I got your click, so I am captain now! Do you hear me?
Good. Very good.
Welcome to Eleven Warriors dot com, your No. 1 source for that prime Bee Gees dope straight from the muscle. What can you expect from us? One word: Professionalism.
But The Bee Gees will reign until the sky turns into a cocaine-crusted disco ball or morale improves, which ever comes first. My fate is tied to this ship regardless. You think I give a shit? My shaman said your weekend runes came up, "The Bee Gees," sucker.
Strap in your bib and buckle your diaper while I use this rusty sickle to tap this rusty keg of illicit Sour Apple FourLoko.
This week's NSFW ANTI-WORK BEE GEE #BANGERS:
- The Bee Gees and AC/DC mash-up.
- The Bee Gees walk off on The Clive Anderson Show (full).
- The Bee Gees Spirits Overflown concert (1979).
- The Bee Gees Air Supply concert in Hawaii (1983).
- The Bee Gees Medley For All concert (1989).
- The Bee Gees Still Waters album (1997).
- The Bee Gees One Night Only concert (1998).
- The Bee Gees concert in Sydney, Australia (1999).
- The Bee Gees full BBC documentary (2014).
- The last of The Bee Gees goes it alone.
ON THE BEE GEES & THE #TEEN WHO DISSED URBAN. Yesterday, I mentioned I'm thankful I escaped high school and early college without "social media" as we know it today. One of the billion other things I could've attached to that list is I'm thankful two bad blogs were the only platforms I earned in my greenhorn years.
Landon Young, a 2016 four-star Kentucky OL committed to the Wildcats since 2013, dropped a dime on Thursday about a private recruiting sit-down with Urban Meyer that occurred during his unofficial visit to Ohio State in May 2015.
ICYMI from seccountry.com:
"I was at Ohio State having a private meeting with Urban Meyer. I had gone up to camp there, and they had treated me like a piece of meat, just treated me like crap. By that time, I was a four-star tackle. I weighed about 270 [pounds], and I was 6-7.
I wasn’t even on their radar. I came back up after they offered me. Four straight days, I got (offers from) the University of Cincinnati, Alabama, Auburn and then Ohio State. I went up and said, ‘Coach (Meyer), what was the reason that you all of a sudden offered me?’ He said, ‘We looked at your tape, and it was pretty good and I saw interest in that.’ I said, ‘Well coach, back when I was just committing to Kentucky and keeping my options open, I came up to a camp and sent you my film and everything, and you didn’t even reply. It seemed like y’all just deleted it.’
He said, ‘Well, if you look back at that time, you were how big?’ I said, ‘6-7, 270, just like I am now.’ He said, ‘Well, you were an insubstantial tackle, an insubstantial player,’ so he was saying I (didn’t) even amount to being able to be recruited by Ohio State as a four-star tackle. He said, ‘Now what offers did you have?’ I said, ‘I had my one from Kentucky,’ and he said, ‘Well, you were an insubstantial player with insubstantial offers from an insubstantial school.’"
What's amazing about this is if that's not what Urban Meyer said it sounds exactly like something he'd say. He's a millionaire with three championships running an industrial factory and his most vital employees are all 18-22 years-old. He doesn't have coddling time.
Kentucky got in on him early, so it makes sense why its staff would apparently blow sunshine up his ass; it means a few rays for their flabby asses.
But these are the things you learn when you're older. When you're a 17-year-old four-star(!) offensive line prospect from a talent hotbed like Kentucky, you react to matter-of-fact honesty like Young did.
What a rare, candid look inside to the backroom dealings of recruiting. Wish we could see more of it.
RAISE THE BEE GEES FLAG, URBAN. If I were a coach, I would run nothing but no-huddle, uptempo offense. This is due to my time playing NCAA Football and Madden where no huddle-offenses were coordinated by holding the Y button between plays and then calling one of three bullshit audibles sprinkled with some hot routes.
It's a wee bit harder than that IRL, but the Buckeyes brought the hyper-speed battering ram in its last two weeks of last season and doubled down Michigan and Notre Dame, 86-41.
Looks like enemies of the state could be in for more of the same in 2016.
From bcsn.tv:
“We hope to be a really fast offense this year,” the Ohio State coach said.
That means the sped-up, no-huddle offense from the final two games last year will be back for a full run this fall.
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The finale put Ohio State on pace with the fastest offenses in the country — Baylor averaged a national-high 84.9 plays per game — and Meyer said it was no desert mirage.
“We’re going to do a lot more uptempo offense than we’ve done before,” Meyer said. “The last two games, it was about 80 percent tempo, and it worked out really well.”
Words in spring are different than execution on fall Saturdays, but for some reason I think Urban Meyer and J.T. Barrett have this one under control.
By the way: I'm buying all Tim Beck stock you want to off on the low. Also buying any records, tape cassettes, CDs, .mp3s, or torrents from The Bee Gees. Please fave this tweet for future reference.
THE BEE GEES BEST CHARACTER ON CAMPUS. For those of you who haven't enjoyed or are awaiting the pleasures of attending Ohio State's Columbus campus, let be the first to tell you it's a magical mixture of characters which you never see again in your life.
It's a global village, and that means you might see some shit while walking to class.
Good gravy, is that The Bee Gees' music? No, it's just the Bagpipe guy doing his thing.
From the voice of Ohio State students, thelantern.com:
Joshua Whitson, the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System data analyst for the OSU Office of International Affairs, was not only given the nickname Bagpipe Guy by OSU students, but he was also voted as the Best Campus Character by the students in the Best of OSU online poll.
“I’m certainly happy that I was voted as the Best Campus Character and that people enjoy me playing in the Oval,” Whitson said. “I’m happy that I have become a part of campus culture.”
Whitson said that more people know him and acknowledge him on campus when he is playing his bagpipes than when he isn’t playing them.
Bag pipe music sounds sweet for the first 45 seconds to one minute.
Personally, I only listen to a band of which you've never heard. They were way before your time, and they went by The Bee Gees.
Since we've randomly broached the subject of my favorite band, The Bee Gees, did you you know they won 69 Grammys? It's true.
THE BEE GEES WON'T BE THERE, HARBAUGH. Urban Meyer admitted he thought about swiping Jim Harbaugh's idea of moving spring practice to Florida. Ohio State didn't end up making the move.
That, however, isn't stopping Jim Harbaugh from stealing Friday Night Lights from under Urban Meyer, which he's bringing to the Big House this summer.
From mlive.com:
The finale will be a "Bright Lights Big House" camp scheduled for the night of June 24. This, in description, is quite similar to the "Friday Night Lights" camp Ohio State and Urban Meyer run every year for top-end players entering grades 10-12.
This camp -- which is also on a Friday -- will be held under the lights inside Michigan Stadium.
Michigan also has satellite camp stops scheduled for Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and Texas in June -- though the NCAA may prohibit those after voting on the subject in April.
Impossible to argue Jim Harbaugh isn't closing the talent gap in Columbus, but let's be frank: Such can be said about the guy in the gym for two weeks compared to an Olympian weightlifter. Sure, the gap is closing but it's still a canyon until Harbaugh bests Meyer in open combat.
Such is life in The Rivalry.
GOD BLESS THE BEE GEES. Here is a sermon I watched last night that stuck with me so much I couldn't go without sharing it with you.
From the bottom of my heart:
THOSE BEE GEES. Wikipedia for The Bee Gees... Rock & Roll Hall of Fame biography of The Bee Gees... 'I want to keep the music alive' – Barry Gibb of The Bee Gees... Writer's block cure: Music from The Bee Gees... Broken Bells' new song accidentally channels The Bee Gees.
