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OSUBasketballJunkie;1124135; said:
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Future Buckeye Prahalis Big Ten's Only Rep In All-American Game......
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I'm excited about Samantha coming to OSU, she's the type of point guard we've never seen at OSU. I was shocked to see she's not only OSU's only rep, but the only one from the Big Ten. The Big Ten is in a serious tailspin right now. This is the worst I've seen the Big Ten in over a decade at the top of the conference and it doesn't look like it's going to get any better. It doesn't appear winning Big Ten titles is going to become any tougher thus making it less impressive of an accomplishment, but I think this is the type of player we need to have more success in the tournament. We just need to keep recruiting girls of her skill level, especially the ones from Ohio and stop letting them get away.
 
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Buckeye Nut;1123833; said:
Pat Summit and Geno are "terrific coaches", Foster is good and nothing more. Keeping him on will doom the program, he isn't getting any younger. Should we wait till we're not even winning this pathetic conference before we make a change? I'd rather be proactive than reactive. The best thing would be if he'd just retire, but I don't think that's going to happen. I don't know if you've noticed, but when coaches stay in the business too long their programs suffer. Have you noticed a steady decline in the Penn State and Florida State football programs? Apparently some of us are satisfied with just winning a mediocre conference....
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When I first read this statement, I was going to respond with "are you fucking stupid?" But, I took a moment, sat back and thought about this in football terms...

Would you fire a coach who always got you to a bowl game but rarely won one? Yes, yes you would.

Simply put, we need to be able to compete outside of the Big10, the Lady Bucks have a great squad that I always watch and hope will go deep into the tourney, but it just doesn't happen, and more often than not, they lose to inferior talent. I hate to think we have the Marty Schottenheimer of basketball coaches, but more and more it begins to look like that.
 
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OCBucksFan;1124285; said:
Would you fire a coach who always got you to a bowl game but rarely won one? Yes, yes you would.
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This is exactly my point. We as Ohio State fans should know about this as well as anyone. John Cooper had a fantastic winning percentage, but he failed to beat Michigan and win bowl games which in basketball I would equate to failing to meet expectations in the NCAA tournament and more often than not losing to inferior talent. Well that's basically the same situation we're going through right now with Foster. No doubt Cooper and Foster are very good coaches, maybe even HOF coaches, but there comes a point when it becomes obvious a coach has done all he can do for a program and I think we've reached that point. Also, for anyone to suggest that getting rid of Foster would somehow doom the program is silly. What, are we going to hire some grad assistant from a mac school? This is Ohio State, we have great facilities and most importantly money. We'd be able to attract a very good young coach to build this program into a national power. Anybody here upset we got rid of Cooper to hire Tressel? I doubt it.
 
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Buckeye Nut;1124301; said:
This is exactly my point. We as Ohio State fans should know about this as well as anyone. John Cooper had a fantastic winning percentage, but he failed to beat Michigan and win bowl games which in basketball I would equate to failing to meet expectations in the NCAA tournament and more often than not losing to inferior talent. Well that's basically the same situation we're going through right now with Foster. No doubt Cooper and Foster are very good coaches, maybe even HOF coaches, but there comes a point when it becomes obvious a coach has done all he can do for a program and I think we've reached that point. Also, for anyone to suggest that getting rid of Foster would somehow doom the program is silly. What, are we going to hire some grad assistant from a mac school? This is Ohio State, we have great facilities and most importantly money. We'd be able to attract a very good young coach to build this program into a national power. Anybody here upset we got rid of Cooper to hire Tressel? I doubt it.
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I agree with the desire to have the program achieve more success on a national level; but I don't buy the comparison of Foster to Cooper, and I'm not ready to cast aside a coach who has led the program to the success it's enjoyed recently.

Winning 4 straight Big Ten titles and having difficulty in the NCAA tournament, in my mind, would equate to beating TSUN in football but losing the bowl game. We all know that 3-8 (Coop's bowl record) reflects some postseason struggles, but 2-10-1 is a far cry from 4 straight Big Ten titles in the regular season. To me, that makes comparing Foster to Cooper too harsh of a judgment.
 
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BB73;1124478; said:
I agree with the desire to have the program achieve more success on a national level; but I don't buy the comparison of Foster to Cooper, and I'm not ready to cast aside a coach who has led the program to the success it's enjoyed recently.

Winning 4 straight Big Ten titles and having difficulty in the NCAA tournament, in my mind, would equate to beating TSUN in football but losing the bowl game. We all know that 3-8 (Coop's bowl record) reflects some postseason struggles, but 2-10-1 is a far cry from 4 straight Big Ten titles in the regular season. To me, that makes comparing Foster to Cooper too harsh of a judgment.
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With all due respect, I don't think that it is even fair to compare Ohio State football records with Ohio State basketball records. You can just look at the number of posters in the football forum compared to the number of posters in the basketball forum at any given time.

I have said this before that I believe Foster is a quality person and has a great deal of compassion for the student athlete. However, this year he lost a recruit to Duke, LSU, Tennessee, and I believe UConn. When players are recruited by these schools you know they are very good players. Why aren't they coming to Ohio State? Foster's style of play or what? These questions need to be addressed before the program hits Nancy Darsch level.
 
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I understand the frustration, but Foster's recruiting, while he has missed on some Ohio girls has gotten better IMO...He landed 3 good ones last year and then 2 good ones this year, with Samantha and Ronnie Stokes daughter...

Lavendar is going to be one of the best players to ever play here by the time she leaves, and we should have some shooters around here, along with more athletic ability...

I still give Foster another year or two before I really start to think about letting him go...

Either way you look at it he is bringing talent in, so it will be hard for him to go downhill in the next couple years...

Lots of good assistant coaches on the bench as well...
 
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I can't remember her name, but we lost the #1 player in Ohio this year to I believe Duke or Tennessee......regardless, he has done fine in recruiting and 4 consecutive Big Ten championships is an accomplishment to be proud of.....lack of tournament success is a concern, but is fixable....the talent is there......
 
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OSUBasketballJunkie;1124612; said:
I can't remember her name, but we lost the #1 player in Ohio this year to I believe Duke or Tennessee......regardless, he has done fine in recruiting and 4 consecutive Big Ten championships is an accomplishment to be proud of.....lack of tournament success is a concern, but is fixable....the talent is there......
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I believe it is Dunning...We also lost a big girl to FSU from Sandusky Perkins, and another girl to Tennessee...

I honestly have no idea how hard those girls were targeted, but what I do know is that we were looking more for guards with athleticism and shooting ability than post players, especially with Lavendar, Walker and Allen here...
 
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OSUBasketballJunkie;1124612; said:
I can't remember her name, but we lost the #1 player in Ohio this year to I believe Duke or Tennessee......regardless, he has done fine in recruiting and 4 consecutive Big Ten championships is an accomplishment to be proud of.....lack of tournament success is a concern, but is fixable....the talent is there......
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crazybuckfan40;1124618; said:
I believe it is Dunning...We also lost a big girl to FSU from Sandusky Perkins, and another girl to Tennessee...

I honestly have no idea how hard those girls were targeted, but what I do know is that we were looking more for guards with athleticism and shooting ability than post players, especially with Lavendar, Walker and Allen here...
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Dunning from Columbus Eastmoor. Riley is a PF who is graduating this year and Dunning would have fit in nicely. Not all of the players that we lost on the state of Ohio were post players. I just hope that the players he recruited from Illinois last year pan out or he will be up a creek. Walker is a wasted scholarship IMO. The only reason she was recruited was because she is 6'5" but has no athleticism.
 
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LitlBuck;1124626; said:
Dunning from Columbus Eastmoor. Riley is a PF who is graduating this year and Dunning would have fit in nicely. Not all of the players that we lost on the state of Ohio were post players. I just hope that the players he recruited from Illinois last year pan out or he will be up a creek. Walker is a wasted scholarship IMO. The only reason she was recruited was because she is 6'5" but has no athleticism.
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I have to disagree there. I think Walker has shown some nice flashes, but unfortunately lost part of this year to injury. She's probably never going to be Davenport/Lavender caliber, but I think she's a perfectly good option down low. I also liked Foster's move this year toward using both Walker and Lavender at the same time occasionally.
 
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I have to admit that I do not follow the recruiting side to the women's program very close but from what I can gather, it seems that the program needs more impact players on the wing.....their point guard is coming next year....that girl is a player...wow.
 
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OSUBasketballJunkie;1124636; said:
I have to admit that I do not follow the recruiting side to the women's program very close but from what I can gather, it seems that the program needs more impact players on the wing.....their point guard is coming next year....that girl is a player...wow.
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I would think that is a fair assessment. The wing players that he recruits don't seem to be very good shooters. He did recruit a McDonald's All-American from Illinois last year but she did not show a whole lot this year. We shall see.
 
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OSUBasketballJunkie;1124636; said:
I have to admit that I do not follow the recruiting side to the women's program very close but from what I can gather, it seems that the program needs more impact players on the wing.....their point guard is coming next year....that girl is a player...wow.
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Along with Stokes as well...
 
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