The Rebuilder is no OSU fanWith the somewhat shocking revelation that The Villain won the B10 media's unanimous vote but not a unanimous nod from the coaches, we immediately and sorta jokingly tweeted that Tom Crean was behind the madness thanks to his behavior following the second of two beatdowns handed out by Turner and company.
As you recall, Crean blew past Matta's post game handshake in Halley's Comet fashion and also appeared to be a little riled by Turner's smiling reaction to Wil Buford clanking an attempted windmill dunk in the second half.
That said, there's another suspect in the form of the almost always classy Tom Izzo. Personally, I hold Izzo in higher regard than anyone in the conference, aside from my homeristic love for Matta, but he could also be the culprit based on his comments shortly after Ohio State's upset win in late February:
He gets stats and deserves some of them, but when you're playing 40 minutes a game and you've got the ball in your hands 98 percent of the time .."
Now, I didn't hear this comment to gain complete context but I find this to be a bit out of character for Izzo. Further, he probably spent some time answering questions last year when Kalin Lucas controversially won the award over Turner and maybe he wanted to make a small statement by denying ET a unanimous vote?
It's conceivable it was another coach but doubtful. So, whodunnit?
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Makes me sad to think it could have been Izzo. I like him more than Crean and agree that he is nearly always classy. I'm dying to know. And I also want to know what the other coaches have against Thad.
What do they have against That? It's largely recruiting, I suspect. Thought Izzo has done pretty well, Matta has sopped up a lot of top Indiana talent, including The Shark.
I don't know that I think many coaches have anything against Thad. I think you can make a great case for Painter as coach of the year. Surely, Thad is very deserving but Painter does a great job recruiting and getting his players to execute his system, too. At the very least, there's a much bigger difference in the season Turner had versus the next best player compared to the job Matta did versus the next best coach, imo. Evaluating a coach's body of work during a season is also obviously much harder to quantify than a player's.
Who put the Ghost of Eldon Miller on the poll? He isn't dead is he? He wasn't that bad.
he's dead to me....
haha...I did...no, he's not dead...just randomly wanted to give him a shout out. C'mon, now, though...he was pretty bad. He called Keith Wesson the best athlete he ever saw. That's gotta count for something.
Did Dick Rod sneak his way into the voting?
non-topic.
Get over it........ at OSU, we have the bombastic - "won't buy gasoline in Michigan"- Woody Hayes as a role model. He was quite simply a bully---- to the press, to his players, to opposing players (thus his firing) and to many who dared question his autocratic phony self importance. Look, he spawned f'in Booby Knight. Admit the guilt. He was no hero. Does anyone out there think Woody Hayes would EVER had voted a Wolverine as a Player of the Year????? NOOOOO
Thus, we have no leverage to call out anyone who didn't drink the whole carboy of Evan Almighty.
This whole thread reads like an eighth grade Facebook rant from someone not old enough to pay for his own cell phone.
you clearly aren't a regular reader of this blog. It's just a joke, if you don't like it, quit reading and move on to another site, and check back when the next post is added.
Yet his players loved him.
Please bring up the time he paid the Black players out of pocket for their summer jobs, where the Whites where making more because they where White. Because in his eyes, it wasn't fair.
Even Bo loved him.
Are you offering to pay for my cell phone?
Thankfully your comments, especially those about Woody, are so ignorant that I don't need to retort other than to suggest it would be cool if you punched yourself in the face. Thanks for stopping by.
Improperly using ellipses, poor punctuation, unnecessary capital letters? I think that resembles an eighth grade facebook post, Sir.
Crean. Crean Crean Crean.
or maybe tubby smith outta nowhere.
but probably Crean.
I've seen that type of talk before...
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Well, that comment was rather pointless.
His inner Dwight Schrute
Chris that was an excellent suggestion. Made me laugh.
Why thanks, RoweTrain. I'm glad you were able to find meaning amidst my 8th grade prose.
I think it was Painter.
Who finished 2nd?
We find 8th grade humor appropriate at any age up here in Maine haha.
On a side note, as excited as I am to see how far this Buckeye bball team can go in the Big 10 tourney and the Big Dance, is anyone as amped as I am for it to be football season?
Joe Concheck, I believe.
I think it was Matta. He's trying to keep Turner hungry for one more season.
Matta must have succeeded! I can see Turner's thought process right now...
"Hmmm.... I was voted against once in the BTPOY voting, now I must come back to college as opposed to get millions of dollars in the NBA!"
LOL, just kidding Tampa, but the idea that Matta would do that to make Turner hungrier for one more season is kind of a long shot. (And would Matta really believe that it would have any effect?)
NOW THAT'S FUNNY. I wanted to bring up Granville Waiters.
the phantom vote makes me want to go back. but then again so does power hour.
Herb Williams, Carter Scott,Clark Kellog, Big Jim Smith, was it kelvin or Calvin Ramsey? If they didn't have to play UCLA out west that year they could of been Cinderella.
I dunno, I can see Painer getting the recognition. I think he's done a really good job with his team this year.
I agree with you. Haters want to hate, but you are right.
Why wouldn't Painter vote for his own guy Robbie Hummell for player of the year?? Doesn't that make sense? Why would it have to be Crean or Izzo? Both Crean and Izzo said great things about Turner this year. Crean said, "Ohio State is a great team without Turner and a national championship contender with him..."
"Rocket" Rod Foster & Kiki Vande----, or however you spell his name. I was there & it was a great game, but OSU needed more than Kelvin to show up!
polling should be open, not secret. we citizens have the right to vote privately, but our representatives (on our paycheck) should have to vote publicly so we can hold them accountable. of course then we'd have to blog about something else. Did Chris Allen forget to get a card for a teammate's birthday, or what?