![]() So much for this new era of tough NCAA sanctions. They got a slightly inflated OSU penalty: one year postseason ban, fifteen scholarships over five years. Increasingly Rivals is abdicating on making calls at the lower end of things and just throwing everyone in the same three-star bin. Rivals four-stars jumped from 244 in 2004 to 320 last year three stars more than doubled from 660 to 1513. If anything last year was probably the worst year for Big Ten recruiting in the sample it saw the highest-rated kids. Only two Big Ten schools cracked the Rivals top 25-the obvious ones-as Penn State saw its class implode. In fact, the entire Big Ten fanbase on Rivals spent last year complaining that no one in the region was ranked because the company wasn't even bothering to employ a Midwest analyst. The gradual nature of the move suggests it's not a philosophical change, and it certainly doesn't seem like the conference is bringing in more and more high-level recruits relative to the rest of the country. Meaning on average according to the star rankings, the average Big Ten player is 9 to 30 percent better than they were in 2002. Even without that, the increase from 2.8 to 3.04 is still a nine percent increase. Since NO ONE who gets a scholarship offer and gets signed before the rankings are done gets a zero star ranking, I derived the 30 percent number above as (1.04-.8). The quality of the “average” Big Ten prospect increased from an average of 2.80 in 2002 to 3.04 in 2012. Shaw Lane Spartans analyzes Rivals rankings and finds that the everyone's-a-winner mentality is beginning to pervade them as well: And if he can get better with his footwork issues in the pocket, it should reduce interceptions and increase his completion percentage."Īlso the not chucking it to double-covered guys. "He'll also improve with decision-making, knowing when to throw it away and when not to run. "We should see it with the timing of his throws and him having a better grasp of route structures, audibles and protection checks," Borges said. Read it.ĭenard plans on being a quarterback. Apparently the Dispatch published Kirk Herbstreit's address and a map to his home in 2009. ![]() The men who poop in coolers, or tackle handicapped dudes, or make Grant Bowman's mom have a close personal understanding of the men at the Alamo, or… like… are the president and athletic director and local newspaper. "People don't wear the jersey in the SEC. And also, he's perpetually defensive about Ohio State's struggles. ![]() "The stereotype is angry, probably has a goatee, probably watches MMA and wrestling on the side, may live with his mother - may. The classic Bucknut has a defining set of traits all his own. "It's everything negative and easily mockable about the Midwest compressed in a single entity," he deadpans. He's mocked up a vivid profile of the Buckeye Everyman. He writes about college football for SB Nation, a gig that lets him see up close each big program's fan base - and the stereotypes rivals throw at one another. "It's really hard to get over the anecdotal evidence," Hall says today. A nearby fan grabbed his fingers together into the shape. Hall figured he knew what was up, but he asked what the gesture meant anyway. About ten OSU fans surrounding Hall stood up in unison, with their index and middle fingers bent together into a mushed "O" shape. In the first half, LSU's All-American safety Craig Steltz went down with a shoulder injury. It was in January of 2008 that sports blogger Spencer Hall found himself sitting amid a thicket of OSU fans at the BCS National Championship Game in New Orleans, with No. Cleveland alt-weekly explores the fetid underbelly of American sports fandom that is the Bucknut. There's no three point line.Īlso the shorts being worn are hip-huggers. Wolverine Historian posts video of the last Michigan basketball team to win the Big Ten. This was uncomfortable because in this case they're all black and the other kids are all white. This was apparently part of a thing where the De La Salle kids showed up looking like farmers and chanted the usual private school things at a public school. He evidently showed at Detroit King's latest basketball game looking… not from around here: Shane Morris isn't just getting to know unsigned recruits.
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