Welcome back to another Buckeye talk. We're back after two week break and we're back with basketball

because we had news and news I don't think anybody was expecting as you know by now fadmata has been fired and to be clear right just

like we were sort of debating this in our McDonald's office like we using the word

fired gee Smith and Thadmata were at this news conference on Monday

to announce that Thadmata is no longer the coach,

and only one of them was crying.

And when the coach is crying it's because it wasn't his call.

So they didn't want to use the word fired but if you ask that one it's totally up to you. Do you still want to be Ohio State's coach what would his answer be?

Yes. I think it would be yes.

And he's not the coaching anymore so they let him go. And there's a buyout. And he's getting paid $9 or $10 million over the next three years because that's what's on his contract. And so that's the kind of thing that happens when you get fired.

Doug Lee Maurice with Bill Wannes Nari waserman from Cleveland.com

or your Ohio State Coverage Team, read us at Cleveland.com slash OSU.

Bunch of fad modest stuff up there.

Gonna have more coming this week as we sort of look back on

Mada's 13 year, tenure. Obviously Bill Landis is going to be all over this coaching search,

so we'll get into that today.

How this came to be, why it came to be,

and who's going to come?

Who is going to be the next coach of Ohio State basketball?

And so there's a lot to get into. I think we'll go for a while. We're still going to give you our normal football podcast

But this is the emergency basketball podcast so I think I think we're let's get the candidates fairly quickly because that's what people

want to want to know about and then we can double back on some other things but

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