Welcome to Monday Musings, glad to see you. Grab your coffee and let’ proceed. Let’s tee this up with women’s golf.

Women’s Golf

The NCAA tournament Regionals were played May 9-11, and Coach Hessian’s Ohio State team  traveled to Palo Alto to compete in the Western Region. They didn’t leave their heart in San Francisco, but they did end their season in Palo Alto. Unfortunately, the golf didn’t go as well as planned as the Buckeyes finished 15^th in the 24 team field. The top eight (8) team from each region advanced to the next round.

It was another near miss (more below) for the Buckeyes who finished the event at +47 to par, while the cut-off score to advance was +37. It was a ‘near miss’ in the respect that over the course of the three-round tournament, if each of the five players could have shot one

Here we are, another week. Grab your coffee and let’s get right to it.

Football

A bit of a slow week, but not entirely dormant for Buckeye fans. Obviously, I’m referring to Jim Bollman being hired as OC by Michigan State after a quite brief stint as offensive line coach at Purdue. Evidently, Jim thought that he only needed a month or so to get the Purdue offensive line to the standards that we experienced in Columbus during his tenure.  Since this chain of events involved Bollman, Mark Dantonio and Darrell Hazell, the Jim Tressel Coaching Tree is in full leaf.

Men’s Basketball

Entering the week, the Buckeyes came off an impressive display of basketball, gouging the Gophers 71-45 in Columbus. Then Ohio State had a truly inspired effort to beat a tough, especially this time of year, Michigan State team, 68-60 on Sunday. On Wednesday OSU had an all … [Read More]

Yessiree-bob, the start of another week. With coffee in hand, let’s get right to it.

Football

A bit of a slow week, but not entirely dormant. For instance, Charles has an article on rules changes that he’d like to see implemented. They concern ability to return onside kicks, number of coach’s challenges and ball placement for overtime. You should read his article, but really need to for my comments to make sense. Go ahead, I’ll wait….

I did a casual study (I was wearing jeans at the time) of Division 1-A overtime games in 2012, research source being ESPN game recaps. There were 33 games that went into overtime.  The game summary did not specify who actually won the overtime coin toss, so I assumed that in all instances, the coin toss winner chose to play defense in overtime. However, the following citation  from a paper by Brams & Sanderson … [Read More]

Although Spring is 6 weeks away, more or less depending on your ZIP code, the thoughts of golf are beginning to stir. This is to set up up that periodically, from now through mid-May, I’ll be doing some articles on Women’s Golf at Ohio State. These will be match previews, match recaps and other tidbits. These articles will complement the eye-wateringly good work that Janelle does with her ‘News from the WHAC’ series. I’m motivated to do this series for two reasons; OSU has a rich history in NCAA golf, and I golf a fair amount. So there.

Below are fairly brief thumbnails of both coaches and their team.

Therese Hession

The Buckeyes are led by Coach Therese Hession (22^nd year) and Assistant Coach Lisa Strom (3^rd year). Head coach Therese Hession concluded her 21st season heading the Ohio State women’s golf program at the end of the … [Read More]