2023 Ohio State Season Thread

[Honestbuckeye]

ESPN FPI ranks Ohio State as the #1 team in the country and a 10 pt favorite over Michigan

Asinine.   

[BuckeyeAvenger]

The Buckeyes landed OT Josh Simmons from San  Diego State in the transfer portal. A big need was met, as they lost both OTs in the recent draft.

[Honestbuckeye]

The Buckeyes landed OT Josh Simmons from San  Diego State in the transfer portal. A big need was met, as they lost both OTs in the recent draft.

Really good weekend for the buckeyes. They also picked up Lorenzo Styles from ND Through the portal and excellent, speedy four star running back out of Florida

[MrNubbz]

ESPN FPI ranks Ohio State as the #1 team in the country and a 10 pt favorite over Michigan

Prolly the same polls that had Brandon leading RFK jr by a large margin

[MrNubbz]

https://www.elevenwarriors.com/skull-sessions/2023/05/138793/skull-session-cardale-jones-calls-out-stetson-bennett-on-twitter-marvin-harrison-jr-and-emeka-egbuka-will-shine-in-2023

HA! CDJ smack

"BUDDY DEFINITELY WASN'T PLAYING SCHOOL!" Cardale Jones called out Stetson Bennett in the most Cardale Jones way possible over the weekend when he quote-tweeted a report that Bennett never graduated from Georgia. Reminder: Bennett was a member of the Bulldogs' 2017 class. It's 2023.

[Cincydawg]

That was really funny, I'm guessing his JUCO credits didn't transfer and he was taking the minimum to stay eligible at UGA.

[MrNubbz]

Lot of them aren't playing school . I remember Gatorama stating most belong in reform school or remedial classes . I like what Alex Karras said "I was only at Iowa for two terms - Truman's & Eisenhower's"

[medinabuckeye1]

Lot of them aren't playing school . I remember Gatorama stating most belong in reform school or remedial classes . 

Now that higher ed is moving away from standardized testing it will be harder to document/prove this but Gatorama was absolutely right.  I did a comparison once of all B1G average SAT scores for "football team members" compared to their general student body and it was pathetic.  Worse, in doing it, it became apparent to me that the schools were jacking up their "football team" scores by including EVERYBODY on the team.  The walk-on's are "real" students so their scores were better and actually propped up the overall "football team" score.  If you were able to compare just "Football Scholarship Recipients" to "General Student Population" the difference would be even worse.  

This is why a lot of schools have "football" majors.  They have to because most of the football players couldn't possibly cut it in a "real" major.  

[MrNubbz]

Ya like Kinesiology 

[medinabuckeye1]

Ya like Kinesiology

Exactly but, in their defense, the better the school the more need there is to create an "athlete" major. 

[Cincydawg]

We noted before how TV stopped reporting on majors for players.  Consumer economics was a popular one before they stopped.  In my day, Spanish was pretty common, along with "General Studies", which I suppose is OK for newbies.

UGA athletes and their scale of admissions - Advanced writing and reporting (weebly.com)

Athletes Show Huge Gaps in SAT Scores (usnews.com)

[Temp430]

Irish fans are worried...

https://thespun.com/college-football/notre-dame-fans-react-to-concerns-about-ohio-state-invading-stadium


https://fightingirishwire.usatoday.com/2023/07/06/podcast-host-any-fan-selling-ohio-state-tickets-an-absolute-loser/

[847badgerfan]

F ND.

That is all.

[Brutus Buckeye]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDCm0bQ36qc