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

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Dispatch

Kentucky hasn't asked OSU yet to speak to Matta

Friday, March 23, 2007 12:15 AM
By Bob Baptist and Rob Oller


The Columbus Dispatch


SAN ANTONIO?Two questions were foremost on the minds of Ohio State fans before an NCAA South Regional semifinal game last night in the Alamodome. Would the Buckeyes beat Tennessee and advance to the Elite Eight?
Is Kentucky interested in OSU coach Thad Matta?
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I would like to see Thad end the speculation early on this one and not let it drag out like last year with Indiana.....

Just for the record, I think Matta wants to enjoy what he has built at Ohio State and with the kids coming in........at Kentucky he would be starting over with unbelievable expectations.....I don't see it being a possiblity. FWIW.
 
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OSUBasketballJunkie;791957; said:
I would like to see Thad end the speculation early on this one and not let it drag out like last year with Indiana.....

Just for the record, I think Matta wants to enjoy what he has built at Ohio State and with the kids coming in........at Kentucky he would be starting over with unbelievable expectations.....I don't see it being a possiblity. FWIW.
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Exactly. Kentucky can be "The Dream Job"... for the right coach... a coach who can handle extreme pressure and unrealistic expectations from the fan base. That knows he's got a good thing going on at Ohio State, why leave this for a program he will have to rebuild/renew and fans that expect it to be done in a year?

BTW, for those of you not in Columbus... I can feel the basketball culture of Ohio State making a big turn around...
 
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Like he did at X.
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That is really not fair if you are taking a shot at Matta for the situation at X in my opinion. In that situation, a coach is in a no win situation. He made a mistake and learned from it. Last year when the Indiana job opened up....he consistently stated he was happy at OSU but the media continued to ask the question if he was interested until he finally stated he was not interested and was happy at OSU. I am stating I hope he puts it to bed early.
 
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ABJ

Buckeyes notebook

Matta says he's not thinking about Kentucky

Ohio State coach likes where Buckeyes headed

By Marla Ridenour

Beacon Journal sportswriter

SAN ANTONIO - Ohio State coach Thad Matta has worked at three schools in his seven years as a head coach, but his wanderlust apparently has been quenched.
Matta said Friday that he wouldn't talk to the University of Kentucky if the Wildcats called seeking a replacement for Tubby Smith, who took the Minnesota job Thursday.
Top-seeded OSU takes on second-seeded Memphis at 4:30 p.m. today in the South Regional final with a trip to the Final Four on the line.
``I love the path that we're on to do what we set out to do when we came here, and that was to build a championship-caliber basketball team,'' Matta said. ``In three years, we won two Big Ten championships, we've been the two seed and the one seed in this tournament. I love where we are in regards to recruiting.''
When pressed on whether he would talk to Kentucky, Matta said no.
Matta has nine years left on a contract that runs through 2016 and pays him a base salary of $1.8 million, the same amount Minnesota gave Smith. OSU's director of athletics, Gene Smith, said Matta was the second-highest paid coach in the Big Ten this season behind Michigan State's Tom Izzo. He said Matta will make more than $2 million with incentives and that his contract was between the fifth- and seventh-best in the nation.
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OSU's Matta creature of habits
Whether it's clothes, food or drink, coach follows superstitions
Saturday, March 24, 2007 3:30 AM
By Bob Baptist


THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH


SAN ANTONIO -- When it comes to being superstitious, Thad Matta -- no doubt concurrently wondering where he could find a good piece of wood to knock on -- claims he's not that bad. Not nearly as bad as some close to the Ohio State men's basketball coach make him out to be, he says.

Then listen to Xavier coach Sean Miller.
"He's really bizarre," said Miller, who was Matta's assistant for three years at Xavier and shared an office with him when they were assistants at Miami University.
"When he coached at Xavier, he would tie his shoes at the same place on the court, at the same time every day, in practice," Miller said. "Re-tie his shoes. They were already tied. He would untie them and tie them again.

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Matta:
"I'll still have a dip every now and then. But don't print that. My wife would kill me."
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