This is the great struggle of being a better-than-average mid-major program: trying to get more good players to transfer in than out. It was great to add Hunter this year, but meanwhile we lost Sears and BVP. Sometimes it feels like one step up and two steps back.

(And yes, all the other MAC schools have to deal with this too.)

I love that some guys/you get it. You're posting to the same guy who once implied a scholarship for Baker was wasted. I tried the other day to say DWIII cannot run the court 40 minutes, or even 30. Fell on deaf ears to the wanna be coach. Whichever way the wind blows on a given day is his mentality.

To me it's just impressive that Toledo's won 17 games in a row. I mean, not a single road game slip up. Wishing them the best of luck tonight.

All things considered it was a decent year. Hopefully we don't lose too many of the freshman.

+1

I would have rather had somebody push DWIII in a wheelchair up and down the court for 30 minutes because it still would have given us a better chance than the alternative.

Numbers don't lie. The Whiz was on the court for 3:58 seconds. His +/- number during this time was an incredible -13. Look it up in the boxscore on ohiobobcats.com...they track it. Do you know how hard it is to accomplish a -13 in 3 minutes and 58 seconds of game action? So when I and others on this board went into this game saying DWIII had to somehow play 30-36 for us to have a real shot to win this is why. The Whiz never should have seen the floor last night. Hell...I would have played Hadaway over The Whiz last night for 120 seconds just to spell DW3. Is The Whiz the reason we lost...no (see Broderick...Clayton...Miles shooting numbers). But his minutes on the court in the first half certainly played a factor in us being up 8-6 to being down 21-12 and playing catch up from there.

I would have rather gone down with DW3 playing 30-36 minutes then The Whiz touching the floor for 3 minutes and 58 seconds against athletes he's completely overmatched by. Boals is going to have an interesting decision to make moving forward with him.

I get it, you hate Wiznitzer. I'll assume if you actually knew MORE about DWIII and his somewhat limited minutes throughout the entire year you'd change your opinions. Better that we had him play the entire year than risk losing him or further reducing his time on the court due to his challenges.

Biggest reason we lost was poor shooting. We boarded extremely well, but missed shot after shot after shot in 1st half. The shots fall and we'd have separated and been up big at halftime. Wiz was not a meaningful factor in the loss. We shot 39 percent, Toledo hit 52 percent. End of story unfortunately.

To be fair, we went on a great run in the first half of the prior game while DWIII was on the bench. I understand trying to limit minutes in a tournament atmosphere.

I really enjoy the way Boals coaches and his offensive system is one of the most aesthetically pleasing in the country. He allows the guys to let it fly. Just didn’t hit enough shots yesterday. And, well, one side had the MAC player of the year, and the other didn’t.

Fun season. Lots to build on going forward.

I understand where you're coming from and I'd have loved to see it too but the fact is it wasn't the last game of his career. Even in his farewell post DW3 was talking about playing professionally.

Boals made a decision to honor Dwight's wishes to not inflict any further harm and give him a chance at playing for pay. It's called understanding your guys and that college, as it is for most kids, is a stepping stone to help launch your ultimate career/goals. Boals will gain lots of confidence and good-will from future players and parents with these types of decisions instead of "win at OU at all costs to get my records and $$$"

I'm sorry, I just can't accept that DW chose and wanted to play only 24 minutes in that game. I thought I sensed some body language that suggested the contrary a couple times when he was taken out.

I wondered throughout the year if any Ohio fans had noticed, either watching on TV or live, DW not being too pleased when being subbed out. Personally, I can recall one time, 2nd half of the Miami game in the Convo, where I noticed DW not appearing too happy when Wiz was subbing in for him.

That link belongs in the discussion about OHIO's next president.