Sonny Styles on the list:

Ryan Day, Kevin Wilson and Jim Knowles will be joining us to speak on the Buckeyes from the team room at the WHAC.

The petitions my brother mentions in the video link, I collected several hundred while walking around Ohio State tailgates in 2018. In 2017, a member here at the Horseshoe Lounge purchased 75 tickets for a crowd-funding screening of the documentary, "Delay, Deny, Hope You Die" that I was hosting in a Gahanna theater but had to presale 90 tickets at $15 each. With 75 unsold, a Buckeye fan I've never met in person bought the remaining 75 so I could hand them out free to anyone who wanted to attend. Many members here always encouraged me, called their members of Congress or signed petitions for me to get legislation passed.

The UAW International Org recorded this video this past August at the Veterans Memorial and Museum in Fort Wayne for their website and Solidarity Magazine. I'm pretty proud of myself and everyone who supported my efforts, including many Ohio State fans and for that I thank you!!! A Promise To Heath

Looking for some fresh football questions to dive into this week. If you have any you've been pondering, drop them below. Please and thank you.

Is it Toledo? 🥺

As Tom Allen continues to trudge toward his impending demise in Bloomington, I think it's worth noting that Allen was likely never a good head coach himself, but instead did a great job hiring assistants, two in particular. One may argue that this is one of the most important qualities in a head coach, and I would agree, but if you're strongest trait is hitting the occassional HR in hiring assitants, you're likely not long for the job.

Indiana started to overachieve in 2019, and along with this came adulation for Allen. He cares. He's a great motivator. His players love him. There were fawning profiles of a guy that just kinda seemed like doofus.

It was 2019 that both Kalen DaBoer and Kane Womack joined the program, as offensive and defensive coordinators. They went 8-5 and finished above .500 in conference for the first time since 1993. After 2019, DaBoer left to become head coach at Fresno State, where he acquited himself well before moving on to Washington, where he now appears to be one of the better young coaches in the country.

Womack stuck around another season, and again Indiana played well in 2020, going 6-2 (6-1 in conference), completing likely the best Hoosier football season in a generation or two. Womack departed to become head coach at South Alabama, where he has the program moving in the right direction.

None of Womack or DaBoer's replacements have worked out. They're on their second OC situation since DaBoer left three seasons ago. They're on their second DC in two seasons since Womack left for Mobile, Alabama.

Why did I waste everybody's time with this? I don't know, but it seems like such a glaring instance of coach appearing to be good at his job only for him not to be. In most of those instances, no answer ever comes. Here, it's pretty clear Allen was propped up by two pretty talented young coaches.

The last couple of days I have lost access to the top toolbar when replying/posting. It’s all greyed out. Can’t post links/photos/gifs or change the font or anything up there. I’ve tried logging out but that didn’t help. Any ideas?

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Gage updates his overall recruiting as he lines up visits with Bama, USC, and Ohio State.

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Birm and I discuss Penn State, Michigan and other thoughts from the weekend of college football

It’s game day for by the Week. Lots of good games this weekend!

Houston gives an overall update with detail on his relationship with the Buckeyes.

Very long, but pretty thorough research here.

It's a pay site, but the gist is that Meyer was dominant in all four of his conference stops, Saban in only one.


Meyer has a far better record in big games, bowl games, and against arch-rivals.

Meyer has the third best winning percentage in the history of the sport, Frank Leahy and Knute Rockne are the only ones ahead of him.

Meyer took over sub-optimal programs and immediately elevated them all. Even Ohio State was 6-7 when Meyer arrived, and he immediately turned them into a 12-0 team that would've won the national title in his first season if not for Jim Tressel's NCAA penalties.

It's always taken Saban much longer, and in Michigan State's case he didn't really elevate them at all until year 5 when he finally won nine games.

Obviously winning 7 titles will carry more weight with many folks, but Meyer's record in big games, winning percentage, and his incredible mark against arch-rivals is the cornerstone of the argument.

Don't know if I agree, but the author made an interesting argument.

But he’s looking ahead to enrolling at Ohio State in January.

Sweden is refusing to release the results of their investigation to other countries and are dropping out of the further investigations with Germany and Denmark. Why would Sweden investigate and then refuse to share results? What's the point of the effort?

Posted this on the Tennessee board since there's a report about him potentially visiting there this weekend.

There is no confirmation that the five-star WR who is committed to Ohio State but was heavily involved with Tennessee will be in Knoxville this weekend.

Some of his IMG teammates are visiting for this weekend's game and they're trying to convince him to come but there has not been a determination yet whether Tate will make the trip yet.

Anyone else keep having issues with the site crashing and an AOL “we’re working on that” (or something similar) come up? It happens a dozen times a day, combined with the cookies pop up I always get… oh and the site will also load halfway and not load everything..

Anyone else having these issues? I’m on safari.

WEEK 7​

Wednesday, Oct. 12

Louisiana at Marshall | 7:30 p.m. | ESPN2

Thursday, Oct. 13

Baylor at West Virginia | 7 p.m. | FS1
Temple at UCF | 7 p.m. | ESPN
Morgan State at NC Central | 7:30 p.m. | ESPN2

Friday, Oct. 14

Brown at Princeton | 7 p.m. | ESPNU
Navy at SMU | 7:30 p.m. | ESPN
UTSA at FIU | 8 p.m. | CBSSN

Saturday, Oct. 15

No. 10 Penn State at No. 5 Michigan | 12 p.m. | FOX
Auburn at No. 9 Ole Miss | 12 p.m. | ESPN
No. 19 Kansas at Oklahoma | 12 p.m. | ESPN2
Iowa State at No. 22 Texas | 12 p.m. | ABC
Minnesota at No. 24 Illinois | 12 p.m. | Big Ten Network
Colgate at Army | 12 p.m. | CBSSN
Central Michigan at Akron | 12 p.m. | ESPN+
Miami (Ohio) at Bowling Green | 12 p.m. | ESPN+
Old Dominion at Coastal Carolina | 12 p.m. | ESPNU
Miami (Fla.) at Virginia Tech | 12:30 p.m. | ESPN3
Buffalo at UMass | 1 p.m. | ESPN3
Cal at Colorado | 2 p.m. | Pac-12 Network
UConn at Ball State | 2 p.m. | ESPN3
Vanderbilt at No. 1 Georgia | 3:30 p.m. | SEC Network
No. 3 Alabama at No. 6 Tennessee | 3:30 p.m. | CBS
No. 8 Oklahoma State at No. 13 TCU | 3:30 p.m. | ABC
No. 15 NC State at No. 18 Syracuse | 3:30 p.m. | ACC Network
Arkansas at BYU | 3:30 p.m. | ESPN
Gardner-Webb at Liberty | 3:30 p.m. | ESPN+
Maryland at Indiana | 3:30 p.m. | ESPN2
Northern Illinois at Eastern Michigan | 3:30 p.m. | ESPN+
Kent State at Toledo | 3:30 p.m. | ESPN+
Ohio at Western Michigan | 3:30 p.m. | CBSSN
Texas State at Troy | 3:30 p.m. | ESPN3
Charlotte at UAB | 3:30 p.m. | Stadium
Western Kentucky at Middle Tennessee | 3:30 p.m. | ESPN+
No. 25 James Madison at Georgia Southern | 4 p.m. | ESPN+
Wisconsin at Michigan State | 4 p.m. | FOX
Tulane at South Florida | 4 p.m. | ESPNU
Louisiana Tech at North Texas | 4 p.m. | ESPN+
Arizona at Washington | 5:30 p.m. | Pac-12 Network
Rice at Florida Atlantic | 6 p.m. | ESPN+
LSU at Florida | 7 p.m. | ESPN
Utah State at Colorado State | 7 p.m. | CBSSN
Arkansas State at Southern Miss | 7 p.m. | ESPN+
UL Monroe at South Alabama | 7 p.m. | NFL Network
No. 4 Clemson at Florida State | 7:30 p.m. | ABC
No. 16 Mississippi State at No. 22 Kentucky | 7:30 p.m. | SEC Network
Stanford at Notre Dame | 7:30 p.m. | NBC/Peacock
Nebraska at Purdue | 7:30 p.m. | Big Ten Network
Memphis at East Carolina | 7:30 p.m. | ESPNU
No. 7 USC at No. 20 Utah | 8 p.m. | FOX
North Carolina at Duke | 8 p.m. | ACC Network
Washington State at Oregon State | 9 p.m. | Pac-12 Network
Air Force at UNLV | 10:30 p.m. | CBSSN
San Jose State at Fresno State | 10:45 p.m. | FS1
Nevada at Hawai'i | 11:59 p.m. | Spectrum Sports PPV

Enjoy this fantastic interview with Hart.

Last question got me thinking…. Do we support Hartline leaving to be a HC to get some experience and presumably come back once Day leaves? I’d hate to see him leave but knowing the next HC in just a phone call away (I’d assume 2 of them actually with Fick) is an extremely nice luxury.

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