The Views From The Schott Podcast brings another edition of the 2025 Summer Guest Series with Josh Poloha, a writer and associate producer at Eleven Warriors.

Enjoy a near hour-long episode that starts up with a postmortem of Ohio State's 2024 season. What kept the Buckeyes out of the NCAA Tournament? Plus, thoughts on roster construction and player fit thoughts.

Then, Josh and Tim dive into this year's team. With the returning core, transfer class, and a future NBA talent (or two) in the freshman class, we reach cloud nine dreaming of next year's team.

But, what could go wrong? Tim and Josh dwell upon defense from wings, Devin Royal's perimeter development, and depth as areas of concern.

Plus, Tim shares his #bad takes on the College Football Playoff before Josh saves the episode by sharing a tradition he helped start when he was a student at Ohio State.

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Ohio State associate head coach Joel Justus joins the 2025 Summer Guest Series on the Views From The Schott Podcast.

Today's show covers a bunch of ground, including Justus reflecting on his first year in Columbus, what he enjoys about being a Buckeye, recruiting and evaluating in the transfer portal, his message to Buckeye Nation, and a whole lot more.

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The 2025 Summer Guest Series from Views From The Schott Podcast continues with another assistant coach. This time, Brian Walsh, who joined the staff in May, introduces himself to Buckeye Nation.

Hear why he chose to join Jake Diebler's staff, including common threads he shares with other coaches and staff. Plus, how relationships play a pivotal role in his day to day.

Walsh also shares his philosophy as a coach, prioritizing relationships over everything while trying to guide players in the right direction so they can be successful after basketball.

Coach Walsh also answers some unique questions as well as shares his message to Buckeye Nation.

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The 2025 Summer Guest Series continues with Ohio State forward Colin White joining the Views From The Schott Podcast.

Hear Colin recap his freshman year, including a highlight reel dunk, injuries and setbacks, relating to teammates, adjusting to school, and more.

Plus, the Buckeyes' forward talks about locker room dynamics, how the portal feels as someone who didn't jump ship, and what it's like recruiting portal players.

White also talks about who has impressed him during summer workouts and gives his message to Buckeye Nation.

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The 2025 Summer Guest Series continues with former Buckeye Matt Sylvester (2001-2006) joining the Views From The Schott Podcast.

The man who hit one of the biggest shots in program history, a 3-pointer to topple then undefeated No. 1 Illinois on March 6, 2005, talks through his basketball life from growing up in Italy and watching his dad play 17 years of professional basketball, through his final game, an NCAA Tournament loss to Georgetown.

Hear incredible, never-before-shared stories from Sylvester's basketball career, including pissing off Bob Huggins before committing to Ohio State, losing Mr. Basketball to some bum named LeBron James, a supernatural force the night before his game-winning shot over Illinois, and many more great stories.

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The 2025 Summer Guest Series is paused for one week as we hit a long overdue mailbag. Today, Views From The Schott Podcast covers an ideal non-conference schedule (it's perfect), thoughts on Ohio State's two new court designs, Carmen's Crew running it back for TBT, minimum results Jake Diebler must achieve, BTS on the pod, and more.

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The 2025 Summer Guest Series on the Views From The Schott Podcast continues with a two-part conversation with Ohio State assistant coach Luke Simons.

The over one-hour conversation is broken into wo parts, with the second consisting of how the staff navigates the transfer portal, life as director of basketball operations and how a coaching job differs, more wacky questions, and his message to Buckeye Nation.

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The 2025 Summer Guest Series on the Views From The Schott Podcast continues with a two-part conversation with Ohio State assistant coach Luke Simons.

The over one-hour conversation is broken into wo parts, with the first consisting mostly of Simons journey into coaching, which included several stops in Asia.

Simons shares his masters program he completed on coaching culture, as well as what it's like dealing with the rabid fans of Ohio State basketball.

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