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2025-2026 Ohio State Men's Basketball

Serious malaise has set in with me. I can't remember the last time I was invested past January. I'll let the off-season play out, but if there's not any signs of real improvement, can't say I'll even give a damn come November.

We've been a very ordinary program for a decade now. I just want something to be enthused about more than a couple of games into the B1G schedule. It feels like as long as the football program is a cash cow, basketball is an afterthought.

I was hardcore on blaming Diebler but in a cooler mind set it's not even his fault, the Athletic Department took the complete lazy route in just appointing the assistant of a failed former coach they just fired, they didn't even bother to even try to look for anyone else. Bjork's comments make it clear that he isn't going to do anything when it comes to the hoops program. 100% as long as they can just coast off the success of the football team, as long as the basketball team isnt completely awful (like 10 win near last in the conference awful) and the coaches aren't rocking the boat and bringing negative press or anything like that, they will just let it be and claim expectations are met.

Meanwhile other historic football schools are managing to kill it. It is 100% possible to be elite at both. We won't be though because they don't want to put the effort in.
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2025 scUM Shenanigans, Arguments, etc.

Sounds like they genuinely think they can argue that, since Stallions had friends and relatives filming for him and not him personally, that's all fine.

So if I have friends and relatives run drugs for me and they get caught, I'm good.

I'm no criminal mastermind but something sounds off with that defense.
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2025 scUM Shenanigans, Arguments, etc.

Sounds like they genuinely think they can argue that, since Stallions had friends and relatives filming for him and not him personally, that's all fine.
I have a hard time believing CS would go out on his own and advance scout all these programs knowing it would jeopardize the school he loves. I just have to believe he got the go-ahead from someone.
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2025-2026 Ohio State Men's Basketball

Meanwhile scUM lands a top PG transfer from UNC

Bama lands a top transfer as well

"but but we are a football school!"

Get the feeling we are going to end up with scraps in the end. This problem goes beyond Diebler, as mentioned a million times the Athletic Department has straight out proven they could care less about basketball (See Bjork claiming this season was one that met expectations) it's not a shock nobody of merit wants to come play here. Hard to blame a fan base for "not caring" when the Athletic Department wants to put no real effort into the program.
Serious malaise has set in with me. I can't remember the last time I was invested past January. I'll let the off-season play out, but if there's not any signs of real improvement, can't say I'll even give a damn come November.

We've been a very ordinary program for a decade now. I just want something to be enthused about more than a couple of games into the B1G schedule. It feels like as long as the football program is a cash cow, basketball is an afterthought.
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2025 Spring Practices, Spring Game, and other Tidbits

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