Remember: times are weird, but Michigan still sucks.
Its Team up North, Lori, please do not use that word.
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Love @ryandaytime #OhioStatefootball pic.twitter.com/VzoA6bqHju– buckeyegirl (@ buckeye86355869) August 12, 2020
Word of the Day: Aspersion.
BINNE BINNE SÊ? Turns out, the NFL is not *factual * it will keep its scout combination as a concept in the middle of the college football season as everyone decides to move the season to spring.
Fan @GMFB: If most of the high school football’s football is delayed until spring, the NFL calendar season would change dramatically. More here pic.twitter.com/Tp2GOUOqbP
– Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) August 12, 2020
Despite what it’s said in the past, the NFL is doing what it can to make sure there’s a college football season, because when push comes to shift, it wants a college season more than we do.
I mean, do you really think they’ve just anointed on the idea of making up dudes with limited tape who haven’t played a football game in 18 months? Take a look at all the spots at the beginning of a season towards the end, and that will tell you how desperate they want a season to be. Where do you think Joe Burrow would have been? And folks had Jake Fromm as a top-10 pick.
The NFL wants to see college players. They want to see Shaun Wade actually play the position they will pay him millions of dollars to play. They want to see Wyatt Davis develop. They want to see what a healthy Jonathon Cooper can do.
So if there is a spring season, they will satisfy it.
Of course, this will only happen if * most * of college football moves its season to spring. That as it is right now, the Big Ten and PAC-12 would probably just be named, which I’m sure will go extremely well with fans of those programs if this is how it eventually plays out.
WITH ELIGIBILITY. In a bit of good news, it seems that the NCAA recommends retaining the eligibility for players who have been affected by COVID-19 most of their seasons, whether they exclude or miss more than half of their games .
The Council advised the Board to provide bankruptcy student-athletes who participate and then opt for future participation or a season have short cuts due to COVID-19: (1) an extension of their five-year eligibility period; and (2) an additional season of competition if they participate in 50% or less of the maximum number of competitions allowed in each sport by Division I rules.
This would make complete sense, but we’re also talking about the NCAA, so it does not really mean shit if it “makes sense.” I mean, it made sense for CJ Saunders to be eligible for a year more – or at least an answer earlier than eight months later – but we all know how that worked.
It is also worth noting that these are only recommendations, and no one has any idea how the hell this would work for a spring season, because everyone has made it pretty clear that they have absolutely no idea about the logistics if the possibility of a spring football season seemed earlier, vote to move forward with a spring football season.
Everything is a disaster. Eat at Arby’s.
THE BAND PLAYS UP. If Ohio State is the Titanic in 2020 season, quickly sinking before our eyes without unity of a contingency plan, then TBDBITL is the famous Titanic band, playing the ship in the water.
Stay up to date with the latest information on our fall semester here. #GoBucks
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– The Ohio State University Marching Band (@TBDBITL) August 12, 2020
If they want to live stream a performance from the ramp entrance and The immutable every Saturday this fall I can promise you that they will have at least one empty blogger set up to give me at least some semblance of normalcy.
THE PERSONAL IMPACT. I feel sick for every player who gets out of a chance this fall, but I feel especially for Jonathon Cooper, who has now escaped his senior season for a second time.
The loss of a football season in the #BigTen is not just about players @OhioStateFB like Justin Fields. To meet @ JonathonCooper7. He is a 5th year senior. Team captain. And do not know what his immediate football future has. pic.twitter.com/JLnZf9yUph
– Matt Barrie (@MattBarrie) August 13, 2020
The real look of confusion and sadness when they ask him at 3:32 about his future plans is nothing short of heartbreaking.
He’s going to be more than fine in life, no matter what, because he’s just an A + human. But it’s objective bullshit that this should happen to him, because he absolutely does not deserve this.
CAMPUS BARS HURTING. Football is the lifeblood of Columbus this fall. And without it many businesses will be hurt, such as high street bar.
Nick Schantz, a bartender for Lucky’s Stout House on High Street in the Short North just south of campus, said the bar generates more than half of its annual turnover on game days.
“That’s probably the case for 80% of the bars here,” Schantz said. “There will be a lot of people hurting here without football season.”
Lucky’s will probably manage it, he said, but some taverns and pubs may not survive.
On football Saturdays, students, alumni and fans stand shoulder to shoulder at the Varsity Club on Lane Avenue across the campus, said night manager RJ Oberle. The restaurant and sports bar get a permit to close the street behind the bar to deal with the flooding.
“We are not happy about it, but we can not do much,” Oberle said.
To be honest, even if it was a football season, they would not see the same crowds this fall. However, they were looking for a massive financial hit.
SONG OF THE DAY. “Piece of My Heart” by Janis Joplin.
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