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2025-2026 Ohio State Men's Basketball

buckeyemania11
DZ83CK said:
The fanbase is so toxic. Fans are so spoiled by football success they think OSU succeeding in hoops is easy, and the easy answer is fire the coach when the team struggles. We've fired the coach twice in the last 10 years. Our basketball program is kind of like Auburn football, and the fans want the coach fired every year because they're not on top. But unlike Auburn football, our hoops program isn't the flagship of the athletic department & will always take a backseat and get less than top-tier funding as a result.

I think fans should have some patience, because NIL is a constantly evolving new world and coaches like Diebler who didn't have well-funded pay infrastructure built up before them have to figure it out. Of course there's trial and error involved when you're navigating an unfamiliar system. There's a reason why Jon Scheyer was born on 3rd base in coaching, and it wasn't just the job he inherited, it was the big money connections. Recruiting is the lifeblood of any program, and getting top prospects is what it takes for a program to be elite.

Looking forward to next year, it seems to me they will target the transfer portal to add a top-notch PG. Since Johnson flaked out and left them right before signing day, this will be their best fall-back option. Diebler had a plan to succeed Bruce, it just fell through late, and the timing makes it unlikely to add the ideal candidate through the high school ranks. I know you want to see someone lined up there to help fill those big shoes, but you'd rather they take their time and get the best guy they can find than just add anyone they can find.
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I don't think expecting more than mediocrity is "expecting them to be on top". If we miss the tourney again and Bjork once again comes out and says that Diebler is meeting expectations we are definitely cooked on having a competent basketball program anytime soon.
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2025-2026 Ohio State Men's Basketball

buckeyemania11
calibuck said:
Have read within these posts that Diebs is not 'the guy' for us. OK, please expound. Is it the X's and O's, or the Joes? Seems like there are several Mr. Baketball(ers) on the team, and he recruited Amare, no? And now the 5* forward for next year, and yes, I know he lost the 5* guard to S. Carolina, but the recruits are buying what he's selling. So, it's the X's and O's, right? Help me understand. Probably going out on a ledge, but if tOSU performs up to where they are playing, tOSU will make the dance, on Thornton's swan song year. If that happens, believe that more (and better) recruits will step up and stay home? Wouldn't be surprised that the NIL bank will open up a bit more then, and (see prior sentence) will happen. Sounds like more of a chicken and egg thingy. Go Bucks! PS, can I assume that the playoff monies get put in a pot (like football), and split up ala football?
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It's a combination of Xs and Os and it doesn't seem like he's a guy who's a great motivator and gets the most out of his players. We constantly get beat on hustle plays and there's way too many sequences where the team seems to play with a lack of intensity. This has been a issue dating back to Holtmanns disaster of a final couple of seasons.

Like Ive been saying nobody is winning a national title with this roster but the roster isn't as bad as some want to make it out to be. This at least should be a tourney team. We definitely shouldn't be losing to teams like Pitt who already are bad enough but also shorthanded in the game we lost to them in.
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2025 scUM Shenanigans, Arguments, Arrogant Twatwaffles, Emasculated Cucks, Feckless Marmots, Dirty Cheaters "Mid"chigan

Jaxbuck
Oh8ch said:
Well, that didn't take long.

The investigative lawfirm is on the job and has already cleared Moore of all charges related to any form of aggression towards the mistress.

Turns out he had gone to her home soley for the purpose of singing Christmas Carols. During "We wish you a Merry Christmas" he got stuck on the line - "I won't go until I get some", which she completely misunderstood.

The need for a butter knife was to cut the "figgy pudding", which may or may not have been a emphemism.
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Cleveland Browns (Factory of Sadness)

RuGettinIt
The organization is an epic cluster fuck. Until they get ownership that is actually committed to building a winning team, nothing will change.

The NFL should have some sort of rules around ownership of teams who are perennial losers. You can’t get a new stadium and hence a SB or you have to sell after ‘x’ years of ineptitude.
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2025 scUM Shenanigans, Arguments, Arrogant Twatwaffles, Emasculated Cucks, Feckless Marmots, Dirty Cheaters "Mid"chigan

buckeyemania11
scarletngray said:
BTW, does anyone know if there is any traction on why our comms went out during the beat down of the cheaters?
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I'm sure a internal investigation by scUM has uncovered it was definitely just a coincidental "accident"
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Kerry Coombs (ttun ST coach, traitor)

RuGettinIt
Jagdaddy said:
Does Kerry really belong here? He’s a Cincy guy who coached at OSU for a time but never attended or played for OSU and I don’t know that taking an assistant job for scUM should be enough to do more than make him casually and ignored dead to us. Putting him here with true slime like Schlichter, Barton, and Strassini seems like overkill. I think Herbstreit’s the only non-criminal here, and he’s a special kind of asshole for a host of unique reasons. Besides, if Coombs didn’t get here for thinking Tuf Borland could cover Devonta Smith one on one …
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It's a story about desperation
Every now and then we do get desperate
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$4.49 a gallon, what do you have??

For some reason, Colorado, which usually has above average gas prices has been low over the last few weeks. I actually saw $1.99 at one station. Unfortunately, I have a car that needs premium (bought before the regular-premium spread blew up) so I think my last tank was $2.89 minus 5% cash back at Costco, which is where I almost always buy it.
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Cleveland Browns (Factory of Sadness)

NFBuck
Watching the Clowns-Bears game. Clowns fans? Why do you continue to do this to yourselves? This outfit has shit on you for 26 years.

They deserve no loyalty, and besides, this isn't even the real Browns. They died in 1995. This calamity should have no connection to Paul Brown, Otto Graham, Jim Brown, Marion Motley, Bernie, etc...
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Kerry Coombs (ttun ST coach, traitor)

Does Kerry really belong here? He’s a Cincy guy who coached at OSU for a time but never attended or played for OSU and I don’t know that taking an assistant job for scUM should be enough to do more than make him casually and ignored dead to us. Putting him here with true slime like Schlichter, Barton, and Strassini seems like overkill. I think Herbstreit’s the only non-criminal here, and he’s a special kind of asshole for a host of unique reasons. Besides, if Coombs didn’t get here for thinking Tuf Borland could cover Devonta Smith one on one …
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QB1 Julian Sayin (All B1G, B1G Frosh of Year, All American, National Champion)

osuvictory1
Buckeneye said:
Played Texas and didn't exactly set the world on fire.
Managed a quality game against scUM.
Had multiple questionable moments against the best defense he faced all year.





RSFrosh.

Johnny Manziel and Famous Jameis would like a word with you.

Also, we should be both level headed and encouraged by 4th place voting.

Sayin 2025 RSFrosh season.

13 279 356 78.4 3323 31 8.7 6 1.7 9.3 10.32 11.9 255.6 182.1

Sam Bradford, 2007 RSFrosh season

14 237 341 69.5 3121 36 10.6 8 2.3 9.2 10.21 13.2 222.9 176.5



Sam didn't receive a single Heisman vote. Let's be real with ourselves here, the field wasn't the strongest. You had some good players that had very efficient seasons on good to great teams.

Mendoza winning is VERY Troy Smith-esque. edit: And by that I mean he won the last game of his season, which also happened to be the biggest game of the year #1 v #2.
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Nah you were supposed to say "Sayin got robbed"!!!!!
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2025 scUM Shenanigans, Arguments, Arrogant Twatwaffles, Emasculated Cucks, Feckless Marmots, Dirty Cheaters "Mid"chigan

sammyjenkis
Zurp said:
1. They don't really have worse scandals than other teams.
2. They're just worse at hiding them and their PR department is better at smoothing them over.
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While OSU has their football team operating at its peak power level, the school up north's PR department is is strongest performer. They have state-level psy-ops capability with their alumni media and wealth. I believe 100% that the COI members were paid off early and often. Their "insiders" knew the outcome of the investigation and punishments at the beginning of the sign gate inquiry - because the decision makers were bought off. You could almost hear the language in the final report tiptoeing around the piles of cash received by the committee members. And their supporters in professional media were well coordinated in their public influence operation. Along with strong social media influence operations.

BB73 said:
The fact that the firm they are hiring is the same one that investigated Sherrone a couple of months ago, and found nothing, doesn’t give me confidence that they’ll expose all the improprieties up there.
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ORD_Buckeye said:
Just took a look at the firm's website. Two co managing partners. Both went to school at tsun. Yeah, this investigation is going to be absolutely legit.
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The law firm is obviously hired to look for exposure to the school and to provide a legal justification to fire Warde or at least build a legal case to force him to leave without a full payout.


DaveyBoy said:
All these outlandish stories of scandal and corruption are deliberately being planted so as to make Moore look as bad possible and to make whomever replaces him as the new sheriff in town.
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The Moore crash out is the best possible scenario for the school and they are well positioned to take full advantage. The NFL insider for ESPN (who has a dish named after him on the same school restaurant menu as Moore and the girl) took the lead in giving the position for the "Leader in Sports" network that this was an unforeseeable result of one individual with a mental illness.

Everyone involved will be paid off under cover of their legal and media machines.
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QB1 Julian Sayin (All B1G, B1G Frosh of Year, All American, National Champion)

Buckeneye
Back to Julian. This is what I need the coaching staff and him to work on. Too many coaches complain about Young QB's being wildly unversed in putting eyes to safety play at the next level. Which is exactly why this INT happened. If Julian can get to a point of correctly getting his eyes top-down, digesting shells then starting his progressions in a non-linear way, he's going to be incredible. This should have been read out to in, as it's a concept similar to 'hank' from a bunch set.

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I believe this coaching staff and Julian can mutually get him to this level. But it isn't easy and it's going to take a lot of growth over the course of the off-season. I'm looking forward to hopefully seeing some of that growth play out over the course of playoff practice and prep.
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QB1 Julian Sayin (All B1G, B1G Frosh of Year, All American, National Champion)

Buckeneye
osuvictory1 said:
How does he finish 4th? Wtf!
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Played Texas and didn't exactly set the world on fire.
Managed a quality game against scUM.
Had multiple questionable moments against the best defense he faced all year.



ScarletInMyVeins said:
A freshman will never win that award.
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RSFrosh.

Johnny Manziel and Famous Jameis would like a word with you.

Also, we should be both level headed and encouraged by 4th place voting.

Sayin 2025 RSFrosh season.

13 279 356 78.4 3323 31 8.7 6 1.7 9.3 10.32 11.9 255.6 182.1

Sam Bradford, 2007 RSFrosh season

14 237 341 69.5 3121 36 10.6 8 2.3 9.2 10.21 13.2 222.9 176.5



Sam didn't receive a single Heisman vote. Let's be real with ourselves here, the field wasn't the strongest. You had some good players that had very efficient seasons on good to great teams.

Mendoza winning is VERY Troy Smith-esque. edit: And by that I mean he won the last game of his season, which also happened to be the biggest game of the year #1 v #2.
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