06/06: Ohio State surprisingly fires Thad Matta; full analysis, candidate speculation

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🗓️ 6 June 2017

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith has made the borderline unprecedented decision to part ways with 13-year Buckeyes coach Thad Matta. Why did it come to this -- in early June? Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander share their opinions on the firing, then get into deeper analysis on why this move makes for a possibly dangerous precedent. After that, the duo goes guy-by-guy in looking at realistic candidates to get this newly opened gig. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey there, it's Gary Perish.
0:16.2	It's Tuesday, June 6th, and welcome back to the Island College Basketball Podcast.
0:20.4	Got Matt Norlander here with me.
0:22.2	Obviously, and big news this week in the world of college basketball.
0:25.1	That motto.
0:26.7	Out at Ohio State after 13 years, not a retirement, basically a firing.
0:31.2	The athletic director, Jim Smith, explained yesterday that, yes, when he said back in March
0:36.0	that that motto was going to continue as Ohio State's men's basketball coach, he
0:39.6	minted, but the developments over the past three months, a double digit score, quitting
0:44.8	the team, the staff missing on a relevant 2017 grad transfers or prospects that could theoretically
0:53.7	of help next season.
0:55.6	Also the top player in Ohio, who was committed to Ohio State, class of 2018, decommitting publicly,
1:01.2	saying that he was going to reopen his recruitment.
1:03.4	All of these developments led Jean Smith to the point where he felt it was the right thing
1:10.4	to do to approach that motto about maybe making a coaching change.
1:13.2	He did that last Friday, and of course, yesterday it was announced in a joint press conference
1:18.7	that that motto will not continue as Ohio State's coach.
1:22.0	I'm a lender.
1:23.0	I'll start it here.
1:24.0	Your thoughts on what we saw go down in Columbus yesterday?
1:27.4	I got a ton of thoughts, GP.
1:30.0	I really want to get deep into this because this is really unusual.
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