Today is national signing day and it closed on a sour note as the top offensive lineman recruit, Seantrel Henderson, chose to sign with USC over Ohio State and others. The O-Zone had pretty much given up on getting him last week even though all the pundits were saying he was a lock for the Buckeyes. Even with all the negativity, I was hoping we'd get him because we only recruited one other offensive lineman.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
The Big Ten Superconference
The O-Zone forum really amuses me as many of the people post without really investigating the facts. I realize it is a public bulletin board and everyone is entitled to their opinion but I always try to have a fact based opinion vs. a emotion/faith based opinion. For instance, I believe that Jim Tressel is a good coach because he continues to beat Michigan and win the conference not because I feel he is a good coach. Sometimes however it is fun to put rationality aside and just do a "King for a day" type of post. Usually that involves the perfect college playoff system but lately people are arguing about who should join the Big 10. I haven't done a ton of investigating on this but I'm pretty sure that the only way it makes sense is to add a single team to get a league championship game. Adding any more teams will only dilute the payoff which I'm sure the league will avoid (yeah I know it is more complex but I'm not writing about that today). Sometimes however it is fun to dream and I was thinking... If I were king, how would I set up the New Big 10?
Pittsburgh as the 12th team
The internet has been buzzing lately that Pittburgh is going to be announced as the 12th team to the Big Ten in a press conference on Thursday. The Big 10 has denied the reports but this rumor is unstoppable at this point. I have done quite a bit of study on the "12th team" topic but I'm not ready do a post on the whole topic as it needs more study. Still I feel the need to talk about Pittsburgh just for prediction's sake.
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