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Mark Titus Blasts Ohio State Basketball Fans Following the Buckeyes’ Loss to TCU: “We Have the Worst Fans in the World”​

Mark Titus thinks Ohio State has the worst fans in college basketball.

In the latest episode of Mostly Hoops, the former Ohio State walk-on and current Barstool Sports personality ripped Buckeye Nation for its reaction to the team’s 66-64 loss to TCU.

“We have the worst fans in the world, Ohio State. Ohio State basketball fans are the worst fans in the world,” Titus said. “They’re the worst. They’re literally the worst. They watch football all year; they don’t even pay attention to the basketball program. They parachute in around late January, early February. They look up the rankings, and if we’re not ranked in the top 10, they’re just like, ‘Everything sucks, fire everybody. This is terrible.’ They have no idea what they’re talking about.

They don’t even know the names of the goddamn players. And they bitch like they want us to be a top 10 program, which I do too, but like, the reason the top 10 programs are the top 10 programs is because they carry themselves like top 10 programs, 365 days a year. Fans are invested in the program and people are coming to the games, and the people are studying the recruits and, like, fucking — they pour their passion into this. They don’t just pop in and say, ‘Oh, we’re in the tournament? OK, I’ll watch that. I’ll sit down and watch this game.’ And then we lose the game. And you’re like, ‘Fire the coach.’ It’s absurd.”

Titus took particular issue with fans criticizing Jake Diebler’s coaching in Ohio State’s first NCAA Tournament appearance since 2022, pointing to the Buckeyes’ final possession as an example of overblown reactions. Still, Titus made it clear his rant wasn’t meant to fully absolve Diebler, whom he said deserves some — but not all — of the blame.

“This happens all the time and our dumbass fucking fans just come in and they’re just like, ‘I don’t know who that guy — who’s No. 1 for our team? I kind of like this guy. We should give the ball to No. 1.’ Where have you been all season? What is this? I can’t stand it, dude, it drives me crazy,” Titus said. “I’m actually getting pissed off about it, and that’s not even a rant to defend Jake. It’s a rant to — if you care about the program, care about the program tomorrow. Now the season’s over, right? Guess what North Carolina is gonna do (after losing to VCU). Tomorrow, North Carolina is all hands on deck. Figure this shit out. They’re like, we have to figure this out.

“Ohio State fans are gonna be like, ‘What’s football recruiting look like? Who we got coming up — anybody look at the football schedule?’ They just move on to the next thing, and then they wait for basketball season to roll back around and then demand that we’re one of the best programs in the country. It doesn’t work that way.”

Titus closed by calling on both fans and the athletic department to invest in the program year-round.

“You have to invest. You have to invest money,” Titus said. “We don’t have any fucking money in the basketball program. We don’t have any fan support in the basketball program. It’s absurd, but you still have the expectation we should be Duke or Kansas or whatever. It pisses me off.”

Yeah, I think Stiles has had trouble with the cut all year too. Your Feldman news is in line with what I had heard. Sucks.

Rhymes with "hero."

Jagdaddy said:

I’d say that we’ll have to step up quite a bit to keep Mobley and Bynum away from pretty big money elsewhere. Royal, not so much.

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That's funny, of the three I get the sense most fans feel Royal will be hardest to retain. Thompson is coming and he best fits at SF, which is where Royal wants to play.

otisu said:

Tilly was the big miss considering he was recruited for a position that had no competition. He would have been fine had he rotated with another experienced center of his caliber or better or a freshman 4/5* . Noll, had he been healthy, would have been a nice rotation piece that added needed depth.

My question is, how does a coach go about bringing in depth from the transfer portal? You want guys that will push the starters but what’s the sales pitch to a transfer if not a chance to start?

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Not hard if you pay a lot. If you don’t pay, you don't get helpful bench players. For OSU it's almost as if they have to have their bench being high school recruits they're trying to develop. The portal should be used for adding starters & emergency depth.

buckeyebri said:

What’s the odds that guys we are banking on for next year Mobley, Royal, Bynum get money to go elsewhere?

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I’d say that we’ll have to step up quite a bit to keep Mobley and Bynum away from pretty big money elsewhere. Royal, not so much.

otisu said:

Tilly was the big miss considering he was recruited for a position that had no competition. He would have been fine had he rotated with another experienced center of his caliber or better or a freshman 4/5* . Noll, had he been healthy, would have been a nice rotation piece that added needed depth.

My question is, how does a coach go about bringing in depth from the transfer portal? You want guys that will push the starters but what’s the sales pitch to a transfer if not a chance to start?

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Tilly somehow has weaker worse hands than Amir Williams did and that's saying a lot. Takes little to no effort to dislodge the ball from him

Count me as one of those 'guys on a ledge' when a recruit visits elsewhere, especially one that hasn't (?) had a visit to the Oval etc. Cannot imagine that the recruiting staff isn't worried as well.....anyway, would rather have a kid go away now, rather than later. And y'all know that everyone will be putting out the red carpet anytime a 5* comes to visit. Might be hard for an 18 year old to see though the glitz. But the kids these days are waaay more savvy than the kids of yesteryear.

Thought the 5* we're getting was a swing 3/4? Got the size, but maybe not the muscle.

Well, lingerie wears out over time, but the name on a building (paid for with your bucks) lasts forever. Guess it's a legacy thing. And would imagine that tOSU would want Wex's name off the buildings....

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The Buckeyes will face No. 5 seed Northeastern in the national semifinals Friday at 4 p.m. (ESPN+) in University Park, Pennsylvania. A win would send them to the championship game against either No. 3 Penn State or No. 2 Wisconsin on Sunday (4 p.m., ESPNU). Ohio State and Wisconsin have met in each of the last three national title games, with the Badgers holding a 2-1 edge.

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THANK YOU, BRUCE. Bruce Thornton’s record-breaking college basketball career is over. And what a career it was — big, messy, gigantic, spectacular. What a thing he made of it all.

“Bruce is everything that’s right about college basketball,” Jake Diebler said Wednesday, before Ohio State’s 66-64 loss to TCU. “A young man who come to school, stayed during a coaching change, trusted a first-time head coach, and got a degree. Became part of a network that will take care of him for the rest of his life.

“And then he continued to get better each and every single year. I think development is a word that gets lost right now in our sport because you’re seeing the window for development be so small in many, many instances. He’s gotten better each and every year. It’s a testament to his hard work. But I think Bruce is everything right about college basketball. And he is a huge reason why we’re here. There’s no question about it.

“When you’re a first-time head coach, you’re looking around to say, ‘OK, who can help me establish the culture and the standard of this program?’ And he was the guy I turned to first. So our relationship will last long, long, long after his time at Ohio State. But he’s been a special player and an even better young man.”

During the Ohio State vs. TCU broadcast, CBS’ Tracy Wolson said Thornton is one of only 22 high-major college basketball players who have stayed at the same school for four years.

One of 22.

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Thornton said after Ohio State’s Senior Day win over Indiana that he wouldn’t have it any other way.

“I’m so proud of myself, at a high level, just being true to who I am,” he shared. “I could have been like everybody else, I could have left. I could have did a lot of different things. But me just staying true to my values and making things how I wanted them to be — you only get one life, you only get one decision playing in college, and I’m glad I’m a Buckeye for life.”

After Ohio State’s heartbreaking defeat, both Diebler and Thornton shared similar emotions.

“I love him,” Diebler said of Thornton after the game, per 10TV’s Adam King. “He’ll always be a part of our family…”

Diebler began to hold back tears.

“I think it’s not just him. It’s all those guys. Those guys bought into what we wanted to do, and we took an important step for our program. He was a huge — he was the reason for that.”

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Thornton also became emotional reflecting on his Ohio State career.

“It didn’t go our way, and that’s alright. Life sometimes stuff don’t go your way,” Thornton said. “But I’m just appreciating the teammates, the coaching staff and Buckeye Nation for sticking with me for four years. I’m so appreciative for everything that happened in my life, man. It’s not the way I wanted to end it, but that’s just how it is sometimes.”

Later, he added: “It hits the heart at home. I feel like I did a lot for this program. The program did a lot for me. The memories, the relationships done a lot for me. Mostly me crying because you don’t get to share the locker room (anymore) with the guys you’ve been working with since June. I just told those guys I’m one call away. ‘You need anything from me, just call me and I’ll be here.’ I’m always a Buckeye for life.”

Yes, you are, Bruce.

One of the all-time greats.

Thank you for everything.

Injuries combined with big weight cuts combined with no offense...

Just read elsewhere that Feldman could be defaulting out...

buckeyemania11 said:

With a 6-3 win over the rangers the CBJ move into 3rd place in the metro (games in hand tiebreaker over the Islanders) and currently hold a playoff spot

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Thump probably has them in third "turd" place......