Skull Session: Ohio State's Worst Case Scenario, Tate Martell's Recruiting Pitch, and Another Reason to Love Demario McCall

By D.J. Byrnes on July 9, 2016 at 4:59 am
Pat Elflein has some thoughts for the July 9th 2016 Skull Session
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Montreal: I give it two Marionaire guns up. An outstanding city that taught me Americans don't control the cuisine game, the French do. 

 THE WORST CASE.  Ohio State is 50-4 under Urban Meyer, which is nice. Those wins won't carry over into 2016, unfortunately.

We all expect big things from our young Buckeyes this year, but what if it all went to Hell and they finished 7-5? Statistics say it's possible. 

From landgrantholyland.com:

The five toss-up or underdog games are Penn State, Nebraska, Michigan State (all projected touchdown-or-less wins), Oklahoma, and Michigan (projected close losses).

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So, if the Buckeyes lost all the games that are close, they’d go 7-5 in the regular season. But the Buckeyes are projected within a touchdown for all of their games, so 12-0 isn’t out of the question either. Those are the general bounds for how Ohio State’s 2016 could go. Alabama, for contrast, only has one peer on their schedule for next year — LSU.

So using this method, 10-2 seems like a conservative projection, with 11-1 looking reasonable as well. Obviously the low-end of 7-5 wouldn't cut it in Columbus, and shouldn't, given Urban Meyer's staff and his recruiting.

12-0 or 7-5, y'all!

I like Ohio State's chances, yet it would be surreal to watch Meyer suffer five losses in a single season. I'd say it could happen if J.T. Barrett goes down, but I was alive in January 2015 when Urban Meyer rode a third-string QB over the three toughest opponents of the year. I would be shocked if the Buckeyes lost that many this year.

 COME TO OHIO STATE!!!!!! Tate Martell, Ohio State's 2017 five-star QB commit, is making the most of his time in Beaverton, Oregon at The Opening. Numerous reports have him as a heavy recruiter, and the Ohio State brand can recruit itself. 

From espn.com:

Martell: “It kind of speaks for itself at Ohio State. All the guys that got drafted and every kid’s dream is to make it to the NFL. If that’s your goal then it’s the place to be for that, if you want to make it to the league, great coaching and obviously I’ve built great relationships with the guys out here so that’s pretty much all I’ve said to them.”

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Martell: Wide receivers Tyjon Lindsey, Trevon Grimes and Donovan Peoples-Jones

Folks, any three of those receivers can play on my team, but I want Peoples-Jones the most because it will also burn the souls of Michigan fans.

 DEMARIO MCCALL: STILL BALLING. Here's another reason Demario McCall is my new favorite Buckeye: He clearly doesn't play golf.

Here he is, with Bri'onte Dunn, perfecting his golf swing:


Biggest boss on the roster, and it's not close.

 BABY ABUSE: BAD. I don't care how terrifying babies are, it's no excuse to abuse them. 

From dispatch.com:

A former Ohio State University football recruit was sentenced Thursday to nine months in prison for injuring his then-girlfriend's 5-year-old son.

Kenneth L. Hayes Jr., 24, pleaded guilty in May to one count of child endangering for the incident, which occurred on Dec. 16, 2014.

Hayes, who was babysitting the child at the woman's Hilliard apartment, called 911 to report that the boy wasn't breathing. Paramedics took the child to Nationwide Children's Hospital. Although the boy had no external injuries, doctors diagnosed bleeding on the brain.

Yes, that's Wisconsin forward Nigel Hayes' brother, for those wondering.

 EAT AT WENDY'S LATELY? I don't eat a lot of fast food, but when I do it's usually Wendy's. (Rally's would be my go-to if it could ever nail down their consistency.) If like me, you've recently indulged in the Columbus-based food chain, your credit card data could be at risk.

From welivesecurity.com:

Wendy’s believes that the malware has been effectively deployed on some franchisee systems since late fall 2015, stealing the following payment card data: cardholder name, credit or debit card number, expiration date, cardholder verification value (different from the three digits on the back of your card), and service code.

Of course the longer malware lies undetected on a retailer’s systems, the more information it can potentially steal.

Although Wendy’s has declared that at least 1,025 restaurants have been hit by the hackers it has not said publicly how many customers it believes might be impacted by the data breach.

Can't wait until a Russian #teen goes on a shopping spree with the same card I used to buy a $5 Wendy's hustle meal.

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