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posted this elsewhere but:
"End of an era" definitely applies.
I have to say some sort of goodbye to a coach and a man that I love from afar and will respect forever. I watched his press conference and you can see how much this job meant to him and how hard it is for him to lose it. It broke my ****** heart. I did not want it to end like this for him. I know how badly he wanted to win a National Championship for OSU. I dreamed of him doing it. There were times where I thought we were awfully close. There was that '10-11 season that I was even about sure we had the best team in the nation but we had a bad night against a bad match-up in the S16. Or the Thad Five running into the probably the last team ever to be defending champs who also returned multiple first round picks. We had some amazing highs with Thad and up until these past several years, the consistency of excellence was kind of amazing for a program at a football school in a sport where it is harder and harder to get ahead with early entries, transfers, and increasing parity.
Donovan would be our best possible hire right now, an absolute dream hire, yet after that team he had that won back-to-back NCs, he wasn't even achieving at quite the same level that Thad was in the same time frame. Along with all the B1G championships Thad won in the first portion of his career here, there was a stretch where we had the longest S16 streak in the nation, a stretch that included a F4 and an E8. It is going to be exceedingly difficult for any new coach to reach those same heights consistently at OSU. On the positive side, a good coach should eventually be able to exceed where we've been at the past couple seasons, especially last season that didn't even include a NIT bid. I will pray for a great hire, but my hopes and expectations are firmly in check. And the sooner we clean house on these lame duck assistants, the better.
And I will miss Thad, so much. What a great representative of this university, a man full of humor and heart and integrity, and a phenomenal coach. The best basketball coach OSU has ever had. I had hoped he would at least get one or two seasons of some sort of a turn-around (a turn-around that didn't seem like it was going to happen, but I was trying hope that for him), announce a retirement, coach a final game where he got a standing O. He deserved that much. Instead, I will just pray the best for him and his family in whatever happens next for them.
To whoever the new coach ends up being: good luck. You're gonna need it.
"End of an era" definitely applies.
I have to say some sort of goodbye to a coach and a man that I love from afar and will respect forever. I watched his press conference and you can see how much this job meant to him and how hard it is for him to lose it. It broke my ****** heart. I did not want it to end like this for him. I know how badly he wanted to win a National Championship for OSU. I dreamed of him doing it. There were times where I thought we were awfully close. There was that '10-11 season that I was even about sure we had the best team in the nation but we had a bad night against a bad match-up in the S16. Or the Thad Five running into the probably the last team ever to be defending champs who also returned multiple first round picks. We had some amazing highs with Thad and up until these past several years, the consistency of excellence was kind of amazing for a program at a football school in a sport where it is harder and harder to get ahead with early entries, transfers, and increasing parity.
Donovan would be our best possible hire right now, an absolute dream hire, yet after that team he had that won back-to-back NCs, he wasn't even achieving at quite the same level that Thad was in the same time frame. Along with all the B1G championships Thad won in the first portion of his career here, there was a stretch where we had the longest S16 streak in the nation, a stretch that included a F4 and an E8. It is going to be exceedingly difficult for any new coach to reach those same heights consistently at OSU. On the positive side, a good coach should eventually be able to exceed where we've been at the past couple seasons, especially last season that didn't even include a NIT bid. I will pray for a great hire, but my hopes and expectations are firmly in check. And the sooner we clean house on these lame duck assistants, the better.
And I will miss Thad, so much. What a great representative of this university, a man full of humor and heart and integrity, and a phenomenal coach. The best basketball coach OSU has ever had. I had hoped he would at least get one or two seasons of some sort of a turn-around (a turn-around that didn't seem like it was going to happen, but I was trying hope that for him), announce a retirement, coach a final game where he got a standing O. He deserved that much. Instead, I will just pray the best for him and his family in whatever happens next for them.
To whoever the new coach ends up being: good luck. You're gonna need it.
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