MBB: Ohio Athletic Conference

[ste24vie]

Credible source ....stay tuned.....Get your resume updated.....

[ohiofan1954]

Well it is posted now on the Otterbein website. Congrats Coach Reynolds on a great career and hope you have a great retirement.

[ste24vie]

You heard it here first .........Except it looks as though he is stepping down as AD also...

[wooscotsfan]

I think that the Otterbein administration has decided that it won't ask Dick Reynolds to retire unless ste24vie complains online about him another 257 times.

So, did ste24vie post his complaints another 257 times....or did Reynolds reach this decision on his own? 

On a serious note, congratulations to Dick Reynolds on a fine D3 career with his 2002 National Championship and getting his teams to the Final Four a total of three times. 

[Gregory Sager]

I think that the Otterbein administration has decided that it won't ask Dick Reynolds to retire unless ste24vie complains online about him another 257 times.

So, did ste24vie post his complaints another 257 times....or did Reynolds reach this decision on his own? 

All I know is that the Chinese water torture of reading ste24vie's incessant anti-Reynolds diatribes made me want to retire.

If ste24vie's complaining did play a role (which I doubt, since Reynolds is, after all, four years past the age when most people retire), then congrats to him upon proving the old adage, "the squeaky wheel gets the grease."

On a serious note, congratulations to Dick Reynolds on a fine D3 career with his 2002 National Championship and getting his teams to the Final Four a total of three times. 

Seconded. There ain't a lot of college basketball head coaches out there who have 600+ wins and a national championship ring to show for their pains.

[ste24vie]

All I know is ... Many of the great ones stick around just a bit too long. Recent Otterbein teams fell victim to poor recruiting as well as poor coaching and less than adequate player performance.  Lack of seasoned assisants also partly to blame. No JV program to develope those not quite ready. And even though there has been adequate players to compete, they continually seem to be stuck in the basement of the OAC. Coach Reynolds built this program and then let it fall down all around him.


Congrats to Coach Reynolds on a great first 35 years, but a 4th grade girls coach coulda won as many games as he has won in the last 5 years.

[Gregory Sager]

Recent Otterbein teams fell victim to poor recruiting as well as poor coaching

Poor recruiting is poor coaching. Recruiting is not separate from coaching. Indeed, recruiting is the most important responsibility for a head coach in college basketball, whether you're a direct-contact coach who is logging the car mileage from gym to gym himself, or you're the type who hires and fires the assistants who do the actual recruiting legwork.

[David Collinge]

Lack of seasoned assisants also partly to blame.

Kyle Potkotter is in his 14th season as an assistant coach, 11 of those as the top assistant.

[WAlum]

Congratulations to Coach Reynolds on a great career.  If Otterbein hires the right guy, this program will be back in the national spotlight soon.  Who is the right guy though?   

[ScotsFan]

On a serious note, congratulations to Dick Reynolds on a fine D3 career with his 2002 National Championship and getting his teams to the Final Four a total of three times. 

Seconded. There ain't a lot of college basketball head coaches out there who have 600+ wins and a national championship ring to show for their pains.

I know Steve Moore would trade some of those consecutive 20 win seasons he's accumulated for one of those rings in a heartbeat...

Congrats to Coach Reynolds on a fine career!

[Pat Coleman]

Going to have to ask you to change your name -- DIIIhoops is too close to our site title and I don't want anyone thinking that is an official moderator post.

Posters attacking posters is not really what we're about here. I get your point that he is posting about someone that clearly you want to defend, but the coach is a public figure.

This is like talk radio. Most coaches came to accept this about 6-7 years ago and I rarely get a coach calling or emailing to complain about an opinion. And nobody at Otterbein has complained about this person being allowed to express his opinion either. I actually think that community has done a pretty good job discrediting his ranting already (see Sager, wooscotsfan posts).

Clearly you know who it is, so I hope you can take your future communications which are for this person alone off of the board, and handle it through email.

[WAlum]

I dont know what I missed on a post but I think you will see Otterbein rally around their legendary retiring coach and finish the season strong.  They get their first chance tonight at home vs Ohio Northern.

[WAlum]

8-3    13-4  John Carroll
8-3    11-7    Capital   
7-4    12-6    Marietta   
7-4    9-8    Wilmington (Ohio)   
6-5    11-7    Baldwin-Wallace   
5-6    9-9    Ohio Northern   
4-7    8-10    Mount Union   
4-7    6-12   Heidelberg   
3-8    6-12   Muskingum   
3-8    6-12   Otterbein     

Saturday Games:
Ohio Northern @ John Carroll       
Otterbein @ Marietta       
Capital @ Mount Union           
Wilmington (Ohio) @ Baldwin-Wallace       
Muskingum @ Heidelberg       

[ohiofan1954]

that was certainly an exciting game last night at otterbein. Great to see the team finanlly come together and they actually hit outside shots down the stretch. The old man actually looked like he had a smile on his face during the last time out. D*** that was great to watch.

david

[ohiofan1954]

I have a  question for those from Marietta. I am going to the Ohio-Ball State game saturday. Because of the game being on national tv it starts at 1100am. I have 6 hours to kill before the hockey game that evening and I noticed that Otterbein is playing at Marietta on saturday afternoon. Is it difficult getting a good seat for games at Marietta? I would love to make the drive over from Athens since I have never seen your great school before. The timing is right and I would love to see if the Cards can keep it going.