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Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

How firing Chris Holtmann impacts Ohio State basketball

Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

cleveland.com

Sports, Football

4.51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Ohio State is moving on from Chris Holtmann as its basketball coach opting to fire him despite having four years still left on a contract extension signed in 2022. Despite the remaining years, the decision doesn’t come as a surprise as the Buckeyes are in the midst of yet another disappointing season that looks destined for them to end on the outside of the NCAA Tournament. Ripping off the band-aid now starts the process of current athletic director Gene Smith and incoming athletic director Ross Bjork finding his replacement. On this emergency episode of Buckeye Talk, Stephen Means and Nathan Baird break down this decision and what it means for OSU basketball. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hey, hey, hey, come on in. Welcome to another emergency podcast episode of Buckeye Talk. We're doing a lot of these lately.

1:19.0

Usually it's because somebody's coming in this time it's because someone is going out it is Chris

1:24.2

Holtman Ohio State makes a mid-season change with the men's basketball program

1:28.9

Chris Holtland fired after a career that started here in 2017 and started with some real promise but just the last couple of years has lost really all traction and the the final straw I don't know if it was a final straw, but the final game was another road loss at Wisconsin on Tuesday night that makes 16 consecutive road losses tying the program record if you want to use that term and not an

1:57.8

unanticipated event that they are moving away from Chris Holtman, Stephen. But maybe the timing of it was the most

2:06.1

uncertain thing. Would they do it now? Would they wait until the end of the season?

2:10.8

Yeah, I think it's interesting because we're living in the world of the transfer portal now and obviously the window for college basketball players opens up on March 18th.

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