04-29-2009, 07:22 AM
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Matta acknowledged that Boals is one of only a few assistants he has hired from outside the "family" of coaches who had a previous connection to Matta or someone he worked for.
"You always welcome new energy, a new person, new ideas," he said.
"As you go to hire, you don?t want a guy coming in who says, 'Tell me what to do. Tell me how you want it done.' You want guys who are innovative and have seen different things, how different tactics or philosophies will work, and that?s definitely what we got with Jeff."
-- Boals said he was "shocked" when Matta called him about the job.
"It was Easter Sunday. I was driving to my mom?s house and I get a private call," he said. "The only private call I ever got was from a recruit?s assistant coach who was in the FBI, so I thought it was him."
When the caller identified himself as Matta, he thought it was a friend playing a joke on him.
"I thought it was him messing with me for about a minute and a half," Boals said. "After that, I realized it was coach Matta."
-- Boals met the players Monday. When he was introduced to Mark Titus, he said he told the seldom-used walkon, "My best was 5 trillion."
Titus became an Internet phenomenon this season with his "Club Trillion" blog. The name is derived from the 1 minute and all zeroes sometimes seen next to Titus' name in the box score.
Boals said he played 39 minutes his first season as a walkon at Ohio University.
"It was kind of funny, we had our 'DNP crew,'" he said, referring to the box-score acronym that stands for "Did Not Play." "In layup lines, whoever scored the most points always got to sit closest to the head coach. That was kind of our deal."
Boals said he was well aware of Titus' blog while coaching at Akron last season.
"Believe it or not, I had it bookmarked in my Blackberry."
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Matta and Boals leftovers (Hoops & Scoops: an OSU basketball blog)
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Former University of Akron men's basketball assistant Jeff Boals happy to be at Ohio State
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Doug Lesmerises
Plain Dealer Reporter
Columbus -- When Thad Matta called Akron associate head basketball coach Jeff Boals 17 days ago and talked about a job, Boals was shocked. Why? Because he had never worked for Matta.
For his latest hire, necessitated by Archie Miller's departure to coach under his brother Sean at Arizona, Matta atypically went outside his coaching family.
"You don't want guys coming in that just say Tell me what to do,' " Matta said Tuesday, officially announcing Boals as one of his three assistants. "You want guys that are innovative and see how different tactics or philosophies will work, and that's definitely what we got with Jeff."
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I know that type of information is out there someplace because I have seen it before but can't remember where.
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