Will Travis Ford survive the season?

I think he gets one more year. I bet Holder is cursing the day he extended Ford's contract. If not for that I think the axe would come out this year.
 
You can't keep a coach around that keeps under performing this badly.
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that comment doesn't exactly make sense. He's underperformed for one full year and so far this year. This year also depends on who you talk to. If you just look at players leaving then true he is under performing badly, though I don't think that is what you meant.
 
We used to love to play this game with Capel, let's do it with Ford:

What is the Hillbilly's record without James Anderson?
 
This is purely supposition on my part, but I'm curious. Capel seemed to lose the bad apple/cancer types. It seems to me, Reger and Fred are good character types, and perhaps the bad apples are staying?
Discuss.
 
kansas is a better job, but Self hasn't been finding things quite as easy there as they have been. Even their "bad" years are pretty damn good, and he has no reason to leave, but the decision to leave for his alma mater may be easier when kansas isn't a title contender.

I don't expect Self to coach at kansas for 20-30 years. He'll move on eventually. Almost everyone does sooner or later, no matter how good their job is.
 
HoHum said:
I'd be shocked if he doesn't get next year. First, this season is far from over, and he hadn't missed the postseason two seasons in a row, let alone at all, like Capel did. Not that the NIT is some great achievement, but it is a hell of a lot better than sitting at home.

Plus, Ford has a good class coming in, and worst case scenario with this season, and they miss all post season play, then I think he still gets a 5th year. If there are two straight seasons of no tournament berths, then I'd probably say he's gone.
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1 - agree that Ford will probably get another year, unless they show no signs of improvement throughout the season. If you guys end up at the bottom of the big12, donors will be squawking pretty loud. But I suspect there will be some improvement by the end of the year, but still no post-season, and Ford on an extremely hot seat next year.

2 - NIT is only marginally better than sitting at home. Not a "hell-of-a-lot". If JC had made the NIT every year he was here, he still probably would have been fired. Plus, an NIT bid is pallatable if you are having a down year, injuries, or something like that. But you'd better follow it up with something better. Ford is following it up with a worse year (so far anyway).

3 - Ford has had a "good class" coming in every year he's been at oSu, yet you guys look like rec league team right now. Have you not yet learned to be skeptical of recruiting rankings?
 
Ford will be at OSU this season and next regardless off game outcomes and OSU would be wise to keep him if they want Marcus Smart and Nash to play together.

Lebryan Nash however doesn't seem to be a problem so I'm not sure I get where the OP is coming from with him.

Page and Brown will be the starting guards from here on out with Cezar playing a bunch.
 
I'm pretty sure I'm the last Ford apologist. That question is irrelevant, mainly because it sucks.
 
Re: Will Travis Ford survive tWhe season?

stoops4pres said:
How dare you ask a logical question... Completely unfair to the Ford apologists.
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Well, he did win 20 games and "made" the second round of the NIT last year without Anderson.

:woot

IIRC, Capel never had a winning season without Blake, let alone winning 20 games.

But to answer the question, I guess he would currently be standing at 26-19 (.578) without Anderson.

P.S. I'm not a Ford apologist.
 
Re: Will Travis Ford survive tWhe season?

oSuJeff97 said:
Well, he did win 20 games and "made" the second round of the NIT last year without Anderson.

:woot

IIRC, Capel never had a winning season without Blake, let alone winning 20 games.

But to answer the question, I guess he would currently be standing at 26-19 (.578) without Anderson.

P.S. I'm not a Ford apologist.
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Jeff my man, you're rebutting facts that we've all (well, at least most of us) have acknowledged. As far as my statement, what seniorsooner asked was fair since that is always the go-to question of OSU fans about what life was like after Blake, when OSU's proven not to be much without Anderson.

Basically, this goes back to quite a few posters on here asserting that Ford has beein/is a substantially better coach than Capel, when the results certainly haven't supported so.

I'd take Ford over Capel, but it's much closer than what you and OSU supporters have previously stated. The guy was given a squad replete of talent and experience (2008-2009) and still couldn't reach the Sweet 16. And his teams have continued to regress year-by-year.
 
Re: Will Travis Ford survive tWhe season?

stoops4pres said:
Jeff my man, you're rebutting facts that we've all (well, at least most of us) have acknowledged. As far as my statement, what seniorsooner asked was fair since that is always the go-to question of OSU fans about what life was like after Blake, when OSU's proven not to be much without Anderson.

Basically, this goes back to quite a few posters on here asserting that Ford has beein/is a substantially better coach than Capel, when the results certainly haven't supported so.

I'd take Ford over Capel, but it's much closer than what you and OSU supporters have previously stated. The guy was given a squad replete of talent and experience (2008-2009) and still couldn't reach the Sweet 16. And his teams have continued to regress year-by-year.
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I've consistently said that this year would be the telling year for Ford.

And here we are... sucking.

But it doesn't really matter, because we're a football school now, anyway...

;)

P.S. He's up to 27-19 (.587) without Anderson after tonight's double-OT s**t-show.
 
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