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Skull session: The 2025 time plan of Ohio State could contain a Friday game, Luke Fickell's not at Wisconsin “Eats at Him” ​​and Netflix “Full Swing”, offers Neal SHIPLEY

Welcome to the skull session.

Spring Showcase #Loading …

I wish you a good Monday.

Friday night light? As part of the new media contract of Big Ten with FOX, CBS and NBC, four schools Michigan, Ohio State, Penn State and Iowa allowances have to avoid Friday home football games.

NOTE: Home football games … no street football games.

Ruh-Roh, ragig.

At the weekend, Scott Anchterman from The Athletic predicted the schedule for College Football from Big Ten 2025. A game in Ohio State was published on the list: on October 10th in Illinois.

This choice could invite double visitors. Both teams enter into the CFP competitors of the season, which normally immerse themselves in Fox 'lunch window. Why is it here? The slate this week did not broadcast two West Coast Games Fox in this time window: Michigan in USC and Indiana in Oregon. Iowa in Wisconsin would fit perfectly on Friday evening, but it is one of three return games in the big ten. Therefore, FOX could maximize its selections by making the 104th edition of Ohio State-Illinois in Prime Time on Friday and then radiating the 99th episode of the Iowa Wisconsin rivality on the big noon. Ohio State-Illinois would have the potential to set up a Friday evaluation record for FOX. Last year, Illinois-Nebraska was 4.21 million viewers.

** sighs **

Six consecutive lunch games to end the 2024 season, then a Friday game in the middle of the 2025 season?!

I don't think I could handle it.

Please, please, please leave Nachtermans forecast for an ice -cold setting.

“It eats him.” When Luke Fickell became the Cheff football coach in Wisconsin, we all had the same reaction:

What?!

Wisconsin?!

Fickell was an outstanding defender and assistant coach for the state of Ohio in the 90s, 2000s and 2010s. He became AAC coach of the Year and national coach of the year in Cincinnati, where he led the Bearcats to a 57:18 record and a college football playoff appearance in 2021.

This CFP appearance made Fickell one of the hottest names of the profession. Schools like USC and Notre Dame followed him before he landed Lincoln Riley and Marcus Freeman as their coaches of the future. (Heck, some fans of the state Ohio wanted the Buckeyes not defeated him after Ryan Day to beat Michigan in 2021 and 2022.)

But after the end of the regular 2022 season, Fickell landed in Wisconsin, a program that some … mid? Trainer of the Badgers.

Now, almost two and a half years after his term, Fickell is in a similar position: 12-13 as head coach (13-13 if you guarantee his victory in 2022 tariff Bowl). How did Fickell dealt with the most difficult career? Colten Bartholomew from Wisconsin State Journal shared some information last week:

“If you lose, you either stopped doing excuses (or you start to judge with your fingers,” said Fickell. “There are a lot of things that get into the loss. And then there are times, In which you don't win at the end of the year. Do not win, there is great growth and I think you have to be able to use this growth to do it better if you lose. to understand.

“I'm not sure if I understood it the same way. I don't think our boys did as well as they got involved. If it went to an L, it was an L, do you know? And I don't know, maybe just went on. But there is a clear difference. And I hope and believe that this is the part of our ability to honestly with each other as a program and our way to use this stuff to grow. It is not negative because sometimes you don't want to harp the negative harp, but I try to tell you that. Not in the negative, but there is a difference between loss and not gains. We have to recognize what that is. ”

At first I had a hard time deciphering this word salad. However, since I think more about it, I think (?) I understand Fickell's intention.

There is a difference between beaten and lose. To be beaten means that the team was better than you. they were Harder, better, faster, stronger. On the other hand, losing the loss means that the essentials no longer occupy. It is a lack of discipline, self -inflicted wounds and in other important areas that are neglected.

Fickell explained it better in a later quote.

“We were 5-2 (last year), S-Den fan, and we didn't recover,” said Fickell. “Then you really have to look internally, regardless of what else happened. I mean, we weren't in a place where we were built for various reasons to maintain and grow and play our best ball. It starts schematically, I think, and then it goes into the squad you have. In many ways, you have to adapt and make the changes that you have to do. And it's not just one thing, it is many of them. ”

To his honor, Fickell made several changes in this off -season to improve the program, set the offensive coordinator Jeff Grimes from Kansas and to include the former Maryland -Quarterback Billy Edwards Jr. from the transfer portal. In total, Fickell added 18 transfers to the list this winter.

We will see whether these movements for Wisconsin lead to success or not. If this is not the case, Fickell could look for an exit ramp from Madison. Either that or the Badgers will let him search for it.

Full swiss. The former golfer Neal SHIPLEY in the state of Ohio experienced 15 minutes of fame in 2024 after a series of impressive performances on the PGA tour, including one that ended up in Butler Cabin as a top amateur of the Masters and led to this).

This week SHIPLEYS could be 15 minutes 30 because he appears in the last season of “Full Swing”, a Netflix golf series.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahfedbieeyy

The full swing of this season follows professional golfers like Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy on the PGA Tour. Shipley's experience at The Masters, which included Saturday and Sunday rounds with Tiger Woods, will also document.

SHIPLEY, a 24-year-old from Pittsburgh, has a conditional membership on the Korn Ferry Tour in 2025 after missing his PGA tour card in December. He has a top 10 place in four KFT events and places ninth place at the Panama Championship. SHIPLEY will return to the nationwide children's championship from September 15th to 21st to Columbus and the Ohio State University.

That and that. Another skull session, another of these and the ™.

You know the exercise.


After the NFL combination around the corner, Bruce Feldman returned to his 2024 freaks list to predict who could take off in an sporty way in Indianapolis. Two Buckeyes made the list: Tyleik Williams and Donovan Jackson.

No. 11 – Tyleik Williams

The Buckeyes had a great D-line, and the 6-3, 327 pound Williams was his anchor. He had eight TFLs and 46 duels for the National Champions and should be characterized by the combine harvester. Despite its massive framework, I would not be shocked to see how he ran the 40 in the 4.8s and a 10-yard split below 1.65.

No. 19 – Donovan Jackson

Jackson, one of the leaders of the National Champion, changed from the guard to the left when Josh Simmons was lost for the year with an injury. The 6-4, 320 pound Jackson is super strong, but its mobility is even more impressive. He was a 1.59 10-yard split in the last low season, vertically by 30 inches and went in long jump 9-7.

Can confirm that these types are freaks.


The Arizona Cardinals hired Justin Frye last month as an offensive line trainer. In his first press conference with the organization, Frye discussed his relationship with the former state of Ohio State on the left Tackle Paris Johnson Jr.

Arizona has number 16 in the NFL design of 2025. Cardinals with Frye could now be on the Josh Simmons or Jackson market in the staff? If Arizona opted for another route with the choice, could the cardinals Seth McLaughlin collect on No. 114 or No. 153? I think it is possible!


In a skull session last week I wrote that Carnell Tate and Caleb Downs Match signitors would correspond to the Chicago Fire for the home start of the Columbus Crew. As it turns out, Tate alone gave the tone for the competition. The crew documented Tate's experience in a social media contribution on Saturday.


You will notice a lack of men in Ohio in this skull session. While I have thoughts about the basketbucks, I don't organize them when they leave the weekend. Maybe I'll share it at a later date – but maybe I won't. Who knows?!


That's all, people!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TB9ZLHPSTGO

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