Columbus Crew be a part of Blue Jackets, Cleveland Browns on checklist of losers

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On the Columbus Crew

Expensive Editor: Watching the Crew is quick turning into a “put a bag over your head” irritating expertise. Similar to watching the Blue Jackets and the Browns. Watching the Nashville recreation, particularly the second half, one needed to marvel: Am I watching skilled soccer or a highschool recreation? The Crew’s play was pathetic. The workforce wants to look at that recreation many times and once more.

Chet Ridenour

On school soccer

Expensive Mr. White: Faculty soccer in September is, in a phrase, unwatchable, until, after all, a menu of Energy 5 vs. Alcorn State 75-0 video games is your factor. (Jim Tressel used to defend the 75-0 maulings of Akron with a self-congratulatory, fiscally apparent: “We stored the cash in Ohio.”) Alarmed that non-conference recreation tickets have been being supplied on Stub Hub for $1, the powers-that-be mandated Energy 5 groups should schedule a minimum of one fellow Energy 5 college (see: OSU v. ND) for his or her non-conference slate. (I’ll guess the telephones at Rice, Vandy and Kansas have been ringing off the hook.)

Now that rule goes away. And, in the meantime, the SEC is in battle over whether or not to change its 8-4 convention/non-conference ratio to 9-3 owing to Texas and Oklahoma being larger attracts than Troy and Murray State. Shock! Georgia likes issues as they’re. My guess is that they’ll stand pat and “examine” that one for a decade or so. Recognizing all this, I vote that the Large Ten eliminates the September doldrums and opts for an “All Large Ten, On a regular basis” schedule. In different phrases: The NFL mannequin. Sept 7: USC at Michigan, OSU at Iowa. The 12-team playoff system is versatile sufficient to soak up this harder strategy, and income misplaced from fewer dwelling video games could possibly be recouped with larger costs for tickets and better scores for video games folks really wish to watch and pay for.

Jon Armstrong

On Ohio State basketball and Chris Holtmann

To the editor: The 2-part edited interview with the current head basketball coach Chris Holtmann was a becoming tribute from a coach who tried onerous to win however was out of his depth. He talked about getting the buy-in from gamers and stated they’re enjoying to be good not nice and stated “we’ve got to concentrate on constantly enjoying to be win and go from there.” Wow. What a recruiting speech that’s. Are you able to think about Coach Ok or John Calipari saying that in an interview?

Mr. Holtmann seems like a great one that deserves a head teaching job at Cleveland State, Walnut Ridge, or Columbus State – not THE Ohio State Buckeyes.

Michael Oser, Columbus

On the Cincinnati Reds

To Brian: I loved the powerhouse Reds once I was a younger man within the 70s, however success for them has been rare ever since. And after years of seeing so many Reds all-stars moved on with little in return, it obtained particularly discouraging. However whereas lots of these former all-stars have floundered, a number of youthful gamers have come alongside to breathe life right into a franchise even with their finest prospect nonetheless in Louisville. I doubt if the Reds want to start out printing World Sequence tickets any time quickly, and whereas I do have fond reminiscences of the Large Purple Machine, this little engine that would is turn out to be very fascinating to look at.