This dumb.

We have a football team?

Did you think Boals was over paid after back to back losses last seasons in January to BG and Buffalo. Or when his team got thumped in Oxford by a bad Miami team in late February?

Don't take the bait on this garbage post.

Boals is good for Ohio and a nice coach, but some of you seem satisfied in winning only a three game league tournament in March. Throw out the regular season and what happens before March. Coach Boals is paid for the entire season, not just for three games in March. And since he is the top paid coach in the league, if those three games in March matter the most, shouldn't Ohio do better than just win one league tourney in four seasons. Maybe some of you are satisfied with that performance?

Would ANYONE on this board trade Ohio's accolades since, oh, the 2010 season for Toledo's? Anyone?

"Umm….year one was dealing with cleaning up the shitcapade of Saul’s mess. And Boals did not get a chance at MAC Tourney in year one because of Covid. And I hate to break it to you, but Boals would have made a March run that year with that team. Ohio was clicking heading into Cleveland in 2020."

That 2020 season you were talking about the Bobcats basketball team finished last in the East and ended up an 8 seed. Pretty confident that an eighth seeded team would win three games in Cleveland. But maybe that could have happened? Maybe Coach Solich would have won a few "tournament championships" if he were given a second opportunity. However, in football, every games counts. Not just what happens over a one week period at the end of the season. I don't recall any of Solich's Ohio football teams finishing last in the east and being given another shot to still compete for a championship. I also don't recall any of his teams ending up as a fifth seed and being able to compete for a championship. In football, your school has to win an East division championship before you can end up in Detroit. They don't invite teams to the party who don't win the east or west divisions. When is the last time that Ohio ended up the top team in the East? Probably when Boals was playing? I realize east and west divisons no longer exist in basketball, but is has been years since Ohio was the top team in the East. But in basketball you can finish in the bottom half of the standings and still be fortunate enough to keep playing in March.

"I won't even get into your ridiculous Solich and Ohio football takes. I'll let others pick that apart. But for now, I'll enjoy the NCAA Tournament win banner Boals has hanging in the Convo. You enjoy those zero MAC titles that Frank brought you, but hey, at least you can stare at those two Famous Idaho Potato bowl trophies.
Last Edited: 10/16/2023 6:30:31 PM by FearLeon"

It is obvious you don't care much for Bobcat football. What I have stated above about Boals and his four year record at Ohio is fact. I have no problem with Coach Boals as the coach in Athens. He was a great hire. I am not saying Boals should be the lowest paid coach in the league. I have never said that. However, I do have some concerns that he is the highest paid coach in the league, when four other league coaches had better league records than him the past four years. All the facts I stated above are correct. If you are willing to disregard the months of November, December, January and February and only care about three basketball games in March, then that is up to you. Coach Solich took over a football program in far worse shape than what Boals inherited. This university has always put a priority on basketball. The Convo is the largest and top arena in the conference and one of the best in the midwest. The same can not be said about Peden Stadium. Solich led Ohio to 11 bowl appearances and reshaped the Bobcat football program from the dark days to what it is now, before retiring. Solich left Ohio as the all time winningest coach in conference history. When Solich retired, at least four other league coaches were paid more than him. Heading into the 2023 football season, Ohio was third behind Toledo and NI in MAC win percentage the last ten seasons. Solich was a huge part of that success. Ohio basketball hasn't been the third best in conference win percentage the last ten seasons, but yet the university still pays top money for basketball coaches. And the "titles" you keep talking about are nice, even though schools can end up in the bottom half of the league and still earn a "tournament championship." No football program can participate in a "league tourney" if they don't win their respective division. No second chances in football for ending up 5th, 6th or 8th best in the conference.

Saul was a better recruiter than Boals, it seems. But Boals is a much better in-game coach. The program really benefited from a couple of seasons of Boals getting to coach Saul's talent. Nice little confluence of events that led to an upset of UVA.

Boals has had success in the portal though -- Wilson, Carter, Hunter -- and that may be a better path forward in college basketball than traditional recruiting, where Boals hasn't had as many hits.

This is a really good group of players. We won an NCAA tournament game with two of those guys as our best two guys, and one is currently a fringe NBA player and the other started in the ACC.

I like Brown and James, don't get me wrong. But everybody here would trade them for BVP, Preston, Carter, or Simmons, right?

Still?

For those who think regular season championships are more meaningful and long-lasting than winning the MAC Tournament and making a trip to the NCAA Tournament.....here is another reason why the regular season championship doesn't mean much. It's now going to take a lot for the MAC regular season champion to even get an NIT bid moving forward.


https://twitter.com/GoodmanHoops/status/1717965695961477495

This is not going over well in the Xverse. They may have just shot themselves in the foot with even lower viewership than previously.