RE: mayo and walker

[Michael W Pickens]

When people think of Ohio State they think of football.  When you think 
UC, Duke, Kentucky, UConn you think basketball.  At tOSU basketball will 
always take second fiddle.  Why do you think they had to choose from the 
second tier guys to begin with?  Don't you think if half of what you were 
saying below were true that guys like Mark Few would be jumping all over 
this job? 

Nobody is saying it is a bad job I just don't think it is a better job 
than X especially with the probation coming.  Thad had things going very 
well and Xavier is known as a basketball school.  I don't see recruiting 
at tOSU as a better place then Xavier.  If I had access I would pull up 
the last 10 years worth of recruiting players for Xavier against Ohio 
State.  I bet 7 of those years Xavier has had the better recruiting class. 
 I also think the stress will be a lot less at X then Ohio State.  Just my 
two cents.  Who really cares though it is X and tOSU not UC. 

Come on Mike R.  give me some good recruiting news.




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I don't see why so many people are saying that this job is so bad.  I am 
not an OhioStatefan 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.  OhioStatehas 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.

 

 

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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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