Jim Foster

• osu45804

  

  This guy ALWAYS gets out coached in big games! Lady Bucks came into tonights game vs. #11 Duke as the #3 Team in the nation at 8-0 w/ probably one of the top 3 or 5 players in Women's Basketball, along with one of the best PG's as well. And totally get it handed to them 83-67. Will he EVER win a big game as head coach at Ohio State?
• dtdtim

  In a word...no. Pat Summit he is not.
• newarkcatholicfan

  

  That's just sad.
• Prescott

  Who cares. It's women's basketball.
• darbypitcher22

  

  to his credit they did play a Top 15 team that will probably be at the top of the ACC again. And the game was OSU's first true road game this year.
  
  The Lady Bucks will be fine. I can't believe how many people thought they were going to go 32-0 or whatever it is and pose a threat to UConn(nobody is touching them this year). The Bucks are the class of the Big Ten but need to find a way to get past the Sweet 16 and into an Elite 8 or a Final Four.
• dtdtim

  Prescott wrote: Who cares. It's women's basketball.

  I care about every sport in the athletic department of the school I graduated from and donate money to. Especially a program as good as the Lady Bucks.
• dtdtim

  darbypitcher22 wrote: to his credit they did play a Top 15 team that will probably be at the top of the ACC again. And the game was OSU's first true road game this year.
  
  The Lady Bucks will be fine. I can't believe how many people thought they were going to go 32-0 or whatever it is and pose a threat to UConn(nobody is touching them this year). The Bucks are the class of the Big Ten but need to find a way to get past the Sweet 16 and into an Elite 8 or a Final Four.

  They are most definitely the class of the Big 10. The schedule is very favorable for them...I see no more than 3 losses in the regular season, if that many. @ MSU & @ Purdue will be their tough ones.
  
  I do not think, however, that Jim Foster has the coaching skills to get his team a title. I barely think he can get them into the Elite 8 this year even with all this talent.
• Prescott

  I care about every sport in the athletic department of the school I graduated from and donate money to. Especially a program as good as the Lady Bucks

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  As long as the program doesn't tarnish the image of tOSU I couldn't care any less.I'm not alone. Did you see the boisterous crowd at the UNC-vs-MSU game?? Underwhelming!!!!!
• dtdtim

  That's fine if you don't care about the program. But,if you feel the need to not care that much about it,what's the point of posting something like that in a thread where people may actually want to discuss the topic at hand?
• Writerbuckeye

  

  Prescott wrote: Who cares. It's women's basketball.

  Me.
  
  I began my media career working at a local radio station doing girls basketball games back in 1976 (yes that station was ahead of the curve by highlighting girls sports way back then).
  
  I've had a fondness for girls (or womens) basketball ever since.
  
  Foster is not the greatest coaching mind to have on a bench, and he's not the best recruiter, either. He has gotten much of the talent now on this team because of his assistants as much as anyone.
  
  That said, he's done a remarkable job of changing his way of coaching from a plodding, half-court offense to the athletic group that now runs the court for the Buckeyes.
  
  I never thought he'd do that, and we'd have to see him fired before he'd go kicking and screaming into the 21st Century of women's basketball. So he gets major points from me for that, alone.
  
  Now he has to find a way to best use the talent he has acquired the past three years, and that includes making better use of his guards to drive the lane, and develop better defense down low (two things that killed them with Duke, along with just being really sloppy at handling the ball).
  
  Ohio State SHOULD be a major national power in women's basketball every year, especially given the wealth of talent that the state develops most years.
  
  Amazingly, Foster has improved his roster not by tapping into that talent so much as bringing in out of state jewels to go with a few homegrown ones (like Lavender) he does get to stay home.
  
  I honestly don't expect Ohio State to win a national title under Foster, but I do think one is in their future IF Ohio State makes the right hire when Foster retires.