As a Miami student, I say OSU can suck it.
So far the bulk of his articles have been his usual player-by-player previews that he does every year, plus a handful of extra ones for things like the Wennberg signing. Those previews have been coming out at the rate of one per day, though, so they're kind of dominating his output at the moment.As a side note, is this what most of Porty's articles are like now? Because if so, I'll subscribe immediately. That was a great article.
Porty posted a long piece about how tOSU has ignored the young Ohio talent and how young players feel (not good) about tOSU.
It's a piece the Dispatch would NEVER had let him write, IMO. He kills the Buckeyes. Fairly.
As a Miami student, I say OSU can suck it.
In all seriousness though, it comes down to one thing other than recruitment as to why players choose Miami over OSU. At Miami, hockey is the sport on campus. It's pretty awesome actually, being a hockey fan here. At OSU, it's much further down the ladder.
Even though Miami's rink is small, it's packed for every game, and it's loud as hell, and there is a lot of hockey tradition. At OSU, there is also a lot of tradition, and maybe even more people coming to games, but I'm sure playing in the Schott with thousands of empty seats doesn't create a similar atmosphere.
I would like to see both schools be able to succeed in mining the talent here, but obviously I'm fine with Miami having the edge. Partially because the arrogance of OSU has always been apparent to me, and also because it's cool for me to watch central Ohio kids play here- knowing that they played at the same rinks I did, and that we might've even played against each other a long time ago before they were this good, is pretty awesome.
That above is definitely something OSU can and should tap into, given that it really is the hometown school, but Miami deserves a lot of credit for jumping on this immediately. Good for them.
Any team that graduates it's entire team in two years is going to have a couple bad years.Miami had its day in the sun. They are a very mediocre program now. Blasi has become quite blase.
Also, tickets are pretty easy to get. And they don't pack the place every game anymore-as if packing a 3,000 seat bandbox with free tickets to students amounts to much in the first place.
On Twitter, for the Blue Jackets I follow;
@CBJProspects - They put up snippets and clips of what the franchise prospects are doing.
@CBJFoundation - Charity events and works.
@TReed1919 - Dispatch writer has moved to The Athletic
@APortzline - Ditto
@BobbyMacSports - Bob McElligott has his CBJ in 30 podcasts linked and announced to Twitter, usually a daily thing during the season.
@LeoWelch - a quiet Twitter user, but some interesting stuff.
@RobMixer - Writer and contributor to several publications
@BlueJacketsNHL - official team feed
@ShellyHawk45 - Jody Shelly - usually some good takes.
For General Hockey;
@TSNBobMcKenzie - always has insight and good rumors on deals
@Craig Custance - The Athletic Editor
@KeeperoftheCup - Phil Pritchard - I wish I could be this guy!
@Buccigross - John Buccigross - if you never played Bucci's Overtime Challenge, you need to check it out.
I also follow a couple players. Bobrovsky has joined Twitter this summer and it has been fun and interesting watching him travel all around Europe and Russia. He just put up a picture of him rock climbing in Aspen Colo this morning. It has been amazing to watch him get more and more familiar with English and engage with fans and friends.
Any team that graduates it's entire team in two years is going to have a couple bad years.
Also, I never said that it was hard to get tickets. All I said was, and this is a shocker, a small filled stadium is a better atmosphere than the Schott with 13000 empty seats.
Sorry Miami offends you. Agreed on Blasi though.
Congrats on not being academically challenged then, I suppose. :Miami hardly offends me. Many of my academically challenged high school classmates went there and I had a great time during my many visits to Oxford.
Per new Dispatch writer Adam Jardy today, the Jackets got swept in 4 last year.
Felt like I was reading a piece written for a high school team in the small local paper (not just for that reason, just a choppy puffy piece with lots of unnecessary set up for the quotes that were included. Got to step it up...and yes I am still mostly a print guy, although all the ravings here about The Athletic have me considering it.
I asked him.
In response to what Heinz shared, I find that believable. Which is why somebody should have responded and contributed OSU's point of view in this article. To ignore the story and refuse to participate reinforces the arrogance in my opinion. Why not talk?
Long interview with Torts just posted
That's what I expected to hear from Torts and I agree with him.
We're not going to get the benefit of catching 90% efforts from teams or seeing a lot of backups early in the season like we did last year so yeah it will be harder.
I think they'll be a better team, harder, more ready for the playoffs, who will have fewer points, but still makes the playoffs. We won't win 16 straight games ever again for as long as we live, but we might have a 9 wins in 10 stretch or something like that. I also don't expect the mini-collapse they had at the end of the season to happen again. That goes both ways.