Former Ohio State coach John Cooper lost 10 games in his 13-year career at OSU against Michigan. He was fired.
Four Lantern sports staffers lost 11 games over the weekend alone. They will not be fired.
In a sad showing in the lone exhibition week of picks this year The Lantern football staff picked nine winners and 11 losers for college games on Saturday, in Friday’s Lantern.
The only staffer with a winning record was Travis Sawchik, who went 4-1.
“Big time predictors step up with big time picks,” Sawchik said. “I hope there will be some competition this season.”
Lantern sports editor Dave O’Neil, though, put everything in prospective.
“Like Rocky’s one manager said about the Apollo Creed/Ivan Drago match in “Rocky IV” I knew it was ‘only supposed to be an exhibition,’ O’Neil said. “When the regular season starts this week, everyone will see that I’m the greatest.”
On Saturday though, O’Neil was not the greatest. In fact he came in last place with a 1-4 record. Justin Powell and Lucas Sullivan each went 2-3.
“I’m gonna need some extra practice this week, maybe picking some high school games, even a middle school game or two,” Powell said. “Next week I’ll come out and hopefully the hard work will pay off.”
This season’s picks are not reserved solely for Lantern staffers. In each Wednesday’s Lantern sports section, 11 colleges games will be listed. Any OSU student can e-mail his or her predicted winners to [email protected] by Friday at 5 p.m. The student with the most winners will be included in the next Friday’s Lantern, along with their picture and picks.
If the weekly winner beats all four Lantern staffers with his or her picks on the following Friday, that winner will receive a $20 gift certificate to a Columbus-area restaurant of their choice.
This week’s first guest picker can be a member of the Delta Gamma sorority. With concern over a recent column by O’Neil, O’Neil said he thought it was best to give one of those girls a chance to prove themselves.
If the sorority accepts the challenge, they can e-mail a name to O’Neil by tomorrow night.
– Dave O’Neil
