And they hired Thad Matta as an associate AD for men's basketball. I'm assuming it will be a GM-type role to help with assistants, recruiting, and day to day operations on campus. Could be a good idea; could end up being another chef in the kitchen.
I am pretty sure he can't help with recruiting outside of talent evaluation.
I wish we had a raised eyebrow emoticon for this one. I read somewhere that Matta was offered the job, but failed the physical-seems like a very awkward way to bring him into the fold.
Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Plus maybe working some contacts he might still have, putting the right bugs in Woodson's ear.
Coaching hires are subject to physicals?
Too bad for Thad. Seems like a good guy and the health issues are the result of at least one botched back surgery.
Yeah, I don't know why there's celebration around here about this choice. Clyde Drexler may have failed at Houston but Juwan Howard is sure doing very well at Michigan.
I'm guessing that's not standard procedure but understandable in this case.
There was a lot of Keith Smart steam early.
We would be doing cartwheels if Thad came along with our hire.
Not if the hire was Sam Mitchell.
Back issues and also surgical complications resulting in a drop foot. He wore a brace on his leg the last year at Ohio State.
He has some sort of back problem. I just remember when he was still coaching, he had to wear a brace on one leg because he had no feeling in it and had foot drop.
Better than we did. Seems about 50/50 love/hate.
So many ways he can help.
