Its easy to say the chemistry is good when you are winning basketball games.

From 2500 miles away, it was obvious that we had five individuals playing for the most part last year, instead of a team.

Why do people go to the movies, videos, watch tv, watch live games, go to games.  For the emotional attachment and involvement.

Sweet Sixteen team--yeah, that worked.  That team balled.  That team was O H I O.

after the sweet 16 run, nearly everybody thought that the team would improve and do better last year. It didn't happen. Take the regular season championship and move on. Not much sense dwelling on the past. While not naming names, I still think its best to just move on and not spend much time on what went wrong in public.

Jeff, our standards and our expectations, are not what they used to be.  That, I think, is good.  And, I believe, those expectations are shared by this year's team, as well.  A MAC championship is just a stepping stone, not an ultimate goal in and of itself.  It seems to me that JC is really building a team around his philosophy and with students who buy into what he is doing.  The recruitment of Owens, I think, shows the direction in which he has this program headed.  Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe Owens is the first 4-star recruit Ohio basketball has had since the latter days of the Snyder era with such notables as Ulice Payne, Larry Slappy, Walter Luckett, etc.   How do you spell, Final Four baby! 

Last season was far from a disaster.  No one raised the k-word.

It was disappointing to me.  I didn't see many moments of really good ball.  Never thought that we had a chance to beat 'kron.  Certain players faded away.  Others just weren't as dynamic as during the Sweet.  I'm not at all saying that I expected 16 again.  But that was a reasaonalby realistic possbility ya had to think (honestly, you did).  And we didn't particularly build on the prior year, which, with everyone returning...