The rumors are true.
There is a new addition(s) to the Ohio State commit list. oh snap..
Lawrence
North’s Greg Oden, probably the nation's top high school baller,
announced this afternoon he will attend Ohio State and become a Buckeye..
Hello 06-07 contenders. Hello Final Four and Goodbye bad reputation.
Along
with Oden comes his boy Mike Conley. Throw those guys on top of
two more highly touted Ohio athletes in David Lighty and Daquan Cook
and we might win the whole thing with 18 yr olds. Screw the Fab 5
of the state up north. We are gonna reinvent the term with only 4
players. And this time our team will win instead of calling
'fake' timeouts.
Good Job Matta.
8 comments:
Always hatin' on Michigan for no good reason at all...inferiority complexes really are a bitch to get a handle on, aren't they?
By the way, since when does landing one of the nation's top recruits wipe clean a team's history of rules violations? You must be reading from the same copy of NCAA reg's that Jim O'Brien had.
yeah, but webber will always live in infamy. even at the end of game 5 of the nba finals when rasheed tried to call a timeout with time expiring, they couldn't help but bring up the fact that, yes, chris webber was in the house watching the game that night. he will never, ever live it down. so i wouldn't call it hatin.
either way, i say: thadius maximus, leader of the new buckeye baskteball army.
is anyone suspicious now though of a baller's intentions with this new 19 year-old rule in effect. i mean, i think we're gonna see mad clarrett syndrome on the basketball side of things (play for a year and leave)...and not just at OSU.
Mr. Hata:
1) No inferiority complex. Sure, Webber and Co. made two final fours. But we made one, did it more recently, and didn't choke obviously (who can remember the uncalled travel that preceeded the TO?). To this day, not only will CWebb live in infamy, but he is a chocker.
2) Sure, it doesn't wipe the slate clean. But are self-imposed penalty does. And this is a great way to put some good marks on that clean slate.
3) O'Brien got fired. The booster who paid Troy Smith was cut-off from the OSU and Troy was suspended two games (one was a bowl game, which lets you stay in a cool city for a few days and get free schwag from the bowl committee). That is the way you do it. If Tressel was found paying a player, I would fire him too. Geiger did the right thing. Geiger was also precient in calling Maurice a liar. I don't here you bringing up his allegations anymore, do I?
The Ohio LeBlog was right on it again. Where does this guy get such great intel and is quick to inform the Buckeye faithful. Great job!
The new recruites in Columbus are really, really, really good. The program is definately on the up and doing great... after all it has nowhere to go but up. Go Bucks Go.
I know Cincy comments will follow and our up and down, but we are used to it and we manage through it. So I am ready.
One quick question... what Buckeye's were drafted this year..................... I'm waiting! That's right jackmo... NONE, ZERO, ZILTCH, NADA, NOBODY! I am sure next year will be different though. Now you have a "Fab 4", but no incoming group of kids will ever be as good, as successful and impact the game as hole more than the original FAB 5. Yes Webber will live in infamy, but so will the toss of that yellow flag to save the OSU football season and championship from total disappointment. That ref will remember that forever.
Contiunation:
But if you can never get to that point (say, like going one and done in the NCAA tourney), then you never get the chance to have that call go your way.
All four players you mentioned at XU... only one made the NBA.
Also, I realize boosters were involved and the Fab 5 were erased, but they are still talked about and considered to be the best freshman class ever and what they did may never be accomplished again. I understand, as does the rest of the sports world, their number were erased, but people still talk about them and how good they were. For the same reason, people will always talk about the alleged foul call and how some see it as no penalty was committed and others (OSU fans only) would disagree. It is all good in my book. See ya later to discuss the signing of Michael Redd and Z today.
Mr. Nati:
Talk does not equal fact. I know you like to engage in ESPiN style speculation, but I live in the fact world.
Fact: scUM never made the Final Four in the nineties.
Fact: Pass intereference was called on Fourth and three (after Miami couldn't stop tOSU on 4th and 14).
Fact: OSU won the national title.
Those are the facts. They are admitted and undisputed.
Hate to do this as a Buckeye, but I am admittedly coverted to Buckeyeism the first day I walked into the Shoe. Since I was a huge fab five fan as a kid, I must point out that you got one of your facts wrong.
Michigan went to the NCAA Finals two years in a row in 1992 and 1993 (losing to Duke and UNC respectively). 1992 was the five's freshman year and '93 was their sophomore. They never made it back to the Final Four after Weber left for the NBA.
Translated... UM did make the Final Four during the 90s.
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