DZ83CK
Not Banned
If you thought Dorian Jones was the key to the future, you've mis-evaluated. No one was saying Jones was the key to lead this team to the tournament or a B1G title next season - in fact, it was doubtful that he would have been in the playing group in big games.With Jones de-committing I am afraid we have an old fashioned dumpster fire on on our hands
Clearly we have not gotten the big fish in basketball recruiting, that's the bigger issue. Transfer rankings are like other rankings and only of modest value for projection, but you would like to think OSU would be able to snag somebody who's a top-20 transfer and not just guys who are borderline top-100 transfers.
At the end of the day, this team will go as far as Thornton, Mobley and Royal can take it. They will need Ojianwuna to be healthy and playing well. I'm still kind of suspecting this team will add another transfer at the wing who could start. Maybe this is another NIT-level team, but with a good wing starter added, they can be a decent team that makes the tourney. I realize that's not satisfying after 10 years of mediocrity for the men's hoops program, but Rome wasn't built in a day and I feel like fans are unfairly impatient with Jake Diebler. The guy has had one year and people want to hang the last 10 years all on him like he's the real reason we've not been winning. I believe the main reason is NIL, OSU has not been on par with the top college hoops programs - we actually lose hoops recruits to BYU because of NIL, a guy who could start for OSU & really make a difference for how good this team would have been literally chose BYU for NIL. We lost 2 starters last offseason to non-blue blood programs and I blame NIL. If the money is consistently higher elsewhere, it's going to take a Hall of Fame-level coach for us to have a perennial contender in hoops.
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