After Georgia parted ways with Mark Fox over the weekend focus turned immediately to former Ohio State coach Thad Matta as a replacement. Matta met with UGA officials on Monday but appears to have rejected their five year, $15 million offer to coach the Red and Black. The two-time Final Four coach said in a statement “I just don’t feel that I am completely ready at this point to give Greg McGarity and Georgia what they deserve.”
Leaving aside the issue of what some Georgia fans think McGarity deserves (that’s kind of low hanging fruit), it’s a little hard to know what to make of Matta’s decision to decline the offer.