Bad news, folks: I now live with my girlfriend, so eventually my #takes will be domesticated. I didn't even get to watch the USMNT loss yesterday because I was moving.
*drags on a corncob pipe and shakes head* My childhood was fun while it lasted.
Oh, and a little FYI to the people who live under rocks: five-star LB Justin Hilliard and five-star DL Jashon Cornell will be committing today in back-to-back specials on ESPN.com at 10 AM. Rowland will be in the Natti for Hilliard's announcement.
The Lord of Whispers has them both crystalballed to Ohio State, SO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS: GET YOUR GIFs READY FOR THE FIESTA.
GET WHOOPED THEN PENN STATE. Patrick Maks has a further breakdown on student tickets, but it appears OSU has beaten PSU before their teams have even taken the field.
Penn State announced the school had sold out all 21,000 student section seats for the upcoming season, the first with new head coach James Franklin at the helm. If there is a battle for student section attendance, Ohio State has the upper hand in the Big Ten East Division this fall.
Ohio State has claimed to sell close to 30,000 tickets to students.
Good to see the sagging student sales plaguing Michigan haven't caught up with Ohio State. I guess, other than wins and trophies, that's the difference between mediocrity and a perennial a title-contender. (We call that the "Michigan Difference" in the biz.)
BUCKS WILL BE DEEPER INTO THE CORNER GAME. Via the Ozone's Tony Gerdeman:
"Gareon is right in the mix. Eli Apple has had a very good spring. I'm eager, and I'm gonna tell you what, those two freshmen coming in are gonna have a chance to play."
Those two freshmen are Damon Webb and Marshon Lattimore, two of the more sought-after cornerbacks in the entire 2014 class.
Both Meyer and Coombs want their freshmen to see the field this coming season, but it's also something that they wanted very much a year ago.
"We wanted to do it last year," Meyer explained on Signing Day.
Obviously, we know how that turned out last year. But it's good to see Coombs is confident the cornerbacks will be deeper than last year's crop. I really think an aggressive style of play is going to do wonders for some of the young pups.
BUCKEYES SNUBBED. Hmmm, the Buckeyes were one of the winningest programs of the 2000s, yet apparently did it with no Top 10 players.
Here's the top five of Mike Huguenin's Top 10 players of the 2000s, in reverse order:
- Matt Leinart, QB, USC
- Reggie Bush, RB, USC
- Darren McFadden, RB, Arkansas
- Vince Young, QB, Texas
- Tim Tebow, QB, Florida
Solid list, but no Troy Smith or Dane Sanzenbacher? Buddy, I'm MIFFED.
VJ KING COULD BE HEIR TO THE THRONE. VJ King has held an OSU offer since May 2013, before he had even played a high school game. Now that he's putting up numbers for Akron's St. Vincent-St. Mary High School, well, the comparisons are only natural.
From Ari Wasserman of The Cleveland Plain Dealer:
But dealing with attention of that sort is the reason Vincent King moved his family from North Carolina to Akron, to play at a program led by coach Dru Joyce that has become accustomed to harboring the nation's most dynamic basketball talents. There King will be in a better position to handle his high-profile recruitment, one that has already expanded from Ohio State to a national focus.
"There's pressure because of who I am," the 6-foot-7, 185-pound prospect said after the game. "And obviously you all know who went to this school before me."
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Because King is perhaps the biggest star to play basketball at James' old school since, the inevitable comparisons have already started. Well, they started before King's freshman year, the time in which Ohio State, the in-state powerhouse, had already offered him a scholarship.
"We knew this was coming," Vincent King told cleveland.com. So did Joyce.
That takes some stones to transfer to Akron, Ohio to play in the shadow of the world's greatest basketball player.
I'LL TAKE HIM, THAD. SIGN THIS KID UP.
THOSE WMDs. Chillicothe man decked Great Clips manager over haircut... Photos of the deepest cave in the world... An "unearthed" 1996 interview with David Foster Wallace... Cannibal cop's conviction overturned... Two men discover undeveloped film while scanning World War II battle site with a metal detector.. An abandoned mall in Bangkok is overtaken by fish... The story behind Maradona vs. Belgium... Oklahoma gets alternate jerseys... /Salute to Tim Howard...
