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

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Oh8ch;1683201; said:
A few things to consider when measuring Matta's performance:

In the past five years:

1. He has won one NIT championship.
2. He has played in the championship game of the Big Ten tournament four times, winning twice.
3. He has won three regular season Big Ten titles.
4. He has played for the National Title.

In those same five years:

1. He has lost 5 Freshman players to the NBA and 3 more to transfer.
2. In three of those five years he has had to replace four of his starters from the prior season.


That is flat solid.
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And we must never, ever let him leave. I've seen Eldon (who couldn't win to save his life), the Idiot from Fredo of Ohio (who almost destroyed this program) and The Cheater. I might say that Thad Matta is the most significant Ohio State coaching hire of the last forty years.

Do you see what happens when you "think big" Gene? cough, cough...hockey...cough, cough.
 
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For Matta, resting is rare
Ohio State coach gets most out of players, too
Sunday, April 25, 2010
By Mark Znidar
The Columbus Dispatch

The people who handle Thad Matta's dry cleaning can attest that he is one hard-working coach and not just a master recruiter.

At least twice a week during the basketball season, Matta will send two sweat-stained suits that he wears during Ohio State games out for cleaning.

"There's no question my dry cleaner likes me a lot," he said, laughing. "I give them a lot of business. I rotate the suits during the course of a season. Some guy once said I needed to buy a real expensive suit. I said, 'Have you ever seen me during a game?' I'd destroy the suit. There is an exhaustion point. I sometimes say I feel like I played in the game. I tell myself I'm going to slow down, but I can never do that."

Coaches in the state appreciated the perspiration from afar. Matta was voted The Dispatch men's Ohio college coach of the year for leading the Buckeyes to the Big Ten regular-season and tournament championships and a 29-8 record that included two victories in the NCAA Tournament.

Matta, who has won the award four times in the past seven years, said he takes no offense to being labeled an outstanding recruiter.

"If you asked any college basketball coach about the most important part of the job, it's recruiting," he said. "You have to have players. Great coaches do that. What has been hard at Ohio State is that we've had a lot of turnover with early departures. Three of the last four years we've had to start over with so many new guys."
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Dispatch men's Ohio college coach of the year: For Matta, resting is rare | BuckeyeXtra
 
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