It's easy to be a Thad Matta fan.
Aside from all the winning that he did over the years at Ohio State (and, as the coach with the most victories in program history, he did a lot of it), Matta is a genuinely funny, self-effacing, and straightforward human being. I covered a charity/scholarship event for Eleven Warriors all the way back in 2012, and the three speakers were Urban Meyer, Luke Fickell, and Thad Matta. Matta was, by far, the most engaging of the three, but that's maybe because his Buckeye team was coming off the second Final Four appearance of his tenure and third straight regular season conference championship.