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Jeff Boals (HC Ohio Bobcats)

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Boals' hiring is official

Ohio State announced the hiring of Jeff Boals about a half hour ago. He'll be available to the news media at 1 p.m. today, so we'll have a story with comments from him and coach Thad Matta in The Dispatch on Wednesday.

In the meantime, here is the news release from Ohio State:


Jeff Boals, the associate head men?s basketball coach at the University of Akron last season, has joined the Ohio State men?s basketball staff as an assistant, Thad Matta, head coach of the Buckeyes, announced Tuesday.

Boals replaces Archie Miller, who left Ohio State for an assistant position at the University of Arizona.

A native of Magnolia, Ohio, Boals understands the responsibilities associated with the Ohio State program.

?I grew up in Ohio. I understand the magnitude of Buckeye Nation and I love college basketball. I live it,? Boals said. ?To have the opportunity to take my love of the game to a basketball program as highly regarded and revered as Ohio State ? it doesn?t get better than this. I appreciate the confidence Coach Matta has in me and in my ability to be a difference maker in his program. This is an exciting time for both my family and me. There is no place I?d rather take the next step in my career.?
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Boals' hiring is official (Hoops & Scoops: an OSU basketball blog)
 
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Dispatch

Ohio State men's basketball: Assistant Boals is known as 'rugged'

Wednesday, April 29, 2009 2:53 AM
By Bob Baptist


THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
The first impression Jeff Boals made on Thad Matta was lasting. Boals was a senior at Ohio University in 1995 playing with a ton of heart on one good leg. Matta was an assistant coach at Miami University. "I loved the fact that he was tough, rugged," Matta said, "one of those guys who had to get the job done."
Matta will expect nothing less from Boals than to get the job done again. The Ohio State men's basketball coach announced Boals' hiring yesterday as an assistant. He replaces Archie Miller, who left to work for his older brother, Sean, at Arizona.
"I was a role guy, a glue guy, and tried to do all the little things ... to win basketball games," Boals said. "I think that's kind of carried over to the coaching."
Boals, 36, worked the past three years at Akron, where his ability to identify talent helped bring in many of the players who led the Zips to a Mid-American Conference tournament title and NCAA Tournament appearance in March.
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Matta acknowledged that Boals is one of only a few assistants he has hired from outside the "family" of coaches who had a previous connection to Matta or someone he worked for.

"You always welcome new energy, a new person, new ideas," he said.

"As you go to hire, you don?t want a guy coming in who says, 'Tell me what to do. Tell me how you want it done.' You want guys who are innovative and have seen different things, how different tactics or philosophies will work, and that?s definitely what we got with Jeff."

-- Boals said he was "shocked" when Matta called him about the job.

"It was Easter Sunday. I was driving to my mom?s house and I get a private call," he said. "The only private call I ever got was from a recruit?s assistant coach who was in the FBI, so I thought it was him."

When the caller identified himself as Matta, he thought it was a friend playing a joke on him.

"I thought it was him messing with me for about a minute and a half," Boals said. "After that, I realized it was coach Matta."

-- Boals met the players Monday. When he was introduced to Mark Titus, he said he told the seldom-used walkon, "My best was 5 trillion."

Titus became an Internet phenomenon this season with his "Club Trillion" blog. The name is derived from the 1 minute and all zeroes sometimes seen next to Titus' name in the box score.

Boals said he played 39 minutes his first season as a walkon at Ohio University.

"It was kind of funny, we had our 'DNP crew,'" he said, referring to the box-score acronym that stands for "Did Not Play." "In layup lines, whoever scored the most points always got to sit closest to the head coach. That was kind of our deal."

Boals said he was well aware of Titus' blog while coaching at Akron last season.

"Believe it or not, I had it bookmarked in my Blackberry."
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Matta and Boals leftovers (Hoops & Scoops: an OSU basketball blog)

Former University of Akron men's basketball assistant Jeff Boals happy to be at Ohio State
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Doug Lesmerises
Plain Dealer Reporter

Columbus -- When Thad Matta called Akron associate head basketball coach Jeff Boals 17 days ago and talked about a job, Boals was shocked. Why? Because he had never worked for Matta.

For his latest hire, necessitated by Archie Miller's departure to coach under his brother Sean at Arizona, Matta atypically went outside his coaching family.

"You don't want guys coming in that just say Tell me what to do,' " Matta said Tuesday, officially announcing Boals as one of his three assistants. "You want guys that are innovative and see how different tactics or philosophies will work, and that's definitely what we got with Jeff."
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http://www.cleveland.com/osu/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/sports/124099394773900.xml&coll=2
 
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Boals is Twittering
If you want to keep up with as much inside information as coach Thad Matta wants out there, bookmark assistant coach Jeff Boals' new Twitter account. I found it this morning, and with it a couple of morsels of food for thought:

- Last Thursday, Boals wrote that it was a "great recruiting day yesterday for The Ohio State University." The obvious reference, I think, was to 2010 big man Adreian Payne being on campus for an unofficial visit Wednesday. Maybe Payne told the coaching staff more than he's revealed publicly to this point.

- Saturday, Boals wrote, "I've got Georgia on my mind." I have no idea why, but I'll try to find out.
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Boals is Twittering (Hoops & Scoops: an OSU basketball blog)

Jeff Boals (JeffBoals) on Twitter
 
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LitlBuck;1470690; said:
The statement makes me wonder if Coach Boals is going on vacation in Georgia or likely have some of Georgia's fine basketball talent. I know that everyone has said the ship has sailed on Golden but we do need a PG for 2010.
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Maybe he's auditing an art history class and they're looking at paintings of semi-erotic flowers?
 
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LitlBuck;1470690; said:
The statement makes me wonder if Coach Boals is going on vacation in Georgia or likely have some of Georgia's fine basketball talent. I know that everyone has said the ship has sailed on Golden but we do need a PG for 2010.
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I thought the consensus on Golden was that he's not a true point but more of a combo guard.
 
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itownbuckeye;1470702; said:
I thought the consensus on Golden was that he's not a true point but more of a combo guard.
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I guess it is a non-issue because Ohio State and Golden have gone their separate ways according to last post in his thread but I think you are correct regarding being a combo guard.
 
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GrizzlyBuck;1470841; said:
Total recruiting neophyte here, I don't know if it is a dead period or whatever, but are there any big AAU tourneys in Ga or anything of the like?
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You could twitter Coach Boals:biggrin2: I know that type of information is out there someplace because I have seen it before but can't remember where.
 
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(approx. 3 hrs. ago)

Coach Boals' Twitter post was:

"Great day to be a Buckeye! Going to be an exciting day today!!"


???????? What's going on today?
 
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