RE: mayo and walker

[Holdheide, Brad]

I don't see why so many people are saying that this job is so bad.  I am not
an Ohio State fan at all but even I recognize the rewards with taking this
job.  

1.  Matta will likely increase his salary by 25-100% or more and with the
likelihood of NCAA sanctions being placed on the program he won't be pressed
to have a winning program for several years.

2.  Ohio State has one of the largest alumni bases in the country and one of
the largest athletic operating budgets to work with.  

3.  They are in the big ten which everyone assumes is only a football
conference despite placing a team in the final four almost every year.  

4.  From a recruiting standpoint I'd say with the right coach OSU is much
more attractive than X.

5.  Matta may have had his best run he'll ever have at Xavier and he hasn't
had a lot of other schools beating down his door.  If he wants to make a
jump to a larger and more recognizable university this may be his best
chance.  If he stays at Xavier and has a couple of mediocre years he may not
get any other offers.

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael W Pickens [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 7:46 AM
To: address@hidden
Subject: [UC Basketball] mayo and walker

 


Okay from reading this below I can assume if Walker and Mayo go to college
it will either be UC or Louisville.  I don't know about you guys but I am
sick of seeing Louisville's name.  This of course is if they want to play
together.  The question I have for the forum is would you take both of them
to have only 1 year?  This is the class of 07 so if we could get a big man
in the class of 06 what a great team that could be.  We would have Bright
and Banks as Juniors.  Evans will be a junior.  All top 100 players.  Throw
in a big guy this year with a guy like Eaton and that could be a
championship team.  Soulman would then be a Senior>  Sorry just dreaming and
typing at the same time.  I'm sure they both are going straight to the NBA
play ground. 

07/07/04: "Louisville, Connecticut, Syracuse, Cincinnati, and West Virginia
make up the early list for 6'4 Soph O.J.Mayo from Cincinnati (North College
Hill) OH. Cincinnati, Louisville, and Kentucky were mentioned by 6'5 Soph
Billy Walker from Cincinnati (North College Hill) OH." - HoopScoop 

I don't care much about Matta but I just didn't like the way he did this.
Don't say your not interested in the job if you are and how much you love
your current university.  That is the ultimate backstab.  I have no problem
with him taking the job if he doesn't make those stupid statements.
However, I do think if he would have waited he could have found a better
situation or team.   I think it is a really dumb move by Matta.  I would
have stayed at Xavier till a much better job came down the road.  A job in
the ACC, SEC or the Big East where basketball is king. 

Do you think with Matta as coach at tOSU that UC and tOSU will play now?  I
really don't care to see us playing them though.  With going to the Big East
I think we will have our hands full.  I also think that Butler will now stay
with tOSU.  He was considering Xavier so no reason for him not to stay at
tOSU unless the go on major probation.

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