It seems like the pressure is mounting and every OSU person is done w Travis Ford, but he is still kept around by his massive $13M buyout. Now OSU boosters have to decide which is costlier - firing Ford or not firing Ford. Look at the ugly shambles of OSU basketball. This is a program that was once so powerful that nobody decent would play us in Stillwater and tickets were still so hard to get that they only sold half season tickets which still required a big donation.

I have been screaming that Mike Holder needs to go for years. He doesn't get along well with successful coaches like Gundy, who was forced to get an agent one year and then almost couldn't keep working for Holder. Coach Holder isn't well liked by anyone who knows him personally and is also just plain weird. The only reason he has his job is bc he was besties w Boone. Unfortunately Travis Ford can't even be fully responsible for the shambles he created bc at the end of the day we have a contract negotiated by Holder.

Ford literally made it to back-to-back tourneys (bare minimum expectation) w 5'7" Sean Sutton players (that he was probably fired for recruiting ironically) and Holder was so elated he have him a raise worth more than Gundy's salary at the time and signed him to TEN years with an insanely iron clad buyout. Holder went all in on Ford. And now OSU's once-premier program is an embarrassing shambles.

Talk all you want in the other thread about how embarrassed/sorry we feel for Marcus Smart and mad we are at Travis Ford but the culpable party is going to get off the hook. Like always. Because he's Boone's buddy.