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Closing Out The Opening
While Sunday evening is normally reserved for the 11W Community Interview — and rest assured it will return next week — this weekend we'll spend a little time closing out The Opening, Nike's premiere...
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Monday Skull Session
Hopefully everybody survived the Fourth of July weekend and didn't end up incarcerated. Unless you drove drunk, in which case your stupidity has rightfully wrought you thousands of dollars in fines,...
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This Year's Villains: Buffalo, San Diego State & Cal
The 2013 season approaches, albeit entirely too slowly for comfort.Although the Ohio State football schedule is still a full calendar page away, it’s never too early to start hating your opponents. In...
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Jordan Hall's Swan Song
“Jordan Hall will play the Percy Harvin role.” That’s a narrative fans have heard for the past two offseasons.Unfortunately last year, Buckeye Nation never got a good look at Hall in the position. A...
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The B1G List: Ranking the Highest Points of the Big Ten
Heights.I am an admitted fraidy cat when it comes to anything involving me being more than a couple of feet in the air. I really don't trust my own clumsy ass to not find some way to topple over to my...
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B1G Football Recruiting Rankings: 7/8
Will Meyer or Hoke land the Big Ten's top recruiting class?It was a slow week on the recruiting front for the majority of the Big Ten. While the countdown until kickoff shrinks, recruiting never stops....
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Tuesday Skull Session
Hello, everyone. If you'll excuse some meta-commentary on the media, there's something bothering me.There's an art to the offseason. Some people use the time to get better at writing, like we try to do...
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Phil Steele on Ohio State and the 2013 Season
There are those that know a lot about college football, and then there's Phil Steele. For more than a decade, Steele has been the top prognosticator in the country and his annual college football...
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The Opposite of Love
[lights candles][puts on How Deep is Your Love by Luther Vandross]Yeah, you've been smitten before. An angelic, special someone sinks its talons into every part of you that has feeling - and you allow...
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Thad Matta's Giving Tree
College basketball coaches are evaluated in a variety of ways on a number of key job responsibilities. Though certainly not an all-inclusive list, the average fan or pundit typically looks at a coach's...
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Catching Up with Justin Hilliard
This week Eleven Warriors is going to take a look at another top prospect in the 2015 recruiting class who the Buckeyes have serious interest in joining the 2015 class which should be a very big one as...
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International Prospects Starting to Make Mark in U.S.
Out of the major professional sports in this country, basketball is truly the only one to stretch out over all six livable continents. Recently, Canada’s top export definitely isn’t Nickelback, nor is...
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Wednesday Skull Session
Does anyone here bike? When I say "bike," I do not mean rolling through the hood on my Harley. (I'm looking forward to an early death, but I'm not trying to break every bone in my body and collapse my...
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Meyer Has Players Thinking About Life After Football
When college football coaches aren’t coaching, they become salesmen. Preaching the positive nature of the program to boosters, recruits and the media is all part of the job.Walking into living rooms is...
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Better Know A Buckeye: Corey Smith
The twenty-first installment of the fifth edition of this now 24-part series titled Better Know A Buckeye profiles Corey Smith, a wide receiver prospect coming to Ohio State from East Mississippi...
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Happy Birthday, From Me to You
Now we can match!Boy, what a great year that was, huh Urban?We did so much together, didn't we? Beating Michigan, going undefeated, being accused of fostering an environment where a future alleged...
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11W Recruiting Mailbag: June Boom Recap
Everyone take a deep breath. Exhale. Inhale. Exhale. I know that this month has been a bit hectic, but that's the joy of year round recruiting, the rat race never stops. Fortunately it does slow down a...
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Math Wednesday: Kicking to Win
Urban takes great pride in his special teams, dubbing them the "Freakshow" and personally coaching these units. In that respect he's the perfect man to follow Coach Tress, whose favorite play was the...
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Road Tripping: Illinois
PHOTO: Loco Steve on FlickrTowards the end of the season, Ohio State will travel to the Twin Cities for a football game. No, not the ones you are thinking of. In this case, I'm talking about the twin...
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Xs and Os Tour: The Michigan Defense
No opponent looms larger for Ohio State then the Michigan Wolverines.All eyes turn towards the annual grudge match the last weekend in November, and for good reason. The two schools have been slugging...
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