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Further evidence that Michigan has broken Ohio State
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Just when you think you’ve heard every excuse from the folks in Columbus, they somehow manage to dig deep and find more. On Wednesday, former Buckeye tight end Cade Stover was asked if he had watched the Connor Stalions Netflix documentary. Although he said he didn’t watch it, Stover suggested that the Wolverines somehow had advanced knowledge of a particular play that Ohio State wanted to run back in 2022.
“No, I knew enough about that bulls*t as it was,” Stover said when asked if he had seen the documentary.
Stover then seemed to dive head first into a conspiracy theory that suggests Michigan somehow hacked into Ohio State’s practice footage. After all, how would the Wolverines know that the Buckeyes were about to run a play they had never ran before?
Cade Stover on the Michigan Connor Stallings sign stealing scandal:
On if he watched the doc: “na I knew enough about that buuullshit as it was” He explains a TE screen play they had never ran before that they called out
Great question by @LandryLocker pic.twitter.com/NrGbvk86z5
— Houston Stressans (@TexansCommenter) September 5, 2024
“Like, we tried to…I don’t want to get into it. But yeah, we tried to throw a tight end screen, and like a formation we never used before … like ever,” Stover said. “And as soon as I lined up out wide, we had one play where I was going to motion back in and they were going to throw a screen to me. When they start yelling ‘screen’ when you’re throwing a tight end screen, that’s when you know like… what the f*** is this? We’ve never ran this before. You know what I mean?”
Stover’s comments led to the obvious response from Buckeye fans who have spent months begging for the NCAA to do what their favorite team couldn’t: defeat Michigan.
*Cough cough they hacked our practice footage cough cough* https://t.co/XOcclVEMoU
— Buckeye HQ (@RealisticBuck) September 6, 2024
Could the hacking of OSU servers be true? @BuckeyeScoop https://t.co/lKm3VNBijS
— Buckeye G (@SCBuckeye_G) September 5, 2024
This is the play Cade was talking about. Stroud 7/8 then got hit by a Stalions bomb calling a TE screen where you got like 3 guys covering a TE who was blocking.
Vacate that shit… https://t.co/iVw0xmKVM8 pic.twitter.com/6htwIOVrlD
— THE Ryan Day Ho❌er (@RyanDayHomer) September 6, 2024
At the end of the video, Stover was at least able to do something that the vast majority of Ohio State fans seem incapable of. In spite of what he thinks may (or may not) have happened, the former Buckeye TE said he didn’t have any room to talk because he didn’t get the job done.
“I don’t have have a lot of room to talk, I didn’t do much,” Stover said. “They beat us, so it is what it is.”
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AG sues Columbus City Schools for breaking Ohio law by not busing non-public school students
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Republican Attorney General Dave Yost filed a lawsuit against the Columbus City Schools after warning earlier in the week it must resume busing private and charter school students or it will be breaking the law.
It’s the combination of more families using taxpayer-paid vouchers to send their kids to other schools along with a bus driver shortage that’s been going on for four years.
Yost said the district has “blatantly failed to comply” with state law requiring public school districts to transport both their students and those in the district limits who are attending private or charter schools. The lawsuit said the district has declared around 1,380 students impractical to transport based on six factors the district approved to determine eligibility.
“Students deemed impractical to transport and their student families have been denied the freedom of choice of educational institution,” Yost wrote in the lawsuit. “Moreover, many families have been forced to endure financial hardships to acquire the transportation for their children that the Columbus School Board has refused to provide.”
District said state law allows its actions
The district said in a statement that it “believes its actions are consistent with the laws promulgated by the General Assembly and is complying with its legal obligations to transport students.” The statement added that Yost’s lawsuit infringes on the districts right to make ineligibility determinations, it attempts to circumvent the authority of legislators who passed the ineligibility law and that it’s “also an infringement upon the equal rights of public school districts and community or nonpublic school parents/guardians to due process.”
The district is transporting 37,000 kids to 113 Columbus City Schools buildings and 9,000 kids to 167 private and charter school buildings.
Columbus City Schools executive director of transportation Rodney Stufflebean said the district condensed and combined routes, brought in contractors, and tried to hire more drivers. But he said the district also had to consider the state law on ineligibility.
“We look at the resources that we have through the legislature and things of that nature and the tools and the rules and the guidelines in the Ohio Revised Code that gives us ways to combat the shortage of drivers,” Stufflebean said. “We had to start using those as part of our tools to efficiently route for the students that we are 100% obligated to provide transportation for.”
The district has a little over half the bus drivers it did four years ago. The district is paying some parents to transport their kids or put them on public transit. But Yost said in the lawsuit that money won’t go out till the end of the school year, and some families “have been forced to resign their jobs or take other actions that jeopardize their jobs in order to provide their children the transportation that the Columbus School Board has refused to provide.”
Impact of vouchers on the case
Yost suggested in the suit that the district is trying to force students to leave those non-public schools. He cited comments from Columbus Board of Education member Brandon Simmons, who suggested struggling families choose to send their kids to Columbus City Schools instead.
“Multiple private and charter schools are faced with huge declines in enrollment and attendance because of students’ inability to find transportation. These declines in enrollment and attendance equate to declines in funding and threaten the continued viability of these institutions,” Yost wrote. “The Columbus School Board’s actions, therefore, threaten the competitive vigor of Ohio’s markets for educational services for K-12 students.”
The school bus driver shortage has been going on for years, and those in public education say the increase in the use of vouchers has only added to the problem.
“A lot of the laws and legislation are from days passed when the environment of school transportation looked far different,” Stufflebean said. “What we need to do as a system is sit back, look at this together as a whole, take input on what we’re seeing and how we’re dealing with this. And let’s create some some legislation and laws that put us in the right direction to be successful as a group, and not penalizes for things that we have no control over.”
A survey of districts done for the Ohio School Boards Association revealed around 7% report being fully staffed with an adequate number of substitute drivers. Nearly a third of districts need subs and extra trips to transport all students. In about 13% of districts, office staff and mechanics are driving regular routes. And about 9% of districts say no solution is working.
The lawsuit was filed in the Ohio Supreme Court.
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Former Ohio State Buckeyes RB Could Have Big 2024 NFL Season
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The short NFL career for J.K. Dobbins has been rocky to this point. Since 2020, the running back only managed to play in 24 games for the Baltimore Ravens.
During his rookie season, Dobbins impressed with 805 rushing yards and nine touchdowns on 134 carries. After playing 15 games that year, the former Ohio State Buckeyes running back has battled serious injuries ever since.
Although it may be easy to write off Dobbins due to his injury history, his landing spot this offseason in Los Angeles with the Chargers is probably about as ideal as possible. Not only does offensive coordinator Greg Roman have familiarity with the game of Dobbins from Baltimore, but former Michigan Wolverines head coach Jim Harbaugh wants to implement a run-heavy scheme.
If Dobbins does manage to stay healthy, he should have a nice bounce-back season for two reasons.
With Dobbins and Gus Edwards set to see action this year, Roman offered some additional insight on the plan prior to their Week One game against the Las Vegas Raiders. The Chargers intend to ride the “hot hand” according to their offensive coordinator.
Edwards is absolutely a force in short-yardage situations but Dobbins is the more explosive runner of the two players. Edwards may get the first carry of the game, but Dobbins has a chance to tote the rock more than Edwards.
In addition to the apparent glaring opporunity for Dobbins, the Chargers have certainly played their hand in committing to the run game. Playing 300-pound defensive lineman Scott Matlock at fullback means that Los Angeles wants to clear running room with the use of size and power. This should bode well for Dobbins.
For Ohio State fans it would be good to see Dobbins find success once again, but for fantasy football managers who drafted Dobbins this upcoming game against the Raiders could be the moment he goes from a bench player to potential flex option.
This will be something to keep an eye on as Dobbins has a clear path back to relevance as a running back in the league.
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