TampaBuckeyes said:

In today’s NIL world there is no reason that Vandy can’t win the sec. They’ve got some wealthy graduates and they are the only major university in a town full of millionaire country artists. The ven diagram of people that watch football and listen to country music is almost a circle.

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That is all true to a certain extent. Having a major athletic program in a major city with so much tourism can be good, but also gives so many people other things to take their attention away from the program. And many of those people are bandwagon fans, and the minute Vandy becomes average, those fans will be non existent.
And many of those millionaire alum are also bandwagon, because the team was bad for so long. They will also leave if the program doesn't continue the same level of success. And will those same alum be willing to donate yearly like some alum at more football hungry programs? For example, Auburn hasn't been very good for a while, but it just makes their alum want to donate more to get more talent, similar to programs like Ole Miss, Miss St, etc. Idk if Vandy boosters have the stomach to keep donating big money if they fall below .500

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Decommitted from Cal

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Flipping back to Auburn??

Staying with Fl.

• The Rams signed Nick Vannett off the Vikings’ practice squad.

Not $12 worth. Oops

buckeyemania11 said:

I don't think most of us are expecting a constant high ceiling but is it too much to ask to make the tournament somewhat consistently? Or at least not to constantly stumble away games against bad teams like Pitt?

I just don't think Diebler as a basketball coach purely is good enough, he's not really doing much to show us that he's not just a continuation of his former boss

If you can't win the major NIL battles you need a coach who can get the best out of that next wave of players. I do not think Diebler is that coach.

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agreed....if Tennessee and Florida can be in the tourney almost yearly, then OSU can make it at least every other year. I fully realize Ohio doesn't have the talent in state that many states close to our size do. Perhaps the cycle will change someday. We don't even play in the top 2 or 3 of tough conferences.

I was all in on Diebler but I'm now all out. He just doesn't have it and it's obvious to me. He doesn't even seem to be average.....and I'm shocked about that. Smith let OSU drift too long under Holtmann and I'm afraid if Diebler is our coach next year then it will be even harder to drum up NIL support for JD's replacement in '26-'27

Spotted him on the sideline of The Game. Guy was on the path to being one of the greats. Hope he is good.

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Jaxbuck said:

So Franklin is just going to take PSU's whole recruiting class to VaTech with him?

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And use it to be top 3 in the ACC in a few years. Franklin works well with little pressure

This guy couldn't catch a cold.

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