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

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Matta's concerns at Ohio State: A bum back, replacing Oden

CHICAGO ? Ohio State men's basketball coach Thad Matta is making one adjustment after another these days, and the biggest change has nothing to do with losing three players to the NBA last summer.
Matta, 40, is recovering from two back surgeries last summer, the third and fourth operations he's had since he began struggling with back problems in high school.

"The back is getting stronger," Matta said Sunday at the Big Ten's media day, where officials announced Michigan State was picked as the league's preseason favorite in a media vote, followed by Indiana and Ohio State.

Matta is using a brace on his right foot because of damage to a nerve, which is expected to regenerate. But it could take two years, he said. "The biggest adjustment for me right now is every step I take, I've got to think about," Matta said.
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Matta's concerns at Ohio State: A bum back, replacing Oden - USATODAY.com
 
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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Lickliter and Matta share Butler bond[/FONT]​
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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][/FONT][FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]CHICAGO -- Like any longtime friends, old stories between Iowa basketball coach Todd Lickliter and Ohio State coach Thad Matta tend to deviate with age.[/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]"He's claiming that? He calls a timeout and wants to blame me for it?" Lickliter said with a smile Sunday at Big Ten media day. "I think he made that up."[/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Matta -- who coached the Buckeyes to the 2007 NCAA title game -- played for Lickliter at Butler in 1988-89. Matta said that Lickliter, then an assistant, got him in a little trouble.[/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]"I was playing for Joe Sexson, (Lickliter) was his assistant, and Todd leans back behind him on a free throw and says, 'Call time out,' so I call time out," Matta said. "I walk over to the bench, coach (Sexson) lights into me and says, 'Why did you call a time out?' And Todd is back there saying, 'Don't say anything, don't say anything.'[/FONT][/FONT]


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Buckeyes' Matta taking it easy

Monday, October 29, 2007 12:04 AM CDT

BY MIKE CLARK
[email protected]
219.933.4156

COLLEGE BASKETBALL | BIG TEN NOTES

CHICAGO | One of the hot topics at Sunday's Big Ten Basketball Media Day was the NCAA's decision to enforce bench decorum rules more rigorously this season.

Among the actions that could draw a technical foul for coaches are cursing or coming onto the court without an official's permission.

One coach who doesn't expect any problems complying with the latter rule is Ohio State's Thad Matta.

The former Butler coach underwent operations in June and August to help alleviate back problems he'd been experiencing, and he's still recovering.

"I'm doing better," he said Sunday. "It's one of those things, it's a process. ... The biggest adjustment for me is every step I take, I have to think about it."

As for the staying-put rule: "I said to myself, 'I'm always in the (coaches') box. It will definitely help my (plans) of slowing down."
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Oh8ch;979108; said:
I hope their not talking about Twigs.
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During the game last night they were interviewing Matta and he was talking about his back and how it has limited him, apparently it is still tender enough to limit his time on court for practice.
 
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Moving on, a Step at a Time
By PETE THAMEL
Published: November 21, 2007

COLUMBUS, Ohio ? After back surgery over the summer left him without feeling in his right foot, Ohio State Coach Thad Matta has still not adjusted to life with limited mobility.

Coach Thad Matta led Ohio State to the national title game, but lost the freshmen Greg Oden, Mike Conley Jr. and Daequan Cook to the N.B.A.
?I knew I was in trouble the other day,? Matta said in early November. ?I was walking on campus, and a girl with a backpack smoking a cigarette passed me.?
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?The nerve regenerates an inch a month,? Matta, 40, said. ?It could be a couple of years before it comes back. Every morning I wake up, the first thing I do is take a deep breath and hope for a miracle.?
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/21/sports/ncaabasketball/21ohiostate.html?ref=sports
 
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Hope Thad gets better. He seems like a cool guy. I'd like to meet him one day. I love his comments about how he stays up some nights and thinks about how this team could be the greatest all time if the guys returned last year and his comments about the nba rule being great for college basketball. It just shows that he's one of those guys that's an unabashed fan of the game.

One thing I've noticed about the team this year and last year is that there seems to be a lot of emphasis put on defense. The team plays great defense and seems to have great schemes. I still remember how they shut down Alando tucker for most of the 3 game they played Wisconsin last year.
 
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graveyard.roses;1004156; said:
I love his comments about how he stays up some nights and thinks about how this team could be the greatest all time if the guys returned last year
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Phew.. Can you guys imagine? Not a chance in hell we'd get stopped. Kind of pisses me off thinking about it. But theres nothin you can do, our time will come eventually. Thad has shown that he can win with nothing, and when something finally comes, oh boy.
 
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