Oluwatimi's a Rimington finalist (surely this news has been posted but I can't find it)
I keep not posting this news, thinking that surely someone else already has but I don't see it.
He's one of 3 finalists, with Brett Neilon, USC, and Schmitz, Minnesota.
Olu's a finalist. https://www.rimingtontrophy.com/trophy/finalists/
December 5th, 2022 at 8:50 PM ^
Well deserved. Hope you win it big fella!
December 6th, 2022 at 10:04 AM ^
Unfortunately, the way the votes are calculated, having 2 candidates from the B1G works against him. Just like Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voigt in Midnight Cowboy split the Oscar votes so that John Wayne could win his first Oscar for a mediocre performance in True Grit. Yes, I'm old.
December 5th, 2022 at 8:51 PM ^
It was inevitable. He is inevitable.
December 5th, 2022 at 8:53 PM ^
He's the best center in the country and it's not close!
December 5th, 2022 at 8:57 PM ^
Ntttfo3pttofghoost
December 5th, 2022 at 8:58 PM ^
Obviously.
December 5th, 2022 at 9:08 PM ^
That's what she said.
December 5th, 2022 at 9:10 PM ^
+1, informative
December 5th, 2022 at 10:05 PM ^
I disagree. While the Confederate government could easily be construed as authoritarian due to their rigid and forceful enforcement of a social hierarchy, we don't have enough evidence to characterize it as classically authoritarian with a centralized power structure.
December 5th, 2022 at 11:21 PM ^
Ya got me. I was hoping nobody noticed that I neglected that point.
December 6th, 2022 at 12:30 AM ^
Something something, $1.50 in late charges at the public library...
December 6th, 2022 at 10:14 AM ^
LOL. Two years ago I found a book in a box in my basement -- Das Kapital by Karl Marx, which I had apparently checked out of the New York Public Library when I was in high school. It was due back May 23, 1968 (says so on the stamp on the card pasted inside the back cover). I kid you not. Yes, I'm old, and I still have it. Tried to calculate the late fees for 54 years but gave up. I should probably just drop it in the return box when I'm in NYC. Unlikely they will come after me.
December 6th, 2022 at 10:33 AM ^
Unlikely, but not impossible!
December 6th, 2022 at 1:12 AM ^
I’m legit curious about internal CSA politics. Besides slavery and the war did they have big debates?
December 6th, 2022 at 10:47 AM ^
Yes! The Confederacy had MASSIVE philosophical problems.
The SUPPOSED political ideals of the Confederate States - southern nationalism, individualism, "states' rights", sanctity of property (yep, even THAT 'property'), etc. - were heavily challenged by 1) the normal problems that all new nation-states have when setting up a brand new government, and 2) the practical problems that a war posed. And it's impossible to separate those two issues.
For instance, for all the talk about the south being an actual 'confederacy', the push towards a centralized government began almost immediately. How do you raise enough capital to fund the rebellion? Well, you need a tax levy that southern states can't back out of. The South heavily relied on imports of manufactured goods, so you need a centralized trade agreement.
Then, how do you raise an army to actually fight the rebellion? For all the talk about a Southern soldier being some kind of gentleman warrior-monk...a great many people did everything they could to avoid the war. So, after much debate, the Confederate government passed draft and conscription laws (fun fact: the Conscription Act was the first universal draft in American history!)...but left so many loopholes that basically only poor people couldn't avoid it (this is part of the Lost Cause fallacy, but we don't have to go into that here). Less fun fact: military leaders were allowed to 'confiscate' local enslaved labor for use by the army. Oh, and one of the things that the South couldn't stand about the North - the suspension of habeus corpus - also happened in Davis' government pretty quickly.
The funniest part of all this, of course, is an inherent conundrum: if you have a bunch of states who are willing to tell a central government "fuck you I'm out", and have already done it once...what's to stop them from doing it again? Georgia, IIRC, basically started ignoring troop levies from the centralized Confederate government. The very guy they installed - Jefferson Davis - to specifically NOT tread on their precious states' rights...was doing exactly that. It's not too farfetched to think that a southern state might have double-seceded if the war had gone on longer or if the South became its own nation (but I'm arguing a counterfactual there, and that's not good historianing).
And let's address the slavery issue: remember that the Southern philosophy of Black people was something along the lines of "we did them a FAVOR by enslaving them." Just the existence of a border with the Federal states, across which a slave could be free, put immense pressure on the Southern economy AND the Southern attitude towards slavery. Slave owners were SHOCKED that their slaves would run away and then take up arms against them. So the government had to make policies regarding how black soldiers and recaptured slaves would be treated.
So yeah, in its short and war-torn existence, the Confederacy dealt with some really interesting issues.
December 6th, 2022 at 10:50 AM ^
Huge, lengthy debates.
December 5th, 2022 at 9:01 PM ^
Someone posted the link, but it's buried in the Corum Heisman thread.
Olu deserves it. There's no question that Michigan's OL is better than either USC's or Minnesota's - and the center is the lynchpin. The OC is involved in all plays, regardless of which side a play goes to. Michigan's run game paved people all year behind his line calls, and JJ had time all year to throw the ball. And its all a direct result of Olu calling all of the block schemes and pointing out blitzers. USC and Minn had pressure up the middle on pass plays every time I saw them play. Did Olu ever allow inside pressure all year? I don't think so...
He missed out last year because Virginia. Give that man his trophy!
December 5th, 2022 at 9:25 PM ^
I'm the one who posted it in the Corum Heisman post. Again, I assumed it was already posted but was responding to a mistaken comment that Olu had been skipped. .
December 6th, 2022 at 7:32 AM ^
Did Olu ever allow inside pressure all year?
I think the only play he did was JJ's 69 yard TD to CJ against OSU, and even then it wasn't fully on him
December 6th, 2022 at 8:38 AM ^
That was an 8-man blitz coming from everywhere! I won't put that on any one OL'man, not ever his competition. But yeah, that's what you had to do to get someone past him!
December 6th, 2022 at 8:58 AM ^
If anyone, it was on Keegan. Olu had the nose, Keegan's DT stunted outside toward Hayes and the LB rushed the A gap while the DE dropped into coverage. Stokes had to take the safety (Hickman) shooting the other A gap, so the LB had a free run. It's a well-designed blitz, and the only way to stop it is to have Keegan quickly pass off the DT to Hayes and pick up the LB, but that's a tough ask. I assume he felt he had his man, and the RB would pick up the LB, but he didn't realize there was a safety blitzing on the other side too.
As it happened, they might as well not have had the DE drop off into coverage, because he just jogged toward Johnson until he broke the tackle.
December 5th, 2022 at 9:03 PM ^
I saw it on the tweeter but not here. Olu deserves the award
December 5th, 2022 at 9:04 PM ^
I'm voting yours Post Of The Day for informative title, proper link, and searching for prior content!
👏
December 5th, 2022 at 9:11 PM ^
The content itself is also nice.
December 6th, 2022 at 12:31 AM ^
It's like a warrrrm blanket
December 5th, 2022 at 9:27 PM ^
Well, thank you.
December 5th, 2022 at 9:10 PM ^
Good luck Olu!!!!!
You deserve to win the award 🏆
December 5th, 2022 at 9:14 PM ^
If he does not win this award it will be a crying shame.
December 5th, 2022 at 9:19 PM ^
If he doesn't win, it'd be an embarrassment to the award.
December 5th, 2022 at 9:20 PM ^
Should be THE finalist. One of the great gets of the transfer portal era.
December 5th, 2022 at 9:22 PM ^
PFF probably thinks he's the worst center in the country
December 6th, 2022 at 9:03 AM ^
Idk about pff, but the nfl draft talking heads on ESPN rate him as anywhere from the second to fifth best center. None have him at the top. IMO, and granted I’m not an “expert”, but for center I believe intelligence and processing line calls quickly and accurately are waaay more important than any physical measurement deficiencies.
December 5th, 2022 at 9:25 PM ^
Really hope he wins, he absolutely deserves it.
December 5th, 2022 at 9:33 PM ^
Is this like the Heisman, but for lineman and not quarterbacks?
December 5th, 2022 at 9:38 PM ^
Not even linemen. Just centers.
December 5th, 2022 at 9:44 PM ^
Let's hope the media members who voted for Schmitz as 1st team All-B1G over Olu don't get votes for the Rimington trophy winner otherwise Olu is going to get brutally snubbed.
December 5th, 2022 at 9:54 PM ^
Yeah, no shit. What a frickin crock of shit. Olu is an All American yet they don't even have him first team big ten.
Idiots 😵
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December 5th, 2022 at 10:00 PM ^
Another Blue Wall fail. I swear, the Blue Wall is really messing up. That MSU counterattack must be in full effect already.
December 6th, 2022 at 8:30 AM ^
I whole-heartedly agree! And yet, I haven't watched a single Minnesota game this year.
December 5th, 2022 at 9:47 PM ^
More like Rimington is a finalist for the Oluwatimi trophy.
December 5th, 2022 at 10:01 PM ^
Oluwatimi once missed a block just to see what it felt like.
December 5th, 2022 at 10:00 PM ^
Hot take: should be headed to the Downtown Athletic Club
December 5th, 2022 at 10:10 PM ^
A deserving candidate - worthy of consideration and easily one of the best portal pickups.
December 5th, 2022 at 10:37 PM ^
John Malkovich voice: Peaay theeyat meaan hees trophy
December 5th, 2022 at 10:38 PM ^
Borges said last week that Olu is the best center in college football today.
I totally agree. Really hope he gets the award.
December 5th, 2022 at 10:40 PM ^
Don’t call me Shirley.
December 5th, 2022 at 11:23 PM ^
Oh, good. I was hoping someone would pick up on that.
December 6th, 2022 at 12:22 AM ^
I think you're the greatest, but my dad says you don't work hard enough on defense.