In fairness to whoever said that about Matta, it's safe to assume that everything involved with the basketball program is dying.
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Thad Matta Reveals Nasty Negative Recruiting Claim
The Ohio State head coach revealed a nasty negative recruiting claim this afternoon.
Thad Matta will be back at Ohio State in 2017-18. The Buckeyes struggled this year and Matta has dealt with some health issues in the past, but he’ll be on the sideline next year, Yahoo’s Pat Forde reported on Monday night.
At a press conference this afternoon, Matta addressed the report, saying he feels fine physically, but added that someone negatively recruited against him by claiming he was dying. Seriously.
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Thad Matta said someone negatively recruited against him by saying that Thad was dying. #Buckeyes
2:16 PM - 7 Mar 2017
Negative recruiting is unfortunately a part of the college basketball and college football worlds – why would you go there when this is happening? you know this school does this, right? etc. – but claiming another head coach is dying is obviously crossing the line.
Ohio State opens its postseason play on Wednesday night against Rutgers in the first round of the Big Ten Tournament in Washington, D.C. The Buckeyes need a tournament title to make the NCAA Tournament.
http://thespun.com/college-football/thad-matta-reveals-nasty-negative-recruiting-claim
Meh. Not sure I believe that. Did "negative recruiting" cause all but one of the 2015 class to bail after one season?
It just reeks of a desperate coach. My expectations for 2017-18 are sufficiently tempered, but damn Thad had some good teams years ago. Let's just be glad we had them, and maybe we can crack the top ten - in our conference - next season.
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Meh. Not sure I believe that. Did "negative recruiting" cause all but one of the 2015 class to bail after one season?
It just reeks of a desperate coach. My expectations for 2017-18 are sufficiently tempered, but damn Thad had some good teams years ago. Let's just be glad we had them, and maybe we can crack the top ten - in our conference - next season.
Eh doesn't really read as desperation. Knowing what we know someone probably asked him about his health and he brought that up making fun of it as a joke. Aka a can you actually believe this shit comment not a woe is me comment.
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Taken from another board: "The way Coach Matta describes the situation, it sounds an awful lot like Kobi Simmons when he delayed his announcement and we had been the front runner. At the time, Kentucky was our main competition. He eventually went to Arizona to play for Sean Miller, who probably didn't say that. So that leaves... Calipari?"
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I just don't think Calipari would have to do that. The logic might suggest that but Capilari just has to say "Kentucky." If he is losing a guy to Ohio State, that guy probably isn't Kentucky worthy, because let's face it, Ohio State isn't getting kids that Kentucky wants. Or Duke. Or Kansas. Or North Carolina. Or UCLA. Or UT Arlington...
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If I recall, Simmons had been set to announce (reportedly for Ohio State) in the fall of 2015. At that time, only Kentucky and UNLV were also under consideration. Kentucky may not have had room for him at that time but they certainly wanted him to delay his decision in case they had a lot of anticipated early entries. Simmons then delayed his announcement. By the time the 2016 rolled around, OSU was basically eliminated. It was a strange turn of events.
Not saying Cal is the guy, but it's unlikely that it was Sean Miller. That's the only recent recruitment that seems to fit the fact pattern Matta is discussing.
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I thought that was what "Kentucky" meant. Just a shorter way of saying "just sign the back and take it to that bank over there."
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Guess who will be back coaching the Buckeyes next season 
http://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio-...n-ohio-state-mens-basketball-coach-thad-matta
It would be nice to be respectful of our head basketball coach. Urban likes him
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Matta could be in the market for yet another assistant ....
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And Alabama football doesn't have to pay kids.....but we all know every big time school does. I don't like this kind of reasoning. Cal is precisely the guy that would say something like that.
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