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USC has a lot of talent, but they are very undisciplined. Both Saul and Groce are doing well with depleted rosters I like our chances of pulling it together and winning the MAC. Akron got absolutely destroyed by USC. Big 'ol collapse by Kron. All 4 wheels fell off. Lost by 31. Yikes. And they were winning by 4 at half. I even felt bad for about 45 seconds. Ok, maybe 4.5 seconds ;-) The most jarring thing still to me is that Groce is coaching for Akron. That right there will tell you this whole coaching thing is basically a mercenary effort. JG haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaated Akron. More than Miami. Probably more than UM when he was with the Buckeyes. It wasn't really even a secret. That he took that job still makes me laugh. That said if we don't start getting healthier, I feel we're going to struggle in the MAC. Even in a down year. Back to Top allen General User Member Since: 1/24/2006 Post Count: 4,630 Status: Offline     RE: MAC Season on the Horizon    Posted: 12/22/2017 10:46:26 PM  mcbin wrote: allen wrote: Akron is beating USC. USC has a lot of talent, but they are very undisciplined. Both Saul and Groce are doing well with depleted rosters I like our chances of pulling it together and winning the MAC. Akron got absolutely destroyed by USC. Big 'ol collapse by Kron. All 4 wheels fell off. Lost by 31. Yikes. And they were winning by 4 at half. I even felt bad for about 45 seconds. Ok, maybe 4.5 seconds ;-) The most jarring thing still to me is that Groce is coaching for Akron. That right there will tell you this whole coaching thing is basically a mercenary effort. JG haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaated Akron. More than Miami. Probably more than UM when he was with the Buckeyes. It wasn't really even a secret. That he took that job still makes me laugh. That said if we don't start getting healthier, I feel we're going to struggle in the MAC. Even in a down year. The zone caught up to and stifled Akron. Nobody despises to lose more than I do. That's got me into trouble over the years, but it also made a man of mediocre ability into a pretty good coach. Woody Hayes Back to Top OUVan General User Member Since: 12/20/2004 Location: Bethesda, MD Post Count: 5,580 Status: Offline     RE: MAC Season on the Horizon    Posted: 12/23/2017 9:29:58 AM  Buckeye to Bobcat wrote: I could care less for MACtion hoops..... No one has that "big" win, Ohio refuses to schedule anyone on a ramped up scale, and quite frankly the MAC sucks at hoops. There I said it. All the teams are going for is a #14 seed to get clubbed by Notre Dame or Wichita State. Do you mean the same Notre Dame team that just lost at home to Ball State? Yeah, no "big" wins. No chance anybody in the poor ol' MAC could compete with them, except.... The league is wide open this year and is going to be just as exciting as it always is. Ohio is going to have a ton of exciting games in the next three months. Shame you don't have the capacity to appreciate it. This is going to be a fun team to watch grow and mature. Back to Top Buckeye to Bobcat General User Member Since: 9/10/2013 Post Count: 1,776 Status: Offline     RE: MAC Season on the Horizon    Posted: 12/23/2017 8:41:05 PM  OUVan wrote: Buckeye to Bobcat wrote: I could care less for MACtion hoops..... No one has that "big" win, Ohio refuses to schedule anyone on a ramped up scale, and quite frankly the MAC sucks at hoops. There I said it. All the teams are going for is a #14 seed to get clubbed by Notre Dame or Wichita State. Do you mean the same Notre Dame team that just lost at home to Ball State? Yeah, no "big" wins. No chance anybody in the poor ol' MAC could compete with them, except.... The league is wide open this year and is going to be just as exciting as it always is. Ohio is going to have a ton of exciting games in the next three months. Shame you don't have the capacity to appreciate it. This is going to be a fun team to watch grow and mature. It's going to be exciting, I acknowledge that. But again, this ain't the 90's where at least 3 teams could go legitimately knock off big teams. Back to Top OU_Country General User Member Since: 12/6/2005 Location: On the road between Athens and Madison County Post Count: 8,320 Status: Offline     RE: MAC Season on the Horizon    Posted: 12/24/2017 1:41:00 PM  Buckeye to Bobcat wrote: OUVan wrote: Buckeye to Bobcat wrote: I could care less for MACtion hoops..... No one has that "big" win, Ohio refuses to schedule anyone on a ramped up scale, and quite frankly the MAC sucks at hoops. There I said it. All the teams are going for is a #14 seed to get clubbed by Notre Dame or Wichita State. Do you mean the same Notre Dame team that just lost at home to Ball State? Yeah, no "big" wins. No chance anybody in the poor ol' MAC could compete with them, except.... The league is wide open this year and is going to be just as exciting as it always is. Ohio is going to have a ton of exciting games in the next three months. Shame you don't have the capacity to appreciate it. This is going to be a fun team to watch grow and mature. It's going to be exciting, I acknowledge that. But again, this ain't the 90's where at least 3 teams could go legitimately knock off big teams. Ball State and UB qualify as two teams this year, that could do that. I can say that with little hesitation. After that, I'm not sure. I still think Ohio can be very good with most of the parts together and healthy. I also think Toledo, WMU, NIU, and Kent are at least decent. Back to Top Eagle66 General User Member Since: 3/13/2005 Post Count: 1,329 Status: Offline     RE: MAC Season on the Horizon    Posted: 12/27/2017 9:21:43 AM  bshot44 wrote: Do you see a non D-1 on the regular season schedule for Akron? Nope. Akron does host Concord University this Friday... Back to Top BillyTheCat General User Member Since: 10/6/2012 Post Count: 9,478 Status: Offline     RE: MAC Season on the Horizon    Posted: 12/27/2017 11:16:23 AM  Eagle66 wrote: bshot44 wrote: Do you see a non D-1 on the regular season schedule for Akron? Nope. Akron does host Concord University this Friday... That’s a friend game, former Dustin assistant and former Bobcat TJ May is at Concord. Back to Top Bobcat1998 General User Member Since: 11/7/2012 Post Count: 2,232 Status: Offline     RE: MAC Season on the Horizon    Posted: 12/29/2017 7:07:43 PM  I am assuming for the worst that BVP and Jason Carter will be redshirted, leaving us with a starting 5 of Taylor, Dartis, Laster, Block and Kirk with a bench of Mickle, Gollon, Butler and Gareri. I think we can be fine in the MAC with that rotation. If Gareri can give us even 8 minutes a game and Butler can come into his own and give us 10 minutes per game I think Mickle is an above-average MAC player and Gollon will turn into a Jake Kretzer or better type. Back to Top BobcatSports General User Member Since: 2/2/2006 Post Count: 1,068 Status: Offline     RE: MAC Season on the Horizon    Posted: 12/30/2017 3:07:37 PM  Seeing how Gareri hasn’t given us 8 seconds of court time yet, I’m not at all optimistic about what help he would offer in the MAC portion of the schedule. Could he be a red-shirt possibility as well? Back to Top Bobcat1998 General User Member Since: 11/7/2012 Post Count: 2,232 Status: Offline     RE: MAC Season on the Horizon    Posted: 12/30/2017 5:57:58 PM  BobcatSports wrote: Seeing how Gareri hasn’t given us 8 seconds of court time yet, I’m not at all optimistic about what help he would offer in the MAC portion of the schedule. Could he be a red-shirt possibility as well? Would that mess with our recruiting grid too much to have basically 3 of the same players as posts mext year in BVP, Gareri, McMurray as freshmen? Back to Top The Optimist General User Member Since: 3/16/2007 Location: CLE Post Count: 5,552 Status: Offline     RE: MAC Season on the Horizon    Posted: 12/31/2017 10:30:56 AM  No one gave the 2010 squad a shot against Georgetown. Few gave the 2011 squad a shot against USF, Michigan or UNC. All I know for sure is nobody actually knows what's going to happen on any given night. We've got some guys capable of going off any given night. If Gareri can give us 10 quality minutes in the post we are good enough to contend in the MAC. If we are good enough to contend in the MAC, we are good enough to punch a ticket to the big dance. Crazier things have happened. I've seen crazier things happen. Back to Top Ted Thompson Administrator Member Since: 11/11/2004 Location: MAC Play Post Count: 7,399 Status: Offline     RE: MAC Season on the Horizon    Posted: 1/6/2018 10:01:39 PM  Buffalo with an impressive 20-point win in Muncie today. Follow Ohio Football recruiting on the BobcatAttack.com football recruiting database. Back to Top FearLeon General User Member Since: 3/12/2005 Post Count: 4,125 Status: Offline     RE: MAC Season on the Horizon    Posted: 1/7/2018 9:56:03 AM  Ted Thompson wrote: Buffalo with an impressive 20-point win in Muncie today. Best team in league.....not even close. Like their chances to advance in NCAA tourney if they can survive Cleveland. #BleedGreen #TrentIsGOAT Back to Top OU_Country General User Member Since: 12/6/2005 Location: On the road between Athens and Madison County Post Count: 8,320 Status: Offline     RE: MAC Season on the Horizon    Posted: 1/7/2018 1:39:02 PM  FearLeon wrote: Ted Thompson wrote: Buffalo with an impressive 20-point win in Muncie today. Best team in league.....not even close. Like their chances to advance in NCAA tourney if they can survive Cleveland. Agreed. I said yesterday that UB is a notch above every other team, then Ball State, and then a drop off to the rest of the pack in the MAC. Tuesday will be a great test for OUr guys. Back to Top FearLeon General User Member Since: 3/12/2005 Post Count: 4,125 Status: Offline     RE: MAC Season on the Horizon    Posted: 1/7/2018 2:15:42 PM  OU_Country wrote: FearLeon wrote: Ted Thompson wrote: Buffalo with an impressive 20-point win in Muncie today. Best team in league.....not even close. Like their chances to advance in NCAA tourney if they can survive Cleveland. Agreed. I said yesterday that UB is a notch above every other team, then Ball State, and then a drop off to the rest of the pack in the MAC. Tuesday will be a great test for OUr guys. Yep...I really think it's a sleeper Sweet 16 team. They played a quality non-con to get them ready and they are loaded with athletes. Would be a very dangerous 12-13 seed. #BleedGreen #TrentIsGOAT Back to Top bshot44 General User Member Since: 2/12/2012 Post Count: 2,211 Status: Offline     RE: MAC Season on the Horizon    Posted: 1/9/2018 10:58:38 PM  Don't think they'd be seeded that high. Probably a 13 or 14 because they didn't have great out of conference wins. But I agree. They're class of league. 20+ point road wins at Ball & Kron. Wow. They'll probably do same to Ohio Back to Top OU_Country General User Member Since: 12/6/2005 Location: On the road between Athens and Madison County Post Count: 8,320 Status: Offline     RE: MAC Season on the Horizon    Posted: 1/10/2018 11:07:03 AM  Something I've noticed so far, besides UB being the class of the league, is that the rest of the league after UB and I think Ball State, is really bunched together. All are rather equally inconsistent so far, and we've seen a lot of blow out wins. Kent, WMU and CMU have been on both the sides of blow out games in their first three games. While Ohio hasn't shown me enough in the last 5-6 games to make me think it can happen, the league is so wacky right now that getting that top-4 seed isn't out of the question just because of the league. For whoever usually does them, I'd be interested to see the Golf Standings right now. My hunch is that it's pretty even after UB. Back to Top FearLeon General User Member Since: 3/12/2005 Post Count: 4,125 Status: Offline     RE: MAC Season on the Horizon    Posted: 1/10/2018 12:12:53 PM  bshot44 wrote: Don't think they'd be seeded that high. Probably a 13 or 14 because they didn't have great out of conference wins. But I agree. They're class of league. 20+ point road wins at Ball & Kron. Wow. They'll probably do same to Ohio Yep...I should have said 13-14...correct. Regardless, I will ride them to the sweet 16. Hell of a coach and nothing but athletes. #BleedGreen #TrentIsGOAT Back to Top bshot44 General User Member Since: 2/12/2012 Post Count: 2,211 Status: Offline     RE: MAC Season on the Horizon    Posted: 1/10/2018 12:19:29 PM  bshot44 wrote: Realistically, after what we've seen so far ... where will Ohio sit after first 9 games? at CMU at Akron at EMU ... all these seem like they'll be tough to win. at Kent at BG ... both seem winnable Buffalo Ball St ... class of the league I'd say ... both at home, but as we've seen in recent years ... Convo magic isn't what it used to be, so these will be dogfights Toledo ... another challenge NIU ... maybe the only game I feel like Ohio should definitely win. I wouldn't be stunned to see Ohio start 5-4 or 4-5 ... best case I'd say 6-3 .... worst case 2-7 and I wouldn't be stunned. Still don't have a great feel on this team ... but it's going to be a battle for them to challenge for a top four seed. Not what I expected at this point of Saul Ball era So far this is playing out as I thought. Losses at CMU and at home vs. Ball St. Thought NIU was a definite win ... and it was. Does anyone at all feel confident in the next five?!?! at Kent Toledo at EMU at Akron Buffalo I know Kent is struggling ... but do you feel great about Ohio taking their game on the road ... anywhere at this point? Ohio rarely plays well in Ypsi .... and Groce will certainly have his Zippers ready for Ohio. Buffalo at home will take a near miracle at this point. And Toledo has looked more than decent so far ... might be only game I give Ohio a strong chance, and only because it's at home. I agree with OU Country ... after Buffalo ... the MAC is kind of up for grabs. Unfortunately, from what I've seen from OUr guys ... I don't know if they have what it takes to "grab" one of those other three byes. I would be less than stunned that Ohio opens MAC tourney on the road at this rate. They'll be competitive in just about every game ... but outside of the WKU and Indiana State wins ... what games has Ohio shown the ability to put a team away or just take over a game (DO NOT MENTION SWAC/MEACtion). It's going to be a struggle every night. Just hope some bounce Ohio's way. Back to Top bshot44 General User Member Since: 2/12/2012 Post Count: 2,211 Status: Offline     RE: MAC Season on the Horizon    Posted: 1/26/2018 11:47:20 AM  bshot44 wrote: bshot44 wrote: Realistically, after what we've seen so far ... where will Ohio sit after first 9 games? at CMU at Akron at EMU ... all these seem like they'll be tough to win. at Kent at BG ... both seem winnable Buffalo Ball St ... class of the league I'd say ... both at home, but as we've seen in recent years ... Convo magic isn't what it used to be, so these will be dogfights Toledo ... another challenge NIU ... maybe the only game I feel like Ohio should definitely win. I wouldn't be stunned to see Ohio start 5-4 or 4-5 ... best case I'd say 6-3 .... worst case 2-7 and I wouldn't be stunned. Still don't have a great feel on this team ... but it's going to be a battle for them to challenge for a top four seed. Not what I expected at this point of Saul Ball era Does anyone at all feel confident in the next five?!?! at Kent Toledo at EMU at Akron Buffalo 1-3 in those ... and I think it's safe to say 1-4 after tonight. 2-6 with a roadie to BG next week .... and with the way Ohio plays on the road, 2-7 is very likely. oof. Back to Top bshot44 General User Member Since: 2/12/2012 Post Count: 2,211 Status: Offline     RE: MAC Season on the Horizon    Posted: 2/6/2018 1:54:51 PM  bshot44 wrote: bshot44 wrote: bshot44 wrote: Realistically, after what we've seen so far ... where will Ohio sit after first 9 games? at CMU at Akron at EMU ... all these seem like they'll be tough to win. at Kent at BG ... both seem winnable Buffalo Ball St ... class of the league I'd say ... both at home, but as we've seen in recent years ... Convo magic isn't what it used to be, so these will be dogfights Toledo ... another challenge NIU ... maybe the only game I feel like Ohio should definitely win. I wouldn't be stunned to see Ohio start 5-4 or 4-5 ... best case I'd say 6-3 .... worst case 2-7 and I wouldn't be stunned. Still don't have a great feel on this team ... but it's going to be a battle for them to challenge for a top four seed. Not what I expected at this point of Saul Ball era Does anyone at all feel confident in the next five?!?! at Kent Toledo at EMU at Akron Buffalo 1-3 in those so far ... and I think it's safe to say 1-4 after tonight. 2-6 with a roadie to BG next week .... and with the way Ohio plays on the road, 2-7 is very likely. oof. Gulp. 2-8 .... and counting. Back to Top Showing Replies:   26 - 46  of 46 Posts Jump to Page:   < Previous    1 | 2 View Other 'Ohio Basketball' Topics                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               WHO'S ONLINE There are 232 Active Visitors on BobcatAttack.com 232 Guests 0 Registered Users There are no other users looking at this page.

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