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Good Ohio State football
To the editor: I feel members of Buckeye Nation want to get up and cease threats to football gamers. Winners construct up and strengthen, not threaten. These younger males come to get educated and developed for a profession after attending Ohio State. They are studying with every recreation. Every member of the group on the sphere needs to do their half to win. The a part of Buckeye Nation not on the sphere wants to present steady help.
Dennis Murnane, Croton
To the editor: Watching the nationwide championship football recreation, I noticed if we made a area aim, we’d be celebrating a nationwide championship proper now! Go Bucks!
Kathleen Hoffman Brewer
To the editor: In an alternate universe, OSU beats TCU 65-64 for the nationwide championship. TCU misses a area aim that might have received it as time runs out. Defensive coaches all obtain bonuses.
Tommy O’Shaughnessy, Upper Arlington
Dear sports activities editor: I wasn’t happy together with your burying my letter in your e mail part relatively than main with it. I’ve by no means skilled a larger disconnect between Buckeye football protection and Buckeye followers. Old males, younger ladies, in between, most followers I’ve talked to imagine the non-targeting was a soiled name that price us the sport, but the speaking heads at 97.1 ESPN radio act as if nothing was in the least misplaced . What it actually reveals is that they are not on the market for Buckeye followers however relatively to generate income working for ESPN, who owns the SEC Network and makes more cash if Georgia wins. It’s a battle of pursuits, and when the individuals accountable partially for articulating the emotions of the followers, together with outrage, are being paid to ignore it, it is a violation of the general public belief.
College football is just like the US greenback. It’s useful as a result of individuals imagine it is useful. If the individuals who make their cash from promoting {dollars} promote their merchandise with out integrity or disgrace to Buckeye followers and others, they are going to wreck their long-term income with short-term money grabs. Monday was the least-watched championship recreation for the reason that football playoffs started, and as groups begin paying gamers with no loyalty and no guidelines, followers are going to notice that it is simply minor league football, with the one distinction being that integrity is non-obligatory. If it isn’t the job of journalists to hunt for and expose the reality, then whose job is it?
Bob Young, Columbus
To Bob: I can not communicate for the “speaking heads at 97.1 ESPN,” however I’m of the speculation that the overturn on the Marvin Harrison Jr. hit was an instance of very poor officiating relatively than a covert plot to have Georgia win one other title. Also, I imagine the low scores for the championship recreation weren’t due to any mistrust, however as a result of the sport was a horrible mismatch. Oh, and you’ve got simply joined our group of Dispatch workers writers who additionally typically don’t love their story placements.
To Brian: In 1931, there was a 23-school Southern Conference which broke up with most finally turning into the SEC and ACC. The Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference discovered that their convention of 32 smaller colleges was additionally unmanageable and cut up in a number of instructions as effectively. Here within the Dayton space, the highschool GWOC had lately grown to a minimum of 18 earlier than they realized that was ridiculous and likewise cut up up. I ponder now how lengthy it can take earlier than these LA colleges begin to re-think sending college students on their area hockey, soccer and all of their different groups hundreds of miles many occasions a season to play half of their Big Ten convention schedules, and received ‘t these California children get pleasure from a monitor meet in Minnesota in chilly April?
Dennis Singleton, Dayton
To Dennis: UCLA and USC will second-guess becoming a member of the Big Ten provided that the funds aren’t as profitable as they anticipate. Until then, they’re going to be pleased to let their monitor athletes freeze in Minneapolis.
To Brian: Joey Kaufman identified a ranking system which focuses on group power of schedule and different statistics over a given span of time. He factors out that the Michigan groups of Day’s transient run have a a lot larger ranking (18.7) than these of Meyer (11.6) and Tressel (8.9). Whatever the integrity degree of that quoted supply (sports-reference.com), stats can’t change people. And I ponder in regards to the Buckeyes’ present scores and people previous. Could Day’s losses be due to teaching vs. Harbaugh’s on this rivalry (relatively than Michigan’s ranking)?
Ohio State has had a lot expertise during the last two-plus many years below three esteemed coaches and respective staffs (as did a fourth, below John Cooper). And I’ll concede a little with this season’s record of accidents. But the play of the groups below Meyer and Tressel (vs. UM’s Lloyd Carr) was far superior in efficiency in The Game vs. the final two below Day. Those have been nearly lackluster. But, higher to discover another “perspective” from former gamers like Troy Smith, Ted Ginn Jr., Denzel Ward, Sam Hubbard or (coach) Brian Hartline, than mine.
Larry Cheek, Dublin
To the editor: The guys on ESPN have been saying for the previous two years Ohio State may very well be the one group that might match Georgia by way of spreading Georgia out, and I came upon Georgia’s DBs usually are not as good as everybody made them out to be. The most pathetic factor of the final three video games was the dearth of protection. Knowles wants to determine it out.
Steve King
On Ohio State ladies’s basketball
To the editor: Football is over, and OSU misplaced. The OSU males’s basketball group simply misplaced to the worst group within the Big 10. The OSU ladies’s basketball group is undefeated, they’re ranked third within the nation, they’re extremely gifted and thrilling to watch and followers (together with potential followers) must be inspired to go watch, get pleasure from and root for them. Yet, The Dispatch sports activities pages embrace valuable little protection about essentially the most thrilling group of winners at OSU, in distinction to copious verbiage about OSU football and males’s basketball. Why?
Sandra J. Anderson, Dublin
To the editor: Congratulations to the Buckeye ladies’s basketball group for attaining a document begin of the season. Doing this whereas dropping two starters and a difficult early schedule. Deserve most protection and spot.
Than Johnson, Urbana
To the editor: Add me to the record of irritated followers who don’t perceive the dearth of articles concerning the undefeated OSU ladies’s basketball group, ranked No. 3 within the nation.
Today’s sports activities entrance web page has OSU football (Hello?! The season is over), extra hockey and males’s basketball. Nothing in regards to the ladies taking part in at this time.
Actually, I’m not shocked. Your ladies’s protection has been horrible for years, however I believed since they have been having their finest season ever, you simply would possibly get up and provides them some area in your pages.
Liz Swain, Grandview
To Sandra, Than and Liz: Thanks on your curiosity in our protection of the OSU ladies, which has included a number of nice articles by our Bailey Johnson and a fantastic column on Friday by Rob Oller. That protection, whereas not assembly the general amount or recognition of OSU football or males’s basketball, nonetheless tops by far every other school beat we cowl and can escalate as the season goes on.
On the Columbus Blue Jackets
Hi, Brian: I’m responding to a story about Sean Kuraly of the Blue Jackets from Dec. 29. Kuraly is an aggressive participant who has realized how to win from one of the best. He talked about what it is like being a participant on a championship group, specifically the Boston Bruins. He stated groups get to the highest by protecting their foot on the fuel pedal. He realized from Bergeron, Marchand and the others that you just by no means take a day without work. “They confirmed up on daily basis, and when you did not present up, you have been embarrassed.” There have been no excuses. “They labored their butts off and left everybody within the mud. And when you did not, you have been left within the mud.” He stated he has felt “humiliated” too many occasions right here.
He practices what he preaches. He delivered a hit on Jonathon Toews in a latest Chicago recreation that was referred to as “momentum-shifting” and that it “snapped them (Blue Jackets) out of a funk.” Another hit sparked a collection of cross-checks, “simply the best way Kuraly skilled in practices and video games with Boston.”
My questions: Are the CBJ simply now studying what it takes and the way it feels to get to the highest? How lengthy will it take the group – gamers included – to get the message? And are the Blue Jackets now out of that funk?
Kuraly stated this has been “some of the difficult seasons” in his profession. I ponder if it is so difficult as a result of we’re dropping a lot or as a result of his teammates do not get the message. He stated his aim now could be to assist the Blue Jackets embrace that mentality. So, concentrate, Blue Jackets. Please!
Joe S. Downing, Westerville
On Denny Kellington and Damar Hamlin
To the editor: Re: “‘An actual hero’: Buffalo Bills coach Denny Kellington has grasp’s diploma from Ohio State” (Jan. 6): The phrase hero is overused in sports activities to the purpose the place it’s typically meaningless. Denny Kellington, the Buffalo Bills assistant athletic coach who administered CPR to Bills security Damar Hamlin throughout the Monday Night Football recreation between Buffalo and the Cincinnati Bengals, is — like Roberto Clemente and Joe Delaney — an exception, reminding us of the actual which means of the phrase.
Ohio State has a lot to be pleased with this 12 months, together with the Buckeyes group that reached school football’s nationwide semifinals and misplaced a heartbreaker to Georgia. But the Bucks’ success pales as compared to the delight Ohio State ought to absorb having helped put together Kellington, who earned a grasp’s at Ohio State, to assist save Hamlin’s life.
Stephen A. Silver, San Francisco
On sports activities betting
Sports betting in Ohio isn’t a good factor. Sure, it offers the federal government more cash, nevertheless it hurts the integrity of sports activities and ruins lives. Don’t imagine me, simply ask Pete Rose or Art Schlichter.
Michael Oser, Columbus
More from the Mailbox:
Praise for Ohio State’s CJ Stroud, however jeers for Jim Knowles and Rob Oller
Ohio State DBs want higher method; and Pete Rose ushering in playing is cheesy
Disdain for the NIL period and pleasure at Ohio State’s attainable rematch with Michigan
Ohio State football coaches’ bonuses in wake of Michigan loss provides to the ache
Ohio State misplaced to Michigan in football, and readers aren’t pleased
How dare Ohio State followers take into consideration football at a Columbus Blue Jackets recreation!
Ryan Day, CJ Stroud get lifetime passes for Kamryn Babb’s emotional Ohio State TD
Ryan Day outcoached, OSU line is gentle, and in regards to the Woody vs. Day comparability …
Ryan Day is a higher coach than Woody Hayes … until he loses to Michigan once more
Kudos to the efficiency on the Ohio State-Iowa football recreation … by the bands