Jim Tressel is already cleansing Youngstown... God doesn't hate Cleveland... In 1913, Arizona Nevada executed a man by "shooting machine"... It's true, we will never be as cool as this goose... Another example of cats ruling and dogs drooling...
