Merriest of Christmases from the OTP staff to you and yours as this day unfolds. As always, we’re thankful for the opportunity to bring you all some humor and college footballness, and thankful for the opportunity to grace your browser with our opinions, but most importantly, we’re thankful for the opportunity to bring Santa Brooks to [...]
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Apologies for the delay in posting, as not only is it a fairly slow time around Ball State land, the weather Gods decided to pummel the Washington, DC area with 20 inches of snow. While blessed with the Cardinal Mobile with 4-wheel drive, dealing with lane upon lane of Maryland drivers who can’t drive in [...]
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A little early this week instead of Friday morning, but consider it OTP’s Christmas gift to you! On this week’s show, Edge and Alan rock out about the Ball State reevaluation at the hands of Stan Parrish, the Kentucky Wildcats ant their Music City Bowl matchup with Clemson, the BCS, all the upcoming Bowls, the [...]
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Reminder to all who read here that if you haven’t already entered in the Bowl Pick ‘Em for OTP, then you need to hop this link to do so. The group ID is #6856. You don’t need a password or anything, but be creative with the team name. We like that kind of thing. If [...]
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It’s time to turn the rock up to 11 here at OTP. We’ve already covered some of the early part of the season with a little help from the Beatles, but how about some other artists that may have some song titles that we can relate to the season? Up next is one of the [...]
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Forgive the lack of substantive posting over the last few days. While I wish I could blame it on something charitable or honorable, like adopting Malawi children or giving out meals to the homeless, I was simply sidetracked with orchestrating a Holiday Party of Awesomeness that ate into my time like Mark Mangino at a [...]
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Last offseason in the MAC was characterized by vacancy after vacancy and the mad scramble to fill head coaching jobs at schools like Toledo, Bowling Green, Eastern Michigan, Miami, and Ball State. This year, the only MAC vacancy for now was Akron’s head coaching gig, after JD Brookhart and his entire staff lost control of [...]
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In order to really know what the experience was like this year for a Ball State student during the football season I would have to also talk about the 2006 football season. The 2008 football season was the most fun year of football in my entire life. School spirit was at an all time high [...]
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You would think that a team that is headed to their 4th consecutive Bowl trip, vying for their 4th consecutive Bowl win, who just clocked their 4th straight winning season wouldn’t need to do any sort of spin job to make people take notice. You would think that the fans of that program would be [...]
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Similar to last season, OTP has been asked to cast our official ballot for the SportsBlog Heisman Trophy hosted over at The Blue Workhorse. This season, significantly tougher than last year, mostly because unlike last year, where there was a plethora of very worthy candidates, that’s not really the case in 2009. Perhaps it’s the [...]
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