Yes Ohio Cat Fan, an interesting perspective. I guess this is why being quiet is a Virtue. Unless Coach Boals comments on the siutation, we will never know what kind of interest he personally had in going to Butler. Until the next rumor/vacancy comes along, he can go about his business working the portal and shoring up our recruits.

It is interesting to me that Butler went back into the Time Machine and pulled out an old familiar face in Coach Matta. He's been out of the game for a while, a little time off can certainly be helpful, but that's not exactly the way it is usually done.

when will see the tos to butler posts?

I'm curious what our boy Arkley meant by saying Boals almost left last March in a Twitter post.

If that's true, and that's a job Boals would even consider, it doesn't bode well for the idea that he's a lifer at OU. The Penn State job isn't a good one. They haven't been to a tournament in 11 years. They haven't won a tournament game in 21 years.

Suggests he's after a pay day. Can't blame him; professionally, so are the rest of us.

I take Arkley with a grain of salt. 99.9% of the time it feels as if he's just searching for a reaction

I like Arkley, but ever since he was saying there was no way Ohio gets rid of Saul, I have questioned his information some.

Question: If Boals had gone to PSU or BU would he still have commuted from New Albany? Just asking for a friend who owns a commuter helicopter service.

A couple of Arkley's tweets came across as taunts of Ohio fans.

If you owned a helicopter service you wouldn’t whine about a lack of a shuttle service. And where anyone chooses to live is no concern of yours.

Yes, seems to have totally missed the humorous point being made.

Why is Jeff Boals wanting to be successful -- to challenge himself in his chosen profession and passion at the highest levels -- inherently selfish? Who gets to decide what's motivating Boals, and to conclude it's solely about money? What is it about your view of what Boals should do that makes it the right one, and makes any deviation from that selfish and motivated exclusively by greed?

From my vantage point, you've defined very narrow parameters that college coaches and athletes have to follow for the purposes of your own enjoyment. And then you assume a moral failing of anybody who -- in your view -- deviates from that.

In other words, you like watching people play basketball as a hobby, and have decided to impose upon them strict rules about WHY they're playing basketball, and if they don't meet your standard for them, they're selfish.

I'm not sure they're the selfish ones in this instance, my man. You're trying to impose all sorts of weird, moral guidelines on a bunch of people you've never met solely for your own self-interest, and self-interest that basically boils down to ensuring a hobby of yours remains interesting for you.

For what it’s worth Matta lives across the street from the Butler AD in Indianapolis.