OSU women's coach Jim Foster fired

• muffy

  Per the Columbus Dispatch, Jim Foster was fired today.
• FatHobbit

  

  Hmmm, He wasn't super spectacular (meaning the program was not Tennessee or Uconn) but he was better than what they had before. I hope his replacement is a step up...
• FatHobbit

  

  His record at OSU in 11 years
  
  6 B1G titles
  4 B1G tournament titles
  279-82 (.772%)
• se-alum

  

  His teams constantly underperfomed on the biggest stages.
• Classyposter58

  

  se-alum;1409307 wrote:His teams constantly underperfomed on the biggest stages.

  This. The dude was the worse tournament coach maybe ever, consistently bombed
• Midstate01

  

  Bout fuckin time. Consistently lost best ohio recruits to other schools and got worked by mid majors in the tourney.
  
  Was a great players coach and great during the regular season.
• vball10set

  muffy;1409300 wrote:Per the Columbus Dispatch, Jim Foster was fired today.

  It'll be Tricia Cullop from U of Toledo. You heard it here first.
• vball10set

  FatHobbit;1409301 wrote:Hmmm, He wasn't super spectacular (meaning the program was not Tennessee or Uconn) but he was better than what they had before. I hope his replacement is a step up...

  It'll be Tricia Cullop from U of Toledo. You heard it here first.
• sleeper

  

  Ohio State is the only school in the country that fires winning coaches because they don't win national championships. See Jim Tressel.
• believer

  

  sleeper;1409333 wrote:Ohio State is the only school in the country that fires winning coaches because they don't win national championships. See Jim Tressel.

  Tressel resigned because he lied but yeah.
• sleeper

  

  believer;1409337 wrote:Tressel resigned because he lied but yeah.

  Agreed. At Ohio State, you either win with integrity or you might as well not even bother winning at all. :thumbup:
• Classyposter58

  

  sleeper;1409333 wrote:Ohio State is the only school in the country that fires winning coaches because they don't win national championships. See Jim Tressel.

  Or at least be pretty successful. Only 3 Sweet 16's and never to the Elite 8? He won 6 straight B1G titles but could only get to the second weekend thrice? What a joke. This isn't mens ball, where there's a ton of parity. Womens basketball is very very top heavy
• Fly4Fun

  

  Classyposter58;1409356 wrote:Or at least be pretty successful. Only 3 Sweet 16's and never to the Elite 8? He won 6 straight B1G titles but could only get to the second weekend thrice? What a joke

  What makes it particularly bad is the lack of parity in women's college basketball and there are typically a lot less upsets there than the men's tournament.
• ernest_t_bass

  

  FatHobbit;1409303 wrote:His record at OSU in 11 years
  
  6 B1G titles
  4 B1G tournament titles
  279-82 (.772%)

  
  Wtf?
• vball10set

  muffy;1409300 wrote:Per the Columbus Dispatch, Jim Foster was fired today.

  He should be fired just for constantly recruiting big, fat, slow players who can't compete anywhere else but the B1G. They're really tough to watch.
• Cat Food Flambe'

  

  My thought -
  
  Women's basketball, despite years of Title IX spin, still consists of about a dozen elite programs followed by "the field". Foster, over the past five years, has slowly but surely led tOSU out of the elite group.
• stlouiedipalma

  He ran a respectable program (as far as NCAA scrutiny goes) but TOSU needs someone to get the program to the next level.
• sportchampps

  I don't know much about women's basketball but I work with a former Purdue player who is also an assistant coach at a local college in Columbus. She told me about a month ago that the OSU girls were fat and out of shape. She said it should be an embarrassment for a d1 team to look the way OSU did.
• Midstate01

  

  sportchampps;1409647 wrote:I don't know much about women's basketball but I work with a former Purdue player who is also an assistant coach at a local college in Columbus. She told me about a month ago that the OSU girls were fat and out of shape. She said it should be an embarrassment for a d1 team to look the way OSU did.

  
  THIS year, id agree. Theyve been pretty athletic in years past.
• vball10set

  sportchampps;1409647 wrote:I don't know much about women's basketball but I work with a former Purdue player who is also an assistant coach at a local college in Columbus. She told me about a month ago that the OSU girls were fat and out of shape. She said it should be an embarrassment for a d1 team to look the way OSU did.

  BINGO!!!
• FatHobbit

  

  Cat Food Flambe';1409530 wrote: Foster, over the past five years, has slowly but surely led tOSU out of the elite group.

  Were they ever in it?
  
  Here are the champs for the past 20 years
  
  2012 Baylor
  2011 Texas A&M
  2010 Connecticut
  2009 Connecticut
  2008 Tennessee
  2007 Tennessee
  2006 Maryland
  2005 Baylor
  2004 Connecticut
  2003 Connecticut
  2002 Connecticut
  2001 Notre Dame
  2000 Connecticut
  1999 Purdue
  1998 Tennessee
  1997 Tennessee
  1996 Tennessee
  1995 Connecticut
  1994 North Carolina
  1993 Texas Tech
  
  Baylor is in there twice and then everything else is either Uconn or Tennessee
• sleeper

  

  OSU women's basketball was never an elite program. Women's ball is extremely extremely EXTREMELY top heavy. UCONN, Tenn, Stanford, and recently Baylor are about the only women's teams that are any good.
• Fly4Fun

  

  sleeper;1409716 wrote:OSU women's basketball was never an elite program. Women's ball is extremely extremely EXTREMELY top heavy. UCONN, Tenn, Stanford, and recently Baylor are about the only women's teams that are any good.

  This is true for the most part.
  
  There are a few schools that are up there almost every year, most notably it was/is Tennessee (we'll see if they can maintain the success post-Summit) and UConn. Then there is also the occasional run a school gets when they get a girl that is just more physically dominant than others in the sport (Oklahoma with that Paris girl, now Baylor with Griner).
• se-alum

  

  I think the women's game is top heavy because the players always stay 4 years. I think you would see the same thing in men's ball if that were the case. Can you imagine how good UK would be if everyone stayed 4 years?
• reclegend22

  

  I know like six women's teams -- Tennessee, UConn, Georgia, Stanford, Baylor and La Tech.
  
  That tells you how important the sport is nationally. It's just the way it is. I used to actually tune into the Tennessee-vs-Connecticut games when they were still played annually, but now that they are not, I watch zero women's basketball. Jim should have been given a medal and unlimited money for sticking with the sport this long.