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Originally Posted by LitlBuck
We do not have anyone new coming in next year so there will be no additions and Buford and Turner are not going any place. You need to read some other threads 
I think all of us understand about the money but my question is how can other programs be successful year after year and I am not talking about Siena. Maybe those of us who are having "brain farts" would like Matta to slow down and try and not get it done in one year. I am not the individual who thinks that Ohio State can win a national championship every other year but I would like to see some continuity in the program and maybe if luck falls our way we might be able to take a run at a championship. |
How many other programs really have a high level of success from year to year?
UConn, UNC, Duke, Kansas, Michigan State.
After that group there are certainly other power programs (Pitt, Memphis) but much of their success is recent and not nearly the consistency of the above group.
Even Kentucky, UCLA and others have down years.
I see what you're saying but I'm not sure where Ohio State basketball comes into the grand scheme. It's not a program that I ever see contending for a national title year in, year out. Once every 10 years? Perhaps.
It seems to me that there are more high level basketball players now than at any point in the past. The smaller schools benefit from this. My son plays AAU ball and the sheer number of good players that play basketball year round now focusing ONLY on basketball doing explosive training, skills training, working with shooting coaches is astounding. There is so much more instruction and coaching out there than there used to be. By the time my son graduates from high school he'll have somewhere around 1000 basketball games under his belt. In the past there was no way to reach that number of games played.
Again, the lower level teams are benefitting and the gap in talent level between programs is not as deep as some would like to believe.
Basketball isn't like football. The upper echelon programs can't swallow up huge numbers of players to horde talent.