Before I begin, I want to make one thing clear: I am not an Ohio State fan. To be perfectly honest, I am largely indifferent toward them when it comes to sports outside of football. However, as a fan of good college basketball, I expect quality from major conference teams, especially when said teams have a $109.38 million athletics budget like Ohio State does, which is the largest in the US according to Ohio State themselves (See Exhibit C). Now, to be fair, the article doesn't break down how much each sport gets and is old, but even still, that's a lot of money. I will also point out that major conference fans tend to doubt mid-major programs, such as in exhibit D, where a fan questions how many wins College of Charleston would have in the Big 12 and questioned them being ranked as high as they were. This is ignoring that 1. CoC had lost ONE GAME by that point and B) Conference play was still in the beginning at that point. More to the point of this case, Ohio State is, at the time of writing this, 11-12, on a 4-game losing streak, has won all of 3 games in conference play (See Exhibit A), and is bad to the point that the QB for the school's OWN FOOTBALL TEAM states that a group of football players could the Ohio State basketball team (See Exhibit B). Now, while some of those players on the football team could have played competitive basketball at some point, it is definitely not their focus at this time. If it were, they probably wouldn't be on the football team. This degeneration has led to Ohio State fans calling for the firing of a coach who was just extended (Exhibit E) and questioning the effort of the players (Exhibit F), among other things that can be found in the game thread from what is, at the time of writing this, their most recent game (Exhibit G). I am reminded of a line from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar: "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves." Aside from being the basis for the second charge, this quote is applicable to Ohio State basketball. The fault of how painful Ohio State has become to watch is not in some cosmic basketball entity, but in the players and coaches on that team. Now watch Ohio State get a wholly undeserved bid in March Madness over a much more deserving mid-major.

CHARGE: PAINFULTOWATCH.EXE-What it says on the tin

CHARGE: NOTINOURSTARS.WAV-Bad play and coaching are to blame.

Evidence:

EXHIBIT A

EXHIBIT B

EXHIBIT C

EXHIBIT D

EXHIBIT E

EXHIBIT F

EXHIBIT G

Finally, list the case members as they get added.

JUDGE- /u/us3rnam3_ch3cks_0ut-

DEFENCE- /u/ScarletWill1

PROSECUTOR- /u/ProsecutionName

Juror- u/Legal_Refuse