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According to a very reliable source who spoke on the condition of anonminity, Greg Matta is the top candidate based on his college experience and familiarity with the program.

I'll leave it at that.

(03-24-2011 04:07 PM)Mike_Hunt Wrote: [ -> ]

(03-24-2011 03:48 PM)Go Fly Win Owls! Wrote: [ -> ]According to a very reliable source who spoke on the condition of anonminity, Greg Matta is the top candidate based on his college experience and familiarity with the program.

I'll leave it at that.

Would be a good hire, just like Larry Drew was!

I sure hope this isn't the case. I was excited for the new "motion" offense Larry Drew was going to implement. Now, I almost wish the Hawks would not even make the playoffs to save us fans the embarrassment.

On Matta, I don't want him to be our coach. Cut ties with the old regime.

(03-24-2011 03:48 PM)Go Fly Win Owls! Wrote: [ -> ]According to a very reliable source who spoke on the condition of anonminity, Greg Matta is the top candidate based on his college experience and familiarity with the program.

I'll leave it at that.

That's just silly. Who's their search committee? Harry and Lloyd?

(03-24-2011 08:09 PM)ksuowlsfan Wrote: [ -> ]

(03-24-2011 03:48 PM)Go Fly Win Owls! Wrote: [ -> ]According to a very reliable source who spoke on the condition of anonminity, Greg Matta is the top candidate based on his college experience and familiarity with the program.

I'll leave it at that.

That's just silly. Who's their search committee? Harry and Lloyd?

Good question. Has anyone seen a van that looks like a dog around campus?

Matta is a great guy and would be a great coach...will be interesting to see how this plays out.

Ingle was also a great guy. There's no basis to judge Matta's coaching, except for high school. He coaches at a private school that competes in Georgia's smallest class -- certainly no basis for giving him a D-I head coaching job. He's been an assistant in D-II, and an assistant for a year in D-I. He should really show that he can stick it out as a D-I assistant for a few years, or for crying out loud, at least become the coach of a AAAAA high school first.

He might be the greatest untapped talent in the country, but I hardly think he would be considered the best candidate based on either his credentials or being a "great guy". Surely there are other resumes in that pile from other "great guys" with better experience.

But I suppose if they're just looking for a guy to bring in for a few years and let the new AD replace, he'll do. I hope that's not the case, as that would be terribly unfair to him.

(grumble, grumble)

(03-25-2011 06:40 PM)ksuowlsfan Wrote: [ -> ]Ingle was also a great guy. There's no basis to judge Matta's coaching, except for high school. He coaches at a private school that competes in Georgia's smallest class -- certainly no basis for giving him a D-I head coaching job. He's been an assistant in D-II, and an assistant for a year in D-I. He should really show that he can stick it out as a D-I assistant for a few years, or for crying out loud, at least become the coach of a AAAAA high school first.

He might be the greatest untapped talent in the country, but I hardly think he would be considered the best candidate based on either his credentials or being a "great guy". Surely there are other resumes in that pile from other "great guys" with better experience.

But I suppose if they're just looking for a guy to bring in for a few years and let the new AD replace, he'll do. I hope that's not the case, as that would be terribly unfair to him.


There is nothing wrong with single a basketball in Georgia. Can you say Dwight Howard, Javaris Crittenton, or Scenario Hillman of Alabama? Basketball is basketball, but Coaching is not. Coaching is about running a program, developing players and getting them ready for the next level, regardless of class.
(grumble, grumble)

I've never understood the idea of promoting an assistant after a staff completely fails. I just don't get that mindset. Good luck w/ the new hire.

How serious is this? Because this strikes me as an absolute disaster of an idea.

(03-26-2011 11:47 AM)Goldfinger Wrote: [ -> ]How serious is this? Because this strikes me as an absolute disaster of an idea.

100 percent real.

Again, from a reliable source (a search committee member).

Again I don't know anything about the man but it sounds to me as a why fire ingle for this position

There's nothing wrong with Single A ball per se, but the level of talent is a significant step down from 5-A. Even at 5-A, high school coaches rarely make the jump to become a D-I NCAA head coach ... you really have to be a superstar to justify that.

If Coach Matta is indeed a superstar, I imagine his brother would have snatched him up to be an assistant at Ohio State by now ... just sayin'.

(03-26-2011 09:04 PM)ksuowlsfan Wrote: [ -> ]There's nothing wrong with Single A ball per se, but the level of talent is a significant step down from 5-A. Even at 5-A, high school coaches rarely make the jump to become a D-I NCAA head coach ... you really have to be a superstar to justify that.

If Coach Matta is indeed a superstar, I imagine his brother would have snatched him up to be an assistant at Ohio State by now ... just sayin'.

While I don't think that Matta is a superstar and a D-I coach, he is not the scrub that you think about when talking A high school basketball. He coaches at NCCS so that he can spend time with his son. It is also why he left KSU the first time. His son has some extreme medical conditions and therefore he didn't take a better job. He continued coaching only because he loves the game, and because he knew he might want to get back into it later on. So Matta is not your typical High School Coach, he could probably do a great job at any of the other lower end conference schools who are happy just to be in DI ball. The problem is that I don't believe that he is ready to take Kennesaw to the next level. He is not a program builder in my opinion.

On another note, would Matta actually accept the position? I know that he is still wanting time with his family, and I believe that if he was honest with himself that he would not want to spend the extra time it takes to be a college coach versus a high school coach. Not saying that he will turn it down, but I think it might be interesting to see.

(03-26-2011 10:28 PM)OWLREF Wrote: [ -> ]

(03-26-2011 09:04 PM)ksuowlsfan Wrote: [ -> ]There's nothing wrong with Single A ball per se, but the level of talent is a significant step down from 5-A. Even at 5-A, high school coaches rarely make the jump to become a D-I NCAA head coach ... you really have to be a superstar to justify that.

If Coach Matta is indeed a superstar, I imagine his brother would have snatched him up to be an assistant at Ohio State by now ... just sayin'.

While I don't think that Matta is a superstar and a D-I coach, he is not the scrub that you think about when talking A high school basketball. He coaches at NCCS so that he can spend time with his son. It is also why he left KSU the first time. His son has some extreme medical conditions and therefore he didn't take a better job. He continued coaching only because he loves the game, and because he knew he might want to get back into it later on. So Matta is not your typical High School Coach, he could probably do a great job at any of the other lower end conference schools who are happy just to be in DI ball. The problem is that I don't believe that he is ready to take Kennesaw to the next level. He is not a program builder in my opinion.

On another note, would Matta actually accept the position? I know that he is still wanting time with his family, and I believe that if he was honest with himself that he would not want to spend the extra time it takes to be a college coach versus a high school coach. Not saying that he will turn it down, but I think it might be interesting to see.

Let's look at facts. His son was a senior this past season so the time that he was going to spend with him in the future was going to be reduced anyway.

As for the comment about being on the coaching staff with his brother, well if he has any ego at all, he would want to do his own thing and not be in anyone's shadow (kinda like the Van Gundy Boys?) regardless. Why duplicate the effort and the strategies on the sidelines? I think he has too much pride to stand in that shadow without developing his own. Just my opinion.

(03-26-2011 09:04 PM)ksuowlsfan Wrote: [ -> ]There's nothing wrong with Single A ball per se, but the level of talent is a significant step down from 5-A. Even at 5-A, high school coaches rarely make the jump to become a D-I NCAA head coach ... you really have to be a superstar to justify that.

If Coach Matta is indeed a superstar, I imagine his brother would have snatched him up to be an assistant at Ohio State by now ... just sayin'.

The reality of the situation is most high school coaches don't want to deal with the INSECURITY of college coaching. In college, you are hired to be fired unless you are John Wooden or Mike Anderson of Mizzou or someone along those lines. I am sure that Doug Lipscomb at Wheeler would immediately get an interview at KSU if he didn't worry about job security and travel. And I am sure there are "significant step down" class A coaches who feel the same way who have had just as much success.

You think?

I wish we'd make a big splash with this hire, not a stroll through a parking lot puddle. We'll see what comes out in the next few weeks. Think big!

Matta's single A teams could have beaten a tone of 5A public school teams. I am not sure of the numbers but in his short time at NCCA he has probably put 6-7 D1 athletes into college scholarships and a number of lower level basketball players. The guy can coach, and while he isn't an established big name, he is a big name. He would give us instant notoriety, and his brother would be a great aid. Lets face it. We aren't getting into any recruiting battles with Ohio State anytime soon. So who would Greg be talking to on the recruiting trail? Thad is the answer. If you don't think that would be a huge plus as we try to restock the coffers you are crazy. Matta can coach, and so can his brother. Will be interesting to see how this plays out.

(03-27-2011 05:20 PM)KennesawBasketball Wrote: [ -> ]Matta's single A teams could have beaten a tone of 5A public school teams. I am not sure of the numbers but in his short time at NCCA he has probably put 6-7 D1 athletes into college scholarships and a number of lower level basketball players. The guy can coach, and while he isn't an established big name, he is a big name. He would give us instant notoriety, and his brother would be a great aid. Lets face it. We aren't getting into any recruiting battles with Ohio State anytime soon. So who would Greg be talking to on the recruiting trail? Thad is the answer. If you don't think that would be a huge plus as we try to restock the coffers you are crazy. Matta can coach, and so can his brother. Will be interesting to see how this plays out.

His brother can coach. Really? Didn't he just own the number 1 seeded team in the entire tournament and is watching the tourney on TV like me and you?

When you have the number 1 rated team in the entire tourney, that means that people have looked at your team and said that you have everything that you need to win the championship.

It didn't happen. Was it the players? Hummmm.

6 or 7 D1 players? RESEARCH will show that those numbers are inflated. Please give names of the 6 or 7 D1 players. It is not hard to do a little research to substantiate your "claim".

I say all of this to say - How big is the name?

(03-27-2011 05:20 PM)KennesawBasketball Wrote: [ -> ]Matta's single A teams could have beaten a tone of 5A public school teams.

That's really not the point. Day-in and day-out, a 5-A coach's prep is more demanding than a 1-A coach's. Is Matta better than the typical 1-A coach? Sure. Are his teams consistently better than the average 1-A team? Yep. Does some of this have to do with it being a private school? Yes.

But the main point is still: You don't jump from high school head coach to D-I head coach -- it's just not typical, and there aren't enough atypical reasons to make an exception in Matta's case.

Regardless, let's focus on the other issue with Matta as coach. He was at KSU during the period in which KSU ran afoul of academic progress. So how is he not part of the problem? Coach Roth and Coach Robinson lost their jobs along with Ingle, but Matta gets to leave for a year and come back with a promotion? I wonder what the NCAA will think about that. I have no idea if Matta knew about the academic issues, but he should have. (That's the official reason Ingle and staff were fired, no?) Unless he rose a big stink with the athletic and compliance departments on his way out, he's complicit in this too.

Anyone with a brain knows that Ingle wasn't fired because of academic issues. He was fired because he didn't win games. Give me a break. I really have no idea where this search will go, but I would not be disappointed if we ended up with Matta.