Ohio MBK: The odds of Saul Phillips being Ohio's head coach in 2019-20 aren't as high as they were a year ago. No extension yet (per FOIA request), and neither side wanting to talk about it https://t.co/zpYY1dvlXP

— Jason Arkley (@JasonAmessenger) April 4, 2018

Good work by Arkley to file the FOIA. Many people on here thought an extension was done months ago and just not announced publicly. They were wrong. Guess Schaus sees what only a few on this board have been preaching....2018-2019 is make or break for Saul in Athens.

If you plan on getting rid of yr coach, you dangwell better have a better one ready to take his place...

I will say this: Schaus always has 5 names ready to go in case a coach leaves or is fired. He went through it with us right after he hired Saul how his process works.

That said, the back is against the wall for #SaulBall. It's going to come down to how many wins he gets and how many fans buy tickets. If the attendance continues its downward trend as I alluded to on another thread, the bean counters will make the decision on this one.

Have the apologists gone on collective hiatus?

4/11/18 marks a very important day for our current coach. The (2) open scholarships are now make or break moves for this recruiting class. I appreciate that Schaus has established that mediocrity (or less) is not acceptable. There are more than enough immediate impact and immediate eligibility players available on our level. It is time to produce, 5 years is enough.

Larry Hunter is available! ;-)

An offer maybe from their sophomore year. We have been embellishing offers list. No way anybody recently offered the three that we have coming in this year. If they did, they may be in danger of being fired as well. I like McMurray, he comes from a great program. Most Stow players don’t become superstars, they are usually solid. He shouldn’t miss open threes or shoot 60-70% from the line. Murrelet was like the 10th man and the big guy, I can believe the offer from Hampton at one point, they don’t recruit well, but that is about it.

"We" aren't embellishing anything. verbalcommits.com is typically the most reliable source of this info and actually if anything would be more likely to under report than fictitiously add an offer. Check out how many offers Dartis had...Kennesaw State and they at the time were offering everyone. More offers probably a good sign, I agree, but a lack of offers isn't automatically a bad thing especially with guys who commit early. Carter had only Kent & Miami offers for example.

6'-11" guys who are physically mature and possess a jump shot aren't out there for us to get so we have to seek those that need to develop physically. Sure it takes longer before they have a significant impact but if they pan out it can be huge (big if). That's a risk you've got to take at this level.

All 3 guys coming in played on teams with other D-1 bound players so stats and playing time are going to be spread a little thinner, particularly when looking at Murrel & Springs. Let's just see how they play in Athens before deciding they aren't going to hack it.

Back to the original topic....I'm surprised a 1 year extension wasn't added with limited buyout cost just so it can't be used against us in recruiting. I can't argue against the decision based on recent results regardless of what lead to them though. I do think next year will be improved regardless of who else is signed in the late period assuming Carter, Dartis, and BVP are healthy but we aren't challenging Buffalo or possibly even Toledo without 1 of the 2 remaining schollies being an immediate contributor in backcourt. My preference is a JUCO 2/3 with one scholarship and a Freshman or young transfer PG.

THIS. Thank you. Unless I'm mistaken, there aren't too many recruiting "experts" present here that actually know the in's and out's of what is really happening, who really got offers, etc. Let a kid at least show up and practice a time or two, or maybe play, or not play a game or two before we say they're not worthy of the offer. OR...if you're gonna say that crap, have something based on REALITY, FACTS, or fact based opinion that supports it. Not just a, "well he was only offered by..." when belittling a recruit you've likely never seen on a court.


So...when Jason Carter and Jordan Dartis only had a few offers, they were terrible recruits too, right? C'mon man. Wake up. There are some kids who don't have a ton of offers for whatever reason. One of them is that they committed early. Another could be that they appear to be a late bloomer in their senior year. Regardless, no one here is "embellishing offers". It's coming from real sources on recruiting such as Verbal Commits, Rivals, etc. Quit making crap up to fit your narrative.

Actually, no, they haven't. Some have just given up on trying to convince idiots that there's more than one way to see things. That we don't need hashtags and ^^^^ to make a point and quote things like this page. That most of the people on here who talk like they know about recruiting don't know a damn thing. Threads like this and some of the comments in it demonstrate who those people are.

I hope he hits a home run recruiting and we win. If we don't win, he needs to be held accountable. It is nothing more than that.

Yep.....this. And as my swabbie pal would quote his great friend Spiro: "Nattering Nabobs.....etc".

Come on, someone at Ohio recruited the likes of Craig Love, Tommy Corde (a personal favorite of mine), John Devereaux, Dave Jamerson, Walter Luckett (the cover of Sports Illustrated), Paul "Snoopy" Graham, Gary Trent, Brandon Hunter, Antonio Campbell, Gino Ford, Maurice Ndour, and D.J. Cooper, and that is just to name a very few. If amazing talent like this can be convinced to come to Ohio University, what is stopping this coach from making his own unique recruiting stamp on this amazing program that we all love and adore?