While I don't want oscar around anymore . . . I'll never quite get why this board appears to, with great regularity, always think it's the coach.
I didn't get to watch and only got to listen to the game for a bit last night, but Wyattvision and Stan didn't paint a good picture of Foster's effort. Maybe their just part of the narrative that the athletic department wants to get out there about Foster.
I would say that their analysis is clouded a bit from what they are fed by oscar. Specific to last night, I didn't see an effort issue with anyone. Sure Rohedler played harder than everyone else, but duh he's a walkon. Last night the problem was skill and execution, not effort. Now generally I can't speak for everyone but I am not sure anyone completely absolves Marcus of responsibility. There is certainly shared responsibility and in a case like that oscar is going to, and should, take the flak. His style does not endear players to want to play hard for him. He has this soft strength and conditioning program, slow offense, squeaky voice, throws players under the bus and makes excuses. In addition to that oscar has a history of this happening, his last season at Illinois he speculated that the entire team quit on the season.
oscar didn't force Marcus to smoke weed and oscar didn't make Marcus a pouty mess at OSU. However, it is oscar has done all of the things I mentioned in the previous paragraph and none of that motivates anyone to want to do anything for you. As Rage Against the McKee said, oscar is the one being paid millions of dollars to fix this and as 'zacker pointed out he is obviously scapegoating Marcus so no one should feel bad for oscar, he's doing this to himself.