GMC

JBaller said:
Two of those players coming back are going to be Power 5 CBB players though. Just need role players around them, which is much easier to develop. What happened to Rattica? He got some run as a freshman then didn’t play this year. Focused on football?
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True I just hope they get another chance to make it that far again. How they replace those key losses will be a big factor in how they do. Would’ve loved to see how they would’ve done against O Orange who’s obviously very good. Will be interesting to see how Reynoldsburg does against them in the final. I think it will be a good game. As far as Rattica I am not sure. I know in the last regular season football game at Mason he had a season ending injury. Not sure if that’s why he wasn’t playing or he had decided before that he was just going to focus on football 🏈.
 
firehawk said:
True I just hope they get another chance to make it that far again. How they replace those key losses will be a big factor in how they do. Would’ve loved to see how they would’ve done against O Orange who’s obviously very good. Will be interesting to see how Reynoldsburg does against them in the final. I think it will be a good game. As far as Rattica I am not sure. I know in the last regular season football game at Mason he had a season ending injury. Not sure if that’s why he wasn’t playing or he had decided before that he was just going to focus on football 🏈.
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I saw Orange play Sycamore and I watched that whole Reynoldsburg-Lakota West game. I think Orange is going to win by 15+. Reynoldsburg is not too different from the top of the GMC (beat Princeton by 2, beat West by 1, would probably be in ballgames against Fairfield and East). Orange and Iggy were the best two teams by a fair bit. Iggy played two different overtime games against Orange because they can guard like X and are efficient offensively like Lakota West. Reynoldsburg wasn’t that good defensively, and I think Orange will pick them apart. Reynoldsburg better be ready to score 70 if they want to win.
 
jjnaaa said:
Every underclassman player that saw time last season played this season. There were 4 juniors (Sulek, Hanley, Koelling, and Kirkllin) and one sophomore (Hibbert) that didn't play 23/24 seasons after playing in 22/23. Sulek and Koelling are at OSU for baseball, and Hanley is at Indiana. they knew this was their senior and final shot to win a baseball championship, so they went all in and quit basketball. Basketball was never their top sports to begin with. Hibbert only played a total of 6 minutes the entire season. Kirklin played in every game and averaged about 12 minutes.

I don't know about the disgruntled parents, but I do know the superintendant played a major role in him getting the job, so I doubt he's going anywhere. Greg and Ken were great friends, but at the same time the commitment level for sports in the offseason was completely different 15-20 years ago. Ken retired in 2013 and spent most of the year in Florida the last few years he coached because he was retired.

I am not trying to be a Toohey apologist, but I don't really think it's fair to spin a narrative that is not entirely true about kids leaving the program because of Toohey.
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I can tell you Toohey also cut kids that should’ve been on the team. You should be able to evaluate talent if you want a chance to compete. He mismanaged the program and they got worse every year since he took the job.
 
Vet Observer said:
Noted it took the DIVISION 1 STATE CHAMPIONS===and no one less--tp eliminate the Sycamore Aviators from their tournament run.
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The interesting tidbit is that both times Sycamore has won district championships, they lost to the eventual state champion in the round of 16 (also lost to Hamilton 65-55 in ‘04). The two district championship teams finished T-6th and 7th in the GMC. They have 5 GMC championship teams that did not win district titles.
 
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Looks like Mason is going to hire CJ Fleming to replace Adam Toohey in the only coaching change occurring in the league this season.
 
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