I second that because with the Coach making a bunch of inroads in our state I would hate for new folks here who have grown up in basketball to think that this is the norm for the Ohio view of the game. My guess is if they come here for a look it will undo any recruiting advantage Coach may have.
And with these sentences you just lost all credibility.
"Mommy, I'm not going to play basketball at Ohio because Bobcat695 and Gman the Cat Fan are mean on the message board"
Gimme a break. We've heard this argument so many times, and so many times it has become stale and inaccurate. Kids aren't choosing schools based on message board fodder, and if they are - it's probably not a kid or family you want around.
The people that start associating a message board with recruiting tumult are people where I click "Mark as Read" ASAP....and they join Slavin and OCF in that category of purgatory.
LMAO! Gman is as nice as they come, but I can understand why my name comes to mind when controversy swirls. I'll bet Jay Kinney would have skipped on Ohio if he read my post about the irresponsibility of smoking weed during the season. I am also glad Melvin Payne did not read my posts on not breaking and entering. I think our board is as non-controversial as it gets. In conversations I have had with player's parents, they lurk and agree that this is a tame place to discuss Bobcat sports. Heck, we even gave a nice ovation to the coach of our most hated rival yesterday out of sheer respect.
On a side note regarding the baseline seats, I kind of liked them if the right group is down there. I was offered 4 of the seats Sunday, but we were with a group of 11 and I wanted to sit with all our friends, so I passed. I'll take the OBC guys up on the offer some game. I think I'll fit right in with the Ozone, too. There will be loud cheering and
good natured ribbing of the officials. I think we did a good job filling in for the students during December in the same capacity. Let me get the seats with Love, Mrs. Love, Hooligan and his wife, McBin, McKinney, Steve Ragan, GMan and my two boys. Throw in Reggie Keely's dad Nick Kellogg's mom and we would do those seats proud.