What did Semaj say?

Um, 18 is a beast. 

Well that is less than ideal.

well honestly it's hard to disagree

Damn I actually said the same thing.

Seriously though I let out a loud scream after Rod's interception and it put my 7 year old in tears and my dog ran under the kitchen table.  

That sounds like one of our captains got in this kid's face and made sure he knew that he should, in fact, give a fuck.

I agree with him 100%

And I'm glad that he said it, the team knows that OSU was behind the PI firm.

this is the stuff the sportsmanship rule is actually intended to address

I mean… where’s the lie. 

would've preferred him not to put that on IG live, but on the other hand, we could say “the sky is blue” and they’d be like “TTUN IS SUCH ARROGANT SCU❌ TO THINK THEIR COLOR IS ON THE SKY”

so fuck it.

So a freshman acted like a clown?     hopefully the coaches have a few words for him.

Reminds me of our Great Books 191 lectures...good stuff.

I recall Washington having had to very tactfully address something very similar to what Semaj said (suggested by Marquis de Lafayette and Comte de Rochambeau) after the Battle of Yorktown to be incorporated into the Treaty of Paris of 1783. 

This was of course after Lord Cornwallis accused the Americans and French of intent to deceive and the lesser-known war crimes of the stealing of signs, and the unsportsmanlike conduct of not having the good decency to march in a straight line with red overcoats for ease of targeting (which was not yet a crime.)

After Cornwallis couldn't surrender his (reportedly small) sword personally to Washington because he had a "cold", he returned to England with Benedict Arnold (great grandfather of a lesser known Gregory Mattison), and none too happy Lafayette and Rochambeau reportedly provided a near verbatim "Semaj" interview to the local press covering the war.

Not surprisingly, the London Times covered the events somewhat differently, highlighting the unseemly weather, ghastly tactics of the Americans in wasting tea and not liking taxes, and really hammered their reckless endangerment of English troops by stealing the signs for the tried and true signals for firing the cannons and charging, which were then known as "FIRE!" and "CHARGE!" They learned too late that covering their mouths and issuing those orders quietly to protect their battle cries greatly hampered their battlefield prowess and notoriously couldn't get any push along the lines.

Generally accepted discourse in London became, "We didn't want that sh*thole anyway, and we never got a friendly whistle over there," and they went back to kicking the shit out of myriad island nations, tormenting the actual Indians for quite some time, etc.

Interestingly, if you ever visit Cornwallis's Tomb in Ghazipur, India, if you kneel down to the base of the northernmost column, under just the right light, it's clear someone has carved, with seemingly French panache, "Washington's B*tch."

At least that's how I remember it from Great Books 191.

I mean, it's stupid.

But if I was to judge this guy for being stupid at 18 then I'd have to flagellate every strip of skin off my back for still being stupid at twenty-eight.

He has a lot to live up to. Go Semaj!

Exactly, it not like he said they, “...better hope for a mercy rule this year because we are going to hang 100 on them.”

Or was like, a grown-ass man (as opposed to a teenager) when he said it...

That's not the first rule of trash talking

First and only rule of trash talking is if you say it you better back it up. Now back it up Semaj!

I thought the first rules of trash talking were

1. Do your research

2. Be as close a trash talking clone of Charles Woodson that you can possibly be, and do your talking post-game

LOL whut?

Smacks of something racial but hoping you didn't go there.