The upshot of all this is that O$U b-ball doesn't Matta anymore.

I don't know whether to groan or laugh! I will admit, if you don't tell anyone, that it did bring a smile to my face.

I'm in favor of chaos and Ohio State doing something dumb, so I say they hire a cantankerous old alum. The ol' rabbit hunter.

I know you are saying this tongue-in-cheek but the years and years and years these guys have to toil making nothing, spending countless hours away from their families should not be discounted. That with no guarantee that you'll ever get that brass ring.

Rumor now is Hoiberg.

Greg McDermott coming out of left field......that will really rally the troops in Columbus....not.

To be honest, this seems like a real downgrade. Well, at least TOS can't possibly end up back in Ohio right?

What MAC coach is on anybody's radar at this point? There really isn't anybody that would be attractive to larger programs. Also Creighton is in the Big East and not the MVC anymore. And he may not be a sexy pick for the fanbase but Greg McDermott is a solid coach who has done a good job at Creighton. They were a top 5 team last year until Maurice Watson got hurt. Considering it's June he would be a good hire. Personally, I don't understand why they didn't just let Matta have his farewell tour so they could get a bigger pool of coaching candidates to pick from next year.

OUVan, you're right in the late hour after the Cavs game and trying to digest the Buckeyes hire, I posted that Creighton was still in the MVC. My back to the future moment. However, I still believe this is not what Buckeye AD Gene Smith had in mind. Judging from the consternation coming out of Columbus this morning, I am not sure he would like to do a meet and greet anywhere within the Columbus outerbelt, and this is basketball which usually doesn't get anywhere the interest that a Buckeye football hire would get.

Maybe Buckeye to Bobcat or some else can remember, but wasn't Coach McDermott on the hot seat at Iowa State before he got hired at Creighton? Did he even have a winning record there? Unlike Dayton (a Marianist) school, Creighton is a Jesuit school and thus because of the overtly Jesuit make up of the Big East (the power broker being Georgetown) got into the conference.

As for the MAC, Coach Murphy still gets a lot of publicity (for an Eastern Michigan coach.) Coach Phillips is also a man on the rise, I doubt he would be on their radar, but stranger things have happened.

I might also add that this helps us because we may be able to get into more living rooms to talk to players that normally might not be receptive to a MAC school. Those of us of a certain age remember Coach Nee's strong recruiting classes when Coach Eldon Miller was at the helm in Columbus.

For what I have no idea.

Yes he was, McDermott had one more year to right the ship. Creighton threw him a buoy.

I agree that Oats will have a bigger job (as will Saul) someday but neither will be on anyone's short list if an opening occurs tomorrow. A second year coach with a 37-30 record and zero postseason wins isn't exactly going to fire up a fanbase. The original question was if McDermott gets hired in Columbus would it affect any MAC coaches and my answer is no. There isn't a coach in the MAC that is any position to be offered a better job currently.

Based on the buildup that Matta gave him when he left for us,I think OSU might have given him a shot.