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Chris Holtmann (ex-tOSU Bball coach, HC at DePaul)

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OSU_Buckguy said:
i hope calipari stays at kentucky for a very long time. i don't know if coach has ever expressed affinity for uk, but he grew up in what is essentially a suburb of lexington. otherwise, north carolina would definitely be the program to worry me due to prestige and roy's age. think duke will replace k with an in-house guy. don't see self leaving kansas anytime soon. ucla is ass. indiana is certainly a draw, but i don't see coach leaving for a next-door program what will be in a worse spot than osu. if indiana would go after osu's coach, then it probably means that osu has only gotten better and stronger.

definitely agree that the administration needs to prioritize the basketball program and they need to do that yesterday. there should be a major campaign to fill the arena. ho1tmann handing out donuts to the students ain't gonna cut it. i'm by no means singling out our coach, though. the problem here is those who spend all day in suits and offices.
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good article that also fleshes out why if there is a program to be most concerned about poaching ho1tmann, it's kentucky, though unc is no doubt right there for a few reasons. think unc fits ho1tmann better from the perspective of recruiting and timing, but the childhood draw can't be matched. the unc job will likely open up before uk's. my guess is unc prefers wes miller (uncg) if he first gets his feet wet at a high-major.



No divided loyalties for Chris Holtmann’s family as Ohio State to face childhood favorite Kentucky
The Kentucky team photos still hang in the Holtmann house, and the basketballs autographed by former players remain. After all, the homestead resides in Nicholasville, Kentucky, a town that’s hardly a dozen miles from Rupp Arena, the state’s mecca of college basketball and home to the Wildcats.

Born in Cincinnati but transplanted there when he was 2, Holtmann grew up in the thick of Big Blue Nation and embraced it alongside his parents, John and Patty. When his younger brother John Michael came along 12 years later, he did, too.

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As a child, Chris Holtmann said basketball consumed him and that the region’s fervor for Kentucky colored his formative years. He watched every game, memorized rosters, spent summers playing on the Blue Courts on Kentucky’s campus and participating in the annual “Dirt Bowl,” a legendary city league that dates back decades.

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“I think it’s going to be special for the whole family,” John Michael Holtmann said. “I can’t tell you how many people have asked us, legitimately serious, who we’re pulling for. I want to respond with, ‘You do know that we’re brothers right? He may have tormented me when I was a little kid and I’ll have to get him back somehow, but we are brothers.’ ”
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Jake said:
Holtmann won 15 of his first 18 conference games. Since then he's 10-20 in conference games.

Hmmm...
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Beilein and other coaches trying to win the clean way that had to raise the level of play in the program commonly have taken 4 years to really build a stable B1G contender. As much as it sucks, it is still early in his tenure at OSU. The Jallow redshirt is actually hurting them a lot as he is another glue guy not totally unlike Kyle Young in that he does a lot of stuff that gets underappreciated or unnoticed by the casual fan. When you don't have a star player, every significant personnel loss you suffer can have a large ripple effect.
 
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DZ83CK said:
Beilein and other coaches trying to win the clean way that had to raise the level of play in the program commonly have taken 4 years to really build a stable B1G contender. As much as it sucks, it is still early in his tenure at OSU. The Jallow redshirt is actually hurting them a lot as he is another glue guy not totally unlike Kyle Young in that he does a lot of stuff that gets underappreciated or unnoticed by the casual fan. When you don't have a star player, every significant personnel loss you suffer can have a large ripple effect.
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Yeah, not ready to fire him - I like him - but 10-20 is cause for concern.

Let's see how the rest of this season goes, and next season.
 
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DZ83CK said:
Beilein and other coaches trying to win the clean way that had to raise the level of play in the program commonly have taken 4 years to really build a stable B1G contender. As much as it sucks, it is still early in his tenure at OSU. The Jallow redshirt is actually hurting them a lot as he is another glue guy not totally unlike Kyle Young in that he does a lot of stuff that gets underappreciated or unnoticed by the casual fan. When you don't have a star player, every significant personnel loss you suffer can have a large ripple effect.
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If you don't have a star player then recruit one. And no I don't see Zed Key and Eugene Brown turning this dumpster fire around next year. underwhelming.
 
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OhioState001 said:
If you don't have a star player then recruit one. And no I don't see Zed Key and Eugene Brown turning this dumpster fire around next year. underwhelming.
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Justice Sueing, the kid who led Cal in scoring last season, will be eligible next year. Not sure he is going to be "the man" or just an improvement, but either way with adding him and the other guys I think they are pointed in the right direction. It might not be as far a step as some would like, but it looks like this is more of a brick-by-brick rebuild where the team gets slightly better each season.
 
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