Fun stat of the day...this team gave up more PPG than any Ohio team since the 1955-1956 season.

Agree with both of you and cc-cat specifically. I thought that too — maybe it could mean a staff shakeup. However, like players, what assistant coach would want to commit to a contract year head coach on the hot seat?

I don't think Boals would even disagree there have been some recruiting misses.

And I hate the way this team was constructed. I bet he does too. I said it from the very beginning. It looks like we took the highest ranked of what was left. And what we got was a team that was at the bottom of the top. Not good enough to consistently compete at the highest levels, but not bad enough to get blown off the floor.

Hang with a 30-0 team one night, get slapped around by Kent the next night. A lot of shooters, and no makers. No clear #1. No GUY. Jack is the best we had - and damn if he didn't put up some performances for us, but he's also 6'2" and a weak defender. Simmons came on late, but still - a 6'7" center. He's a good player, but he will always struggle against size or girth (that fatty last night had his way all night), and he's not good enough outside to create space.

The highest ranked of what was left might be our lot in life, but if it has to be that way then we need to absolutely comb D2. We need to scour Europe. All this may lead back to our financial situation and how much they choose not to spend on recruiting, because we need the money for Jack/Simmons/Hadaway, etc. Certainly, Lamar isn't hanging out in England very often looking for the Oboh's (Buffalo), or Iceland (Atlason) or Italy (Bettiol), but someone must have eyes over there? It appears no, or there is something that keeps us from landing these guys. It might simply be philosophy, and Boals doesn't want to swing and miss on a Euro. What keeps us from going after an unheralded D2 guy? That he wasn't good enough before, so he can't be good now?

- Aidan McDowell, 6'4" Soph - 26.7 points (1 assist) for Western Colorado. Doesn't pass, but gets buckets. 1st Team D2. 39% from 3. Made 93 in 28 games. For comp, Sheldon was #1 on our team with 66. Announced he will enter the portal.
- Jaquay Randolph, 6'10" JR - 21 pints, 15 rebounds, 1 block. Led D2 in double-doubles with 25 in 28 games.
- Marko Serenac, 6'10" JR - 14 points, 11 rebounds. Barry U by way of Serbia.
- Will Davies, 6'4" Soph - 13.7 points, 7.3 assists for Saint Anselm (D2 East Region POY)
- Jovan Ristic, 6'5" Soph - 11.8 points, 9.6 boards - had 15 double doubles this season. Also Saint Anselm.
- Jo Jo Wallace, 6'3" Soph - 24.8 points, 4.5 rebounds, 2.5 assists. SNHU, which is apparently not just an online school.

Boals is so lazy he won't recruit north of Reynoldsburg, you think he is going to look to Europe?

Add this guy:
Jack Browder 6-4/185 junior 20ppg 46% from three (Carson-Newman)

HONORS:

holds a perfect 4.0 grade point average

SAC President's Award Winner
CSC Academic All-American of the Year
CSC Academic All-America First Team
D2CCA All-Region Second Team
NABC All-Region Second Team
SAC Scholar Athlete of the Year
SAC Wealth Enhancement Group Elite 23 Winner
CSC Academic All-District
All-SAC First Team
Bevo Francis Award Top 100 Watch List
Small College Basketball Hall of Fame Classic All-Tournament
SAC Player of the Week (11/11, 12/2, 12/9, 2/17)
TSWA Player of the Week (12/9)
NABC/D2CIDA National Player of the Week (12/9)

As I’ve posted before I started my Ohio Bball following in 1969. Saw the good and the bad over those years. This team excelled to me at flexing,whining and getting “T’d” up. The HC played more than a supporting role in the whining and “T” category. This program has trended downward since the Saul leftovers left Athens. I have lost faith that Boals can right this ship.

He’s a GREAT kid, and a hell of a player! Yet if we offered him out of HS at his size and numbers, you’d have shit a brick. Yes, he’s in DI,and he followed his coach there. He will not finish there. End of the day,he’s 5’11”, great off the dribble, great range,loves to play fast. But at 17 you’d have laughed at taking him.

Dude checked out on this program and his alma mater months ago.

Boals was my #1 choice for the job and he’s failed to deliver.

Two losing seasons in a row (not counting non-division one wins).

Too many scholarships given to guys who should be playing at Paducah Community College and Ohio Northern.

Lack of player development.

Zero control over player temperament.

Time for a change.

Be careful FishBates. I was on the Bahamas Ezuma train before anyone and got crucified for saying how poorly Boals handled the Bahamas Ezuma situation. Boals should be fired for that on its own for allowing Bahamas to go down water slides in the Bahamas. Great discipline Jeff in allowing a guy who can’t pass classes and sit for two years, but still allow him to make a free trip to the Bahamas.

#WhenFearLeonWasRightAgain
#ANationWaits

Yes. Yes I would outwork him and out recruit him. Lazy recruiting is having 20% of your roster from one slightly above average high school program. And having 60% of your roster from one metropolitan area within 80 miles from campus.

I would also be a better talent evaluator. I would know enough to see that players like Sheldon, Nicol, Estis and a cast of others are not D1 basketball players.

Maybe I will apply when the job opens.

Obviously no one can take it away from them, but I thought this tweet by Barlow was a little arrogant given the current state of the program and going into a contract year.

https://x.com/kylebarlow4/status/2035185645224608164?s=46...

Given all our apparent recruiting misses, we might want to ask the same about Lamar Thornton.

Absolutely pathetic.

Said it last month. If you aren’t going to fire a mediocre head coach with zero passion, then get rid of the assistants. Boals said it himself…Ohio needs to hit the reset button. You better look at your staff first Jeff.