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BillyTheCat
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   Posted: 3/12/2025 6:33:14 PM 
Ruffle, this, the commish is the Bobcat Alumni of the year. We love this guy!
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   Posted: 3/13/2025 6:03:03 PM 
OCF- “with a little more patience.” The administration knew Albin had won back to back ten win seasons. The administration knew he turned down the Rice job. The administration knew he was being courted by another school before Ohio played Ball State. This administration failed to seal the deal. This administration gave a secret renewal to a womens basketball coach after those lousy performances the last several years. This administration rewarded the mens hoops coach for finishing no better than a three seed yearly. The mens coach is the highest paid coach in the conference. Well done administration!! Did you ever once think that this administration screwed up? Call your friend Frank and ask him? He will tell you the truth.
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   Posted: 3/13/2025 7:02:55 PM 
Bobcat1996 wrote:
OCF- “with a little more patience.” The administration knew Albin had won back to back ten win seasons. The administration knew he turned down the Rice job. The administration knew he was being courted by another school before Ohio played Ball State. This administration failed to seal the deal. This administration gave a secret renewal to a womens basketball coach after those lousy performances the last several years. This administration rewarded the mens hoops coach for finishing no better than a three seed yearly. The mens coach is the highest paid coach in the conference. Well done administration!! Did you ever once think that this administration screwed up? Call your friend Frank and ask him? He will tell you the truth.


Everything you say here may be true, but it's also true that if Albin had waited until after the MACC win, he could have had his cake and eaten it too. I'll bet Frank would agree with that. I'll ask him the next time I see him.

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   Posted: 3/14/2025 8:36:57 AM 
Bobcat1996 wrote:
OCF- “with a little more patience.” The administration knew Albin had won back to back ten win seasons. The administration knew he turned down the Rice job. The administration knew he was being courted by another school before Ohio played Ball State. This administration failed to seal the deal. This administration gave a secret renewal to a womens basketball coach after those lousy performances the last several years. This administration rewarded the mens hoops coach for finishing no better than a three seed yearly. The mens coach is the highest paid coach in the conference. Well done administration!! Did you ever once think that this administration screwed up? Call your friend Frank and ask him? He will tell you the truth.


Albin chose to leave. he doesn't love you anymore. Therapy.
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  Message Not Read  RE: Ruffle the Commish's feathers
   Posted: 3/14/2025 2:52:33 PM 
Albin was tolerated around here over enamored as it was IMO. My username and avatar is poking fun at him and his love of joke sports cars. Green ford escort with a spoiler.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ufialp1fO3Q

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   Posted: 3/14/2025 3:00:10 PM 
TWT wrote:
Albin was tolerated around here over enamored as it was IMO. My username and avatar is poking fun at him and his love of joke sports cars. Green ford escort with a spoiler.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ufialp1fO3Q


That Green Ford Escort did things no OHIO Coach has ever done.


It’s Mildly amusing that a coach come in and does what no Coach in OHIO history has done 3 straight 10 win seasons. Does what no Coach in 50 years has done, win a MAC title. And several fans couldn’t get over how he did interviews or his awe shucks personality, others celebrated him moving on.
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  Message Not Read  RE: Ruffle the Commish's feathers
   Posted: 3/14/2025 4:51:55 PM 
Agree 100% BTC! Totally baffles me that some of these folks don’t appreciate winners and what Coach Albin accomplished. Just like the administration, many of these people didn’t realize what Albin accomplished. He accomplished something that hadn’t been done at Ohio. Three straight ten win seasons and like the Bobcat administration some of these folks didn’t appreciate it. Get back to me
in three years after Ohio has another streak like what Albin accomplished.
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  Message Not Read  RE: Ruffle the Commish's feathers
   Posted: 3/15/2025 10:46:23 AM 
Bobcat1996 wrote:
Agree 100% BTC! Totally baffles me that some of these folks don’t appreciate winners and what Coach Albin accomplished. Just like the administration, many of these people didn’t realize what Albin accomplished. He accomplished something that hadn’t been done at Ohio. Three straight ten win seasons and like the Bobcat administration some of these folks didn’t appreciate it. Get back to me
in three years after Ohio has another streak like what Albin accomplished.


Yes I remember how downtrodden everyone was after the MAC title. What tf are you even talking about?

Albin basically had a lifetime contract here and would have gotten another raise. Every coach is evaluated after the season. He chose to leave before it was even done. If he was trying to play chess against the administration, he's not very good at it and neither is his agent.

He's obviously a good coach and I hope he has good luck at his next challenge. If he was so disrespected, don't you think that all the assistants would have felt the same and jumped ship for a raise at Charlotte? Nope. didn't happen. We got the better end of the deal keeping most of the staff intact (and it's not even close).

He got what he wanted. Change of scenery, slight (SLIGHT!) bump in pay, chance to put his own stamp on a program. Big city life. Forever a Bobcat for what he did, good luck to him.

But seriously, you need to stfu in a big way. What you're saying makes no sense given what we know transpired. You're just being annoying.
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   Posted: 3/15/2025 7:52:00 PM 
Deciduous Forest Cat wrote:
... You're just being annoying.


That's his trade specialty, and plying his trade is something he really enjoys.

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  Message Not Read  RE: Ruffle the Commish's feathers
   Posted: 3/15/2025 9:26:16 PM 
Deciduous Forest Cat wrote:
Bobcat1996 wrote:
Agree 100% BTC! Totally baffles me that some of these folks don’t appreciate winners and what Coach Albin accomplished. Just like the administration, many of these people didn’t realize what Albin accomplished. He accomplished something that hadn’t been done at Ohio. Three straight ten win seasons and like the Bobcat administration some of these folks didn’t appreciate it. Get back to me
in three years after Ohio has another streak like what Albin accomplished.


Yes I remember how downtrodden everyone was after the MAC title. What tf are you even talking about?

Albin basically had a lifetime contract here and would have gotten another raise. Every coach is evaluated after the season. He chose to leave before it was even done. If he was trying to play chess against the administration, he's not very good at it and neither is his agent.

He's obviously a good coach and I hope he has good luck at his next challenge. If he was so disrespected, don't you think that all the assistants would have felt the same and jumped ship for a raise at Charlotte? Nope. didn't happen. We got the better end of the deal keeping most of the staff intact (and it's not even close).

He got what he wanted. Change of scenery, slight (SLIGHT!) bump in pay, chance to put his own stamp on a program. Big city life. Forever a Bobcat for what he did, good luck to him.

But seriously, you need to stfu in a big way. What you're saying makes no sense given what we know transpired. You're just being annoying.


He didn’t have a life time contract, wasn’t even getting away from the 8 win rollover. Raise yes.
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   Posted: 3/16/2025 8:44:53 AM 
Remember when Billy and 1996 implied that Cromer is sexist and doesn't treat her employees with respect in meetings?

And then they both slinked away and didn't provide any evidence to support the accusations?
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   Posted: 3/16/2025 2:07:28 PM 
Ohio should consider looking at jumping to the AAC if opportunity comes. AAC has better TV deal and basketball is stronger. Ohio offers balance in football and basketball like Toledo. Albin jumped to a better league and maybe Ohio joins him in the AAC down the road. MAC has falling way behind especially in basketball. With three ten win seasons in a row and a football title in hand Ohio has established itself as a top group of 5 available for future expansion targets. Football moves the needle and Ohio has never been at this level in modern college football. AAC has the TV contracts the MAC doesn't have. Saturday afternoon games on ABC and ESPN. Football title game on ABC. AAC has national programs Army, Navy as its membership. AAC may lose Memphis and Tulane, but still would command a larger TV deal that the MAC.
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   Posted: 3/16/2025 3:17:13 PM 
As BTC mentioned, Albin didn’t have a lifetime contract. The man was the sixth highest and 7th highest paid coach in the league if you include new member UMASS. Some of you would go bonkers if Boals was compensated that way. Evidently many of you don’t like winners, just like the administration. No coach won more conference games than Albin the last four years. He won ten games for three straight seasons. This had never been accomplished in Athens. If Boals had accomplished something like that, people on this board would be irate if he wasn’t rewarded. Oh yeah, I forgot he gets rewarded for five and three seeds yearly anyway. Some of you can’t handle the truth that the administration and I’m including the president made a huge blunder not getting this deal done. As I mentioned before, the athletic director hired Albin, but he was not treated like he was hired by her. You couldn’t tell she hired him by the way the man was treated. It wasn’t like he had not been a head coach before. He won an NAIA tittle with NW Oklahoma St in his third season. Yet the four year deal with a clause after two seasons is what she gave him. Another slap in the face. Ask any player or coach who worked for him, what kind of coach or man he is? His players know the guy was a quality coach. However for some reason the administration failed to see this. The new coach, the guy Albin hired is getting a five year deal. As for his assistants, it doesn’t take a genius to figure out why some of them stayed in Athens. Many of them that stayed still have children in area schools and that was part of the decision. Like I mentioned before, get back to me in three years after Ohio goes on another streak like the last three seasons. Oh and while you are at it, congratulate the athletic director on the secret renewal of the womens BB coach.
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   Posted: 3/16/2025 3:32:53 PM 
BLove SOS- have you talked to Russ and asked him why he left after 16 years of broadcasting in Athens? And while you are at it, speak to the former ticket director. They will tell you why they aren’t working in the athletic department. Don’t take my word , ask those guys.
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   Posted: 3/16/2025 5:26:20 PM 
When a mid major department faces tough budget choices, there are certain jobs that are only worth so much. In these cases, the AD has to accept that he/she will lose people to better paying positions. It's not her fault that neither of these guys could find more highly paid jobs. And it's certainly not due to sexism that Rob's style isn't attractive to other schools and/or that we (rightly) view ticket managers as a commodity.

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   Posted: 3/16/2025 7:50:06 PM 
Bobcat1996 wrote:
BLove SOS- have you talked to Russ and asked him why he left after 16 years of broadcasting in Athens? And while you are at it, speak to the former ticket director. They will tell you why they aren’t working in the athletic department. Don’t take my word , ask those guys.


I don't know them. But you and I are actually communicating right now, and I've asked you to explain why you said that. You don't. You just suggest that other people will say it if you ask them.

You're now going on 6 months of posting about this and nothing but this. Why not stop being a coward and say what you want to say?

You're willing to make the accusations. You're willing to publicly say things about Cromer that would damage her reputation of true. It's truly cowardly to do that and then vaguely hint at evidence in lieu of actually sharing it yourself. You're basically a gossipy middle school girl until you're willing to stand by what you're hinting at publicly.

You too, Billy.

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   Posted: 3/17/2025 12:10:58 PM 
How did this turn into Coach Albin again? 😂😂😂

We're trying to ruffle the commissioner's feathers, not OUr own. 😆😆😆

But on a serious note, coach left this place better than what it was when he arrived. He paid his dues (under Solich), watched his kids grow up in Athens, earned the right to coach and finished the job.

Having him as a coach when he first arrived, you can tell he was a coach with a lot of excitement and energy, but didn't have his "voice" yet to get his message out. And over time, you saw his growth and development of that which lead to his success as a coach. Navigating this era of college football is so challenging with portal, NIL, entitled athletes, and he did a fantastic job managing it all. At the end of the day, he still changed a lot of young men's lives.

Let's give Coach Smith an opportunity to do what Coach Albin was able to accomplish.

We all know if both schools go 8-4 or 9-3, ESPN will just force a bowl game between us for the fun of it. 😆
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   Posted: 3/25/2025 8:04:22 AM 
ExCat21 wrote:
Let's give Coach Smith an opportunity to do what Coach Albin was able to accomplish.

We all know if both schools go 8-4 or 9-3, ESPN will just force a bowl game between us for the fun of it. 😆


100%

Going 8-4 *probably* means Ohio goes 7-1 in the MAC. I'll take that!

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   Posted: 3/25/2025 3:10:23 PM 
Scott Woods wrote:
ExCat21 wrote:
Let's give Coach Smith an opportunity to do what Coach Albin was able to accomplish.

We all know if both schools go 8-4 or 9-3, ESPN will just force a bowl game between us for the fun of it. 😆


100%

Going 8-4 *probably* means Ohio goes 7-1 in the MAC. I'll take that!


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   Posted: 3/25/2025 9:27:06 PM 
I don’t have one problem with Coach Smith who was hired by Coach Albin. Coach Albin knew Coach Smith is a fine coach. Just like Frank knew, that Albin was a fine coach. What I have a problem with is the way the administration treated Albin. Ask people who knew what was going on in the program. Many of you want to congratulate the administration for every move they make, but fail to recognize the huge mistakes they make. This administration including the president made a huge mistake, but you won’t hear it from them. If Rod McDavis or Duane Nellis were in charge this huge blunder would never have occurred. It does not take a genius to figure out that Albin was worth more than the 6/7 best paid coach in the league. The administration is rewarding Boals as the top paying coach in the league. Totally ridiculous compared to the results. Yet many of you support that high salary. I guess you enjoy being fifth seed yearly for that high salary. No coach and I repeat no coach had a better record in conference than Albin the last four seasons, yet she treated him like the sixth or 7th best coach in the league. The AD followed him around at post game press conferences like her long last kitten. She failed miserably when it came time to giving him a contract and treated him like a middle of the road coach, which is evident he was not. This administration secretly renews the contract of the womens hoops coach who has been flat out terrible the past four seasons. Go ahead and congratulate her for that move. Season tickets holders for womens basketball have said they refuse to attend games because they can’t stand watching that product. Great move AD! The baseball coach was hired by this AD. Have you checked that record lately? I stand by my statements and know the truth. I can’t do all the homework for everyone. Ask the men employees who used to work at Ohio in the athletic department why they are no longer working? Many of you have zero idea, but go ahead and keep supporting this administration. I’m not even going to start on this ridiculous schedule football has for the first three non conference games and yet basketball plays zero power four schools. Keep supporting this administration. And get back to me in three years when this football program goes on a run like they just completed.
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   Posted: 3/26/2025 11:02:46 AM 
I sure hope the new football coach can pull some out of conference upsets unlike that bum Albin. That would make me feel good about myself.

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   Posted: 3/26/2025 11:52:51 AM 
Bobcat1996 wrote:
I don’t have one problem with Coach Smith who was hired by Coach Albin. Coach Albin knew Coach Smith is a fine coach. Just like Frank knew, that Albin was a fine coach. What I have a problem with is the way the administration treated Albin. Ask people who knew what was going on in the program. Many of you want to congratulate the administration for every move they make, but fail to recognize the huge mistakes they make. This administration including the president made a huge mistake, but you won’t hear it from them. If Rod McDavis or Duane Nellis were in charge this huge blunder would never have occurred. It does not take a genius to figure out that Albin was worth more than the 6/7 best paid coach in the league. The administration is rewarding Boals as the top paying coach in the league. Totally ridiculous compared to the results. Yet many of you support that high salary. I guess you enjoy being fifth seed yearly for that high salary. No coach and I repeat no coach had a better record in conference than Albin the last four seasons, yet she treated him like the sixth or 7th best coach in the league. The AD followed him around at post game press conferences like her long last kitten. She failed miserably when it came time to giving him a contract and treated him like a middle of the road coach, which is evident he was not. This administration secretly renews the contract of the womens hoops coach who has been flat out terrible the past four seasons. Go ahead and congratulate her for that move. Season tickets holders for womens basketball have said they refuse to attend games because they can’t stand watching that product. Great move AD! The baseball coach was hired by this AD. Have you checked that record lately? I stand by my statements and know the truth. I can’t do all the homework for everyone. Ask the men employees who used to work at Ohio in the athletic department why they are no longer working? Many of you have zero idea, but go ahead and keep supporting this administration. I’m not even going to start on this ridiculous schedule football has for the first three non conference games and yet basketball plays zero power four schools. Keep supporting this administration. And get back to me in three years when this football program goes on a run like they just completed.


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   Posted: 3/26/2025 1:49:30 PM 
Bobcat1996 wrote:
Many of you want to congratulate the administration for every move they make, but fail to recognize the huge mistakes they make.


Bobcat1996 wrote:

Yet many of you support that high salary. I guess you enjoy being fifth seed yearly for that high salary.


Hey man, there's a "quote" button on this site. When people say these things, you can reply directly to them, quote what they said, and discuss it. It's the whole point of this website, in fact.

No need to refer vaguely to a group of people and things they say. They're actually saying them right here on this site, and you have the ability to talk to them directly and quote the very things they're saying. I'd love to meet a BA poster who isn't critical of OU's Administration. I had no idea that was a type of person that existed. And it'd be cool to hang out on whichever basketball board you're referencing. Because the one here is basically all about Jeff Boals' job performance and the vast majority of people don't seem all that happy about it. I had no idea there was another Ohio Basketball message board and I'm excited to check it out.

I know you're a graduate of The BillyTheCat School of Passive Aggressive Message Board Posting. And that he advised you directly on your thesis on "Hinting About Inside Information that You're too Cowardly to Actually Share" and you're proud of what you learned.

But you don't have to be afraid to actually engage with people, read what they say, and respond to it. I promise.

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   Posted: 3/27/2025 6:29:09 PM 
Admit it you guys can not handle the truth or facts!
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