B+

I can tell you from firsthand conversations that a couple of coaches at competing schools think Schaus is the best AD in the league.

Personally I think best AD in the league resides in Toledo, Ohio, but that's just me. Always constantly getting a pulse on how things are going with folks and keeps the fans and boosters informed rather well. In addition to facility work they do here things are top notch in the 419 with him.

If I had to give a grade to him, I would argue a B+ as well. Definitely very good at having his short lists and definitely took time to thank everyone in the department and at least knew who I was (course that was a scary thing for a lot of folks). Otherwise, yeah hasn't had to make a football hire yet and when that day comes is when I can give him a final grade.

I have kind of mixed thoughts on Schaus.

For the two highest profile sports there is room for improvement (especially men's hoops) but they're OK overall.

Football is definitely on solid ground. Really hope a MAC championship is won under his watch.

Men's basketball has been OK but not what I think its full potential could be. The scoreboard in the Convo is a nice achievement.

But if you look at the overall performance of the department as a whole in the MAC on the court/field it's been poor.

With a recent sampling:

The men do now field as many sports so their max point achievement is more limited:

2017-18 Reese (Men’s) Standings
School, No. Sports, Points, Avg.
Eastern Michigan, 9 sports, 80.5 points, 8.944 avg.
Western Michigan, 5 sports, 44.0 points, 8.8 avg.
Miami, 7 sports, 56.0 points, 8.0 avg.
Kent State, 8 sports, 62.0 points, 7.75 avg.
Akron, 7 sports, 54.17 points, 7.738 avg.
Central Michigan, 7 sports, 48.67 points, 6.952 avg.
Toledo, 6 sports, 41.0 points, 6.833 avg.
Ball State, 6 sports, 40.5 points, 6.75 avg.
Buffalo, 7 sports, 42.5 points, 6.071 avg.
Ohio, 6 sports, 30.5 points, 5.083 avg.
Northern Illinois, 7 sports, 34.17 points, 4.881 avg.
Bowling Green, 6 sports, 24.5 points, 4.083 avg.

2017-18 Final Jacoby (Women’s) Standings
School, No. Sports, Points, Avg.
Toledo, 10 sports, 89.25 points, 8.925 avg.
Miami, 10 sports, 80.5 points, 8.05 avg.
Kent State, 10 sports, 79.0 points, 7.9 avg.
Eastern Michigan, 11 sports, 86.5 points, 7.8636 avg.
Buffalo, 9 sports, 68.5 points, 7.611 avg.
Central Michigan, 10 sports, 70.0 points, 7.0 avg.
Bowling Green, 11 sports, 72.0 points, 6.545 avg.
Northern Illinois, 10 sports, 63.5 points, 6.35 avg.
Western Michigan, 10 sports, 62.5 points, 6.25 avg.
Akron, 10 sports, 60.0 points, 6.0 avg.
Ball State, 12 sports, 70.75 points, 5.895 avg.
Ohio, 10 sports, 56.0 points, 5.6 avg.

Third from last and rock bottom by a wide margin.

Fortunately the average student/fan/Joe has no idea such a thing exists. Our general esteem/perception of success is higher than what these standings present. I love all things Ohio and want the Bobcats to win championships in everything. However some teams simply exist IMHO, with no real ambition to win championships.

The fact that a strong corporate naming rights partner has not been secured is a bit disappointing. I am sure a lot of behind the scenes things have gone down on Richland Avenue that I am not aware of but money drives the ship and it seems like not enough is coming in.

I would give a C for a grade.

Building an 18 hole golf course would be a huge plus. Imagine if basketball had no home games and had to practice on one half of an 84 foot court. That's essentially what our golf teams have for facilities.

Trip to BC is coming up in the next few years!

I don't know,as someone who went to O.U. in the 1970's,once we were allowed to have girls in our rooms 24/7,the golf course didn't seem as necessary to have around. :-)

There's also "O.U's golf course has 18 holes by day,but a lot more at night".

I don't know who said it.
I heard it from my brother who was at O.U. at the time of the Bob Hope show.
He was never really clear where he heard it.

My brother said he remembers it from the Bob Hope show itself.

But he also said Bob Hope had advance people in Athens a few days before his show to talk to people, so Hope could include "local flavor".
He said he and his friends in ROTC talked to the advance people,and that its possible the joke may have come from there.

Like I posted,my brother remembers it from the show.
But he admits it may have come from talking to Hope's advance people.

Hey,that's what urban legends are all about.

He was at O.U. from the Fall of 1974 to the Spring of 1978.
So he would have been at the 77 show.

All this talk about Bob Hope is reminding me of the time he and I shared a short conversation at an o$u football game in the fall of '77 or '78.

This was when I was playing football for Grandview Heights on Friday nights, watching game film the next morning, and then walking over to the horse shoe for a 1 p.m. kickoff with some of my Bobcat teammates. None of us ever had tickets for the o$u games but we always found a way into the stadium. Typically, we ended up talking with a ticket taker at one of the entrances on the east side. The ticket taker lived in Grandview and we would have a short discussion about our game the night before. He would ask us if we had tickets, which he knew we didn't, and then would let us in (all of this usually took place right at or shortly after kickoff).

My buddies and I would walk around the track that used to circle the field and sit in wooden folding chairs or in the stairways. One game, I ended up sitting at the end of the front row of the south-end bleachers. Bob Hope, who was scheduled to dot the I at halftime, came down from the press box with a few minutes left in the first half and sat down next to me. He looked at my Notre Dame ballcap before helping himself to it. He took off his hat (a Fedora, I believe) before putting my hat on his head. He asked me how ND was doing that day and why I wasn't a buckeye fan despite living in Central Ohio.

I don't recall, OCF, if he said anything about the Ohio University golf course.