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Look Who's Transferring Now (The Basketball Portal)

I think you will see a two-tiered approach to the portal for OSU. They need 4 guys to be major contributors, that's the playing tier, and they should have money to invest for those 4. But they could have 6-7 transfers they add because they have lost so many depth pieces, so they'll probably need 3 more for the bench tier. So in other words, let them add 3 guys who arent very accomplished for the depth tier. If they add 6-7 players that haven't scored around 10 ppg, then I would be worried. They should get at least two double figure scorers.

I'm not sure how true it is but people were claiming that Cupps and White were getting way more NIL money than they had any business getting. If true replacing those guys with essentially free depth pieces (Brown falls into this category) is completely fine and then you focus that money on bigger fish.
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Look Who's Transferring Now (The Basketball Portal)

Ohio State, even back to Holtmann, treats transfers like it’s 15-20 years ago. Just looking for backups and eventual grad assistants to fill out the bench.

Diebler is clearly a good relationship/recruiting guy and I’d say an average coach. But this is where the entire program and Athletic Department have to make a shift in mindset and resources.

I don’t have much hope.
I think you will see a two-tiered approach to the portal for OSU. They need 4 guys to be major contributors, that's the playing tier, and they should have money to invest for those 4. But they could have 6-7 transfers they add because they have lost so many depth pieces, so they'll probably need 3 more for the bench tier. So in other words, let them add 3 guys who arent very accomplished for the depth tier. If they add 6-7 players that haven't scored around 10 ppg, then I would be worried. They should get at least two double figure scorers.
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When Ohio State made it to the Final Four

The 1999 team is also notable for the fact that they turned around completely from being a single-digit winning team to a single-digit losing team that made the Final Four. I'm not sure that ever happened at another power conference team before. 8-22 in 1998, 27-9 in 1999. Miami FL this year had a huge turnaround (7-24 to 26-9) but it's not quite the same. With the transfer portal now, you can rebuild an entire team in one offseason, but no one did that in 1999.
Michael Redd staying home is one of the most underrated great things that’s happened in OSU sports history.
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