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Bucknuts Morning 5: An Ohio State athletics podcast

Instant Reaction: Ohio State fires Chris Holtmann | Why now? | Possible replacments

Bucknuts Morning 5: An Ohio State athletics podcast

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4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

News broke at just past noon today that Ohio State has fired head men’s basketball coach Chris Holtmann. The Buckeyes dropped to 14-11 overall and 4-10 in Big Ten play with Tuesday night’s 62-54 loss at No. 20 Wisconsin. That loss matched the OSU school record with its 16th consecutive road loss.

Steve Helwagen and Patrick Murphy are here to offer their reactions and what the next steps are.

Transcript

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What? It's happened. happened.

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The

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the the the the

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the the

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and

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the

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and

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It's happened the The Buckeyes have fired head coach, head men's basketball coach.

0:28.4

Chris Holtman, I am Patrick Murphy here with Steve Hell wagging to react to the news that came out just afternoon on Valentine's Day, Wednesday, happy Valentine's Day, Steve.

0:39.0

I've been a little under the weather the last couple days, so was not, if I'm a little off my game that's why but

0:45.3

that's why we've got Steve here so Steve news comes out we publish our first story on it your

0:51.7

first reaction to Chris Holtman being out as the Buckeyes basketball coach?

0:57.6

Well obviously you feel for the

1:05.0

players and the assistant coaches and all their families and everything. I think coach

1:04.8

old man he'll probably be you know he'll be fine obviously with the huge buyout that

1:09.5

he's expected to receive and it is sad that it has come to this, seven years into this. It seemed like he had a lot of promise with this job in the first year. I mean, they came in right away and kind of shocked everybody going from the bottom of the big

1:27.3

tin to second in the big tin with Kate Abates Diop and you know just everything they accomplished

1:36.6

the Michigan State when they were number one and unfortunately for him and

1:41.8

I laid this all out in the column that I wrote last Friday.

1:45.8

I think the column went live about 4 PM on Friday.

1:49.5

And I didn't have one negative comment

1:51.8

about anything I wrote in the in the column. I tried to

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