Letting a coaches contract run out is the definition of a small-time program.

I have some good friends that are BG Grads.  I couldn't say this to them.  BG is a long ways back, and the coach isn't the #1 issue.  Budget, and the non-caring about basketball culture are the problems ahead of that.

This is what frustrates me. $10 mil and what does the administration do? Completely quits on the program.

10 mil and they take the cheapo route a D-3 program would take and don't fire Orr. An extra year of mediocrity. Dumb. That admin doesn't even want to be D-1.

That said, I'll take a program like BG lacking the administration over a program like EMU lacking the base infrastructure any day of the week in this conference.

Due to the overall pathetic nature of the MAC and decisions by recruits that I will never comprehend, if BG hires the right coach, they could win the MAC again fairly easily.  Like next year easily.  Its just how the MAC works.

But, hiring the right coach sure ain't easy.

Wow. That was overdue.

Second the prison look. When my pops was judging NCAA gymnastics he used to park us at the old gym while he went and judged. Not that you could do that anymore but it gave me 4-5 hours of time in gyms that were on campuses across the midwest. BG was the worst place I can remember in my childhood as I always thought it looked like a reformatory. The past several years going up there for games I recalled those memories as I stood on the front steps of Anderson waiting precisely for the clock to reach one hour before gametime as the tcket folks stood inside watching people freeze their arses off outside in that ubiquitous wind and arctic cold that seems to envelope the campus. The old gym at BG was dark and dank and kind of creepy....unlike the ones at SIU, Balls, Miami and Dayton to name a few/

Agreed with posters above that they gave up on this program. My track coach was a very good athlete out of Rogers and introduced me to Sid Sink and Dave Wottle at an all comers meet at Wayne HS in Dayton right after their Olympic trip in 72. They were very proud BG alums representing their school in front of the entire world. Really too bad that they have not enough pride or direction in the program to figure out how to make a go of it. Seems like the fanbase there is hungry for a winner when they have had a chance. A 10M dollar benefactor? Those are hard to come by. 

Ummm, first off you do realize it's been since 1968 since we won a MAC championship in football don't you? So we "do that" also. Should we just "give up" in football? Second, BG doesn't have that $10 million right now. They will start receiving payments of it when Bill Frack dies and it won't come in a lump sum, it will be disbursed over a period of time. Third, Louis Orr was saved partly in their hiring of a new AD. And if you think they were happy about that I suggest you check out their board. Fourth, I think the Stroh Center is very nice and even nicer than the Convo in many ways. Is it smaller? Yes, no doubt. But it's still a nice arena. You could also make the argument ours is too big. We lead the MAC in attendance and play in an arena two-thirds empty on most nights. Further, after our game last week I overheard several of our players talking about things they wish we had that they do before they got on the bus.

Do I think we have a better campus and school? Yes. But I sometimes think we get a little arrogant with our mindset and beliefs about who we are, because trust me, for every person who wonders why someone went to school X, Y or Z over Ohio, there are just as many people wondering why someone went to Ohio instead of X, Y or Z. I can't tell you how many time I have had to defend OU for not bring a shit school and just for partying, or an Appalachian hilljack school to those unfamiliar with OU. I love Ohio no matter what others think. But to each his own.

I have found that inability to pick up on sarcasm on the internet is a generational problem as opposed to anything specific to Ohio University.

I'm fully aware Ohio's football team hasn't won a championship since 1968. I was using sarcasm.