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OSU Hires Mike Boynton
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Saving money AND spending every extra dime on football. I think Booger has told MH that's he's not giving any more money until Gundy wins the big one! The handwriting is definitely on the wall why BU left.....basketball is MUCH less important than football and not going to spend much on basketball.
Gotta love it!!!
Exactly! If Dougie and Mason want to coach at osu, then get off their a$$es and coach somewhere!!! They think they are entitled just because they attended osu and would love to come back!
Then again, the other candidates didn't look to be exciting either! You have 5 interviews in one day (really?) and then hire the next??? They couldn't wait until after Final 4? This hire reeks of the cheapness and lack of basketball support of MH/TBP! Couldn't happen to a nicer place!
They sold their souls to the devil.....
The interview list was less than overwhelming but I think he'll be fine. I wonder if Holder asked him to add Dickey to the staff.
It was hard to pay a name coach when money was an issue with Underwood's extension.
If Carroll does indeed leave, OSU is back to square one for sure.
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cautious move. save your money maybe for the next time the hiring cycle suits you. you get some continuity program-wise.....and you never are going to get what you want when your AD has been "outed" as a cheap-skate and mid level Big 10 team stole your bacon (when you are as tradition-rich as OSU).
better than none the names you are chasing to be interested.
better than none the names you are chasing to be interested.
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Doug needs to get a job coaching. put his TV-ESPN ego aside....be an assistant. start the path. until then, he's just a guy talking about himself.
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agreed. OSU should be a final destination for him, not a beginning.
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Exactly ,he's just coming across as an entitled child the way he was openly politicking for a job that his resume doesn't equal .
HEs basically an ex player who is got paid to cover basketball with literally no coaching experience what so ever .
HE would be a stretch for a head coach at any level ,at a top 25 program like OSU .....he probably shouldn't have even gotten an interview .
This should be his wake up call . If he wants to BE a coach go to a lesser program/smaller division and get on a staff .LEARN the ropes ,and WORK your way up.
If he's a good coach the cream will rise to the top .He will climb the ladder and then down the road ( if hes successful) maybe be in contention for a job like OSU.
INstead he wants to be handed something from day one with NO coaching experience .
IM betting he keeps his Cush job and continues to be a cry baby because they didn't hand him a job .
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i think Doug is kinda all right for a compete dickhead....and he's always said good things about the state of Oklahoma....but, for him, he's got to take a risk. put his ego aside, coach somewhere and put his W-L in the open. put it on the line. there's always talking (i guess) as a revenue source for him.....if he wants to coach, let's see the play he draws up with 1 shot clock left, down by 3.
Aggie tradition basketball school joke aside....he can't really expect to get that job with zero coaching experience.
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I disagree completely that it's an ego thing.
Seems to me he wants to do right by his family first, and not have them moving around, jumping from coaching job to coaching job. I can respect that. I agree that it makes it tough for OSU to take a chance on him, but depending on his plans to hire assistant coaches should he have gotten the job, I don't see how he is any more risky than the guy they just hired. Never heard a word about that dude as a coaching option anywhere, especially at a school like OSU.
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Hundreds of other coaches have to move their families around as they jump from coaching job to coaching job. DG feeling that he shouldn't have go through the same process that all those other coaches endure suggests a certain amount of ego.
Huge +1!
I like Gottlieb. And most high level firms routinely hire people who have never done that particular job before. The same way that college football teams will take a kid playing quarterback and put him at defensive back, even though he's never played that position. It's a talent analysis thing, and I think Gottlieb shows a lot of the characteristics that good head coaches have. For one thing, he's achieved at a high level in his chosen profession, rising to a national talk show host while starting out in backwater Oklahoma local sports talk radio. That in itself is indicative of a high achiever.
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I'm a published author, but you wouldn't want me performing a root canal on you.
If Doug didn't have the radio gig with FOX I think he'd be a bit more willing to move his family around, etc. He's clearly happy with what he's doing now, but he knows that the OSU job is the only coaching job he would be even happier with. Why move your family around if you already have a solid job that you're happy with? I think this is why you don't see Doug openly whining about not getting the job; he understands that a lot of dominos have to fall his way, and he just wants an opportunity with OSU. It just didn't work out this time.
Being a head coach in college basketball is not a highly technical craft like being a surgeon. It's much more akin to a business executive, being in charge of strategy and vision, as well as managing relationships with players and recruits. Doug played basketball his whole life, he knows the game well enough to be a coach, and that's what is needed.
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You don't think Doug ,who has never coached ,recruited or even been involved in day to day operations of a basketball program even one day in his life,is the same risk as this guy ????A guy who has coached the last 13 years ,was an assistant on the current staff and has a chance to keep two KEY current players from leaving and save next years season and beyond .....are you serious??
I'm not saying he was a well know home run hire ,but to keep the current players /roster together and a guy that knows basketball ....it was a safe hire .
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Most of coaching isn't x's & o's. It's knowing how to work with 18-21 year old college kids and get the most out of them. The skills it takes to be a successful radio and TV personality are wildly different. I'm not saying he can't do it, but if he wants to show someone he can, he's got to do it, and that means being an assistant or at least a successful high school coach.
