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especially provided that osu plays solid big east and acc teams, that's a very good and very challenging non-conference schedule.
especially provided that osu plays solid big east and acc teams, that's a very good and very challenging non-conference schedule.
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Fungo Squiggly
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The fact that you ended up being right doesn't mean you were right about the probability back then, my dude.
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OSU_Buckguy
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of course i am. maybe you don't, but i want osu to play what should be a good big east team in the gavitt games.
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OSU_Buckguy
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it certainly seems more probable now that i was probably right back then about the probabilities.The fact that you ended up being right doesn't mean you were right about the probability back then, my dude.
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Maybe.
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i just think dz's minor tiff is a little funny because of...
now if only i had responded with a disagreement about his guess not being the most likely option.
now if only i had responded with a disagreement about his guess not being the most likely option.
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DZ83CK
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It is good to have a Big East team rather than yet another cupcake. I would say overall the nonconference schedule for OSU this year is shaping up as a B, not being in a nonconference tournament in 2019-20 is still problematic to me. UC, especially if they lose Cumberland, is not likely to make the tourney. WVU could be in for a bounce back year, but my guess is for them to be a bubble team. KY obviously is the marquee nonconference game, a big opportunity but likely a very difficult game to win. Could be playing a bubble team in Syracuse that I would guess will miss the tournament, but we dont know who they will play from the ACC just yet. The Big East is not likely to give OSU a matchup against a tourney team. I want to see a nonconference schedule with 3 or 4 chances against tournament teams, and I'm skeptical that will be the case. Overall a B or maybe B- if the Big East foe is a bottom feeder.
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RECRUITING TRANSFERS. Whatever your stance on transfers in college athletics, the practice is widespread and ain't going anywhere. And like any good coach, Chris Holtmann's going to do everything he can to use that climate to his advantage.
From Joe Scalzo of the Canton Rep:
“Recruiting in the last five or 10 years has changed dramatically from 25 years ago,” Holtmann said. “Recruits from 25 years ago, for the most part, would stay in your program for three or four years. They’d give your fan base a chance to know them and identify with them.
“Now, there’s over 850 Division I men’s basketball transfers (so far this spring). There will be over 1,200 to 1,300 by the time mid-summer rolls around. You’re basically looking at one out of every two young men transferring before their junior or senior year.”
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The NCAA seems to be getting looser with transfer waivers, not tighter. (New Buckeye QB Justin Fields is a perfect example.) And Holtmann understands that a Power Five school such as Ohio State can’t afford to ignore potential prospects, just because they’re looking to transfer from their old school. He got a solid rotation player two years ago in guard Andrew Dakich, who came to Columbus as a graduate transfer from Michigan.
“Everybody recruits transfers,” Holtmann said. “Now, they have to be the right one. We’re not going to take a guy if he’s complaining about his coach the whole time. Or if there’s a hint of trouble off the floor. But if there’s a young man who said, ‘Man, I loved where I was at, but I want to be closer to home.’ Or, ‘Coach, I loved where I was at, but we were struggling and I want to be at a program where I can win.’
“Sometimes those transfers work out. Sometimes they don’t. But you have to continue to recruit guys like that because every program in the country experiences turnover in some way.”
Loyalty and four-year players are really cool things, but winning is also a really cool thing. And if the Buckeyes have a shot to add a transfer player that can help them win more, they should do that.
There's no reason a program like Ohio State shouldn't be one of the teams benefiting from a relatively open transfer market. So until the NCAA decides to tighten things up (they won't), give me all of your C.J. Walkers and Justice Sueings. I will have them.
https://www.elevenwarriors.com/skul...lasXosswfZAXMrgX_SYTOVH5irowIg_Yz_uJbjnyyfFnE
From Joe Scalzo of the Canton Rep:
“Recruiting in the last five or 10 years has changed dramatically from 25 years ago,” Holtmann said. “Recruits from 25 years ago, for the most part, would stay in your program for three or four years. They’d give your fan base a chance to know them and identify with them.
“Now, there’s over 850 Division I men’s basketball transfers (so far this spring). There will be over 1,200 to 1,300 by the time mid-summer rolls around. You’re basically looking at one out of every two young men transferring before their junior or senior year.”
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The NCAA seems to be getting looser with transfer waivers, not tighter. (New Buckeye QB Justin Fields is a perfect example.) And Holtmann understands that a Power Five school such as Ohio State can’t afford to ignore potential prospects, just because they’re looking to transfer from their old school. He got a solid rotation player two years ago in guard Andrew Dakich, who came to Columbus as a graduate transfer from Michigan.
“Everybody recruits transfers,” Holtmann said. “Now, they have to be the right one. We’re not going to take a guy if he’s complaining about his coach the whole time. Or if there’s a hint of trouble off the floor. But if there’s a young man who said, ‘Man, I loved where I was at, but I want to be closer to home.’ Or, ‘Coach, I loved where I was at, but we were struggling and I want to be at a program where I can win.’
“Sometimes those transfers work out. Sometimes they don’t. But you have to continue to recruit guys like that because every program in the country experiences turnover in some way.”
Loyalty and four-year players are really cool things, but winning is also a really cool thing. And if the Buckeyes have a shot to add a transfer player that can help them win more, they should do that.
There's no reason a program like Ohio State shouldn't be one of the teams benefiting from a relatively open transfer market. So until the NCAA decides to tighten things up (they won't), give me all of your C.J. Walkers and Justice Sueings. I will have them.
https://www.elevenwarriors.com/skul...lasXosswfZAXMrgX_SYTOVH5irowIg_Yz_uJbjnyyfFnE
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