2-3 through the East is probably a best-case scenario. 1-4 is more likely, and honestly 0-5 wouldn't shock me.

Ahhhh yes.

Forgot about the bipolar dcf. Either totally on board and jacked up or totally the pall bearer of bad thoughts and tidings. Kind of missed during this swing through the west.

Is this supposed to be read as a poem? 

Speaking of bald guys
We could have hired Geno
He sure loves to clap

Define irony.
Point out others' misspellings,
Then write Groce with "V".

Those are both opinions.

 Shouldn't we have expected better results?
He hasn't shown us better results than TOS.

The cupboard was bare.  Give Gross two more years. 

Think about it.  This year's seniors.  Only one big and no ball handler--that is amazing.  That has led to a bench of freshman.  

During last season's outstanding run, Gross wore out the two guards because there wasn't anyone who could give them a break.  TOS left no bench strength.  Keely and Baltic shouldn't have seen the floor last year except for mop up time.  

Next season there should be four guys who can handle the ball, with the current two, the JUCO and freshman Taylor.  Additionally the bigs will then have more experience and bench strength with the more seasoned sophomore Jacobs. Throw in the two transfers and you are looking 9 deep instead of 7 deep.  Add the two slashers of Hall and Rico, each to back up the other.

This time next year if there is no improvement from now than comments like this will be timely, to make them now is to only look at records and not talent.  Someone commented about KSU and their 20 game win streaks through various coaching changes.  It seems that KSU consistently recruited and didn't rely on wholesale player change; their upper classmen could be counted on to produce as starters and bench support, not so at Ohio.

Inasmuch as that was the best week Ohio basketball enjoyed in over 30 years, works for me.

Fine, I'll up the meds. We probably are better now than we were a month ago. I'm still calling 1-4. No one wants to be wrong more than I do. And believe me when I say, despite being quite sour on this team's chances, I hope to get to a game very soon.

FL. I'm kind of taking a wait-and-see attitude also.   There are times -- like last March -- that I think JG is the next Johnny Wooden.  There are times like when we play Temple and turn one of the worst three-point shooting teams in the country into the best in the land that I think he's Billy Hahn's long-lost cousin.  In general I think he's upped our talent level since the TOS years, but I don't think he's as good a game coach as TOS (boy was that hard to get out) nor Larry Hunter.  When JG calls a TO in the waning moments of a game I almost never see anything resembling a plan when the team comes back on the court.  His sideline deportment is often puzzling to me.  He seems to me to overract to plays and calls sometimes and his facial expressions remind me just a little of some of Bo Pelini's antics on the sidelines that got him into so much trouble last year.  In a word, the man is an enigma to me.  JG is not at that level yet, but he seems to me to be tending in that direction at times. The recent example of the way he handled the DJ injury in the UT game also adds to my questions about him on a personal level.  What is he at the core?  I really don't have a good handle on that and haven't since the day he was hired.  I'm hoping that as JG gains experience as a head coach that he'll get better in making in-game decisions and that he'll improve overall as a coach.  Maybe as he matures he'll smooth out some of the rough "personality issues" also.  I'm hopeful.

While I almost always agree with things Flomogenized I feel a need to point out that

a) Kent and BG can generally get kids into school that Ohio can not. This is verified not only by former Ohio coaches but by former BG and KSU coaches with whom I have spoken. If getting less than stellar scholars who do not finish school  in larger numbers is our new recruiting standard then we will have a whole new population of players to choose from.

b) If we were to bring even half of those players on which Kent has built their reputation to campus there would be all sorts of holy heck to pay on this board and from those who seek to shut down athletics.

I am not going to even debate who is the better tactician. To be sure, my money might actually be on Ford just because any kid growing up in a house with a man that successful at the head of the table every night is bound to pick up a little bit just by osmosis and a lot by following Pop around and listening.
 
Sorry Pete,Chocteau, I did not see the mis-spelling before I sent from my iPhone and I actually pressed a v next to the c making Groce into Grove. On the other hand loosing for losing and excepting for accepting is an accepted practice in certain forums that needs to at least be shown the light of day.

Yeah, like Smith, Bassett and Offutt, Mitchell, A Kellogg.  You're kidding -right.