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OU_Country
2/2/2022 10:31 AM
KyleWvr13 wrote:expand_more
Aaaaand the score bug isn't working, so it'll be fun seeing the score every other possession tonight when the camera person can peak the floor scoreboard.
I love that you called it "score bug" given the bug in the system that's causing problems. 😉
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berniebobcat
2/2/2022 10:33 AM
As mentioned above, Luke Frazier made a couple of good moves for score. He may move up the pecking order, particularly if we lose another guard or even shooting forward. There wasn't enough time to tell whether his defense is any good.
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Recovering Journalist
2/2/2022 10:58 AM
berniebobcat wrote:expand_more
As mentioned above, Luke Frazier made a couple of good moves for score. He may move up the pecking order, particularly if we lose another guard or even shooting forward. There wasn't enough time to tell whether his defense is any good.
Other than being really scrawny, he looks like he belongs (VERY small sample size).
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FearLeon
2/2/2022 11:16 AM
spongeBOB CATpants wrote:expand_more
Hope we were great tonight! Thought kids got into it atleast until the end.
Could hear WT/LT on TV.
Nice. Thought a lot of kids caught onto it because the dirt sheets I put out which had WT/LT on the front. Keeping it there for future games for new kids.
Keep up the great work! This easily could've been a "let down" game as far as student turnout/engagement. A bad Ball State team on a Tuesday night and a sloppy slow start to the game, most years the students would be gone before half.

Dirt sheets are definitely a good idea moving forward. I think it brings a sense of unity among students who probably don't know each other besides the group they came with. Continue to grow the sense of community within the OZone, think that is what has been missing since the glory days.
Seriously...Cellis...you keep doing what you are doing. It's been noticed not only in the Convo but on TV as well. Think back to 4-5 years ago. Nobody had interest in trying to get the OZONE going again. Your passion and enthusiasm for Ohio hoops as a student is awesome to see. If having 20-30 students in OZONE engaged is 20-30 more than we had 4 years ago. And two years from now, I bet that grows to over 100.

Keep up the good work!
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FearLeon
2/2/2022 11:17 AM
Recovering Journalist wrote:expand_more
As mentioned above, Luke Frazier made a couple of good moves for score. He may move up the pecking order, particularly if we lose another guard or even shooting forward. There wasn't enough time to tell whether his defense is any good.
Other than being really scrawny, he looks like he belongs (VERY small sample size).
Underrated post. Can't gauge much on last night, but you can tell he has skills. Will be very interesting to watch his progress over next two years. I don't see him getting meaningful meetings this year, but he's a piece Boals can work with moving forward.
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Victory
2/2/2022 12:41 PM
Cellis033 wrote:expand_more
Also, loved the AD put "Sweet Victory" on the jumbotron just after the fight song ended!

Ball State's forum got pretty interesting in their Ohio thread including mentioning me: https://overthepylon.boards.net/thread/4425/ohio
Again, I have to say job well done so far, sir.

I read a lot of that thread. Some of the fans were excusing the 31 to 1 run saying that winning at Ohio was never going to happen in the first place because Ohio and Toledo were the best teams the MAC has fielded in a while. Others immediately questioned by then BSU has several losses to 200+ ranked teams. I think that the later is a much closer assessment of reality. BSU is just not all that good of a team and I am sure that their athletics administration is aware of that fact. I would go as far as saying that neither is in the same category as 2019 Buffalo and the are a whole host of recent teams that are just as good. As far as pairs go, Ohio and Akron dominated a much better version of the MAC in 2013.

What is going of with Toledo and Ohio is that there are numerous easy wins to be had when there usually is not. Unless you are a national title contender you are not going 17-3 in the versions of the MAC where nearly every team was ranked above 200. It just isn't happening if that's the case. I don't care if you are a top 20 team like 2019 Buffalo. You will still lose several games in that case. 14 seeds win about 1/6 of their games against seeds and that's on a neutral court with often 100+ ranked teams playing top 10 teams. Just think what would happen if that 50th ranked bubble team had a schedule with 20 games against decent but not good teams with half of them on the road. My math says that they would take far more losses than most people realize and it would be almost impossible to stay on the bubble playing that schedule. You would not get enough credit if you finished with a good record.

We are used to the MAC tournament champion getting a 12 or 13 seed. Ohio and Toledo are on track to do that if they win because they are dominating a down conference. If someone else represents the MAC, especially other than Buffalo, Akron, or Kent, it will be an ugly looking seed number.
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OU_Country
2/2/2022 12:59 PM
FearLeon wrote:expand_more
Hope we were great tonight! Thought kids got into it atleast until the end.
Could hear WT/LT on TV.
Nice. Thought a lot of kids caught onto it because the dirt sheets I put out which had WT/LT on the front. Keeping it there for future games for new kids.
Keep up the great work! This easily could've been a "let down" game as far as student turnout/engagement. A bad Ball State team on a Tuesday night and a sloppy slow start to the game, most years the students would be gone before half.

Dirt sheets are definitely a good idea moving forward. I think it brings a sense of unity among students who probably don't know each other besides the group they came with. Continue to grow the sense of community within the OZone, think that is what has been missing since the glory days.
Seriously...Cellis...you keep doing what you are doing. It's been noticed not only in the Convo but on TV as well. Think back to 4-5 years ago. Nobody had interest in trying to get the OZONE going again. Your passion and enthusiasm for Ohio hoops as a student is awesome to see. If having 20-30 students in OZONE engaged is 20=30 more than we had 4 years ago. And two years from now, I get that grows to over 100.

Keep up the good work!
I'll agree with this - nice work. From my seat 93-95 miles away on ESPN+, "Winning Team, Losing Team" was audible on the broadcast. That itself deserves Kudos. The fact that it was appropriately timed is even better. 👏👏👏👏
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bobcatsquared
2/2/2022 1:01 PM
OU_Country wrote:expand_more
I'll agree with this - nice work. From my seat 93-95 miles away on ESPN+, "Winning Team, Losing Team" was audible on the broadcast. That itself deserves Kudos. The fact that it was appropriately timed is even better. 👏👏👏👏
Appropriately timed would have been halftime.
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Cellis033
2/2/2022 1:16 PM
OU_Country wrote:expand_more
Hope we were great tonight! Thought kids got into it atleast until the end.
Could hear WT/LT on TV.
Nice. Thought a lot of kids caught onto it because the dirt sheets I put out which had WT/LT on the front. Keeping it there for future games for new kids.
Keep up the great work! This easily could've been a "let down" game as far as student turnout/engagement. A bad Ball State team on a Tuesday night and a sloppy slow start to the game, most years the students would be gone before half.

Dirt sheets are definitely a good idea moving forward. I think it brings a sense of unity among students who probably don't know each other besides the group they came with. Continue to grow the sense of community within the OZone, think that is what has been missing since the glory days.
Seriously...Cellis...you keep doing what you are doing. It's been noticed not only in the Convo but on TV as well. Think back to 4-5 years ago. Nobody had interest in trying to get the OZONE going again. Your passion and enthusiasm for Ohio hoops as a student is awesome to see. If having 20-30 students in OZONE engaged is 20=30 more than we had 4 years ago. And two years from now, I get that grows to over 100.

Keep up the good work!
I'll agree with this - nice work. From my seat 93-95 miles away on ESPN+, "Winning Team, Losing Team" was audible on the broadcast. That itself deserves Kudos. The fact that it was appropriately timed is even better. 👏👏👏👏
Thanks OU_Country! I think a lot of students in my group enjoyed themselves last night. I saw the dirt sheets brought everyone together and even encouraged them to come up with their own chants. We did "No Ball State" and "Start the busses" too. We were ready to do a "LEFT! RIGHT! LEFT!" chant if #23 or #12 on Ball S fouled out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cYWmeBDJQs
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Cellis033
2/2/2022 1:17 PM
FearLeon wrote:expand_more
Hope we were great tonight! Thought kids got into it atleast until the end.
Could hear WT/LT on TV.
Nice. Thought a lot of kids caught onto it because the dirt sheets I put out which had WT/LT on the front. Keeping it there for future games for new kids.
Keep up the great work! This easily could've been a "let down" game as far as student turnout/engagement. A bad Ball State team on a Tuesday night and a sloppy slow start to the game, most years the students would be gone before half.

Dirt sheets are definitely a good idea moving forward. I think it brings a sense of unity among students who probably don't know each other besides the group they came with. Continue to grow the sense of community within the OZone, think that is what has been missing since the glory days.
Seriously...Cellis...you keep doing what you are doing. It's been noticed not only in the Convo but on TV as well. Think back to 4-5 years ago. Nobody had interest in trying to get the OZONE going again. Your passion and enthusiasm for Ohio hoops as a student is awesome to see. If having 20-30 students in OZONE engaged is 20=30 more than we had 4 years ago. And two years from now, I get that grows to over 100.

Keep up the good work!
Thanks FearLeon! I know with continued social media promotion and use of the dirt sheets, AND the team being hot I can attract many more students. I'm not stopping anytime soon!
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Cellis033
2/2/2022 1:22 PM
berniebobcat wrote:expand_more
As mentioned above, Luke Frazier made a couple of good moves for score. He may move up the pecking order, particularly if we lose another guard or even shooting forward. There wasn't enough time to tell whether his defense is any good.
Frazier looked like a veteran out there in the closing minutes. Made sure we in the O-Zone gave him / John / Olumide / Josh some love in the end.
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SBH
2/2/2022 1:31 PM
I thought Olumide looked very comfortable on the floor. Good looking freshman.

Izuma also had good minutes.
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Cellis033
2/2/2022 1:38 PM
SBH wrote:expand_more
I thought Olumide looked very comfortable on the floor. Good looking freshman.

Izuma also had good minutes.
Agreed. IJ had some awesome offensive rebounds and drew that bucket foul as well. I notice he seems to get in some foul trouble at times but nothing a little defensive mechanics can't fix. We got some promising years ahead.
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NewAthenian
2/2/2022 3:44 PM
I would like to thank Adelodun for making me look good last night. I've kept an eye on him in shootarounds, and however the rest of the team seems to be doing from 3 pregame/halftime, he casually drains them...or at least does while I'm watching. So when he went in last night I said they need to get him the ball on the perimeter. And a few plays later he casually drained one that counted, and the folks I was with were quite impressed with both of us, hah!
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KyleWvr13
2/2/2022 6:53 PM
OU_Country wrote:expand_more
Aaaaand the score bug isn't working, so it'll be fun seeing the score every other possession tonight when the camera person can peak the floor scoreboard.
I love that you called it "score bug" given the bug in the system that's causing problems. 😉
I was under the impression that any of those overlays are called "bugs" in the industry... maybe I'm wrong.

It did come back soon after I posted about it, so maybe it was a bit early to shout about it :P
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LuckySparrow
2/2/2022 9:40 PM
OU_Country wrote:expand_more
Hope we were great tonight! Thought kids got into it atleast until the end.
Could hear WT/LT on TV.
Nice. Thought a lot of kids caught onto it because the dirt sheets I put out which had WT/LT on the front. Keeping it there for future games for new kids.
Keep up the great work! This easily could've been a "let down" game as far as student turnout/engagement. A bad Ball State team on a Tuesday night and a sloppy slow start to the game, most years the students would be gone before half.

Dirt sheets are definitely a good idea moving forward. I think it brings a sense of unity among students who probably don't know each other besides the group they came with. Continue to grow the sense of community within the OZone, think that is what has been missing since the glory days.
Seriously...Cellis...you keep doing what you are doing. It's been noticed not only in the Convo but on TV as well. Think back to 4-5 years ago. Nobody had interest in trying to get the OZONE going again. Your passion and enthusiasm for Ohio hoops as a student is awesome to see. If having 20-30 students in OZONE engaged is 20=30 more than we had 4 years ago. And two years from now, I get that grows to over 100.

Keep up the good work!
I'll agree with this - nice work. From my seat 93-95 miles away on ESPN+, "Winning Team, Losing Team" was audible on the broadcast. That itself deserves Kudos. The fact that it was appropriately timed is even better. 👏👏👏👏
Echoing this once again.. Amazing work, mate. And don't forget to take a youngster under your wing to pick up the torch when you graduate. The OZONE is ALIVE once again!
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Cellis033
2/2/2022 10:38 PM
LuckySparrow wrote:expand_more
Hope we were great tonight! Thought kids got into it atleast until the end.
Could hear WT/LT on TV.
Nice. Thought a lot of kids caught onto it because the dirt sheets I put out which had WT/LT on the front. Keeping it there for future games for new kids.
Keep up the great work! This easily could've been a "let down" game as far as student turnout/engagement. A bad Ball State team on a Tuesday night and a sloppy slow start to the game, most years the students would be gone before half.

Dirt sheets are definitely a good idea moving forward. I think it brings a sense of unity among students who probably don't know each other besides the group they came with. Continue to grow the sense of community within the OZone, think that is what has been missing since the glory days.
Seriously...Cellis...you keep doing what you are doing. It's been noticed not only in the Convo but on TV as well. Think back to 4-5 years ago. Nobody had interest in trying to get the OZONE going again. Your passion and enthusiasm for Ohio hoops as a student is awesome to see. If having 20-30 students in OZONE engaged is 20=30 more than we had 4 years ago. And two years from now, I get that grows to over 100.

Keep up the good work!
I'll agree with this - nice work. From my seat 93-95 miles away on ESPN+, "Winning Team, Losing Team" was audible on the broadcast. That itself deserves Kudos. The fact that it was appropriately timed is even better. 👏👏👏👏
Echoing this once again.. Amazing work, mate. And don't forget to take a youngster under your wing to pick up the torch when you graduate. The OZONE is ALIVE once again!
Thanks LuckySparrow! Currently working on finding a sophomore or freshman that is interested in continuing it on after I graduate.
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JSF
2/3/2022 3:46 PM
RPKirtland wrote:expand_more
Can someone enlighten me on 'dirt sheets" ?
Dirt sheets are somewhat of a guide to some chants and also contains "dirt" or embarrassing info gathered on the opposing players, which in this case would be Ball State's players / coaches. The O-Zone has used them for a long period of time atleast dating back to the early 00's.
I remember that, when I was 'running' the O Zone, our dirt sheet process included a fake Twitter and Instagram account of an "Ohio Student" that didn't exist. We'd fire off some follow requests to the private accounts of opposing players and usually get accepted. Also would get some realllllly compromising DMs sent to us on occasion, but never used those... no one needs to lose a scholly over banter.
Might consider having accounts like this in the future.
Uh, careful. I got more unsolicited pictures than I ever wanted to know about.
Hoo boy, if they had done that when I was around, they would have regretted it.
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