Yeah…I just see no fight in this program. Watch the Western post game…at end there was a shout out about Green team is next…and the emotion in locker room was limp.
Maybe our team is not healthy or full strength…but OU is playing without Dwight Wilson…yet here we are 20+ points worse than our “rival” on our home court… in year 5 of Owens…and nearly 15 years in of being generally not that competitive as a bball program (a sport that should be the easiest to turnaround).
OU has beaten only two teams this year like this…a DII/NAIA school, struggling Mount and then this.
David Sayler is on verge of legacy as AD that killed bball and hockey @ Miami. I’m at a loss…figured with our experience and some new pieces this year had a chance, but instead a middling MAC team.
I somehow got the ESPN+ broadcast. OU had 72 points at the 10 minute mark of the 2nd half. Their coach took his foot off the gas. The Bobkittens should have dropped over 100, easily
Sayler did not kill basketball lol. What a ridiculous statement.
Without DS, we’d be going to play 4-5 P5 schools every November/December and then getting railed in MAC play. Basketball has been dying a slow death for 15 years, starting with Bates.
Now we’re playing a crummy OOC schedule, losing regularly to ho-hum programs in the process and then getting slammed by the better MAC teams. “Pick your poison”.
Says an idiot, LOL…at this point those old schedules look like money makers.
The easier scheduling is not producing functional wins (just DIII)!
In all seriousness…as I said, he’s on the verge as he just extended a HC that in year 5 offers “we just did not play with energy against our rival (20+ point loss)”…also, there’s still very little institutional support for MBBall, nine years later…and while that is not ALL on DS by any means…he’s the AD. Yes, Bates sent us on our way, but the curtain is about to drop if we don’t start looking like OU soon.
I’m not seeing real improvement from this staff…so if we stay this current course, we may be at Cooper level in the next two three years, that’s a shit show of 15 years of irrelevance.
Look at Miami BBALL record for those eight to nine years under DS, (even five years if you want to go with Jack Ownens hire). Change in scheduling yielded us maybe four to five more wins per year (however, many of them against DIII, so are they really wins at all?).
In comparison, Ohio U has had three to four coaches in the period DS has been at Miami, with one truly Miami like season and two borderline decent Miami seasons…with rest being in the category of what’s that 20 mean in the record?
Miami BB seems to “play down” to the lowest 2-4 teams in its OOC schedule, convince themselves that effort will suffice…and then carries that “ho-hum-Jack-another-three” mindset into the MAC season.
I remember past Miami BB coaches yanking kids out of games after committing TOs, making a lazy pass, or stupid fouls and making them sit for a few minutes (and sometimes longer) while they were “instructed” about why they were sitting and not playing. It seemed to work then; I wonder why it isn’t done more often these days.
Our conference, only numbers are not great (not terrible), shared the ball better early in the season, defense trending down…but if Miami is to salvage season…this is the time (home and road games that are winnable)…as depressing as it is that Miami can lay down and be 20 to 30 point dogs to a Bobcat, this is it.
Spots ~5 to 10 are pretty wide open, need to be 8 or better:
Ohio
Miami (OH)
