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John Groce (HC Akron Zips)

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Kickdown02;1192739; said:
Do you guys think that Groce will bring anybody from the staff w/ him to Ohio?
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First off it is not official yet.

Second... Doubtful. Ohio would probable not be able to hire away anyone from Ohio State for a "lateral" move.
 
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Kickdown02 said:
My bad, "expert". Pretty close to official. I guess my next question would be who stays, if any, on the current Ohio staff.
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with all due respect. if/when groce leaves the program i will track him at the same level i track lovie smith, ron zook, pete carroll, urban meyers, snyder, dantonio, randy ayers, gary williams etc. i mean i wont care, when brought up ill be like oh yeah he used to be at osu. besides that eh...
 
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Kickdown02;1192700; said:
Awesome awesome. I do think this will lead to a future OSU/OU matchup. It's been too long. How about a 2-1 deal?
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I said this before but I guess you were not reading the entire thread. Very good friends hardly ever play each other and Thad and John are about as close as you can get without being brothers.
 
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LitlBuck;1192854; said:
I said this before but I guess you were not reading the entire thread. Very good friends hardly ever play each other and Thad and John are about as close as you can get without being brothers.
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I read your post. I am giving my opinion, just like you are offering your opinion.
 
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Steve19;1193058; said:
Maybe he takes Matta with him as his assistant?
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I'm sure the AD had to twist the Trustees arms to get them to fork over 300k/yr for Groce. Not sure there is anything left in the pot. :wink2:

Off topic, I see that you are in South Africa, Steve. Do you know of any links for major newspapers or any other major media in South Africa? I have a friend that was interested in getting some information on World Cup 2010, was having difficulty finding good sources out of SA.
 
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Sad to see Groce go because he's one of the top five assistant coach in hoops. At first I was surprised he took this job after turning down jobs like Butler last year that would arguably be better positions. I thought he would stay here until a Creighton, Dayton, Xavier, Southern Illinois caliber non-BCS job came open.

He walks into a good situation at OU. Tim O'Shea didn't leave the program in total shambles and he's got some pieces like Jerome Tillman. The Convo is probably the best basketball facility in the MAC. The MAC is in somewhat of state of flux as far it's power vacuum. Charlie Coles is probably done this year at Miami, Kent's string of successful coaching sucessions could be broken with Geno Ford (Who was the PG on the Gary Trent Bobcat teams) and the conference is probably at weakest state in years. Things are ripe for him to come and in build a team to dominate the MAC.

I guarantee you the number one reason he took this job is Ohio AD Jim Schaus. As John Calipari likes to say and I think this true and underated maxim in college sports, "coaches win games, adminstrations win championships."Schaus is one of the upcoming and AD's in the country. He did a great job at Wichita State. When hired Gregg Marshall from Winthrop to take over for Mark Tuergon that was one of the best hires of the last several years and probably the best non-BCS hire.

I'm sure Schaus and Groce will be at BCS programs in short order.
 
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Very, very, very excited about this hire. There hasn't been this much excitement around the program since the Florida game in 2005, and this seems to be even bigger.

I guess it was a Carlston for Groce trade in the end.

I don't even care that we're gonna lose by 40 in September now.
 
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