tOSU at Nebraska, Sun 2/9, 2pm EST, BTN

[NFBuck]

100% on all of this. Felt like an interim feel-good hire as you said, but we had to give it some time and still do. This is a horrible loss, no words need to be minced. But if there are not many quality wins from here on out, we might have downgraded from CH. I hope not, but it is feeling like it.

I don't even think it's necessarily a downgrade. The program was trending in the wrong direction under CH, much like it was in the last Matta years. But I don't get the feeling it's moving in the right direction, either. We just seem to be stuck in this endless cycle of mediocre - occasional whiffs of success almost immediately followed by a baffling loss or three. There's time, it's very early in his tenure, but I'm not getting warm fuzzies this far. Of course after 10 years of "blah", my patience is admittedly short.

 

[RB07OSU]

I don't even think it's necessarily a downgrade. The program was trending in the wrong direction under CH, much like it was in the last Matta years. But I don't get the feeling it's moving in the right direction, either. We just seem to be stuck in this endless cycle of mediocre - occasional whiffs of success almost immediately followed by a baffling loss or three. There's time, it's very early in his tenure, but I'm not getting warm fuzzies this far. Of course after 10 years of "blah", my patience is admittedly short.

Agreed with all of that really. We are not trending up, but the downhill slide was not Diebler at all. He's doing his best and I'm not going to throw him under the bus at all. But you're right that the leash is shorter after Thad and CH. We can't keep having those losses.