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Some of you guys seem to be under the very mistaken impression that there is top-tier NIL money behind OSU basketball. In comparison to the landscape of college hoops, there is no chance OSU is spending money in the same ballpark as the blue bloods. Cooper Flagg made $28 million in NIL at Duke last season - OSU basketball is never going to compete with that. We literally have guys leaving the team and/or choosing other schools for NIL every year - and these aren't just guys who would help the team, these are players that actually started at OSU or obviously would start at OSU. That hurts your team's ceiling bigtime when NIL is keeping you from fielding an appropriate starting 5 every year. When there isn't enough money behind OSU basketball to field a top-tier starting 5, you have to start coming to grips with reality and understand there's no move you can make with the coaching staff to correct the underlying problem. The NIL money is mostly behind the football program, plain and simple.
 
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DZ83CK said:
Some of you guys seem to be under the very mistaken impression that there is top-tier NIL money behind OSU basketball. In comparison to the landscape of college hoops, there is no chance OSU is spending money in the same ballpark as the blue bloods. Cooper Flagg made $28 million in NIL at Duke last season - OSU basketball is never going to compete with that. We literally have guys leaving the team and/or choosing other schools for NIL every year - and these aren't just guys who would help the team, these are players that actually started at OSU or obviously would start at OSU. That hurts your team's ceiling bigtime when NIL is keeping you from fielding an appropriate starting 5 every year. When there isn't enough money behind OSU basketball to field a top-tier starting 5, you have to start coming to grips with reality and understand there's no move you can make with the coaching staff to correct the underlying problem. The NIL money is mostly behind the football program, plain and simple.
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Exactly this.
 
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DZ83CK said:
Some of you guys seem to be under the very mistaken impression that there is top-tier NIL money behind OSU basketball. In comparison to the landscape of college hoops, there is no chance OSU is spending money in the same ballpark as the blue bloods. Cooper Flagg made $28 million in NIL at Duke last season - OSU basketball is never going to compete with that. We literally have guys leaving the team and/or choosing other schools for NIL every year - and these aren't just guys who would help the team, these are players that actually started at OSU or obviously would start at OSU. That hurts your team's ceiling bigtime when NIL is keeping you from fielding an appropriate starting 5 every year. When there isn't enough money behind OSU basketball to field a top-tier starting 5, you have to start coming to grips with reality and understand there's no move you can make with the coaching staff to correct the underlying problem. The NIL money is mostly behind the football program, plain and simple.
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I don't think most of us are expecting a constant high ceiling but is it too much to ask to make the tournament somewhat consistently? Or at least not to constantly stumble away games against bad teams like Pitt?

I just don't think Diebler as a basketball coach purely is good enough, he's not really doing much to show us that he's not just a continuation of his former boss

If you can't win the major NIL battles you need a coach who can get the best out of that next wave of players. I do not think Diebler is that coach.
 
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