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2025-2026 Ohio State Men's Basketball

buckeyemania11
otisu said:
We need to let this season play out. The off-season will tell us a lot about where things stand with Diebler. Who he loses and who he brings in will be a strong indicator of where he stands with his players and what kind of resources he is being given to work with for next year.

Maybe it's because I've lowered my expectations from the Holtmann years, but some positives I see from Diebler:
- We don't see the total 2nd half collapses that we used to see under Holtmann.
- We see set plays coming out of breaks that are actually converted.
- This team handles the press better than what we've seen in the past.
- Good free shooting
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I know they aren't firing him now. And yea this season is going to play out.

My main argument is that he shoulda never gotten the job in the first place. Where is Diebler now if we didn't just hand him the job? He's not the head coach at another high major program, that's for sure. Maybe some low major program throws him a flier to be their coach at best or he's back at being an assistant at some other program. It just seems inexplicable that a place like Ohio State essentially made a low major type of move. The last 2 coaching situations here have been grossly flopped.

I guess we see things very differently. I don't think Diebler has grown much as an actual coach from year 1 to 2, I think we still see a lot of the same problems we had under Holtman. We are essentially in a "learn on the job" type situation hoping he maybe totally figures it out and turns the ship around in a couple of years, and if it doesn't the program is in worse shape than it was when he was hired.
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2026 Winter Olympics (Milan - Cortina, Feb 6-20)

I’m a bit of an Olympic ski jumping fan and just went through 1.5 hours of Peacock to get my smaller hill fix. Good, tight competition and a clutch final jump by the winner. By the way, the “normal” hill seems misnamed. Ain’t nothing normal about doing that shit.
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2025-2026 Ohio State Men's Basketball

otisu
buckeyemania11 said:
You have to take into context that this isn't 25+ years ago where it was a normal thing for coaches to be given 4-5 or even more years. If you give a flailing guy too many years now you are just really hurting your program and setting it back further with each year.

Honestly has Diebler shown ANYTHING as an ACTUAL BASKETBALL COACH to give any real confidence and enthusiasm that he is going to be able to actually put things together and turn the ship around? I see a guy who is clearly in over his head. There's been no noticeable progression with him as a coach between year 1 and year 2.
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We need to let this season play out. The off-season will tell us a lot about where things stand with Diebler. Who he loses and who he brings in will be a strong indicator of where he stands with his players and what kind of resources he is being given to work with for next year.

Maybe it's because I've lowered my expectations from the Holtmann years, but some positives I see from Diebler:
- We don't see the total 2nd half collapses that we used to see under Holtmann.
- We see set plays coming out of breaks that are actually converted.
- This team handles the press better than what we've seen in the past.
- Good free shooting
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2026 Winter Olympics (Milan - Cortina, Feb 6-20)

ORD_Buckeye
calibuck said:
We've been Olympic junkies for years now. But you're correct, seem to lose interest unless there's an American competing. Ice skating certainly. Even though ill-advised, applaud Vonn for giving it the old college try. One trains for years to get to that level, and when the time gets here, a competitor will do any and everything to get to the medal ceremony. Wife was quite a good GS skier. So we watch that, whomever goes downhill. Personally, I prefer biathalon, as was actually a useful event (Finns, Swedes, and Swiss had their armies ski and then shoot for real). But my favorite event is the zamboni. We don't get enough camera time, when that machine sweeps the ice to make it easier for the skaters to compete. Watching those downhillers speed down that mountain, reminds me of the 85 year old guy driving on a busy street. Just keep driving until you hit something. Going 80 mph down a mountain without a bunch of steel wrapped around you? Please. PS, hope Vonn was OK. Had seen rescue sleds certainly, but a helicopter was insane.
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I've long been an advocate of combining the biathalon and ice dancing into one event.
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2026 scUM Shenanigans, Arguments, Arrogant Twatwaffles, Emasculated Cucks, Feckless Marmots, Dirty Cheaters "Mid"chigan

Jaxbuck said:
I mean this mongoloid ran out into traffic with a coat over his head as a kid, was hit by a fucking mail truck...and lived. I'm not making it up. (I couldn't think of that on my own if you gave me the rest of my life to try).

We are not talking about a person even remotely close to normal here.

Hell, you'd probably throw his silly ass out of the helicopter, he'd land on some poor innocent bastard, kill that guy and walk away without a scratch mumbling something about his baseball and milk.
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FWIW, for fans of the intro to Laverne and Shirley, and in the interest of offering an unsolicited Yiddish lesson, that poor innocent bastard would be a schlimazel.
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SG Malaki Branham (B1G Freshman of the Year, NBDL)

buckeyeintn
He didn't play in college for 8 years so he should have eligibility remaining. Guys who have played professionally are coming back to college. I think tOSU should put together a massive NIL package for him. (Unfortunately in today's wild west world that isn't as wild as it should sound.)
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