It has been a hectic seven days for new Ohio State men’s basketball coach Chris Holtmann. On Tuesday morning, he was contacted for the first time by Ohio State, where OSU officially offered him the position. Since then his world has been a blur. After some back and forth, he met with Gene Smith in Dayton and accepted…
Ohio State officially introduced Chris Holtmann as its new head men’s basketball coach on Monday. Holtmann and OSU athletics director Gene Smith spoke with the media and answered plenty of questions about the future of Buckeye basketball. Here are the highlights. Gene Smith began by saying he was delighted to be…
It has been several weeks or maybe just two weeks or maybe even a month since I last completed a mailbag. I don’t know how long it’s been, I just know that it’s been long enough that I don’t feel guilty at all about asking for submissions. Generally, sportswriters request submissions because they have nothing to write about.
Matta could have lied to Smith during that conversation and simply told him what he knew his AD wanted to hear, but that’s not how he has ever done things. He was essentially sealing his own fate, and he was doing it for all of the right reasons. I asked him how difficult it was to come to the realization that it was over during that conversation…
On Monday, Ohio State men’s basketball head coach Thad Matta was fired by OSU athletics director Gene Smith. Matta had been at Ohio State for 13 years and leaves as the university’s winningest basketball coach of all time. The lack of recruiting was cited as a significant reason why it was time to make this decision.
On Monday, Thad Matta was emotional while talking about his memories of Ohio State and what the University has meant to him and his family over the past 13 years. Matta was fired by Gene Smith, though the former head coach will stick around to help find his replacement. Watch as Matta holds back tears while speaking to the media during a very emotional time for him.
COLUMBUS — Ohio State men’s basketball coach Thad Matta and OSU director of athletics Gene Smith met with the media on Monday afternoon to address the future of the OSU men’s basketball program. Gene Smith announced that after meeting with Thad Matta after the season he came to the decision that the program…
