Buckeye Fan 19

About the worst possible for Deion / Shedeur:

1) 5th round.
2) Bad weather.
3) Terribly-run organization.
4) Drafted behind another rookie QB.

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Canadians all the way down in Arizona is interesting

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Snowbirds/retirees probably. A lot of older Americans from northern states end up in either Florida or Arizona (either permanently or at least November - March); it’s probably similar for Canadians. And there’s not really any reason for (non-Mexican) working-age / grad school immigrants to be more likely to end up there compared to any other state.

ETA: I find Germany to New Mexico the more odd/interesting one.

In light of his retirement today… Zack Martin finished his career with more All-Pros (9) than accepted holding calls (7). He also had zero accepted holding calls in pass protection in more than 6,000 career pass pro snaps.

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So does the USA rest players or try a little less since the game tonight doesn’t change the finals?

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They’re resting Hellebuyck and McAvoy. Matthew Tkachuk is out, but I think he might have been out anyway after he didn’t finish the game Saturday.

There are only two extra skaters (non-goalies) on the roster, so only two guys can sit completely (that’ll be M. Tkachuk and McAvoy tonight). But I bet the top line and 2nd line will flip ice time with the 3rd line and 4th line, and same with the 1st D pairing and 3rd D pairing.

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As a Kent St alum, I take issue with this. I just want to make a correction to this post. Kent State is actually a MUCH better school athletically than Ohio U in the Big 3 sports. The only sport that Ohio is better at than Kent is football. Ohio is the most underachieving school in the MAC. Period. Kent State is a baseball powerhouse in the MAC. CWS in 2012: Kent State basketball power in the MAC. NCAA Elite 8 in 2002 MAC Baseball Champions just since 2000: 00, 03, 06, 08, 11, 12, 13, 16, 17, 18, 23 MAC Basketball Champions since 2000: 01, 02, 03, 04, 06, 08, 10, 11, 15, 17, 23 Ohio U hasn’t won shite!!!!

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Feels weird for me to take the time to respond about the juggernaut Bobcats and Golden Flashes but basketball for you is at best even, probably slightly in Ohio’s favor. Ohio has been to more NCAA Tournaments than you, has more conference titles than you (both regular season and tournament), more Sweet 16s than you, has been to the Sweet 16 more recently than you, has won 4 NCAA Tournament games since your last NCAA Tournament win and has more NCAA Tournament appearances in the past 15 years than you.

In your favor is the more recent Elite Eight appearance in 2002 (Ohio also has one, but all the way back in the 60s… but also, nobody on Kent St’s current team was born when you made that Elite Eight), the most recent NCAA Tournament (2023 for you vs 2021) and NCAA Tournaments this century (6 vs 4). Regardless, it’s similar ballpark.

Football they’re WAY better than you, both historically and recently. I don’t really care about college baseball, but OP did mention it. However, I’d note you each have one CWS and they have more NCAA Tourney appearances, although you’ve been much better this century. But he also said football is the most important sport in this exercise. So with basketball about even and with them significantly better at football, and a baseball program with about equal total historic success (despite your better recent history), I consider them the superior athletic program.

Regardless, the main point of this thread, Ohio and Kent St are both Group of 5 and rarely play OSU. Neither are OSU’s little brother because neither are even in the same family as OSU.

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Imagine watching the nba skills competition over that.

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It’s not even fully NBA / NBA All-Stars. McClung has played 5 more NBA games in his entire life than I have, and has played 5 more total NBA minutes in the past two seasons than I have. It’s like inviting a AAA player that can’t hit pitches with movement or off-speed pitches into the MLB HR Derby because he can hit a 70 mph throw up the middle 500 feet.

I guess he’s on a two-way… technically. But he’s not an NBA All-star. He’s not an NBA starter. He’s not an NBA bench rotational player. He’s not even an NBA player that’s end of the bench and only plays in blowouts. He’s legitimately not an NBA player. If you’re gonna include him, get rid of the “NBA” pretense and open it up to anyone. I’m sure there’s some guys from Rucker that (along with McClung) can make an entertaining product.

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WTF is Steve Levy wearing?

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PK wore it in the 1st intermission (and is now wearing it again). Levy wore it to start the 2nd intermission as a joke.

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Awesome goal by mcdavid Crosby was never that.

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Crosby has elite hockey IQ and he’s extremely strong (much stronger than his frame looks) but yeah, McDavid’s speed is another level.

Crosby’s peak was probably about equal to McDavid’s peak now, but McDavid is/was a more entertaining/breathtaking style to watch.

Finland-Sweden underway. 1-1 halfway through the 1st.

It was bad. Actually bad, not just bad like how TD says the halftime show is bad every year, even though it’s normally not. This one was bad.