πππππ§ππ π§π’ ππππ π
Meet the 2οΈβ£0οΈβ£ players elected by their teammates to serve on the 2026 Ohio Football Unity Council.
This leadership group, will represent Ohio Football and shape the culture and direction of π’π¨r program on and off the field.
#OUohyeah
π Jake Diebler explains the details behind Ohio Stateβs Follow action β a low ball-screen concept designed to counter ice coverage.
The moment the defender flips their hips, the screen is set, forcing the defense to recover late and giving the offense a clean angle back to the middle.
Baseline Out-of-Bounds (Lake)β¦
Created using the @LuceoSports Assist App, which is free to all current OHSBCA members. Check it out today and see why the top professional and collegiate programs have made the switch to Luceo.
Iβm going to say this as calmly as possible:
Watching Caitlin Clark in the WNBA has become genuinely hard to stomach.
Not because she struggles sometimes. Not because she makes mistakes. Not because she gets criticized. That comes with being great.
Itβs hard to stomach because it has become obvious that the league, the officials, the media, the players, and even her own organization have all decided that the most important thing is not letting Caitlin Clark become too big.
And that is insane.
This league was handed the most marketable, electric, revenue-generating player womenβs basketball has ever seen, and instead of building around the moment, too many people seem obsessed with humbling her.
She gets fouled. Held. Hit. Cheap-shotted. Mocked. Targeted. Then when she reacts like a normal competitor, suddenly everyone wants to analyze her attitude.
No.
Her attitude is not the story.
The story is that a generational player is being treated like a problem by the very league she helped drag into mainstream relevance.
This reminds me of the worst kind of youth coach... the one who sees a special player, feels threatened by her talent, and slowly drains the joy out of her in the name of βteaching humility.β
That is what this looks like.
The freedom she played with at Iowa is disappearing. The fire is still there, but the joy looks damaged. The confidence looks weighed down. She looks like someone constantly fighting the refs, opponents, narratives, coaching decisions, jealousy, and a league culture that should be protecting its golden opportunity instead of resenting it.
And letβs be honest: Stephanie White has not helped.
Benching Caitlin Clark randomly when she is controlling the game tempo, or having your best shooter off the floor in critical game ending minutes when a victory is within reach is basketball malpractice. Limiting her rhythm, downplaying her greatness, benching momentum, and treating her like just another piece instead of the engine is absurd.
You do not take a player who changed the economics of your sport and manage her like youβre afraid her greatness might offend the room.
Nike deserves criticism too. Other players get signature shoes rolled out with urgency, while the biggest draw in womenβs basketball is somehow still waiting on that signature shoe. That is not confusing. That is revealing.
Fans are not stupid.
They see the fouls.
They see the double standards.
They see the jealousy.
They see the media resentment.
They see the league benefiting from her popularity while refusing to fully embrace her.
And here is the part the WNBA better understand quickly:
People are not tuning in to watch Caitlin Clark be humbled.
They are tuning in to watch Caitlin Clark be great.
If she walked away tomorrow, the fans would follow her. The sponsors would follow her. The energy would follow her. The high salaries and the charter jets would follow her. And the league would be forced to confront the uncomfortable truth it keeps trying to avoid:
Caitlin Clark did not need the WNBA nearly as much as the WNBA needed Caitlin Clark.
At some point, her family, her agent, and her team need to ask a hard question:
How much longer do you let a league profit from her while allowing the culture around her to beat the spirit out of her?
Because from the outside looking in, this does not look like normal adversity anymore. It looks like abuse.
It looks like a league trying to break the very player who made millions of people care.
https://t.co/AAxFrO46Z4
I'll be honest, I've spent a lot of time trying to figure out my life.
Mapping it out. Planning the next move. Trying to make sense of my circumstances when things didn't go as planned.
But here's what God has been teaching me, there's a difference between asking what's next and asking what does God want. And those are very different questions.
Your uncertainty isn't a dead end. It's an invitation.
An invitation to stop white-knuckling your own plan and trust that His purpose is bigger than anything you could map out on your own.
So let me ask you, are you more focused on your circumstances or your Savior?
Iβve joked that @davidpollack47 is the little brother I never wanted. Truth is, heβs the brother I couldnβt be more blessed by. Just finished Davidβs book. It is awesome. Will challenge the way you approach your life and faith. Get it and crush 3 goals today. #everydaycounts
"Give me the best players, regardless of size. And then we'll move the system to fit them."
@LSUfootball@Lane_Kiffin speaking on his wide receivers and how it will look on the field.
"We're suppose to be really good coaches. We're suppose to have really good systems." #LSU
Skull Session: Will Howard took a pay cut leaving Ohio State for the NFL, Scottie Pippen endorses Jake Diebler and Lorenzo Styles Sr. describes his football and family legacy. https://t.co/JJaFqYMtfp
While the @OhioFootball Spring Game wasnβt an old-school Green vs. White affair, there was plenty of competition inside Peden Stadium on Saturday.
Hereβs some of the biggest takeaways, including HC John Hauserβs comments on the teamβs QB competition:
https://t.co/KpSJTFzOe6
ππππ-ππ-ππππ πΊ
Keegan Holmstrom has been named the #HLBASE Batter of the Week for the second straight week! Holmstrom hit .600 over the weekend against NKU, including going 4-4 with 3 RBIs in Saturdayβs sweep-clinching win!
π°: https://t.co/cv60okCf8q
#Raidergang | #BuildtheMonster
Mike Leach shares a must-listen postgame message on resilience, adversity, and failure.
"Nothing is really, really, really fun unless it's hard. Nothing is really fun unless it's hard."
"We've got to embrace that things are gonna be hard. We've got to embrace to be excited when things are hard."
Successful people don't fear obstacles - they embrace them.
"You gotta embrace to be excited about it being hard and playing extremely hard."
"Even if you get way up on somebody, you want to be as hard as you possibly can because you're pushing yourself. And all of a sudden you're making great plays, you're doing things that you've never done before."
Growth requires discomfort. You have to be willing to look bad before you get better.
Then he ended with one line:
"Embrace the fact that it's hard. Never hope that it's easy."
If you only chase what's easy, you'll never become great.
Embrace the hard because that is where growth, success, and character are built.
(π₯ Washington State)
Added another mug to the collection this AMβ¦
Battle of the Bricks W β
- 15-5 over the last 20 matchups
Frisco Bowl Champions β
- 7 straight bowl wins
- 40 wins in 4 years
Shoutout to @BobKatDFO & @savannahbanksFB!
πππππππ ππππππ ππππππ ππ πππ ππππ πΊ
Keegan Holmstrom has been named the #HLBASE Batter of the Week following his stellar week at the plate, where he hit .538 and had an outstanding on-base percentage of .667!
π°: https://t.co/PjSbZryuzv
#Raidergang | #BuildtheMonster