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Originally Posted by Buckeye Nut
This is exactly my point. We as Ohio State fans should know about this as well as anyone. John Cooper had a fantastic winning percentage, but he failed to beat Michigan and win bowl games which in basketball I would equate to failing to meet expectations in the NCAA tournament and more often than not losing to inferior talent. Well that's basically the same situation we're going through right now with Foster. No doubt Cooper and Foster are very good coaches, maybe even HOF coaches, but there comes a point when it becomes obvious a coach has done all he can do for a program and I think we've reached that point. Also, for anyone to suggest that getting rid of Foster would somehow doom the program is silly. What, are we going to hire some grad assistant from a mac school? This is Ohio State, we have great facilities and most importantly money. We'd be able to attract a very good young coach to build this program into a national power. Anybody here upset we got rid of Cooper to hire Tressel? I doubt it.
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I agree with the desire to have the program achieve more success on a national level; but I don't buy the comparison of Foster to Cooper, and I'm not ready to cast aside a coach who has led the program to the success it's enjoyed recently.
Winning 4 straight Big Ten titles and having difficulty in the NCAA tournament, in my mind, would equate to beating TSUN in football but losing the bowl game. We all know that 3-8 (Coop's bowl record) reflects some postseason struggles, but 2-10-1 is a far cry from 4 straight Big Ten titles in the regular season. To me, that makes comparing Foster to Cooper too harsh of a judgment.