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Post by TheInfoMan on Jun 9, 2017 9:57:35 GMT -5
David WoodsVerified account @davidwoods007 2h2 hours ago
BREAKING: Source tells IndyStar that #Butler's Chris Holtmann has accepted job at Ohio State. Eight years, $3.1 million a year.
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Post by thewalk on Jun 9, 2017 10:52:05 GMT -5
8yrs is the number jumping off the page...had to do it
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Post by friar71 on Jun 9, 2017 11:48:40 GMT -5
8yrs is the number jumping off the page...had to do it I think the 3 $Mil is the number jumping off the page. He was signed w Butler till 2025 so he had the 8 years. But he probably doubles his salary and went to a school w better amenities. probably an easy decision since he has been linked to several jobs the last few years. |
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Post by dex on Jun 9, 2017 16:03:58 GMT -5
Thump change for them
Just divert a few bucks from FB donor funds
Crooked business
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Post by thewalk on Jun 10, 2017 8:15:49 GMT -5
Isn't Cooley 2M+? Maybe I haven't been paying attention but 8 seems like a lot for the first contract....
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Post by drairf on Jun 10, 2017 8:27:57 GMT -5
Agree, the guaranteed at 8 is a difference maker. Get fired and he walks away with 24MM+ before taxes. That makes the job stability at a lower profile school a lot less important.
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Post by friar71 on Jun 10, 2017 8:45:03 GMT -5
Agree, the guaranteed at 8 is a difference maker. Get fired and he walks away with 24MM+ before taxes. That makes the job stability at a lower profile school a lot less important. Archie Miller got $3.35 for 7 years at Indiana so this ends up being about the same. Izzo gets $4 so Holtzman will be 3rd highest paid in Big 10. |
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Post by dex on Jun 10, 2017 8:59:22 GMT -5
Originally posted on The Comeback | By Matt Yoder | Last updated 6/9/17
The Ohio State me's basketball coaching search seems to have finally landed on a candidate. After the surprisingly timed departure of Thad Matta, OSU athletic director Gene Smith had to scramble together a coaching search in fairly short order.
However, things didn’t quite look promising for Ohio State with an unrealistic wish list and several top candidates turning them down.
Brad Stevens?!? You think he’s going to actually consider leaving the team with the best long-term situation in the NBA outside Golden State to coach an NCAA team who hasn’t been to the tournament two years in a row?
Arizona head coach Sean Miller was shot down quickly, not over Arizona’s dead body. Xavier head coach Chris Mack, Chicago Bulls head coach Fred Hoiberg, and Creighton head coach Greg McDermott all publicly refuted any speculation about the OSU job.
With Smith running out of options very quickly, the Buckeyes may have found the best available coach willing to take the job: Butler’s Chris Holtmann.
Via the Columbus Dispatch, the Butler coach will be named as OSU’s new program leader Friday:
Ohio State will hold a press conference today at the Fawcett Center to announce Chris Holtmann as its new Ohio State men’s basketball coach, multiple sources close to the situation have confirmed to the Dispatch.
Holtmann has been the head coach at Butler for the past three seasons, where he has won at least one NCAA Tournament game every year. He will replace Thad Matta, the winningest coach in program historywho was fired Monday after 13 years.
Holtmann emerged as the front-runner Thursday afternoon in a search that athletic director Gene Smith had promised at least two members of the team that would be completed by the weekend. The two sides were known to be close late last night, but a deal had not yet been reached. Smith’s private plane is scheduled to fly to Indianapolis at 10:10 this morning.
Holtmann is an intriguing hire and was at least one of the names first suggested when the OSU job opened. Like Matta, Holtmann was a coach of the Bulldogs before being hired by the Buckeyes, so there is something in common with his predecessor.
A lot of Ohio State fans might be breathing a sigh of relief today. When McDermott was the rumored frontrunner, there was a sense of desperation and exasperation in Buckeye Nation, considering the fact he never made a Sweet 16 and had four straight losing seasons in the Power Five at Iowa State. With Holtmann, there’s at least a sense of optimism that he’s a coach on the rise and the fact that Butler coaches have done quite well for themselves in recent history (Matta, Stevens, etc.)
Holtmann has spent just three years at Butler. But on the plus side, he’s won at least one tournament game in all of those seasons. Last season, he led Butler to the Sweet 16. And another positive is that at 45 years of age, Holtmann could have a decade or more at Ohio State to be a long-term replacement for Matta.
But let’s not kid ourselves that Holtmann is an automatic, surefire home run who will undoubtedly lead the Buckeyes to the Final Four.
For starters, those three years at Butler and the three years he spent coaching Gardner-Webb isn’t a lot of experience to lean on as a head coach. Yes, it’s more experience as a head coach than Matta had before coming to OSU, but Holtmann hasn’t hit the highs that Matta did at Xavier and Butler.
At Gardner-Webb, Holtmann had a 44-54 record before going 70-31 at Butler. While Holtmann has navigated Butler’s tenure in the Big East, there should be questions about what he’ll do at a program the size of Ohio State. Will Holtmann look to build with four-year players or will he try to make a splash in recruiting and bring in game-changers who might vault OSU back up in the national conversation, but see them leave campus early?
There are questions around Holtmann and how he’ll do at Ohio State but the reality is this is the best the Buckeyes could hope for by making a hire on June 9. Had the program made this decision back in March or April, then perhaps Archie Miller could have been an option. Or maybe they could have had more time to try to coax Donovan or Hoiberg away from the pros.
It was clear from the beginning that Gene Smith was going to rush to put this hire together and not leave the program in limbo for too long. And an interim hire for the season wasn’t really a great option, either, considering the great 2018 recruiting class that exists, especially in the state of Ohio.
Smith had to let Matta go, as difficult as it was, especially after a highly-touted recruit came out and questioned the direction of the Buckeye basketball program. Ultimately, Holtmann won’t be judged on how he does this season with the bare bones of Buckeye basketball that remains. He will be judged on his effectiveness to recruit for 2018 and beyond, and then how far he’s able to go in rebuilding the Ohio State program.
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Post by drairf on Jun 10, 2017 9:40:01 GMT -5
Agree, the guaranteed at 8 is a difference maker. Get fired and he walks away with 24MM+ before taxes. That makes the job stability at a lower profile school a lot less important. Archie Miller got $3.35 for 7 years at Indiana so this ends up being about the same. Izzo gets $4 so Holtzman will be 3rd highest paid in Big 10. Yeah, however you slice it. I didn't realize contracts were guaranteed that long. |
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Post by themick on Jun 10, 2017 10:44:36 GMT -5
Yeah, but seriously...Holtmann getting more guaranteed than Archie shows how desperate Gene Smith was closing this deal quickly. OSU has the $$$ but to triple his pay and go 8 years is a lot.
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Post by TheInfoMan on Jun 12, 2017 18:51:58 GMT -5
Jeff GoodmanVerified account @goodmanespn 3h3 hours ago
Butler has targeted Milwaukee coach LaVall Jordan, source told ESPN. No offer has been made .:. yet, source said.
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Post by wtm97 on Jun 13, 2017 17:41:13 GMT -5
Jordan has been hired by Butler - search took 82 hours. Apparently he was runner up when they hired Miller, coach who left and Holtman replaced.
He is another member of the Butler family tree...
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Post by TheInfoMan on Jun 16, 2017 6:16:49 GMT -5
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