If anyone has an extensive collection of old buckeye games on DVD such as those mentioned above, I'm willing to rip them, make torrents, share the torrents on these forums, and seed them forever. If you are in the Columbus area, we can utilize sneaker-net to temporarily borrow the collection. This is a standing offer even if you read this long after I post it.

Jake said:

In the States, attendance and viewership were over 50% higher than the last WBC.

In Japan, over 50% of the population tuned in for the final. The game started at 8:00 AM Wednesday morning there.

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Can't wait for 2026!

Charlotte 49ers win the CBI title 71-68.

To the cheers of dozens, I’m sure.

OHSportsFan said:

There it is

Sorry Penn State. Back to hockey and wrestling only in the winter.
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PSU only had a $4M buyout for him. Oopsie poopsie.

Really all B1G teams should have a hefty buyout on new hires that essentially guarantees other schools won't pry them away. What is all that TV money good for if you can't at least leverage it to make sure you keep good young coaches? No way B1G teams should see successful coaches leaving after 2 years.

Visited 3/20/23, Greg Biggins on Rivals believes that OSU is in a good spot with after the campus visit

Ed Cooley from Providence. Wow, coach Shrews may be at Penn State still.

Poor choice #2

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Elyria Catholic becomes the second Ohio high school to hire a Buckeye-laden staff to lead its football program this offseason. Former Ohio State quarterback Stanley Jackson recently became the head coach at Westerville North High School and hired a staff of Buckeyes to assist him that includes Beanie Wells, Winfield Garnett, Reggie Germany, Ashanti Webb and Paris Long.

Just sayin': Elyria Catholic should schedule a game with Westerville North.....

GeorgeWashington said:

Teddy you worthless prick. Let @Dolly Madison tell you how me and Martha made her tap out in the parlor.

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We all know what you been tapping George and it Martha or Dolly…

This is one to watch. https://n.rivals.com/news/recruiting-rumor-mill-spring-break-visits-on-deck-for-top-prospects

USC makes a whole lot of sense for the four-star cornerback from Bellflower (Calif.) St. John Bosco but Williams will be making a trip through the Southeast soon and the chatter is that Ohio State is really where Williams wants to play. There has not been much talk about the Buckeyes and Williams but things could be trending that way soon.

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“They have an advantage because of his size and mass and weight, and they say – it’s like teams that foul you for 40 minutes and they say, ‘They can’t call them all.’ Coaches will tell you that,” Holtmann said. “They can’t call all the fouls. Well, what they’re saying is, ‘Hey, they’re not gonna call it more than once at the most, so why wouldn’t we just park him there?’ It’s smart on their part. And what we’ve got to do is be able to adjust better, and that’s what we’re trying to do.”

Holtmann admitted that Edey “probably gets fouled on occasion and it’s not called,” and also credited the dominant big man as a “really good” player. Still, Holtmann said it’s clear that Purdue knows it can take advantage of the lack of three seconds calls from the officiating crew.

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Thanks for the memories Ice!

Thanks for the memories Sean!

DZ83CK said:

True, but hard for me to not see this as kinda predatory on the part of the universities.

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No other way to look at it as far as I'm concerned. It is absolutely predatory. They're holding "status" over the student-athletes' heads, as if it makes up for a scholarship. That's some pyramid-scheme level manipulation.

Mike80 said:

Yeah he had a meniscus issue in High School too. All that needs to happen is for him to get a non-favorable draft position grade and he'll be back.

Since he is injured, and conspiracy theories aside, the school confirmed it with holding him out and telling everyone it was an injury, I'd say the odds are he'll be back now. Probably only 1 more year, but it's a year to get quicker, maybe slim down a bit and also maybe go on a big time run.

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Thanks for the info, didn't know he's had an injury issue before coming to Columbus. Fingers crossed he can get healthy and put together a great season to boost his draft stock, he's probably the most talented scorer I've seen here since Russell, and before him Conley.

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Michigan State's Tom Izzo chides Chris Holtmann doubters after Big Ten Tournament loss to Ohio State​

"I've always pulled for coaches and disappointed in how we played, but it just goes to show how college basketball is so very difficult to coach," Izzo said. "I give (Ohio State's) Chris (Holtmann) a lot of credit. Everybody thinks like he's my uncle or my cousin or my brother. He's not. He's just a human being that went through some tough times with some injuries, and people make stupid statements like he hasn't been to the second round in four years. Well, one year nobody went. So don't make it look bad for him. It figures the guy wouldn't show up for this, and I think he's a good guy personally. If he hasn't done a good job, I deserve to be fired because I didn't do a very good job at all."

ON OHIO STATE INTENTIONALLY BUILDING AROUND YOUNG GUYS:​

"Like I said, I give him a lot of credit because I know what it's like in Columbus. It's not as bad there in basketball as it is in football, but I know what it's like. As a coach, like we kept saying on the bench, poor Malik, he just didn't look like he was moving very good, you know, and they had some injuries early. Then they had freshmen. And then they had to deal with freshmen on one side, the transfers in the middle, the seniors on the other side.
"There's so many obstacles we all have to go through now, and we have to figure them out. I don't need anybody feeling sorry for anybody, but they're not easy. I think the greatest job he did was not this tournament, the greatest job he did was saving them for the last five games of the regular season, even when they lost. Other than the Purdue loss, they were playing better for those five games.
"I don't know about playing them a lot of minutes. That's okay, but eventually, you've got to have some subs. But they're on a high. They're playing with energy and emotion, and that can get you through fatigue, I guess is what I'm saying."

A belated Thanks. I never thought of checking here for the Super Bowl game. I found it elsewhere.

Jake said:

The 2-3 zone was designed to make you rely on the outside shot. But as teams moved toward building their offenses around the 3 point shot, this once well-designed defense became a liability. Boeheim's apparent refusal to evolve gradually led Syracuse to mediocrity.

That's not to discredit his entire career, but the game passed him by. He's not the first and won't be the last, but it seems apparent that his "retirement" wasn't really his decision. More of a concession to a coach who gave a lot to the university, but whose time had passed.

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100% this. Syracuse games turned into teams shooting 80% from 3 against them. The zone quite literally won them a title in 03......but soon after that it was the reason why games were lost. The likelihood of the replacement just being Boeheim lite is depressing. The zone will stay, and the mediocrity will continue.

dragurd said:

If it was a one year or a one or two game thing I'd say yes. But it's been year after year with whole different groups of players. At some point it's on the coach

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You may have a point, there…..

Committed to the Tarheels
https://247sports.com/Article/Fla-RB-Davion-Gause-Commits-to-UNC-Football-205858884/

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LOL

The selection committee is apparently counting this game as a Quad1 win for Rutgers

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Justin Ahrens three point shooting percentages:

18-19 - 38.8%
19-20 - 40.4%
20-21 - 42.5% (dude was deadly)
21-22 - 35.4%
transfers to Loyola Marymount
22-23 - 32.2%

His greatest strength turned into a weakness. Go figure. LMU went out of the WCC tournament tonight and he barely played at all.

Hope he gets his Master's and enjoys LA. There are worse things than that.

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