Can tOSU be a B-ball school too?

[GrizzlyBuck]

I checked in this morning two days before our opening round game in the NCAA tourny and I see that we have over 70 people checking out footbal related forums and only (when I looked) 12 veiwing basketball forums. I found this striking. It just makes me ponder if we can really give B-ball the attention it needs for us to be considered in both B-ball and football.

 

[exhawg]

I checked in this morning two days before our opening round game in the NCAA tourny and I see that we have over 70 people checking out footbal related forums and only (when I looked) 12 veiwing basketball forums. I found this striking. It just makes me ponder if we can really give B-ball the attention it needs for us to be considered in both B-ball and football.

If Matta can continue to do a good job bball will gain popularity, but bball will always be second fiddle to football. OSU will never be a Duke, NC, or IU in how their bball program dominates their football program. If Matta keeps up the good work OSU's bball team will have the chance to become one of the dominate year in year out programs in the NCAA. There is no reason that OSU can't be dominate in both sports. They have the funds to do anything they want. This is a great time to be a Buckeye.

 

[craigw99]

If we are a top-10 team that gets a 1 or 2 seed in the tourney, I would say, 6 out of 10 years... then we are a basketball school, regardless of whether we are more of a football school or not (which we will always be).

 

[GrizzlyBuck]

Thanks for the reply guys, I know that football is king here at tOSU, but I guess I was just a little suprised that there was such a disparity in the number of folks looking at football info vs. b-ball info, specially this close to the tourny. Agree completely it is a great time to be a Buckeye. The fact that scUM is struggling a little in both major sports just makes it all the more sweet.

 

[exhawg]

Thanks for the reply guys, I know that football is king here at tOSU, but I guess I was just a little suprised that there was such a disparity in the number of folks looking at football info vs. b-ball info, specially this close to the tourny. Agree completely it is a great time to be a Buckeye. The fact that scUM is struggling a little in both major sports just makes it all the more sweet.

If that's the case we must be an Open Discussion school because there are only 2 fewer people in the OD forum than the football and bball forums combined. :p

 

[PrincetonBuckeye]

We already are....Just look what we have done the past few years!:osu:

 

[HineyBuck]

Back in the early 60s, when we had Fred Taylor coaching and Lucas, Havlicek, Siegfried, Nowell, Knight and crew on the court, we were still a football school. Basketball was extremely popular through that period. But there was never any question--football was king.
:osu:

 

[jwinslow]

were you counting all of the people reading the recruiting board? That's an outlier, b/c there are far more football recruits to follow, and basketball recruiting is somewhat done for 06 (finished), 07 (3 in the bag basically) and 08 (2 verbals).

Check in during a basketball game. We often have about 30 people just in the game thread alone.

Basketball will never replace football in columbus. But it will become big again.

 

[OSUBasketballJunkie]

disparity in the number of folks looking at football info vs. b-ball info

I don't believe you can draw a conclusion that we are not interested in the BB program based on how many people are viewing the two forums. OSU will always be football first, but their is no reason to believe that with Matta, we may be viewed as also being a BB school. Perceptions will only change if Matta is here over an extended period of time and he has success.

 

[jimotis4heisman]

whats this basketball you talk of...

weve had this debate so many times. any school with 8 (9) final fours is a basketball school. is basketball bigger than football? no way. will it ever be, i highly doubt it. does theOSU have a very good basketball rep, yes, will it get better yes.

 

[craigw99]

lol @ "Open Discussion School"

 

[MililaniBuckeye]

When you say "Basketball school", you immediately think of schools who have great basketball teams and mediocre-to-sucky football teams: Duke, Kentucky, Indiana, North Carolina, Connecticut, etc. Schools that have great basketball teams in addition to great football teams (Florida, Texas, Ohio State) are still thought of as football schools, and will still be thought of as football schools regardless of the success of their basketball programs.

 

[coastalbuck]

I think Mili had the best answer, yes, we'll always be a "football school". However, if you think that means we can't be a very good basketball school, you'd be wrong. The words "football school" imply you can't be very good at anything else, that is wrong. Truthfully, what they really mean is that you can afford to be good at other things because you're a "football school!"

 

[stxbuck]

Mili is exactly right-if you are a "basketball school", that means your football team blows. If you are a power in both-Oklahoma,Texas,Florida-everyone will call you a football first school. UCLA is the only possible exception I can think of.

 

[BuckeyeKid789]

I checked in this morning two days before our opening round game in the NCAA tourny and I see that we have over 70 people checking out footbal related forums and only (when I looked) 12 veiwing basketball forums. I found this striking. It just makes me ponder if we can really give B-ball the attention it needs for us to be considered in both B-ball and football.

I noticed that too. As long as we have Matta and good to great recruiting classes which are pretty much a given with Matta then we will compete for Big-10 Championships in both basketball and football. tOSU is a great a example of what great coaching and teaching can do. It's good to be a Buckeye with Tressel, Matta, and Foster as our coaches.