Good-bye Puff. We hardly knew ye.

Read a report (fake news?) that negotiations between Bjork and Diebs were going on, with the outcome determining whether new coach or not. My mind immediately said, 'not about salary', but about NIL money for the team. (Maybe more for assistants?) I guess in today's college world, it's apparent that one must 'put one's money where one's mouth is'. You cannot just mouth the words, 'we want our basketball team to equal our football team', or somesuch, gotta put some dollars behind it. Something we all see and know. tOSU funds, what, 36 collegiate sports, and only 3-4 are revenue generators, yet we take pride in the diversity. Kinda an obvious question, but wouldn't one want to stimulate those three-four revenue generators to make even more money? Anyway, some mental masturbation for a Monday morning.

Anyone remember Burson (he with the head halo) get drafted by a pro team, and showing up there for practice, and being told was a joke ha ha. Am I remembering a dream, or did that happen? Thought it was a Texas team, but brain is fuzzy.

Seem to recollect, every high school kid that got 'recognized' was a big scorer. Hardly ever (?) does a kid make 'Mr. Ohio Basketball' as a defender or assist maker. Gotta be a scorer. Recognize that at the collegiate level, players have 'roles', scorers score, tall people rebound and swat shots, etc. Anyone else watching the NCAA's and seeing the ball get passed around the court, and players take turns popping 3's? Maybe our guys don't move enough to 'get open' to be able to pop? Cupp was a Mr. Basketball, no? He is an excellent defender, and can dribble rings around you. He sometimes hits the three. Coincidence, dunno. At this level, everyone can shoot the ball. Else they play intra-mural basketball - like me.

Sea a 3

Thump said:

Ditto.

Favorite Buckeye of all-time for me.

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just the consummate teammate and competitor

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Need to see these guys again and soon!

According to the trends........Arizona, Duke, or Michigan is going to win it all.

Since 2002, a team that finished in top 3 of KenPom has won it all except for 3 occasions.

2003 - Syracuse who had the best player in the country at the time, Carmelo Anthony
2011 - UConn who had the best/hottest player in the country at the time, Kemba Walker.
2014 - UConn......still have no clue how they won it that year. That was a weird year.

BuckeyeNation27 said:

Arkansas? Texas?

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I know sometimes we try to put God in a small box, but I feel like he can arrange a disqualification situation.

Thump said:

Wow!

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Right? I’ve done this on water and it’s a blast. To be clear, I was happy to just stay up on the water, I was not getting 30 feet of air like these guys. But, I have the kites and snowboard… I’ve just not had the space to do it on the snow yet. One day... Candidly, I’m more into the idea of kite-buggies than snowkiting. I’m not much for cold weather sports.

Here’s a really good (read: it’s real, not overproduced influencer crap) video of a kit buggy. It looks so much fun, but I don’t know where I’d ever find a beach / field or whatever like that.

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This just makes me want to go get out my kites.

This is another fun video. This guy pretty much flys down the ski hill on a Flysurfer Peak 5 6-meter kite. FWIW: This is my primary kite model. I have it in a 2.5, 4 and 8 meter for different wind conditions for when I want to fly with a bar but I have a couple of small / medium Peter Lynn kites that are 4-line handles for stunting.

Login to view embedded media <— Dude flys his kite down the ski mountain.

Bestbuck36 said:

His injury absolutely crushed me.

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Ditto.

Favorite Buckeye of all-time for me.

Kid is bigger than I thought! Smith 2.0 with higher top end speed? Lmao

buckeyebri said:

Jay Burson

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His injury absolutely crushed me.

Onebuckfan said:

Joe Roberts?

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yeah that guy

Jay Burson

BuckeyeNation27 said:

Arkansas? Texas?

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He could have sent another flood, but Nooooo

Wild that this is Iowa's first Sweet 16 since 1999!

buckeyemania11 said:

Coaching makes a big difference. Iowa and Corn aren't unloading the bank on hoops NIL either. We at least have equal talent to them

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McCollum and Hoiberg have done an outstanding job this season. That being said, Jake Diebler managed to lead a team to the NCAA tournament even though it was one of the very worst in college basketball in terms of scoring off the bench & lacked strength in the post.

Went to go find a stupid picture of Fran McCaffery to highlight his incompetence.

I found this gem on his talent agency's website of all places. Lmao

DZ83CK said:

It just sunk in that either Iowa or Nebraska will have an Elite 8 this season.

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Coaching makes a big difference. Iowa and Corn aren't unloading the bank on hoops NIL either. We at least have equal talent to them