Ohio Bobcats roll call

[Brian]

The feel-good story about to grind to a halt. Ohio doesn't match up with Georgetown...at all.

 

[terrier]

There's already one Bobcat in Rhode Island: Tim O'Shea, who just finished a one-win season at Bryant in its first season in the NEC. If he can survive the transition phase...

 

[tmr]

Ha, I forgot TOS is there. I'll never forget his press conference, where Tom Boeh basically said, "We know he'll get a better job in a couple years." Not quite.

 

[KP]

There's already one Bobcat in Rhode Island: Tim O'Shea, who just finished a one-win season at Bryant in its first season in the NEC. If he can survive the transition phase...

They signed him for eight, he's got time. Still clearing out the DII players.

Remember he brought in four of the guys that will get good minutes Thursday. I could never understand the hatred he got from the people in Athens.

 

[CitizenTino]

There's already one Bobcat in Rhode Island: Tim O'Shea, who just finished a one-win season at Bryant in its first season in the NEC. If he can survive the transition phase...

They signed him for eight, he's got time. Still clearing out the DII players.

Remember he brought in four of the guys that will get good minutes Thursday. I could never understand the hatred he got from the people in Athens.

He replaced favorite son Larry Hunter on the promise that he would "take the program to the next level," and then earned exactly one NCAA bid in seven years, routinely fielded mediocre teams, and could never win big conference road games (one of his favorite pet phrases, "That's life on the road in the MAC," still infuriates people).

If O'Shea had come in after a really disastrous coach and had that run, nobody would've cared. But he followed local hero Hunter, who got the team into the conference semis before getting knocked out on a ridiculous shot in what ended up being his last game.

 

[BB Bobcat]

Personally I was glad to see Hunter get canned because it showed that we expected more than a bunch of mediocre 16- to 18-win seasons. Of course O'Shea did no better, so I was glad to see him go too.

 

[CitizenTino]

Personally I was glad to see Hunter get canned because it showed that we expected more than a bunch of mediocre 16- to 18-win seasons. Of course O'Shea did no better, so I was glad to see him go too.

Hunter's last year was my freshman year. When they canned him after a pretty respectable season and a fluke tournament loss, my initial reaction was similar to yours: "Holy ****, they're not screwing around here."

O'Shea was in a hole to start with because he was replacing someone popular with the local community. When he failed to do any better, I think the venom only increased ... "We fired Larry Hunter for ...this?" Not to mention the perception that he was an outsider from the East Coast who never embraced Athens and always was thought to have one foot out the door.

Having dealt with O'Shea for a year (his worst, the 20-loss debacle in 2003-04), I thought he got a bit of a bum rap. I don't think he was quite the villain he was portrayed as by the locals. He just wasn't a very good coach.

 

[Cousin Jeffrey]

TOS was a pretty nice dude, from my limited experience with him. He thought OU was going to be a quick stop on his ascension to a major job. His wife was not happy about the move, from what I remember, which explains his move to Bryant, where they kept a house.

I still get a chuckle out of his insistence that recruiting Minnesota was a good move, because there's only D-I school there. That sure worked out well.

Groce seems to be heads and tails better, a top-notch recruiter for sure. He'll be gone in a year or two. If he manages to upset Georgetown, he might be out of there in a month.

 

[Rumpleforeskin]

Not a good draw for the Bobcats, but hey, anything can happen.

 

[Bubbler]

On 364 days of the year, I root against the Bobcats as a Ball State grad.

Not today. MAC grads should stick together during the tournament. Go Bobcats!

 

[Rhody31]

BB, I'll be rooting for your Bobcats tonight.
Not out loud though - I'm sitting about eight feet from them. Hopefully they get me an upset and something fun to write about.

 

[Armchair_QB]

Athens is going to burn tonight.

 

[NoOneLikesUs]

Athens is going to burn tonight.

You are correct sir.

 

[D-3 Fan]

Strike up The Trammps! It's going to be an inferno tonight!!!

 

[DisembodiedOwlHead]

Somebody guard the game ball before PK steals it from a little kid.

 

[playthrough]

"Hey, we're all gonna get laid!"

 

[Blitz]

Awesome day to be a Bobcat!
Way to go, guys ! Enjoy the moment!

 

[doubledown68]

Somebody guard the game ball before PK steals it from a little kid.

I was thinking that if anything was going going to get PK into the fold, it'd be this thread. Guess not. Congrats, Bobcats.

****, I bet even Lewis the Weatherman (who is oddly similar to Ray Romano) gets laid:

 

[printdust]

Hey, Ohio and THE OHIO STATE can actually play in their regional can't they? Wow. What a chance to shut the big guy up.

 

[BB Bobcat]

Awesome.