The problem with attaining great heights, as the Ohio State’s men’s gymnastics team has, is that there is so much further to fall.Last season the men’s gymnastics team was red hot, according to head coach Miles Avery. They won the Big Ten Championship and the NCAA Eastern Regional Championship and took fourth place in the NCAA Championships.”We had the two best gymnasts in the country with Blaine Wilson and Drew Durbin,” Avery said. “We lost them to graduation, along with Frank Ansevin, Chad Finefrock, Michael Finn and Neil Niemi. We certainly lost a lot this year.”Along with graduating seniors, the team lost former head coach Peter Kormann, when he resigned in May. Just one week later Andy Geiger, OSU director of athletics, named Avery as head coach.”Everyone we talked to, including our current team members, had nothing but the highest praise for Miles,” Geiger said. “We have lost an enormously gifted coach in Peter Kormann, but we have hired a coach who will excel in his own right and will be a tremendous representative for The Ohio State University.”Avery has been the Buckeyes’ assistant coach since 1989. During that time the 38-year-old was chosen as National Assistant Coach of the Year three times. His coaching career began in 1982 as an assistant at his alma mater, Temple University. A year later he moved to coach at East Stroudsburg University for seven years. “This is certainly a year of rebuilding for us,” Avery said. “I hope our fans that have been spoiled with our success are willing to wait a year. The whole program is being reorganized.”One key element of the reorganization is new assistant coach Arnold Kvetenadze. Avery hopes that he and Kvetenadze can successfully instill the team with what he calls “the Blaine work ethic.””Everyone will be pushed to come into the gym, willing to give it all and more and not stop short of excellence,” Avery said.Four freshmen will be joining the team this season.Jamie Natlie hails from Hockessin, Del., and Jay Nardelli is from Centerville, Va. Both Nardelli and Natlie were on the Junior National Team.”Natlie has the clean lines and aesthetic qualities of Drew Durbin,” said Avery. “Nardelli is really closer to Blaine Wilson with his degree of strength.” Darin Lynch from Londonderry, N.H. and Judd Shaffer from Indianapolis, Ind. will also be joining the team next season. They were both qualifiers for the Junior Olympic National Team.”Jamie and Jay will have to step right up this season,” Avery said. “All four will have to help out.”