I don't know about you all but I am now concerned that a 3rd player has left the program.
1st it's our best player thinking he is NBA talent, and then if that's not enough he gets in trouble again so even if he wanted to withdraw his name from the draft and play next year he couldn't.
2nd it's our injured sophmore, who was a great freshman player.
3rd a transfer who already sat out the manadory year.
So now we are down at least 2 scholarships for this year. This also means we have a more inexperienced team than we thought we would have at the end of last year.
Where I thought we would be the favorite to win the conference this year back in April now I'm doubting that possibility. The challenge is, IMO, too big to repeat.
This will be another difficult year for the coach. 2 of these players who left were his recruits?
Will we be seeing a post about open tryouts?
Disappointing turn of events.




GO BOBCATS

Due to the nature of the business in general, and especially the nature of the players these days, I figure 2 defections per year, at any time of year, for rational, irrational, or uknown reasons, is standard operating procedure.

As for this year, we'll it just got more interesting.  We sure are young.

If you're including Horne, you have to include Kinney, too.

Months ago, I thought Jacobs and/or Hall would get a redshirt. That seems extremely doubtful now. Everyone will play.

I only left off Kinney because Horne, AB, Coleman, and Kellogg all left the program on their own. Kinney was kicked off the team mid season.

Agree somewhat, however DJ was our best player and he was setting up AB a lot of those times. Bassett got the glory, headlines, and fame. DJ got my respect.

     All the whiner's keep on whining,  If I check the stat book,  Alex Kellogg had zero points, zero rebounds and zero games played,  Would Alex help this year?  sure on the defensive side of the ball, but all the whiner's are selling this team out,  before the season starts and it's right down pissing me off.  Armon put us on his shoulders and carried us through the MAC and NCAA Tournaments, but trust me folks, he was bad chemistry for the team, Stevie "Fresh"  he couldn't stay out of trouble and I wasn't really counting on him to be on the team this year anyway. Then Alex Kellogg, hope he gets his life in order, but he hasn't played one minute in an Ohio uniform, how can you miss something you don't have?  In order for a team to be successful you need what I call the "Big 3",   Ohio has that in DJ Cooper, Tommy Freeman and Devaughn Washington,  Ohio has really good role players that will compliment the "Big 3" in Reggie Keely, Ivo Baltic and Ethan Jacobs in the post,  Nick Kellogg and Rico Johnson relieving DJ and then TJ Hall at 6'6 and Asown Sayles will help also. I'm hearing good things about the walk-on's, so you see whiner's all isn't lost.  It takes a TEAM to WIN ballgame's not one player.  All the dead weight is gone and now Ohio has a Team.  So stop your whinning and get behind this Ohio Men's Basketball Team and root them to a MAC Championship, cuz that's exactly what I'm gonna do.

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Dennis "Gman" Ohio Basketball "DON'T FLINCH"

                     "EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED"

GMan's point about The Big Three--solid veterans at three positions--is a good one.  And reason to remain calm.

If you want us to advance in the Dance, then yes we are hurting.  If you want us to win the MAC again, then no, we aren't hurting.  We can still win the MAC without Kellog.  Depending on who we would face in the NCAA tournament, we'd either do admirably or do crappy (no good team is going to not look closely at us after the Georgetown fiasco).  I have faith in this season that we will do quite well considering the return of those who have now had some experience with big games (MAC tourney and NCAA tourney games).  Not only that but we have a strong class below them so we'll be fine for the next few years.  Yes it sucks this kid has left because we could have made real noise on the national level.  However, on the MAC level, we will still make noise as we have many starters returning.  This will be a good year for us again, I can feel it.