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Ohio State at Connecticut, noon, CBS, 12/12/15

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Personally I can see both sides of it to a certain degree.

On one hand OSU basketball most certainly is not UK/Duke/Kansas etc so using that group as a standard is indeed unrealistic. OTOH, given the resources available and amount of talent in a 300 mile radius, using MSU and Wisconsin as a benchmark is most certainly NOT unreasonable.

Problem for Thad is that while he does indeed have a great body of work at OSU, coaches are always measured on a weighted average with the weight toward the most recent end of the time spectrum. Every year that goes by 2006 matters less and the most recent year matters more. This is the third year in a row of bottom half of the B1G kind of teams and within that time, this is the worst of the 3.

Now, the fact that most people do recognize that this is a football school works in his favor in that people will put up a bad stretch here and there but you have to keep them in the top half of the B1G and competitive with OOC names that are on the schedule. Losing to mid majors at home and getting smoked by average OOC teams after 2 mediocre years before it isn't good enough quite frankly.
 
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To separate college basketball teams into tiers is a pretty pointless exercise, but I balk at any suggestion that OSU has a second-class hoops program - they aren't a blue blood and I don't really care if they are ever called that, because as Wisconsin, MSU and Gonzaga have shown (and teams like Wichita State and Butler and -gasp- UM in recent years), you don't really have to beat those teams for recruits to be extremely successful over a sustained period of time and competitive at the national level at times. Matta has helped OSU have some stretches of being nationally elite (top-10), hopefully he will have them back there in a couple years but it's not going to be this year obviously. OSU as a program is one where they have been and are able to attract all the talent they need to be competitive at the national level occasionally, regardless of who the coach is.
 
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