It's hard out here for a college coach, to be sure. The transfer portal is both an opportunity and a burden, but when you're an incoming coach that has to re-recruit the old roster to convince them to hang around, it's definitely more of the latter than the former. On the other hand, part of the appeal of hiring Jake Diebler as the next head men's basketball coach was that you weren't (in theory) going to have to be all that worried about it.
Welp! Three major departures in relatively short order (including one to your in-conference mortal enemy which is now led by a potential coaching target) has changed that narrative, and this week the Eleven Dubcast tries to figure out how OSU men's basketball got to where it is now, how much Diebler could've actually done about it, and where we go from here.