Thad Matta turns down GA
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I would literally take a year to year contract for 6 figures just to get a foot in the coaching carousel
I will be shocked if Chris Mack takes the U6 job. He has proven he can compete in the Big East at Xavier. He has everything he could want and more.The school does not expect him to compete for the FF every year. He has strong local financial and community support. I know his wife's from Louisville. So what. If she needs to visit family it's a 1 hour 30 minute drive from their house in Northern KY.
Well... I mean at the end of the day it’s still Georgia Basketball. That probably had a bit to do with his decision
I know we don't have the best history, but 5 years and $16 million isn't a bad deal. It sounded like he was going to finally have the type of support that past coaches at Georgia should have been getting. Not sure what the deal was.
Me neither. even after he assured xavier nation he wasn’t leaving for tosu, then the very next day he announces he’s leaving for the tosu job.
Anyone who thinks the UGA job is a good one, has obviously never lived in Georgia. No one here cares about UGA basketball.
Had a neighbor with a lot of acreage. He had about 4 or 5 huge old pecan trees. Used to get all I wanted for free. Me and my boys would fill up several leaf bags full. Ga. peaches (fruit kind) are still good down around Houston County. Lot of people are surprised that they grow a lot more peaches in S Car than Ga.
If Georgia had offered enough money and guaranteed years, Matta would have jumped at the job. The fact that he backed out sounds like some kind of a face saving gesture to me.
He’s only 50 years old. I know his health is an issue, but 50 is far from old. He still has a lot of years left to coach if he can learn to adapt his coaching style to accommodate his physical problems.
Myself though, I love them all...
They had a tremendous peach farm close to I-75 as I drove back from my quarterly trips to Dauphin Islands at the tip of Alabama. I am not sure if that peach orchard was in Alabama or Georgia but those were the BEST peaches (fruit kind) that I ever had. We stopped at that place every time they were in season to buy a few grocery bags. (Back when I lived in E'town and went there to fish.)
I agree. I'm dealing with it again now and currently in physical therapy. When he said he couldn't walk or take his shoes off after a game, I felt for him. It is rough!!!
No they make you dependent and then addicted, and if your not uber rich a junkie. You can't function physically without them, it's a horrible thing to go thru.
This sounds like he didn’t get the offer he wanted.
If his back was THAT bad, he’d never gone down there.
Maybe it wasn’t enough money for assistants pool or recruiting or maybe the length.
But I suspect he used the back issue so as not to make the Georgia offer the issue since they were nice enough to bring him in. TIFWIW
If his back was THAT bad, he’d never gone down there.
Maybe it wasn’t enough money for assistants pool or recruiting or maybe the length.
But I suspect he used the back issue so as not to make the Georgia offer the issue since they were nice enough to bring him in. TIFWIW
Although Crean is super creepy I actually believe he would be a better hire than Thad for Georgia.
UGA is a sleeping giant. Always has been.
Get a guy who can conquer Atlanta and North Florida territories. Somebody who wants and can recruit OADs, and run the system they all like to play in.
Get a guy who can conquer Atlanta and North Florida territories. Somebody who wants and can recruit OADs, and run the system they all like to play in.
Before my time. I’m inclined to waver but your passive aggressive tone makes me want to be stubborn.
I suppose age is relative. For a 26 y/o 50 is old.
Aside from that everyone’s bodies ages differently. I’ve seen 90+ year olds in better health than people 30 years younger than them.
He may not be taking care of himself
This is what I think. Wasn’t he one of the highest paid coaches in the country when he left OSU? I’m thinkin he thought he was gonna get $5 mil or something in that range. Or at least more than Barnes and Pearl and some of the newer league coaches. If he’s waiting on more than $3 mil a year he better get comfy in the studio. I don’t see any school offering more than UGA did.
I’m not sure he would have. I mean they’re ELITE in football for sure, and will be for many years to come ...
This is just a guess on your part correct ?
Neither of us know one way or another though
Yet he looks older than all those guys.
Matta seems to have one of those premature aging bodies. He looks like he's twenty years older than Alford, when really he's three years younger.
That was my point. it actually would create an even messier situation if they didn’t lie.
Imagine if tubby had let it be known that he had been negotiating with minn during the entire season prior to quitting.
Mack would be my first choice since all the Butler coaches are spoken for.
http://sports.usatoday.com/ncaa/salaries/mens-basketball/coach
Top 15 coaches are at 3M, so sounded like Georgia is very serious about the basketball program, no matter what the football alum say in public.
Totally hope you overcome the dependency and get back to as normal a life as possible. That is tough to deal with, and have felt enough misery to work towards that never happening again.
http://sports.usatoday.com/ncaa/salaries/mens-basketball/coach
Top 15 coaches are at 3M, so sounded like Georgia is very serious about the basketball program, no matter what the football alum say in public.
Totally hope you overcome the dependency and get back to as normal a life as possible. That is tough to deal with, and have felt enough misery to work towards that never happening again.
Thanks. no dependency now. no prescription pain meds for five years now.
I don't know anything about what happened, all I know is what I read on the internet and you know it has to be true. But reading on a tOSU site, they said their surgeon botched the surgery causing nerve damage, which resulted in him having a condition called drop foot. True or not I don't know, but if true, I suspect all the travel he did the last couple of days made him see how tough it will be physically for him to lead a D1 basketball program. Now if he takes another job in the next couple of days that theory is out the window.
Yeah.....But..............
A MANGO is what a peach -- wishes it was !!!
LOL....[laughing]
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