sorry to bust your bubble but i have been just as long. Changed my email so had to change my account. You were better off keeping your opinions to yourself.

I think what JN is saying is Thad has been winning Big 10 titles but has not done very well in the NCAA Tournament. Think about some of those loses. Sienna, really, Tennessee, just hoping Evan Turner would win it, Georgetown, really, we were Big 10 champs that year, Kentucky last year, we were cleary the best team in it, thanks Gene Smith for that draw. Cooper won some big games but not many Bowls!!!

No we are not on the consistent levels of the Dukes and North Carolina's of the world YET, but this coach has dealt with the departure of talent that just does not stay, he has to start over every year! I thought he went farther than the final 4? And happened to play and EXPERIENCED deep Florida team, who would
have beaten anybody that year. Sure we have experienced some disappointments and have fallen short what
possibly should have been, but for me personally I am excited about our program and the attention it is getting
is terrific. I love our Coach, and the direction it is going is the right one, people need to look a little farther than
the now, and see clearly this guy has a great coaching staff with a lot of young talent and continues to gain
momentum! Oh and by the way my comment was for the original post! Go Bucks! Go Coach Matta!

As a fan of the Bucks who was born in Kentucky - I also am a big fan of UK. Let me tell you, Pitino has worse problems. All Matta has done is win 20 games or more in every season as a head coach. Pitino can't say that, and he will frustrate the heck out of you. It would almost seem as if he would lose games during the regular season on purpose to teach his kids a lesson. One bad game and you want to throw out one of the best basketball coaches this university has ever seen? Where did that come from?

I don't know why questioning some of Matta's in game coaching decisions brands one a pariah. I won’t go so far as to say I want him replaced, but I do find myself screaming at the T.V. during games wondering what the hell he’s thinking.

The MSU game was just another example. Am I the only one that thought he should have brought Sullinger over to the bench and calm him down when he was flopping all over the court and pouting when he wasn’t getting the foul calls? How about why Amir didn’t get to see any playing time when Thomas was continuing to get beat like a rug on defense and wasn’t contributing points or rebounds? At least Amir can block a shot on occasion.

These substitutions didn’t need to be for long to get the message across or see if it could have stopped the bleeding. From my perspective, he lets the opponent’s runs go on too long before calling a timeout. Something I noticed Izzo has no problem spending a timeout on.

Matta = Great recruiter, pretty decent game planner, average situation manager.

04-05, 20 Wins, no post-season per NCAA ban
05-06, 26 wins, 2nd round loss
06-07, 35 wins, title loss to Florida
07-08, 24 wins, NIT Champion
08-09, 22 wins, 1st round loss
09-10, 29 wins, sweet 16
10-11, 34 wins, sweet 16

It's not a bad resume and they call it 'March Madness' for a reason. Every year there are teams ranked low that make a run and teams ranked high that lose early. That's why they play the games. A Runner-up, two sweet 16's and a NIT Championship (from a team that wasn't that good) is not bad on a resume on a 6 year scope. An Elite 8 while at Xavier isn't bad either.

In the same time span Izzo, Coach K, Roy Williams, Billy Donavan, Bill Self, Calipari, Beoheim and Jim Calhoun might be the only coaches who have had more success. Is Matta on the level of these guys yet? Probably not but only because he doesn't have that one final bullet point of being a National Champ.

Agree to disagree, but we are acting like tOSU is the basketball capital of the world, which it is not.

Troll

You are going to have a hard time in finding justification to fire Matta.

Guys,

Please let- up on criticizing Mr. (= 1 post) Foster in his position that TOSU need of a better coach. At least he gave Mata credit for recruiting. Mr. Foster is just getting started and perhaps we will be reading great thread from him in the future. We can all recall our first post, and the insight we all had to endure when we interpolate thought into key board to foot in mouth. Perhaps Mr. Foster doesn’t understand how it feels to loss. Especially, if it’s a team you’re rotting for to win. Mr. Foster, let this serve a warning that the guys aren't forgiving if you suggest in anyway
Matta doesn't know what he doing. Bad shooting does happen.

They have beat 5 out of 8 ranked opponents this year.

They have beat Duke, Florida, and Wisconsin along with rival Michigan. We hung in there with a very angry MSU team. A couple shots fall in this game and we still win despite playing horrible.

People keep talking about how OSU teams have underperformed in tournaments. Reality is they have overperformed in regular seasons. Matta started this job with OSU under NCAA sanctions. His first great recruiting class came and went in one year. Two of those recruits probably weren't expected to leave that soon. We had a two scholarship reduction due to APR caused by one and dones that didn't attend class.

He has accomplished all he has at OSU while BUILDING a program and going through the above issues. I believe he will win a championship before leaving OSU.

Give the guy a break damn. He just gave his opinion and feelings. This is what's wrong with the internet. You get a whole bunch of cyber bullies who are soft as hell in real life. I understand his comment was disagreeable. But to talk shit to him is just immature tho..like it was his first post and he has one star because you guys are all butt hurt over a comment.

Have a question----did Matt Painter outcoach Matta this past week, anyone who does not think so please explain? Recruiting grade A Gameday coaching B-. I am no johnny come lately to this topic, I have said from the day he was hired that I did not like his offensive philosophy, part of 26% shooting comes from taking bad shots and the coach needs to teach the difference between a good shot and a bad shot---and OSU under Matta has the propensity to take a high number of bad shots, and if you want to explain it away that it is the players taking the shots, Matta still has the final say with playing time and all players want the playing time.

If you think things are tough now----take a look at next year's squad minus Buford and Sullinger, huge struggle to get the ball in the hole, yes we have guys on the bench but it is just that on the bench with minimal playing time/experience and that folks is on the shoulders of the coach