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Published July 14, 2010 Ohio State is going to win it all and some other things I've been thinking aboutOhio State is the lead dog and the fox is in the gun sights "...I just can't see any way that Ohio State is not in the national championship game next January." I've been looking at the roster and I've been looking at the schedule and I've been looking at the experience and the recruiting and the size and speed of this team and I just can't see any way that Ohio State is not in the national championship game next January. Oh sure, Ron Springs could slip and fall or Troy Smith could show up fifteen pounds over weight or Roy Hall could step on Ted Ginn's foot while celebrating in the end zone or we could have to play the game on the home field of some SEC team and get five personal fouls called on us but hey, it's going to take some kind of fluke like that to keep us from owning the crystal football. Ohio State went 11-2 last year and won the Big 10 and absolutely shut down the high powered offense of Oregon in the Rose Bowl. They return nine starters on offense. Terrelle Pryor returns for his third year as a starter and proved in the Rose Bowl that he has elevated his game to championship caliber. All of the tailbacks and all of the fullbacks return. Both starting receivers return and Devier Posey will be All American this year. We have four starters returning on the offensive line and three more guys that started at least three games. This will be, without a doubt, the best offensive line in the Tressel era. Ohio State also returns seven starters on defense. When the Defensive Coordinator says that this is going to be the best defensive line since he's been at Ohio State then watch out Tater Tot, the Silver Bullets are cocked and loaded. No schedule in the Big 10 is easy but they have eight home games and catch Miami of Florida, Penn State and meeeshitagin in Columbus. Possible bumps in the road games are Iowa and Wisconsin but if you only have to get up for two road games, how hard can it be? So yeah, this is one of those teams that comes along once or twice a decade where all of the "i"s are dotted and the "t"s are crossed and the ducks are all in a row. Line em up and shoot em down! The Big 10 announces expansion talks and college football goes on Prozac "I am thrilled with Nebraska joining the Big 10. Of course, ESPN will put out a release making it official that Nebraska is now slow." Wow, that was fun. The Big 10 announced that they are going to consider expanding and the next thing you know the Big 12 has their panties in a wad and the PAC 10 is inviting half of college football to join them. I thought when it started that the very best the Big 10 could do was to add $Notre Dame or Texas but I didn't know Nebraska was available. I would still like to see $Notre Dame come on board but I think Nebraska is every bit as good a catch as Texas. I am thrilled with Nebraska joining the Big 10. Of course, ESPN will put out a release making it official that Nebraska is now slow. "Utah and Colorado will add NOTHING to the PAC 10 except better rodeo coverage." And how about the PAC 10? They think they are getting Texas and Oklahoma and end up with Utah and Colorado. Invite half the country and get those two? How embarrassing. Utah and Colorado will add NOTHING to the PAC 10 except better rodeo coverage. Interestingly, nine of eleven Big 10 schools field at least 20 or more sports and only three Big 12 teams field 20 sports: Texas A&M, Missouri and Nebraska. Oops, make that two. Also, with the addition of Nebraska, the Big 10 now has four of the top seven most winning football programs of all time. It was pretty cool when the Big 12 was just on the brink of imploding and dragging half of college football into the abyss when Texas played a little Texas Hold-em. They now pretty much own the conference. They set up a deal to keep the conference together but they get the biggest cut of the money and the right to create their own TV network along with the future conference network. The conference will have to add two more schools like TCU and Houston to replace Colorado and Nebraska and then split to two divisions called "Burnt Orange" and "Hook-em Horns." I just don't see any way that the Big 12 has a future. Schools in the Big 12 don't get equal cuts of the revenue pie and I am guessing that in the next round of expansion they will bolt from loyalty a lot faster than LeBron did. My guess is that the Big 10 will now let things settle for a year or two and then go after $Notre Dame once again, but $Notre Dame is like a high maintenance girl friend and she has special needs and special wants and requires special treatment. I suspect the Big 10 will somehow allow her to keep her deal with NBC for some period of time as well as rake in the big bucks from the Big Ten Network. Once she has a very favorable pre-nup she will marry for money. By the way, as much as ESPN would like you to believe differently, with the addition of Nebraska the Big 10 is now 73-38-1 against the SEC. Mich is 20-5, Neb is 19-6, PSU is 17-16, Iowa is 5-3, Minn is 5-3 and OSU is 7-11-1. The Big 10 now has 12 teams, the PAC 10 now has 12 teams and the Big 12 now has 10 teams. Do you think math might be an issue at our institutions of higher learning? USC gets all they deserve including Lane Kiffin "The NCAA took four years to investigate the obvious improprieties at USC. They make BP look like a smooth operation." The NCAA took four years to investigate the obvious improprieties at USC. They make BP look like a smooth operation. But in the end USC took it in the end. Four years of probation, loss of 30 scholarships and no post season play for two years. And if you think Lane Kiffin can go through four years of probation without more recruiting violations then I have some Florida mortgages I want to sell you. USC is changing their fight song from Fight On to Amazing Disgrace. And now the rats are leaving the sinking ship. The top recruit in the country, Seantral Henderson, son of future rapper star Sean Yo-Daddy Henderson, didn't attend freshman orientation so Lane and his assistants flew to Minnesota to have a heart to heart with Seantrel and Yo-Daddy. Apparently, Lane telling them during recruiting that the NCAA was just going to give them a slap on the wrist came across as a big fat lie in the Henderson house and they are off to Miami to join LeBron. And that's a Rap. Are you still in Tim Tebow withdrawal? I just feel that I have to keep reminding everybody that watches ESPN that ESPN DOES NOT LIKE THE BIG 10! The Big 10 has their own TV network which puts them in direct competition with all things ESPN. Meanwhile, the SEC has a deal with ESPN and that is why ESPN doesn't even attempt to be objective. But it's not just ESPN that is biased. Ron Zook, the great coach at Illinois agrees with ESPN and said recently that the SEC is better than the Big 10. If the SEC is better than the Big 10 then why was he 23-14 at Florida and is 44-53 at Illinois? Even HE could win in the SEC. And speaking of the SEC, which allows over-recruiting, I read that Alabama has 90 kids on scholarship and needs to get that down to 85 by August. Might I suggest Tuscaloosa as the next location of Survivor? It could be called Survivor SEC and Nick The Snake Saban could take his fifteen worst players and put them in a gated trailer park where they are pitted against each other and every week one of the players would be voted off and would be stripped of his scholarship at tribal council. Roll Tide. Some other things I think about Last weekend someone mentioned that it was Independence Day and I immediately thought of $Notre Dame. I asked a friend recently what was so special about $ND being independent and he said, "Well, I wouldn't want us to be in a conference because playing the same teams every year would really be boring." I didn't say anything but I thought to myself, hmmm, let's see, there's Michigan, Purdue, Michigan State, USC, Navy, Boston College and Stanford. Looks like a conference schedule to me. I actually wonder if not being in a conference might hurt them in recruiting. Every kid in the country played for a conference championship in high school and understands the importance of the pride and lore involved in a conference championship. $ND needs a top QB and went after Braxton Miller and lost him to Ohio State. Then they went after a 6-5 240 kid named Bubba Sterling. They thought they had him and then about two days after Nebraska announced that they were joining the Big 10 Bubba said, "I'm a Cornhusker!" Coincidence? I think not. If you read any meeeshitagin blogs you will quickly read that all of the problems they currently have are directly tied to Lloyd Carr. He is the George Bush of Michigan football. The Big 12 has blamed its demise on Nebraska. If they had not left the conference it would still be intact and Nebraska would still be the University of Texas, Lincoln branch. And there would also be a University of Texas, Boulder branch. So this year is going to be very tough for the Cornhuskers conference away games. The good news is that they get Texas in Lincoln and that might just be the hardest hitting college football game in America in 2010. Jamel Turner was one of the top rated football players in the state of Ohio. He played in Youngstown and committed early to Ohio State. After he committed he didn't get the grades to get into Ohio State so he went to Fork Union military prep school where he could play football and get his grades in order. He was kicked out of there. While at home in Youngstown he was shot in the leg in a drive-by shooting. Marijuana and weapons were discovered in the car in which he was riding . A month or two later while still healing from the wounds he was shot again. Several times. He is alive but will not play at Ohio State and will probably never play football again. I mean, WTF? If you are a Cleveland sports fan you have learned over the years to expect the worst. We expected John Elway to go the length of the field and cost us a Super Bowl birth in the last seconds of the game. We expected Earnest Byner to fumble the ball in the end zone to cost us another crack at the Super Bowl. We expected Michael Jordan to make the buzzer beater the keep us out of the NBA championship. We expected Jose Mesa's arm to give out in the bottom of the ninth inning of the seventh game of the World Series. We expected Art Modell to slither off in the middle of the night with our football team and leave us without a team for three years. So we expected Lebron James to go elsewhere. What we didn't expect was that he would arrange a national television show to embarrass and humiliate the city of Cleveland and the state of Ohio. Nothing is below what ESPN will do.... but even we Cleveland fans expected more out of Lebron James. It has now been 2,421 days since the meeeshitagan football team last beat Ohio State. Go Bucks. The Coach
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