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Bartles

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  1. Add "Ability to have a civil unwinding of message board spats" to your very long list of why Texas is a better brand than Ohio State
  2. Past 5 pm in Ohio. Maybe the latest McBomb the other night has thrown their timeline off
  3. Holy shit plz no...I wouldn't even be happy if that call helped my team
  4. To re-phrase was some of you have pointed out to Parly, Brett McMurphy is not some puppet master here. Ohio State holds ALL the cards in terms of what information gets released and when. By saying absolutely nothing for three weeks, not to mention Zach/lawyer/mother-in-law foolish outbursts, they are leaving the microphone wide open for McMurphy or anyone else to continue to expose their issues. As I recall, Penn State and Maryland actually did put their main fires out within days of the scandals going public. Baylor did a half-ass thing where they acknowledged some crimes but has never really came all the way clean. Ohio State looks like they are more on the Baylor path.
  5. Simply having an "active" sex life would be a private detail not worth reporting on. Doing it in the football offices (fireable), with a co-worker (fireable) and getting it on video (maybe illegal or at least reckless) makes it kinda relevant to the matter of whether Urban Meyer should have kept this nutcase on the staff. Which is what Brett McMurphy is reporting on.
  6. Went through the new Death Cab full album one time. It's fine but pretty reminiscent of Plans and maybe others. I'm happy to have new DCFC music, was just hoping for something more daring after a long layoff. But I'll be there for the tour in a couple months.
  7. You have to think McMurphy/Courtney got some kind of ammo ready for whenever tOSU finally releases its ruling on the whole thing. Like if they don't fully come clean, an hour later the opposite evidence is gonna be on Stadium.
  8. Worth noting that McMurphy has a full time job with WatchStadium now that his ESPN salary has run out. And Stadium is well funded, looking to make a splash in the world of college sports. This is like when Yahoo had a hold of the Miami scandal. They will play this hand for maximum payoff.
  9. And again, the clock is ticking on ESPN.com - and all the others besides SI.com who posted right away - two hours and counting with no mention of this bombshell reported by a lil' ole reporter with only 180,000 Twitter followers
  10. I pretty much always have a drink in hand when I play, so no way I could keep track of all that. Also sounds like a way to piss off the other players and dealers who are trying to keep things moving.
  11. They can always use his media day lie-fest to suspend him for "failure to uphold university standards" or something. But I'm a slight lean towards he gets booted, though it may not legally be described as firing him.
  12. Can't imagine ESPN not making Duke-KY the 9 pm game, with MSU-KU earlier
  13. To me, Hopkins is a lock, not a lean. Zeke and Hopkins are both top 10ish picks, so may as well preserve your first three live picks. Wentz is great if you are thinking you can ride him his whole career in your league, but that's risky with a QB.
  14. Worth pointing out, at least Maryland is calling a press conference within days of their scandal going national. Ohio State immediately canceled all media availabilities and has yet to issue any public statement.
  15. This is nice work by Surly members keeping everything in this thread so far. In the old days, there would have been two Herman-Urban threads going in addition to this one, with posters saying they saw something about Jason Day in the title so they didn't read this one. 🙌
  16. Leak? This isn't the fucking Pentagon Papers. Courtney Smith publicly filed a protection order against Zach Smith on July 23, McMurphy asked about it the following week at media day which is when Urban himself caused the whole thing to mushroom by trying to stonewall it. Maybe Herman and others gave him some valuable background, but the case is right there for everyone to see. Except the part about what OSU did in response to the 2015 police actions, which they still refuse to address. I guess this is progress though, maybe some Bucks can stop blaming a domestic violence victim and shift their anger to a football coach.
  17. Friday news report. I bet Guice still gets drafted in a bunch of fantasy leagues by the do-no-homework crowd
  18. Phillies got Justin Bour from MIA for a reliever who was just promoted to AA. Probably platoon at 1B with Carlos Santana who has been a pretty big disappointment for $20 million. Ballsy move, I really like that they are serious about contention this year without ditching any quality prospects.
  19. I have to think that sequence was just poking the audience with a "Wait, is that Walter?" moment. That was my thought briefly but I quickly remembered Walt had hair in BB/Season 1 so it wasn't him. But the neighborhood and the wide shot could easily trick a viewer.
  20. This and BB do an amazing job of creating a sense of dread in the slow scenes. The entire open was like that: ditzy lady fumbling to enter Gene's info, random guy taking a seat in waiting room just before he leaves, and of course the cab ride. And they needed a good actor for the cab driver, I wouldn't jump to conclusions that he's coming back.
  21. Key to that article is the emphasis on the physical structure of the stadium, which is true. I bet Miami is near the top now due to the re-design of the Dolphins stadium where all the noise bounces right back into the bowl.
  22. Woj and several other writers point out that hardly any players will hire the agent, go undrafted and come back to school. They obviously want to turn pro, and it's better to do that as a 19-year-old or whatever rather than go back to college ball where it's rare to increase your draft value much from one year to the next - while obviously becoming a year older. Those kids will just try to land in G League, Summer League, international. Most of us college fans have this romantic idea that the kids would rather come back to campus and be part of a Sweet 16 push or whatever. But the reality is they want to get paid (NBA or otherwise) and the age clocks are always ticking.
  23. Another Sixers top pick to miss several months with an injury...Zhaire Smith the dreaded Jones fracture
  24. I wouldn't shoot Parliament, but where is that douche who (to his credit) started an IRL rally at Penn State featuring Franco Harris, and was later banned from Shaggy for some other thing? Can we talk about how pretty much every major program has a vocal minority of fucking morons? We don't need 500 pages of whatever these bozos are doing Also FWIW, USA Today's Wolken said Zeke Elliott's dad was at this rally
  25. I'm assuming that since Z Smith all of a sudden started popping up on air minutes after the Urban statement was tweeted, the lawyers must have communicated beforehand, and presumably Urban's guy was fine with Zach being out there as the public face of the Urban camp for the moment.
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