Five New Year's Resolutions for OSU Basketball in 2021

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These five resolutions could lead to a better 2021.

If Boynton can’t get it done this year (making the tourney), he’s not the guy. He seems like a good dude, and I hope there’s a switch he can flip or a corner to turn and we at least grab 8 conference wins somewhere.

This is a year he needs to do more than just make the tourney. That is the minimum yearly expectation at OSU. Even Travis Ford, as bad as he was, consistently made the tourney. This is a year Boynton needs to make a run in the tourney. We have the best player in America only for this year and no superstars waiting in the wings. If we barely squeak into the tourney this year, we sure ain’t going to be a tourney team next year sans Cunningham.

Captain obvious. If ice is involved, need to teach him how to shoot free throws and the Canadian kid.
Still no one cares about assists. Probably no one knows what they r, since alot think we play in the nba.

Liked the article. I would hope that when drawing up offensive strategies and plays that they could avoid Likikele being in the corner when someone drives. That’s the spot for Flavors or B. Williams.

I don’t know. Kruger barely (or maybe shouldn’t have) got in with Trae Young. I wouldn’t say Kruger is a failure. I don’t think having a one year superstar bumps you as much as you think. Ben Simmons didn’t make LSU great. KD didn’t make Texas great. They won one game in the dance.

Getting a team full of one and done superstars year after year like Kentucky, Duke, and Kansas is a path to success. One guy every once in a while gives you a bump and some buzz, but you can’t build much on that. I think it even makes other players regress at times as they become reliant on that one superstar.

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I would like to go 500 in league. This talk about a run. Rite now this team has to many troubles

I totally agree with this. I have never expected us to make a run in the tourney this year due to Cunningham being on the team. However, Cade Cunningham has been the only glimmer of hope in the Mike Boynton era. With him gone next year and nothing but one #9 seed in four years to show for it, why should we keep Boynton around? Outside of Cunningham, Boynton has been a very average recruiter and below average talent developer and program manager.

The expectation at OSU is that a coach make the tourney almost every year and make a Sweet 16 every 3-4 years. Failing to meet that expectation justifiably got Travis Ford fired. Even with a tourney appearance this year, Boynton is not even close to meeting that expectation, and is not trending in the right direction.

I agree that maybe he isn’t. On the other hand though, the conference is very deep this year and he’s playing with a very young team still. I still have to give him a chance to see what he does by the end of this season.

There raising the team number to 80 for the dance and some leagues not playing.
Their still not picking us to go.

If you are using the young team excuse this year, what is Boynton’s excuse for the past three years? The conference is going to be deep every year because 9/10 teams have found solid coaches, several of whom will likely be in the HOF some day. We are holding a toothpick at a gun fight during Big XII play.

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Cade was only ever going to make the team younger and part of the reason the team is young is because Boynton either a.) recruited low integrity guys and/or b.) didn’t keep his guys out of trouble. You can whiff on recruiting and you can legitimately fail to keep dudes out of trouble despite your best efforts, but when you have to kick a disturbingly high percentage of the guys you recruited off the team, you don’t get to fall on the “young team” excuse.

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Correct. Seems like we have had a “young team” every year Boynton has been here. At some point, he has to be accountable for that.

You have a very limited view and do not see the bigger picture

Well last yr with 5 returning starters, 3 being seniors cant real be call young can it

You find that in a fortune cookie?

Criticize him for the other things but average recruiter? If boynton is an average recruiter what would that make Gundy?

I said if you take Cunningham out of the equation, he is an average recruiter. Outside of Cunningham (who he sold an assistant coach spot to land), Boynton has signed roughly the same caliber of players we had been getting under Eddie, Sean, Ford, and Underwood.

I really do not like comparing coaches across sports as different as football and basketball, because I think it is a pointless exercise, but to answer your question, I would grade Gundy as a below average recruiter and say it is his biggest weakness as a coach.

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