Nothing like a bike ride through campus to make me feel like I am 150 years old. Not sure I recognized anything about High Street—though it was nice to see the Bier Stube hanging on, even if for dear life. I think I could still smell the piss on the bathroom floors as I rode by at 15 miles per hour.
Hopefully that will be the case next time I decide to age myself a decade by biking through the area that I wish would have stayed the exact same as when I had gone there for the rest of my life.
- SHOUTOUT TO ALL THE KYLE McCORD BETTORS
Look, far be it from me to tell anyone how to gamble. I don’t do it anymore. I’m not good at it. Whatever.
But man, I cannot imagine spending money in January 2023 for Kyle McCord to win the Heisman in December.
From Colin Gay of dispatch.com:
With the likelihood of Stroud entering the 2023 NFL draft, FanDuel gives Ohio State quarterback Kyle McCord the best odds of any Buckeye to win the 2023 Heisman Trophy at +2000 odds, tied with LSU quarterback Jayden Daniels and Tennessee quarterback Joe Milton.
What’s funny about Ohio State fans is you know that some of us won’t be able to resist putting a cheeky $20 on McCord “just in case something happens.”
I’m not even sure I’d give McCord the best odds to start for Ohio State. But I should probably save all those takes for the long winter ahead because I am not ready to entertain the mediocre basketball program as a concept.
- GET DUMPED THEN, DINO BABERS.
Syracuse coach Dino Babers ranked Ohio State as the seventh-best team in America to finish the season. I feel that’s harsh, but not disrespectful. That still won’t prevent me from putting Babers on my list of petty grievances to be settled at a later date.
What’s sad is that Ohio State, at its best, was clearly at least the second-best team in the country. What sucks is I’m getting pretty good at living with these kinds of collapses under Ryan Day.
- WELL, AT LEAST WE HAVE SABAN’S CONDOLENCES.
It’s been over a week, and the targeting call on Harrison—and its ensuing overturn—put some psychic damage on me that will last a lifetime.
But hey, at least Nick Saban thinks we got screwed, too!
From Chantz Martin of foxnews.com:
“Well, I think the play on Marvin Harrison Jr. was targeting as well,” Saban said on “College Gameday.”
Still hard to believe Georgia got away with it. Ryan Day probably went home and laughed like an insane person in his crawlspace like Walter White in Breaking Bad.
THOSE WMDs. How Newport, Kentucky, lost its Sin City title… The psychological traps of online shopping… How Dave Bautista made himself a movie star… The warm glow of the blog rock era… Who wants the metaverse?