Our goal is to treat this Monday like C.J. Jackson treated this deceased Spartan defender I'll leave nameless out of respect to his family:
THAT MAN HAD A FAMILY CJ pic.twitter.com/2rUdBywq4N
— Eleven Warriors (@11W) January 7, 2018
Props to everyone smart enough to work in schools for a career. Snow days and two-hour delays are still things for them. What a life.
ICYMI:
- "Don't fold" was the Buckeyes' mantra against Spartans.
- No small feat: The buzz is back at the Schott.
- Holtmann first coach since Thad Matta to beat a No. 1 team at two schools.
- Alex Grinch switched his Twitter profile to a Buckeye theme.
- Four Buckeyes balled in the Saints' win over the Panthers.
- Women's basketball topped Michigan in double OT as Kelsey Mitchell remained good.
- Reserve your (or your business' spot) next to the life-size statue of Woody Hayes coming to Newcomerstown!
Word of the Day: Palfrey.
MOVE OVER, LEBRON. The men's basketball has lacked a court general in recent years. But no longer. Keita Bates-Diop is blossoming into a player capable of putting a team on his back for an entire game. He's playing like a National Player of the Year.
From reuters.com:
Keita Bates-Diop scored a career-high 32 points, and the Ohio State Buckeyes took control late in the first half to upset No. 1 Michigan State 80-64 on Sunday in Big Ten play at Columbus, Ohio.
The junior forward made 12 of 21 field-goal attempts and 6 of 7 free-throw attempts as the Buckeyes (13-4, 4-0 Big Ten) won for the eighth time in nine games. Ohio State defeated a No. 1 ranked team for the first time since 2007, when it knocked off Wisconsin 49-48.
Are we even sure LeBron James is the best basketball player in the state right now?
I'm sorry. That was hyperbole. I'm still high from the first Buckeye basketball euphoria felt since the Recession.
And although Ohio State beat Michigan State in Columbus last year, I don't think the Buckeyes win that game yesterday with Thad Matta at the helm. If that's a bad opinion, don't worry, somebody will let me know.
BOSA EVOLVES. Nick Bosa has said he hopes to take a Joey-like leap between his sophomore and junior seasons. It will come with an increase in snap counts, yes, but Bosa wants to become a more vocal leader.
From theozone.net:
As a freshman and sophomore, Bosa could simply lead by example because there were enough captains around him to do the talking. With Bosa now the experienced upperclassman among a sea of inexperienced teammates, he realizes that he has to change his leadership style.
“I’ll have to be more vocal next year,” he said. “We’re going to have a lot of young guys and a lot guys who haven’t played in the games yet, so I think I lead by example already but just taking the vocal role, just pushing guys. I’ve already gotten with Chase a lot, trying to help him out. So, yeah, just getting a lot more vocal is going to be important.”
Seems like bad news for opposing offensive lines. At least if he doesn't make that leadership leap, coaches can still point at Bosa's tape and tell other players "just go do something like that."
S-E-C! Only in the SEC would an insurance salesman wind up as a key witness to match fixing between Georgia's athletic director and Bear Bryant in 1962.
From sbnation.com:
According to the story (which you can read in its entirety here), an Atlanta insurance salesman named George Burnett was accidentally patched into a call between Georgia athletic director Wally Butts and Bear Bryant. In the subsequent conversation, Butts dished everything about how Georgia was preparing for the game to the Bear including formations, maneuvers, and even whether the Dawgs would “quick kick.”
Burnett took notes on the call, but kept his mouth shut until after the game, when he started to feel uneasy. Multiple postgame comments by the Dawgs’ players at the time hinted that Alabama was extraordinarily well-prepared and “they played just like they knew what we were going to do.”
I don't know any of the actors involved here, and yet I've seen all I need to convict Bear Bryant of being a lying cheat in this esteemed court of opinion. All 62 of his his made-up titles have even less credence, which I didn't think were possible.
SURE, NICK. I told myself I wasn't going to watch the CFP "championship" tonight featuring two teams that aren't UCF. But then my barber, the renowned Michael Treon of Piqua, told me last Friday he was going to watch it. "
I just like to watch good football," he said. "And those two teams played better than us this year."
I hate it when a sensible opinion demolishes a conviction I've held for an entire week.
If I do watch—and I'm not saying that I will; there could be a rerun of The Office on TBS—I will turn the TV off before the trophy celebration, especially if it involves Nick Saban.
From collegefootballtalk.com:
As the press conference was winding down, one reporter brought up the topic of the Crimson Tide head coach yelling at his assistants on the sideline during games. The topic is often the delight of social media when it happens and is caught on camera but it sounds like somebody has a convenient blind spot in this area based on the answer he gave.
“I don’t yell at my assistants very much at all, I don’t think,” said Saban. “But there are occasions where you get upset with, whether it’s a circumstance in the game or a situation in the game, or maybe you did something that’s sort of out of the plan, and you get a little upset about it.”
When you put it like that, he almost sounds like a grandpa apologizing for his pre-morning coffee surliness to grandchildren and not a man who can only feel fleeting happiness by winning trophies.
Saban on his interaction with Kiffin during the game: "There were no arguments. Those are called ass-chewings."
— Cecil Hurt (@CecilHurt) September 10, 2016
Nick Saban: Notorious ass eater. Case closed.
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