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Big O: Setting the Pace for Offensive Tackles
Ever since Rutgers and Princeton got together on a muddy field in New Jersey in the fall of 1869, college football games have been won in the trenches. The cliché was born on that November day in...
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B1G Football Division Projections
It's good to be back. After football season ended in 2012, I went into an unofficial "retirement" from writing, due to an exhausted muse (or something like that). But as I am turning 49 today, it seems...
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The Urban Meyer Base Pass Offense: Part II
With spring practice complete, it is time to turn back to outlining Urban Meyer's base Ohio State offense.In my last such post, I examined Meyer's passing game philosophy and began diagramming the base...
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Former Georgia Tech Wide Receiver Jeff Greene to Walk On at Ohio State
Photo via @jgreen81Former Georgia Tech receiver Jeff Greene will walk on to the Ohio State Football team, Eleven Warriors has learned.Greene, a 6-foot-4, 210-pound wide receiver, played two years for...
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Turning Points: Volume Two - Finkes To The Rescue
Setting the SceneThe year was 1996 and excitement was brewing in Columbus. The Buckeyes were returning a veteran football team that had gone undefeated in 1995 until it all came crashing down at the...
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Friday Skull Session
Good morning and welcome to your Friday Skull Session. It's not every day that Ohio State picks up a transfer from another big school that is willing to pay his own way, but that's exactly what...
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Pride of Ohio: Piqua
The changing colors of leaves is how most in the Midwest judge the evolution from summer to fall. Red hues turn to orange and the air becomes more crisp. But in Piqua all one needs to do is look at a...
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Anatomy of a Successful O-H-I-O Photo
Let’s face it, being a fan and/or alum of THE Ohio State University is a source of great pride. One of the most common ways that Buckeyes show their pride is by taking the now-famous O-H-I-O photo. As...
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Around the Oval on Friday, May 10
Around the Oval is Eleven Warriors' weekly love letter to Ohio State sports that don't get the coverage they should.Another week, another conference championship. After seeing the men's tennis team...
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Saturday Skull Session
If Saturday night's alright for fighting, what do we Saturday morning? I imagine there's some level of calisthenics we all have to do in order to prepare for fighting tonight.Perhaps such preparation...
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Mike Conley, NBA Superstar
Even in victory, Mike Conley Jr.’s doubters persist.Fluke, hot streak, just one of those games. Those are some of the excuses Conley’s critics have used to describe his heady play. But it is starting...
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Wide Receiver Lonnie Johnson is Number Eight
Link: https://twitter.com/lonniejohnson20/status/333688704180826112 After a quiet month on the football recruiting front, Ohio State's class of 2014 has its eighth member in speedy Gary (Ind.) wide...
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Signing Day Dreamin': Offense
There are only 268 short days until one of my favorite days of the year. A day that is full of presents and surprise announcements and news - both good and bad - that shapes the future for those you...
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Monday Skull Session
Yesterday was Mother's Day and while many of us were enjoying brunch and showering our wives and/or mothers with gifts, Gary (Ind.) West Side's Lonnie Johnson topped us all by committing to become the...
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Three Years Out: A Look at the 2010 Recruiting Class
College football loyalists got an introduction to recruiting season in the 1990s. But the seriousness of the business wasn’t realized until the past decade, when recruiting became more popular than...
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Ranking the B1G Night Game Schedule
Two days ago, I found myself watching a tape-delayed soccer game from France’s Ligue 1. Yeah, not only was I watching French soccer; I was watching French soccer that wasn’t even live.Realizing what...
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The Pitch
With a top recruiting class in the books, and another crop quickly taking shape in Columbus, Urban Meyer has proven time and time again he is a top-notch recruiter. This in your living room. Hard to...
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The B1G List: Ranking the State Songs of the Big Ten
Music.It is one of the most significant and important human endeavors. When made for a purpose, it can crush our souls, lift our spirits, and make us consider both ourselves and the world around us in...
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Tuesday Skull Session
How kind of you to drop by for the Tuesday Skull Session. Why don't you pull up a chair?Like the rest of the year, May has been chillier than usual1 but we're finally getting into quality summer...
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Nick Saban's Idea of Five Conferences Would be Great for the Ohio States, Not...
College athletics has always been about the haves and have-nots. Nowhere is it more true than the money grab of football. Conference expansion, ballooning coaches contracts, TV deals in the billions of...
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