First you didn't address the first two points that I brought to your attention where you were spouting off bad info...
wallyball;1170619; said:
When Foster was hired, he said he couldn't wait to get athletes that he couldn't get at Vandy. Funny... back then he said he would run a different offense and run more than at Vandy. Well... he has had a variety of teams and every single team has been molded to his way. Get the ball to the post... value the shot clock... only one or two players will have the green light or there will be hell to pay if you take a bad shot.
You can't teach an old dog new tricks... and he is the most stubborn of them all. The new recruits are good enough for the Big Ten... but they won't be game changers. The ACC, SEC, Big 12, Pac 10, and Big East are still way above the Big 10. He will look good in the conference but that is where it ends.
We are stuck with Foster until he retires... it was a bad hire to begin with as the kids deserve better treatment as athletes at our fine university.
By the way... this wonderful academic that you brag about only had four OSU scholar athletes and not one who played many minutes. Don't brag about him graduating his players as most college female athletes graduate. On the men's side that is special... but not on the women's. They don't have many financial options and know they need their degree.
The girls he is bringing in this year and next were offered by the schools you talk about ACC, SEC, Big 12, et...
He brought in one of the best last year in Lavendar and she is only going to continue to get better...
It was not a bad hire...The team had been to 9 NCAA tourneys before Foster and not one since 92-93...They have been to 6 in his 6 years as coach...
Also not sure where you get the scholar athletes bullshit from...Go check his resume and all the academic honors his players have received...
Not sure where the sour grapes are coming from...But at least bring arguments that aren't based no anything...
I understand he has had his struggles in post season play and I understand that his teams need be more athletic...
But lets be honest to ourselves, we want our girls to win a NC...IMO with Lavendar in the middle and the athletes/shooter we are putting around here and Prahlis at the pg we are going to have a team that can match up with people, maybe not this year, but the year after...
When we had Davenport in the middle it was hard to run...There were 4 years of his time here...Then last year was a youthful team to go along with Packer who was a solid player, and was a great player coming out of high school, but she struggled at times...
And many people wine about his recruiting...I have said it before, but at times in womens basketball recruiting it can be hard for tOSU to pull in ALL the top talent from Ohio due to teams like Duke, Tennessee, Uconn, etc having that big reputation...These teams are there every year, when they were young they were the teams, and they still are the girls grew up idolizing the players on those teams because those were the best players...
We really got what we needed from last years recruiting class, an athletic pg that can dribble, shoot, and pass and another athletic wing to go along with ones that were frosh last year...
on that post and that's fine that we can disagree and be civil about it. I will say this that Foster has to be telling recruits that he is going to play a more up-tempo game or his recruiting for non-post players would be horrific. We shall see but it will go against the offensive philosophy that he has had since he has been a head coach.
