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Do not go from Ultra TV to U-Verse unless you're in a Gigapower area. Have had both. U-Verse was decent as far as not having general connection issues but the overall performance of their basic system is horrible. Long story short, the bandwidth for your internet and TV is shared with U-Verse so the second you are recording/watching more than 2 shows at the same time you start eating into your internet bandwidth and if you ever max it out at the 4 shows at a time (vs. the 6 shows at a time you can do with Ultra which never messes with your internet bandwidth) you will run into issues simply browsing the internet due to their shoddy equipment.

I believe WOW either dropped or are soon dropping the 600 and 110 tiers. There will only be 10/1, 100/10 and 500/50 tiers with their gigabit service coming to Columbus sometime this year as well. When it launches here all customers (new and existing) will have the opportunity to jump on it for $70/month for a year.

I think he legitimately has Asperger syndrome.

The 600mbps service is $95/month with a 1-year contract. $110/month without a contract. I'm currently on their 300mbps but am hoping to upgrade to the 600mbps within the next couple days. 600mbps and their "large" cable TV package (basically everything you can get on cable + your choice of a premium like HBO) is $135/month with a 1-year contract. My 300mbps service is extremely consistent. Average test is about 325 down/21 up. WOW is also launching gigabit service in a few of their markets and I assume that will makes its way to Columbus at some point. And I also use all my own equipment because of past issues with WOW's. SB6190 for internet and am getting my own Tivo box to use with a cable card from WOW when I get that all set up.

I don't see OSU getting DPJ (#1 WR). Definitely getting #2 WR Trevon Grimes. Have a great shot at #3 WR Tyjon Lindsey. #17 WR Jaylen Harris should also be in the class. Should be an elite trio. More recruiting actual WR's instead of "athletes" to play the position. Also see the class getting to 20. They'll find a way. OSU has been doing winter workouts and whatnot lately and one of the themes (2013-2014 was "The Chase", 2015 was "The Grind") is "This is the land of wolves." For those who haven't seen Sicario, maybe a tiny spoiler but I'm not going to give its context, Benicio del Toro's character says near the end to another character... "You will not survive here. You're not a wolf. And this is the land of wolves now." Basically a message to the young pups (of which there are simply a TON - over half the roster this season will be true and redshirt freshmen) that it's time to become a wolf or you're not going to make it. Here's the sign that's up in the football facility... http://i.imgur.com/jDeF8HH.jpg Of course you also see "Get to Indy" there for the B1G title game. I really want to know who decided to use the thing from Sicario. Such an amazing line from a great movie.

4* NV DT Haskell Garrett committed to OSU last week. Apparently his family is all in the midwest (he goes to Bishop Gorman in Vegas) so his top 3 were OSU, PSU and ND. He hasn't been to OSU yet so that's always iffy but should be coming sometime in the spring. I guess he hadn't talked to a lot of media yet because most people had him joining Bishop Gorman's 5* QB Tate Martell at A&M. 5* WR Tyjon Lindsey was also at Bishop Gorman this past season but is moving back to Cali for his senior year. Lindsey's favorite team growing up was OSU. Have a good A&M friend so this news and news stemming from it could be pretty painful.

Looking at Texas' schedule I think if Strong can get 8+ wins next season then he's safe. Then another improvement in 2017 and he could be there for a while. The way their class closed was incredible. Unrelated, here's a nice article with a graph on just how depleted OSU will be next season... http://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2016/2/5/10921918/2016-ncaa-football-returning-starters-experience-lsu-ohio-state-tennessee-stanford 127th out of 128 in returning experience. Still, I'm excited to watch some new guys make their mark with JT leading them. Since I'm bored I'm going to make a projected starting lineup for OSU... QB - JT Barrett (RS Jr.) RB - Curtis Samuel (Jr.) H-back - Dontre Wilson (Sr.) WR - Noah Brown (RS So.) WR - Torrance Gibson (RS Fr.) TE - Marcus Baugh (RS Jr.) LT - Isaiah Prince (So.) LG - Billy Price (Jr.) C - Pat Elflein (RS Sr.) RG - Jamarco Jones (RS So.) RT - Malcolm Pridgeon (Jr.) DE - Tyquan Lewis (Jr.) DT - Michael Hill (Jr.) DT - Tracy Sprinkle (RS Jr.) DE - Sam Hubbard (RS So.) LB - Jerome Baker (So.) LB - Raekwon McMillan (Jr.) LB - Dante Booker (Jr.) CB - Gareon Conley (Jr.) S - Malik Hooker (So.) S - Erick Smith (Jr.) CB - Denzel Ward (So.) And here's a list of guys who are either redshirt or true freshmen that I expect to see quite a bit... RB - Mike Weber* H-back - DeMario McCall WR - KJ Hill*, Austin Mack TE - Jake Hausmann OL - Branden Bowen*, Matt Burrell* DL - Jashon Cornell*, Dre'Mont Jones*, Jonathon Cooper, Nick Bosa, Robert Landers* LB - Nick Conner*, Justin Hilliard*, Keandre Jones DB - Joshua Norwood*, Wayne Davis, Damon Arnette*, Jordan Fuller *redshirt freshman I think the biggest crapshoots in terms of guessing starters are the offensive skill guys and the DB's. Mike Weber could easily be the starting RB with Samuel being the starting H-back. Parris Campbell could be a starting WR or H-back. KJ Hill or Austin Mack could be a starting WR. Damon Webb, Marshon Lattimore, Cam Burrows and Jordan Fuller could all compete for a starting DB spot. Should be a very interesting off-season trying to pay attention to who ends up filling in at all of the open spots.

Will be interesting to see how he pans out. I have an A&M friend so I knew he was committed to them early on. Then he decommitted and eventually committed to Tom Herman at Houston. Then over the last couple weeks there was all this talk about Florida, then TCU popped up briefly, but ultimately, Florida. Just a strange recruitment. Something people didn't expect out of Houston was for them to hold on to 5* DT Ed Oliver. But he signed with them today and it's all official. First ever 5* player to sign with a G5 program. Of course, I believe that's since there has been "G5 programs" which is just a few years. Also, just since I mentioned my A&M friend, today has basically been hell for him. Texas is absolutely cleaning up today on the recruiting trail. They were somewhere in the 30's or 40's when the day began and are now just outside the top 10. Obviously these kids aren't going to put them into national championship contention this upcoming season but just continue to improve a little bit this year, Strong gets at least one more year and if they're not truly competing for a Big 12 title in 2017 then they'll have to look at getting rid of him.

Burns decided not to flip back to Louisville so that made Wallace no longer a need. Pridgeon and Harrison signed today. Everyone is officially in but Victor but that's just a formality. Everything done before 10:15AM. Not bad. Now we wait to see if there are any fireworks in Ann Arbor over possibly losing Gary to Clemson.

The week of National Signing Day is upon us. 2 OSU related announcements tonight... 4* PA DB Damar Hamlin - will probably stay home and go to Pitt but could surprise and pick OSU 4* NJ ATH (DB) Jordan Fuller - will be OSU Then 1-2 kids between today and Wednesday between these options... 4* JUCO OL Malcolm Pridgeon 3* VA DB K'Von Wallace 3* JUCO DT Jamar King Also I believe 3* OH ATH Malik Harrison will be a simple signing day announcement for OSU. Fickell fought to get him in the class the same way he did for Darron Lee so it would be cool if he worked out as well because it was part of the reason OSU couldn't find room for 4* FL WR Sam Bruce. And 3* KY DB Rodjay Burns may be flipping back to Louisville. I'd rather have Wallace than him anyway so hopefully that's how it works out.

I really enjoy how Walker is behind Williams in basically every single ranking now. OSU was perfectly fine moving onto Williams swiftly after Walker tried to visit Michigan secretly.

Maryland fans' conspiracy theories regarding Haskins/Jones/Locksley are hilarious. Like it's so crazy a kid would choose to join OSU's class over sticking it out with Maryland's awful, awful class. Haskins has had one foot out the door for months.

People can't get Warinner's name right and now there's Studrawa... it's a disaster. Not calling you out specifically, LJ. The way you had it is the way Bucknuts' twitter posted it. And Ross Fulton just tweeted out "Studwara" in multiple, successive tweets.

I don't understand why they'd want one. It's a guaranteed rematch since they play a round robin 9-game conference schedule. Makes no sense.

Bama won their division and earned their spot in their conference title game thanks to a miraculous play by Arkansas against Ole Miss. OSU lost their division and didn't earn a spot in their conference title game thanks to a miraculous play by Michigan State against Michigan. You can boil it down to those 2 plays. Pretty crazy.