Land-grant Holy Land: For Ohio State Buckeyes Fans

With the 2022 college football season looming larger and larger, it’s time for us to do our annual predictions shows. As usual, we start with the Big Ten West while we’re saving the Big Ten best for next week’s show. Chip Minnich and I had to inspect the transfer portal, check the injury reports, and come up with some kind of order in what could be a chaotic Big Ten West this season. Before we get into that, we discuss some of the more timely news of import to Ohio State fans. We start with the removal of the black stripes. It’s always fun to track which players are getting their helmet stripes removed and becoming “official” Buckeyes. It doesn’t always portend how a player’s college career will play out, but it’s an interesting curiosity and it at least shows how that player is displaying his wares to the coaching staff. We’ve also got our responses to Kamryn Babb getting this year’s Block 0 jersey. The young man has been plagued with injury issues since his arrival and we’re hoping he finally gets to show w

Welcome to a new episode of Land-Grant Holy Land’s I-70 podcast. On this show, we talk all things Big Ten football and basketball. After every week of action, we will get you caught up on all the conference’s games and look ahead at the matchups, storylines, and players that you should be paying attention to in the next week. My name is Jordan Williams, and I am joined by my co-host Dante Morgan. We are a few weeks away from the start of the 2022-23 football season, so it is time to switch gears from off-season talk to diving headfirst into real football content. What better way to start football season than ranking teams and picking games? In our season preview series, we rank the Big Ten into four tiers: Non-bowl tier, lower-bowl tier, New Year’s Six Bowl tier, and Contenders tier. We also predict records and finishes for all 14 teams leading to 168 games picked. In this episode, Dante and Jordan talk about the three programs we believe have the best chance to make a New Year's Six Bowl game. Before we get

On today’s episode of “Buck Off with Christopher Renne,” I am joined by Jordan Williams, and we we bit off more than we could chew on this and got into a little bit of everything in this one. To get the show started we get into Jim Knowles’ media availability and one of us is drinking all the Kool Aid provided. We then get into his raised expectations for the defense and how the pecking order is being defined for his linebacker unit. Then we discuss the super-freshmen in C.J. Hicks and Sonny Styles, and their initial impressions in the program. After that we discuss some of the more intriguing topics from Ryan Day’s media availability. I have trouble with names, but we get into the way Ryan Day talked about some of the players on the roster breaking down the coach speak. We discuss the word choice of Day for three players Enokk Vimahi, Xavier Johnson, and Chip Trayanum. We also discuss some of Ryan Day’s concerns and why we aren’t buying into any tenacity talk. After the break, we get into the new Big Ten med

On LGHL’s Play Like a Girl podcast, Meredith Hein welcomes in friends from around the LGHL, Ohio State, and sporting worlds to talk everything from Ohio State sports to advocacy for women in sports and all the happenings in between. Welcome back to the show! This week was an emotional one for Megan and Meredith, with the announcement that Serena Williams would retire this year following the US Open and Sue Bird playing her final regular season home game. The two have contributed so much to sports and have elevated women’s sports in particular to what they are today.  Megan and Meredith also discuss the NFL Preseason and, with just a few weeks to go, what we’re excited to see from Ohio Contact Meredith Hein Twitter: @MeredithHein Contact Megan Husslein Twitter: @meganhusslein Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Land-Grant Holy Land’s flagship podcast ‘Hangout in the Holy Land’ is back! Join LGHL’s co-managing editor Gene Ross alongside his co-host Josh Dooley as they cover everything from football to basketball to recruiting and more! On this week’s episode, Gene and Josh continue their Big Ten previews with a look at Purdue and Penn State. They kick things off by first discussing the latest in recruiting happenings since the last episode, including a pair of new commitments, a pair of de-commitments, and a new defensive prospect trending towards Ohio State. They thing get into the task at hand, breaking down all things Purdue and Penn State. Can the Boilermakers build off their 9-4 season a year ago, and will the Nittany Lions finally decide to put an offensive line on the field? Connect with the Podcast: Twitter: @HolyLandPod Connect with Gene: Twitter: @Gene_Ross23 Connect with Josh: Twitter: @jdooleybuckeye Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Every day for the entirety of the Ohio State football season, we will be asking and answering questions about the team, college football, and anything else on our collective minds of varying degrees of importance. If you have a question that you would like to ask, you can tweet us @LandGrant33 or if you need more than 280 characters, send an email HERE. To answer today's "Ask LGHL" question, we went the podcast route, since it was complicated and probably required some follow-up in the moment. So, answering the question sent in by Gary Fugitt, Matt Tamanini asked LGHL's resident football coach Caleb Houser to shed some light on an underappreciated, yet still very impressive, aspect of football gameday operations. Gary asked: "I am constantly amazed at how smoothly they get people in and out of the game, even as they change personnel play-to-play." In this episode, Caleb explains the process how his football team handles quick substitutions and provides insight into how teams prepare for every possible situati

On “The Dotted Line”, Land-Grant Holy Land’s Matt Tamanini talks to recruiting experts, LGHL’s recruiting analysts, and prospects themselves to get a unique perspective on the players that will be a part of Ohio State’s future. This will come as no surprise to anyone who pays even the slightest bit of attention to Ohio State football recruiting, but the last couple weeks of July did not go very well for the Buckeyes. After the 2023 class vaulted to the No. 1 position in the country on the strength of three impressive wide receiver commitments, anticipation was building for a wide array of defensive blue-chippers to join the Buckeyes as the month progressed... except not only did that not happen, but they all committed elsewhere, elsewhere, leaving Ohio State scrambling to figure out what is next for its defensive recruiting efforts. In this episode, LGHL recruiting columnist Caleb Houser breaks down what went wrong for the Buckeyes in July, what needs to happen to right the ship, and what is still moving in O

Well, hello there! Chip Minnich and I are excited to become part of the Land-Grant Holy Land team this season. If you’re not familiar with us, well, we’ve been doing the Silver Bullets Podcast together since August of 2018. Chip has been doing it a bit longer, as he and Shannon Sommers hosted the first 25 episodes together before I came aboard. Now, here we are on our 114th episode of the Silver Bullets Podcast and the first at our new home, here at LGHL. Chip and I last recorded in the aftermath of Ohio State’s wile 48-45 Rose Bowl win over Utah, so it’s been a minute. For this episode, we touch on why we left our old place and how excited we are to be here. We also discussed two of the biggest off-season stories of the past several months — the addition of USC and UCLA to the Big Ten, and the coaching changes that Ryan Day made to the OSU staff after the conclusion of the 2021 season. Both Chip and I grew up loathing USC due to the fact that the Trojans wrecked a lot of Ohio State seasons in the Rose Bowl,

Welcome to a new episode of Land-Grant Holy Land’s I-70 podcast. On this show we talk all things Big Ten football and basketball. After every week of action, we will get you caught up on all the conference’s games and look ahead at the matchups, storylines, and players that you should be paying attention to in the next week. My name is Jordan Williams, and I am joined by my co-host Dante Morgan. We are a few weeks away from the 2022-2023 football season, so it is time to switch gears from talking season and dive in headfirst into real football content. What better way to start football season then ranking teams and picking games? In our season preview we rank the Big Ten into four tiers, the non-bowl tier, the low-bowl tier, the NY6 bowl tier and the contender’s tier. We also predict records and finishes for all fourteen teams leading to 168 games picked. In this episode we discuss the three or four teams, depending on who you ask, that will make lower ranked bowl games. Jordan believes that Mike Locksley, an

On today’s episode of “Buck Off with Christopher Renne,” I am joined by Jordan Williams, and we get into our Big Ten conference preview for the 2022 season. Before we get into the preview we get into some news and notes with the start of Fall Camp on the horizon. We discuss the impending football season and how last year goes into the dumpster when Fall Camp starts. We also get into the stories we’re most excited about for the first day of camp. To start our conference preview with Big Ten West and discuss how all seven teams will fare this season. We start with the teams projected at the bottom including the lifeless Northwestern program and the steadily improving Illinois program. We then get into the discussion about the middle of the pack programs and teams looking to improve including Nebraska, Minnesota, and Purdue. We then discuss the division champs Iowa and why Wisconsin should be the safe bet to reclaim their conference thrown. (13:33) After the break, we get into the Big Ten East division and how t

Land-Grant Holy Land’s newest podcast, ‘Bucketheads’ takes you on a journey across the college basketball landscape every episode. The only basketball-focused podcast in the LGHL family of podcasts, co-hosts Connor Lemons and Justin Golba give the latest scoop on the Ohio State Buckeyes as well as all the other happenings in the college hoops world. We are back and we have a BOOM! for Ohio State hoops. The second-ranked player in the state and main priority for Chris Holtmann and his staff, Devin Royal from Pickerington Central, has made his verbal commitment to the Buckeyes. We discussed this, Scotty Middleton’s commitment on Saturday and Dailyn Swain’s plan to drop his top-five on Friday — conveniently right before Middleton’s decision. Also, we were joined by Davis Moseley of Rivals to talk about Royal, Middleton and more. We talked about Ohio State recruiting, Big Ten recruits and some national prospects folks should keep an eye on during the 2022-2023 season. Connect with the Podcast: Twitter: @Buckethe

Throughout the year, Land-Grant Holy Land will be bringing you uncut audio primarily from Ohio State press conferences, but also from individual interview sessions. During this episode, we heard from Ohio State men’s basketball coach Chris Holtmann leading up to his team’s trip to the Bahamas, which is set to take place from Thursday, August 4th through Tuesday, August 9th. The Buckeyes will face the Egyptian and Puerto Rican national teams at the Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas. Unfortunately, there will be no way to watch or stream Ohio State’s games in the Bahamas. Holtmann also discussed the health of players who have been nursing injuries, including Seth Towns, Justice Sueing, and Gene Brown. Neither Sueing nor Towns will play in this week’s game action. Ohio State’s sixth-year head coach also discussed November’s Maui Invitational for a bit, but was noncommittal on if he would wear a Hawaaian shirt or not during and of the Buckeyes’ three games at the Lahaina Civic Center in Maui. Theme music provided

Welcome to a new episode of Land-Grant Holy Land’s I-70 podcast. On this show we talk all things Big Ten football and basketball. After every week of action, we will get you caught up on all the conference’s games and look ahead at the matchups, storylines, and players that you should be paying attention to in the next week. My name is Jordan Williams, and I am joined by my co-host Dante Morgan. We are a few weeks away from the 2022-23 football season, so it is time to switch gears from talking off-season to diving headfirst into real football content. What better way to start football season than ranking teams and picking games? In our season preview, we rank the Big Ten into four tiers, the non-bowl tier, the low-bowl tier, the NY6 bowl tier, and the contender’s tier. We also predict records and finishes for all fourteen teams leading to 168 games picked. Last year Jordan won the competition with a record of 95-73, while Dante was close behind with a record of 93-75. Looking to improve on last year, the gu

On LGHL’s Play Like a Girl podcast, Meredith Hein welcomes in friends from around the LGHL, Ohio State, and sporting worlds to talk everything from Ohio State sports to advocacy for women in sports and all the happenings in between. Welcome back to the show! We’re officially one month away from the Big Ten’s season opener featuring Nebraska and Northwestern all the way in Dublin, Ireland, and Big Ten Media Days are upon us! Megan and Meredith discussed the high points of the opening day of press conferences, including conference expansion, College Football Playoff expansion and preseason honors.  In honor of LGHL’s Bold Predictions week, the pair also dive into their most daring predictions for this season, including that CJ Stroud will not beat out his stats from last year (Meredith) and that Ohio State will blow out Notre Dame in the season opener (Megan). Contact Meredith Hein Twitter: @MeredithHein Contact Megan Husslein Twitter: @meganhusslein Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/ad

On today’s episode of “Buck Off with Christopher Renne,” I am joined by Jordan Williams, and we get into Ohio State’s upcoming season for the Buckeyes after we heard from Ryan Day and the player representatives at Big Ten Media Day. Before we get into the players on the roster we have a conversation about the current recruiting struggles the Buckeyes are facing. In this conversation we discuss the recent recruitments, and how recruiting is not straightforward. We discuss the variables that effect recruitments and when the defensive recruiting might take a turn to the positive again. After that, we get into our discussions from the media days for the Big Ten. We start the the head ball coach Ryan Day, who definitely should not be fired. His expectations for the defense sound high, but are actually pretty reasonable. We then get into his comments about how 11-2 is an unsuccessful season for the Buckeyes. Once back from the break, we get into C.J. Stroud, Jaxon Smith-Njigba, and Ronnie Hickman’s appearance. The

Land-Grant Holy Land’s flagship podcast ‘Hangout in the Holy Land’ is back! Join LGHL’s co-managing editor Gene Ross alongside his co-host Josh Dooley as they cover everything from football to basketball to recruiting and more! On this week’s episode, Gene and Josh continue their Big Ten previews with a look at Maryland and Illinois. Before they dive into that, they take a look at what has been happening on the recruiting trail for Ohio State. The Buckeyes still have one of the top classes in the country, but it has been a real tough stretch in terms of misses on defense. They then get into the previews, where the Terrapins could have one of the conference’s top offenses if everything works out, while the Illini are still finding their way in year two under Bret Bielema. Connect with the Podcast: Twitter: @HolyLandPod Connect with Gene: Twitter: @Gene_Ross23 Connect with Josh: Twitter: @jdooleybuckeye Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Land-Grant Holy Land’s flagship podcast ‘Hangout in the Holy Land’ is back! Join LGHL’s co-managing editor Gene Ross alongside his co-host Josh Dooley as they cover everything from football to basketball to recruiting and more! On this week’s episode, Gene and Josh continue their Big Ten previews with a look at Nebraska and Rutgers. Before getting into that, they discuss the latest in Ohio State football recruiting, including the newest 2023 commit as well as some troubling trends on the defensive side of the ball after a big whiff at linebacker. The rest of the show is all about the Huskers and the Scarlet Knights, two teams that are looking to improve in 2022 with new quarterbacks. Will Scott Frost do enough to keep his job? Can Rutgers survive in the B1G East? Who knows! “Hangout in the Holy Land” is will be dropping one episode per week during the offseason, coming out every Wednesday (don’t hold us to that). Be sure to download and listen in wherever you get your podcasts, and leave us a review on Apple

Welcome to a new episode of Land-Grant Holy Land’s I-70 podcast. On this show we talk all things Big Ten football and basketball. After every week of action, we will get you caught up on all the conference’s games and look ahead at the matchups, storylines, and players that you should be paying attention to in the next week. My name is Jordan Williams, and I am joined by my co-host Dante Morgan. After a spirit discussion around if the show should be called I-80 Football Show, we get into Penn State starting quarterback Sean Clifford hoping to lead the charge of a new college football players association with Penn State at the forefront. Clifford and the association have begun talks with the Big Ten regarding health insurance for sports related injuries post career, a representative on each campus to support students and advocate especially around medical conversations and revenue sharing from the media rights deal. The guys discuss what a player’s association could look like as well as if the players should u

On today’s episode of “Buck Off with Christopher Renne,” I am joined by Jordan Williams, and we get into Ohio State’s most breakable 2022 records and some of the recent NIL news around the football program. To start, we discuss the announcement of Ohio State NIL fund The Foundations $1000 entry event to meet Ryan Day and Chris Holtmann. We talk about the amount of money that goes into running a football program in the modern age. Then we get into a conversation about how people in charge can not be mad at boosters because they had every opportunity to provide safe guards before the supreme court ruling. After that we get into a discussion about the ACC, SEC, and the B1G media days that are happening this week and next week. The B1G meets next week so we discuss the big conversation topics that might get brought up. We talk about the most interesting stories out of the SEC and ACC including a lot of sports business talk in regards to the TV deals. We also discuss the leverage of each conference in their curren

Land-Grant Holy Land’s newest podcast, ‘Bucketheads’ takes you on a journey across the college basketball landscape every episode. The only basketball-focused podcast in the LGHL family of podcasts, co-hosts Connor Lemons and Justin Golba give the latest scoop on the Ohio State Buckeyes as well as all the other happenings in the college hoops world. The Buckeyes are on several “final schools” lists for 2023 targets, with decisions looming in the next few weeks. With that in mind, Connor and Justin did a recruiting roundup of sorts, giving updates on the Buckeyes’ main 2023 targets and when we may get some final decisions. The recruits the guys touched on this week are: Devin Royal Scotty Middleton Xavier Booker Dailyn Swain Taison Chatman Lawrent Rice With this season’s five-man freshman class and several other players expected to return, Ohio State only has space for one or two more additions to their 2023 recruiting class. The decisions of players who are deciding soon (Middleton, Royal) could hav