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Ohio State Balancing Backup QB Kyle McCord’s Opportunities With Respect For Game
Ohio State sophomore quarterback Kyle McCord has performed 53 snaps this season in reduction of starter C.J. Stroud, trying simply 16 passes whereas handing the ball off or working it himself a mixed 37 occasions.
However seeing as he’s possible going to be the starter subsequent season after Stroud departs for the NFL, it begs the query of whether or not or not the Buckeyes ought to give McCord extra probabilities to throw the ball within the closing minutes of blowouts.
“It’s clearly drawback to have, don’t get me mistaken, however it’s one thing that you just simply wish to be sure to respect the sport,” head coach Ryan Day mentioned throughout his press convention on Tuesday afternoon. “On the similar time, you do wish to get him going slightly bit.”
McCord threw two passes after he entered Saturday’s 49-20 win over Michigan State within the third quarter, together with a four-yard completion to large receiver Jayden Ballard and a 12-yarder to walk-on Reis Stocksdale on consecutive drives to start out the fourth.
The opposite 14 snaps, in the meantime, have been both handoffs to freshman working again Dallan Hayden and walk-on T.C. Caffey or quarterback keepers because the Buckeyes tried to expire the clock on a 29-point victory.
“You begin to get inside 5 or 6 minutes within the fourth quarter whenever you’re up in a lopsided recreation, and I simply wish to make sure that I respect the sport in that space,” Day mentioned. “Definitely, we wish to get him within the recreation if it’s the top of the third quarter, early fourth quarter, and get some first downs and let him go play.”
Final weekend, Alabama quarterback and reigning Heisman Trophy winner Bryce Younger was unable to play in opposition to Texas A&M attributable to a shoulder harm, exhibiting simply how shortly an harm to Stroud may thrust McCord into motion.
His backup, redshirt freshman Jalen Milroe, accomplished 12-of-19 passes for 111 yards and three touchdowns in his absence, but in addition misplaced two fumbles and threw an interception within the Crimson Tide’s 24-20 win over the Aggies.
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If the Buckeyes ever discover themselves in that scenario, although, it’s value noting McCord already has one begin beneath his belt, as he threw for 319 yards and two touchdowns with an interception in final 12 months’s 59-7 win over Akron, when Stroud was resting his personal injured throwing shoulder.
That alone offers McCord extra expertise than Stroud had throughout his true freshman season, when he performed simply eight snaps and didn’t throw a single cross. Now take a look at Stroud, whose 68 landing passes are the second most in class historical past.
Maybe that’s why Day isn’t too involved with McCord throwing a handful of passes in opposition to a second- or third-string protection. Maybe he already is aware of what McCord has to supply and the way simply he may run the rating up.
“It’s good to get him within the recreation, get whoever within the recreation, whether or not it’s the quarterback or anyone else,” Day mentioned. “Getting these recreation reps beneath your belt is completely different than follow, for positive, however that’s simply the way in which I’ve all the time believed the sport must be performed.
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“Once you’re rolling and also you’re within the third quarter, starting of the fourth quarter, go play. However whenever you begin to get to the top of these video games and so they get slightly lopsided, I feel that’s simply the way in which to respect the sport.”
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Columbus, Bexley, and Worthington schools among plaintiffs suing state
Thomas Suddes is a former legislative reporter with The Plain Dealer in Cleveland and writes from Ohio University. tsuddes@gmail.com.
In a late-June ruling, a Democratic Franklin County Common Pleas judge outlawed spending Ohioans’ tax money to help parents pay private school tuition for the state’s K-12 pupils via the state’s EdChoice school voucher program.
Because Judge Jaiza Page issued her sure-to-be-appealed decision amid the General Assembly’s budget-writing frenzy, some voters may have missed it. And that is, or should be, a problem for Ohioans who like to keep an eye on how the politicians on Capitol Square spend the people’s money. That’s especially so given the sneaky way that voucher fans expanded voucher spending during the 30 years since vouchers first surfaced in the 1995-97 state budget.
For one thing, as inaugurated then, vouchers could only be used by pupils living in the Cleveland school district. And the total amount of tax money the Republican-run legislature agreed to spend on Ohio’s first “school choice” venture in the 1995 budget amounted to about $5.25 million, The Plain Dealer reported. In terms of today’s population, that’s about 44 cents per Ohio resident.
The budget Gov. Mike DeWine just signed allots about $2.44 billion for voucher programs over the next two years — or about $205 per Ohio resident, an incredible increase resulting from stealthy, year-by-year legislative scheming.
Page’s decision was a clear-cut victory for the public school systems supporting the Vouchers Hurt Ohio coalition (lead plaintiff in the lawsuit: the Columbus schools). Among the coalition’s many other members: The Bexley, Upper Arlington and Worthington schools; the Dayton schools; and such Greater Cleveland districts as Brecksville-Broadview Heights, Cleveland Heights-University Heights, Mayfield, Richmond Heights and Shaker Heights schools; DeWine’s Greene County school district, the Cedar Cliff schools; and Republican Ohio House Speaker Matt Huffman’s hometown district, the Lima schools.
How vouchers violate Ohio’s constitution
Reduced to essentials, the judge ruled that Ohio’s school voucher spending violates the state constitution on a number of fronts. That’s the state constitution that Ohio’s 99 state representatives and 33 state senators must swear to uphold before they can take their seats in the General Assembly.
The state will appeal Page’s decision to the Ohio 10th District Court of Appeals, which encompasses Franklin County. If the all-Democratic appellate court upholds the Common Pleas ruling — it likely will — the state would undoubtedly ask the Ohio Supreme Court, with a 6-1 Republican majority, to save the voucher program. And the Supreme Court’s GOP incumbents have shown zero appetite for challenging the similarly Republican-run General Assembly.
Page sided with the voucher foes on three of the arguments they made.
First, the plaintiffs argued that vouchers breached the Ohio Constitution, which requires the General Assembly to create and fund “a thorough and efficient system of common schools throughout the state.” But she found that “the evidence … [showed] that, in expanding the EdChoice program to its current form, the General Assembly has created a system of uncommon private schools by directly providing private schools with over $700 million in funding.”
Page said the plaintiffs had also shown the state had additionally violated Ohio’s constitution to maintain a “thorough and efficient” school system when General Assembly Republicans decided against fully funding what’s known as the Cupp-Patterson Fair School Funding Plan. Result: Ohio public schools received $6.48 billion in state aid instead of $7.24 billion for fiscal year 2022. She said the difference was close to the amount of state voucher funding that same fiscal year.
Finally, the judge agreed with voucher foes that because the program “provides private religious schools with approximately $1 billion in public school funds [the voucher program] violates … the Ohio Constitution by giving a religion or other sect the exclusive right to, or control of, a part of the school funds of Ohio.”
Voucher partially to blame for rising property taxes
What the judge didn’t say, but fairly might have observed, is that the creation and steady increases in Ohio’s state-tax-subsidies for non-public schools has been Statehouse government by stealth: start small, then, budget-by-budget, year by year, divert more and more public school money for the benefit of private schools. The resulting financial squeeze on public school districts is a big reason why skyrocketing property taxes are hammering Ohio homeowners — property tax burdens the General Assembly is making heavier by steadily diverting public school money to private schools.
Thomas Suddes is a former legislative reporter with The Plain Dealer in Cleveland and writes from Ohio University. tsuddes@gmail.com.
Ohio State has struck out on another key edge-rushing target with the news that 4-star 2026 defensive end KJ Ford has verbally committed to the Florida Gators over the Buckeyes. It’s unfortunately news that continues the trend of Ohio State not being able to land several of its priority edge rushers in the 2026 class, and a bit of a continuation over the last couple of years.
Out of Duncanville, Texas, Ford is ranked as the No. 15 edge rusher and 116th overall prospect in the 2026 class according to the 247Sports composite rankings. Ford chose the Gators over OSU and Texas A&M.
So far in the 2026 recruiting cycle, Larry Johnson and Ohio State have missed out on other priority defensive end targets Luke Wafle (USC), Carter Meadows (Michigan) and Landon Barnes (Ole Miss). They do have one high-profile edge rusher with the commitment of Khary Wilder, but the number of targets available that Ohio State would love to land on the edge is dwindling fast.
The Ohio State football 2026 recruiting class still sits with 21 commitments in the class, one that is currently inside the top ten. As any more significant news on the recruiting side of things becomes available, we’ll bring it to you.
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It comes as no surprise that Ohio State is seen as Michigan football’s archvillain in ESPN’s estimation. After all, for nearly two decades, the Buckeyes were impossible to beat for the Wolverines — no matter how good the team appeared to be. The maize and blue have since righted the ship, rattling off four straight victories over the scarlet and gray, but the hate for all things OSU now permeates Schembechler Hall in a way that it hadn’t previously.
On the flip side, despite crossing out all of the Ms on campus in Columbus and singing songs about how they don’t care for the whole state of Michigan, it was all somewhat rote for Ohio State. Michigan wasn’t much of a threat, and beating the Wolverines felt more like a birthright in the state of Ohio. However, things changed in 2021, and thus, the archvillain for the Buckeyes isn’t just Michigan as a whole; it’s Sherrone Moore, ESPN says.
Michigan coach Sherrone Moore has become a problem for the Buckeyes. He might not wear the villain outfit quite as well as predecessor Jim Harbaugh did, but Moore’s rise in coaching — as Wolverines offensive line coach, offensive coordinator and now head coach — has coincided with Ohio State’s longest losing streak (four games) to its archrival since 1991. Moore served as acting head coach during Harbaugh’s Big Ten-imposed suspension in 2023, as Michigan punched its ticket to the Big Ten championship game. He then earned the permanent role and pulled off one of the more stunning upsets in the history of The Game in November in Columbus. The story of Moore’s coaching career at Michigan is really just beginning, but he has already demonstrated his ability to win the biggest games.
It’s a pretty accurate stance. Michigan didn’t start winning in the series until Moore was promoted and given a bigger role with the team. He’s beaten OSU twice in a head coaching role — once when it was completely unexpected. He’s managed to push the right buttons, ranging from the offensive line (the team’s identity in 2021-23) to the head coaching role.
Of course, Ohio State fans will likely screech more about Connor Stalions and sign stealing, while misrepresenting what is actually under investigation by the NCAA, which may mean that facts are also a villain for self-proclaimed Buckeye Nation. But also, given how much OSU fans have talked about the Wolverines in the immediate aftermath of winning a national championship, don’t let them make you think they don’t have an overall insecurity about Michigan.
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