Too bad we have to live in this world today. Eat at Arby’s.
Word of the day: Dolor.
PARENTS Do not buy it. Kevin Warren broke his silence (sort of) yesterday with an open letter and an extremely bizarre video interview where he said almost nothing for three minutes.
It was better than what he did – hiding backstage and refusing to come out – but Ohio State parents are not buying it yet.
“I think there’s still a lack of transparency and no new real information was revealed to help us understand what changed from August 5 to August 11,” said Amanda Babb, Kamryn Babb’s stepmother and president of Football Parents. in Ohio State, told Eleven Warriors. “There is no real plan for the rest of this year and / or what a winter / spring season will look like. I think it is very hypocritical to say that this was for the health and safety of Big Ten athletes, but his son still plays in the SEC. The letter remained real answers to questions we asked.
What Kevin Warren did not only send is undermining what our young men and women wear on their jerseys … It is embarrassing to scream at parents who support their children … TRANSPARENCY is what we need what presidents voted to do cancel and what steps should play spring
– Randy L Wade% f @ Ly ….. (@gslsff) August 19, 2020
And most importantly … Randy Wade’s protest will continue as planned.
Rain, Sleet or Snow Im BOOTS ON GROUND to show support for our Big Ten young man … That statement was not transparency … Big Ten family should step up and let the conference know that there is not enough talk for us. SEE YOU AT 8AM Fri … LIGHT JOIN …
– Randy L Wade% f @ Ly ….. (@gslsff) August 19, 2020
I will be honest, Randy’s protest was embarrassing about the first thing I thought of when I saw the letter. I was afraid it would kill the protest, which is almost unbelievable, but it will take more than a letter plagiarism from the PAC-12 to stop Randy Wade.
“KLUNKYPROSES.” Kevin Warren’s problem was not so much his decision to postpone the season, as it was his week-long turtle while hell ran loose on him.
No matter how good leadership it may look in that scenario, hiding from confused people who demand your attention for more than a week, it is absolutely not. That would be if McDonald’s served me Silly Putty instead of chicken nuggets and then refused to come out of the kitchen to answer one of my many questions.
And yet, that’s what the real commissioner of the Big Ten football conference did at the most important moment of his career.
He claims he now understands that this was a problem, but I am not convinced.
In a telephone interview on Wednesday, Warren emphasized that the league has no regrets about the decision or reasoning behind it. But he fell on the sword for the way the league got there and the awkward silence that followed. “Who did this in a klunky process? Yes, “said Warren.” Are there areas I would have liked to have been more flexible in? Absolutely. I need to learn from them and get better.
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That political misunderstanding made spectacularly rapid returns on Warren, who missed allies when he decided to score on the season. Warren expressed the Big Ten first, something he seemed to do intensely, only increasing the size of the goal and the volume of second-guessing. “I’ll be the first to speak, I was not as clear as I should have been,” Warren said of the initial posts. “That’s why I found it important that I write this letter to explain it.”
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“This process was absolutely not perfect, especially for communication,” Warren said. “In the wake of what I would have done differently, I would have brought all the parties together. That is part of learning and growing and striving to get better. ”
Want to know how I am to know he does not understand it? He made these remarks to one national reporter instead of doing so in a public forum. It’s been over a week and the man has not done a damn press conference yet! By the end of the day tomorrow, Gene Smith and Ryan Day will have done two!
He wrote an open letter (which is suspected identical to the release of the PAC-12 eight days ago), felt no questions about the open letter, and remained hidden in his shell, making himself completely inaccessible.
And now write about how he does the right thing. I’m really scared.
COMIC RELIEF. The past two weeks (like six months) have been hell, but at least it’s given us Nick Saban talking about his affinity for Deez Nuts jokes.
Heres Saban listens to Josh Jacobs tell last year his Deez Nuts story to Dan Patrick and his reaction. pic.twitter.com/YgGQ1G9Z8p
– Chicago Gump (@GriffinTSmith) August 19, 2020
I appreciate the absolute pleasure of the reporters over the fact that Saban is actually tackling this story. I greet those gentlemen. They really pose the tough questions of one of the nation’s highest paid public servants.
FREAKKE. The Buckeyes’ latest addition, Dasan McCullough is a 6-foot-5, 220-pound lab creation who plays linebacker.
He can also do this:
Ohio State tasizze @ Dasan2022 get close to the 12ft club! Dasan can just do a lot of things that other players his age and size can’t do! Freak athletics !! pic.twitter.com/CTnmY1Qacw
– All In Sports (@AISportsKC) August 19, 2020
Ohio State continues its long-standing tradition of delivering its defensive lineup with primordial manhunters, and I’m not the least about it.
SONG OF THE DAY. “Something Over the Rainbow” by Israel Kamakawiwoʻole.
DO NOT STICK ON SPORTS. Investigators say they know what happened to the ‘Lost Colony’ … Doctors used a poop transplant to cure a man whose gut made him drunk … The Spanish narco who wanted to become Pablo Escobar … For decades American metrologists have juggled two contradictory measurements for the foot … The strange rituals of super-rich partying …
