Will Buckeyes ever invest in making basketball great?

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On Ohio State football, basketball

To the editor: Rob Oller’s column about football schools winning basketball championships was well done. Most of the OSU fans are football and only football fans. The media – Dispatch and talk radio − confirm this statement. Just look at the column inches and the minutes on talk radio that the football program received even weeks after the national championship. I am not complaining about the media. They are just giving their readers and listeners what they want – football 24/7. 

The OSU administration will not seriously invest in basketball because the donors aren’t pressuring them to have a strong program. Not that long ago, OSU decided to give a young assistant coach with no head coaching experience the opportunity to run the football program. How long did Luke Fickell last? Now they hired a young inexperienced head basketball coach, and the results were predictable. Yet Diebler’s job seems safe because most of the fan base doesn’t care about basketball and would rather see more money poured into assistant football coaches’ salaries. Rob ends his column with: “The basketball side of things needs to figure things out. Quickly.”  Very true, but very unlikely to happen.

Raymond D’Angelo, Westerville

To Raymond: One of Diebler’s biggest challenges is to get rid of the relative apathy fans have for Ohio State basketball. The Buckeyes aren’t bad. But being merely competitive and therefore lacking a real hoops-crazy home-court advantage won’t cut it with a fan base with high expectations fueled by football success.

On Ohio State football

To Brian: We all can agree that Ryan Day had a well above average last season. It is unfortunate that his record in spring games is…

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