Hopefully, Thad Matta is Ohio State’s basketball coach for a long time.
For one thing, he’s still the most successful coach Ohio State as ever had. And Matta sticking around in Columbus for years would mean that the team would rebound for next season, after missing the NCAA Tournament two years in a row. After declining fortunes over the last several years, Matta enters this coming season on the hot seat.
But let’s just say, for the sake for an intellectual exercise, Thad Matta is not Ohio State’s head coach in the near future, either due to declining performance, health, or his new job as head coach of the Indiana Pacers.