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Well said. I don't think it's unreasonable to expect a coach to have OSU in the tournament more often than not, but I also think Diebler can get OSU to that point. That's not that high of a bar, honestly. I believe the powers that be at OSU kind of have the same expectation, that the program...

I will say one more thing, it's not a coincidence that the last time OSU won any type of B1G championship was when they had Aaron Craft, one of the best defenders in OSU history. The only season after Craft's final year that OSU had ANYONE on the B1G all-defensive team was EJ Liddell in 2022...

I saw data earlier this season that showed statistically OSU was actually a better team in the second half than most. What does that tell you? He's making adjustments better than most coaches, and that's with a roster that isn't spending comparably to the elite in the sport. Be honest, is the...

LOL @ easily tempted due to lack of winning. If they have even an ounce of self-awareness, they will be able to notice our last transfers Meechie, Bradshaw and Stewart did not move to more winning programs. I don't think any of these guys would be able to start for a program that is much more...

Guess which team has the largest positive scoring margin per game in college basketball as of today??? That would be the 23-1 St Louis Billikens!

That's spot-on. We had Roddy Gayle starting for us all season his sophomore year. He's been coming off the bench at UM all season and didn't start part of last season, either. He averaged 13.5 ppg his last year at OSU, then after the transfer he's averaged 9.8 and now 8.3 ppg. He averaged 30...

Which question, why will people spend? I think the issue is partly OSU being the problem last year (and Diebler being new a problem his first year), so that's part of why I have some hope for next season being different. I suspect more money could have been there for Diebler to spend last year...

When Thad had good teams playing good opponents, the crowds were good. It's hard to quantify how the arena deadened the crowd, but I think that matters in this analysis. He scheduled like 10 guarantee games every season, so naturally fans got tired of seeing non-competitive gimme Ws, but at the...

Who cares about fan enthusiasm? Fans are fickle. They will show up when the team starts winning, period.

I don't like how OSU played today, it seemed like most of those guys were just going through the motions. That being said, UM has spent top-tier NIL funds to buy the best defense they could & had gone 20-1 against everyone else in college basketball this season, so a lot of other teams also...

That's what they're claiming, that another coach would command greater NIL, but that's a sketchy claim. I don't think the NIL-oriented coaches who were floated as possibilities like May and Calipari ever were seriously considering OSU because they couldn't get the spending commitment that they...

Disagree. Right now fans aren't going to support OSU hoops NIL in a manner that moved their station nationally regardless of who's the coach.

Would you take a job if you were told "here are bottom-half of Big Ten resources at a school that fans expect to contend for B1G championships, and oh by the way, many fans will lobby for you to be fired if you aren't making the NCAA tournament within 2 years"? If you see things from that...

OSU's next game is vs USC on 2/11. I'd say that is as much of a must-win as you can have with tourney hopes hanging on by a thread at this point. But it's a tricky game, though, as USC obviously has some very talented players, and has invested in building depth on their roster (something that...

IMO, as long as NIL is putting OSU in the bottom-half of the B1G, it's not right for the AD to give the coach fewer than 4 years unless he's only winning around 10 games per season.

I didn't say 16 wins is meeting expectations. He's in Year 2 and NIL is not helping, it's actively hurting him.

Why don't we let this year play out first? It's nonsense to fire Diebler after this season even if they finish with 16 wins.

NIL is what it takes to win in the portal, pure and simple. We already know that. Kennard Davis Jr was obviously shopping for the highest bidder and found it after a period of weeks at BYU, and while OSU was interested they didn't have $2 million to spare even for a kid who would start. If...

I don't know, man, Bruce is the only one out there for OSU who seems to be playing with an edge. He could just be pressing because he thinks he has to do it all himself.

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