Just a quick reminder that Pete Werner has had a quietly incredible career in Ohio.
Career of Pete Werner in the state of Ohio:
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Raise your hand, I probably didn’t appreciate it enough while he was here. This is up to me.
Word of the day: Verve.
“IT WILL BE A CONFUSION.” Given that everyone involved had more than a year to discover all these things of name, image and resemblance, I hoped against all hopes that everything would go well when the time came for everything to really fall.
It turns out that my optimism was completely wrong because it is becoming an even bigger disaster than I could have ever imagined, to the point that, if something doesn’t happen very soon, it will technically start to hurt Buckeyes on the recruitment trail.
In the meantime, states are in a race against each other, a worrying trend for many of the college sports that believe chaos will reign in July. A handful of states will be operating under more tolerant and athlete-friendly NIL laws, while all others will follow the NCAA’s more stringent NIL legislation whenever it is passed.
“Some states will have an early advantage,” says Arizona coach Herm Edwards. “It will be a mess.”
It’s a catch-22 for schools in states that will have passed NIL laws, says Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby.
“This puts schools in your state in a very difficult situation,” he says. “They will find themselves violating NCAA rules while complying with state laws. You can end up in court after all. ”
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What if a five-star soccer player, split between Florida and Ohio offerings, makes his decision based on NIL opportunities? Ohio lawmakers have not yet proposed a NIL bill, while Florida’s law goes into effect on July 1.
“It will be a huge recruiting advantage,” said Todd Berry, executive director of the American Football Coaches Association.
I am as shocked as you that something that involves the cooperation of the federal government and the NCAA is not going well.
I would say that there is no way to get to the point where these NIL laws vary from state to state, but honestly, this whole thing has been so badly done up to this point that nothing would surprise me.
We hope that the entire football team does not move to Florida!
RYAN DAY’S NEXT VICTIM? Ryan Day bullied Don Brown for three years before the Wolverines got tired and kicked him to the curb (there would be four this year, but).
Now, Michigan is launching a radically inexperienced new coordinator who looks like a Boy Scout in a Smedium shirt. And he is already refusing to talk about the state of Ohio, instead he wants to focus on “what’s important now” – which is evidently not ending the eight-year drought in the greatest rivalry of all sports.
“In all honesty, we are trying to be the best that we can now. It is a “what’s important now” approach, from meeting to meeting, from representative to representative, from practice to practice. All the things of the season will take care of themselves and we cannot worry about all of this until we are really good at what we are doing now. So, those conversations – I’m going to leave them private for us and our guys. ”
I don’t know how the Michigan Men didn’t realize that the reason the State of Ohio has been dragging its team down a trail of broken glass for almost two decades is that “what’s important now” is always – ALWAYS – beating Michigan.
In the meantime, your new hire is already here, which implies that the game – The Game, mind you – will “take care of itself”. The guy was asked directly about the state of Ohio and his response included the phrase “we can’t worry about all of this.”
Imagine if the roles were reversed, with Buckeyes ranging from 1 to 15 in the past 16 years, and a new hire from Ohio gave the same response at its introductory press conference. An angry mob would forcibly remove him from the podium and burn him as an effigy.
And that wasn’t the most surprising part of his press conference, because he also openly admitted that he was shocked that Michigan offered him the job in the first place (probably because he never coordinated a defense in his life, but I’m just guessing ).
Michigan DC Mike Macdonald speaking to reporters for the first time. “When the opportunity first presented itself (in Michigan), frankly, it was not on my radar,” he says. “I was a little shocked.” As for the coverage philosophy: “Let’s do everything, baby.”
– Austin Meek (@byAustinMeek) March 4, 2021
Congratulations on your new hire, Michigan. To be fair, it can’t be much worse. Or can?
TEENAGERS MAKING SIX FIGURES. Tired: college athletes who earn a few thousand dollars with their name, image and likeness.
Wired: teenagers who earn six-figure salaries for playing basketball against other high school students.
They will start a professional basketball league that will offer high school basketball players an alternative to college in preparation for the NBA. The Elite Extension will start in September 2021 and will feature 30 of the best candidates in the country, aged between 16 and 18 years old. Athletes will receive a guaranteed minimum wage of $ 100,000, plus bonuses and equity in the league.
League athletes will also have access to health and disability benefits. If an Overtime Elite athlete chooses not to pursue a career in the NBA, the league will pay him up to $ 100,000 to pay for college tuition.
Players participating in Overtime Elite will lose their eligibility to play high school or college basketball if they join the league. The location for Elite Overtime games has not yet been determined, but the league has some big names supporting it.
I will never get in the way of paying talented people, but I feel that there is a solid chance that the founders of this league are drastically overestimating how many people will be interested in a high school basketball display league that have no chance of signing with their team. college favorite.
But I’m also an idiot, so I’m probably wrong.
40 POINT CLUB. Scoring 40 points in a game would make you a local legend at just about any high school in the United States. But average 40 points in a game make you a goddamn popular hero.
112 seasons of 40 points have already been recorded in high school basketball, and two of them came from Buckeyes.
42.39 – Jon Diebler, Upper Sandusky (Ohio)
Year: 2006-07
Game points: 26-1,102
Best games: 69 against Bellevue; 67 against Shelby; 60 vs. St. Xavier
Observation: Diebler became the state’s greatest scorer ever, with 3,208 points after a strong senior season. He went to play at Ohio State.…
41.95 – Allan Hornyak, St. John’s Central (Bellaire, Ohio)
Year: 1968-69
Game points: 22-923
Best games: 86 vs. Warren Consolidated; 73 vs. Local Union; 66 against Bellaire
Observation: Hornyak played at Ohio State and led the team scoring his last three seasons.
I’m not sure I would get an average of 40 points if I played in a 4th grade women’s recreation league, but that definitely says more about me than Jon Diebler or Allan Hornyak.
SONG OF THE DAY. “Baby from the city attacked by rats” by GBH
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