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Thad Matta (OSU's All Time Winningest Coach & 3x B1G COY, Butler HC)

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Matta's tie-in:
Ohio State coach Thad Matta's attire apparently also is of interest. One Columbus TV reporter this week said his station had been getting questions about Matta's tie rotation. Matta leaves his tie choice up to his young daughters.
"I've never been a guy who cared what I looked like, obviously," he said. "I've often said if I could find one tie, I'd wear it the whole time. I've thought about getting a scarlet tie and saying this is who Thad Matta is." That certainly would make it easier for Ohio State to start selling Matta gameday outfits.
 
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msnbc.com

Matta?s the man when it comes to versatility

Ohio St. coach perfect at ensuring talent, youth, experience make a winner

By Steve Silverman
MSNBC contributor
Updated: 10:53 p.m. ET Feb 15, 2007

Great college basketball coaches must be versatile. Face it. If one had a team featuring Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson and Larry Bird, it would be easy to win nine out of 10 games no matter who was coaching.
But how does a coach adjust with a freshman-laden team? How does he do when it is senior laden? Can he win with one? Can he win with both? Can he win at all?
Those are the questions that Thad Matta has faced since replacing Jim O?Brien as Ohio State?s head coach prior to the 2004-05 season ? and he?s answered them brilliantly.

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Anyone else thinks that he at least derserves a mention in the discussion for coach of the year...

His team has the best record, he took a group of talented freshmen and molded them together with the upperclassmen and has a great basketball team, but I saw a list of coach of they years last year, I believe 4 or 5 and his name was not on the list, but Bo Ryan's who we have beat and has losses against some IU, MSU, Mizzou St...

I just don't understand why no mention for him...
 
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Updated: Feb. 25, 2007
Preseason plans with precocious frosh are panning out


COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Ohio State coach Thad Matta had a sales pitch that most coaches may use, but few can hardly deliver on: Come to my school and we're going to win championships. Not down the road, but right away -- league, tournament, and NCAA.
This wasn't spin. It wasn't some sort of fantasy. It was, in this fluid era of college hoops, a distinct possibility for a talented group of freshmen.
Forget for a minute that Michigan's Fab Five never even won a Big Ten title, let alone a national one (falling in two straight finals). The past had no bearing on Matta's and the Buckeyes' goals. The climate is ripe for a young but talented team to win a conference championship and much more. "[Matta] laid it out for us and said we would win the Big Ten, [and] the national championship. He basically told us what we're going to do, and I believed him," freshman point guard Mike Conley Jr. said. "He had so much confidence in us in year one."

Entire story: http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/colum...&id=2779740&campaign=rss&source=ESPNHeadlines
 
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GallowBuck;763114; said:
Anyone who gets so fired up his gum sprays out of his mouth and he picks it up off the floor and continues to chew it is the MAN.

Congrats on Big Ten Champs.

Go Buckeyes!:osu:
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LOL, they talked about this on ESPN this morning, they actually ran a clock on the time it took for it to hit the floor and for him to put it back in his pie hole. I believe it was 1.8 seconds, clearly beating the 5 second rule. Way to go Thad. :lol:
 
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USAToday

Matta chews gum, dropped and all Posted 2/28/2007 2:37 AM ET

CBS' clip of Ohio State Buckeyes coach Thad Matta spewing out a wad of chewing gum before picking it up from the dirty court and popping it back into his mouth, during a victory against Wisconsin on Sunday, has taken on a life of its own.
Matta's moment was the sports TV version of Seinfeld's George Costanza retrieving a half-eaten ?clair from his girlfriend's garbage can. How did CBS catch it? The network happened to have a camera on Matta when the gum flew out while he was yelling at the refs, says Bob Dekas, coordinating producer of NCAA basketball on CBS.
The camera caught the gum's journey from Matta's mouth to the floor, then back again. Dekas showed the replay to a national TV audience of more than 2 million viewers. The clip has made its way to YouTube.
"In the truck, we all laughed. We assumed if we were laughing, the people at home would laugh too," Dekas says.
The network was having fun, not trying to criticize Matta, Dekas says: "We thought it was a funny, human interest thing."
Matta is an excellent coach who's led the Buckeyes to the No. 1 ranking in the latest USA TODAY/ESPN Coaches' Poll. That hasn't stopped Gumgate from becoming a hot topic this week.
Tony Reali, host of ESPN's Around the Horn, showed what he jokingly called Matta's "drop and pop" repeatedly Monday. Panelist Jay Mariotti of the Chicago Sun-Times speculated it would hurt recruiting efforts. "Moms and dads, do you want your kids playing for that guy?" he asked.
Leave it to Tony Kornheiser of ESPN's Pardon the Interruption to put the incident in perspective. He says Matta's action was OK because the five-second rule applied.
"There's many the time I've picked up pickles off room service trays in hotel hallways. ? They're fine, there's no problem."
 
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GallowBuck;763114; said:
Anyone who gets so fired up his gum sprays out of his mouth and he picks it up off the floor and continues to chew it is the MAN.

Congrats on Big Ten Champs.

Go Buckeyes!:osu:
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After that, you would think that he could get a very lucrative gum endorsement deal.:biggrin:
 
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Anyone else blown away at how so many times (especially down the stretch of close games/blown leads) that it seems Thad's not even coaching at all, yet still he gets 20+ wins every season no matter where he's coaching? Interesting to me. I mean, I know he's coaching, but still...worth throwing out there.

Maybe some of it has to do with some players not wanting to adhere to any shot selection advice, maybe I'm wrong. JMO.
 
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Cornerback6;767861; said:
Anyone else blown away at how so many times (especially down the stretch of close games/blown leads) that it seems Thad's not even coaching at all, yet still he gets 20+ wins every season no matter where he's coaching? Interesting to me. I mean, I know he's coaching, but still...worth throwing out there.

Maybe some of it has to do with some players not wanting to adhere to any shot selection advice, maybe I'm wrong. JMO.
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Coaching is not just what is going on during the game. In fact, I'd argue 80% of coaching is what goes on during practice. You'll also notice John Groce is in charge of much of the play calling during the game. When time outs take place, that's all Matta. I'm not sure I agree with you on this one at all.
 
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