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SG Austin Grandstaff (transfer to Oklahoma, transfer to DePaul, transfer to Texas A&M-Commerce)

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I never was too impressed with Grandstaff, but I do find it amazing to consider the he was in the 50-75 range as a prospect (maybe higher at some points), just a tier below Kennard at the 20-30 range. The gap between these two is similar to the gap between Braxton Miller and Joe Bauserman.
 
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OSU_Buckguy said:
bull[Mark May]. you're way off your rocker here. you're talking one class. matta did an overall outstanding job in character evaluation. anyone claiming otherwise clearly has an agenda.
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Jaquan Lyle was voted off the team by his own teammates, talk about a problem child - and he was called a coach killer before he even got to college due to his attitude problems. Lyle also got into a stupid altercation this year, and it wasn't until after that when we were told he already was off the team. Grandstaff bailed after a few games because he was really selfish. Funderburk never took responsibility for being a student. Most of these guys don't get in trouble with the law, but you're the one who is full of it if you think Matta wasn't taking anybody with character problems. Late in his tenure, most recruits he landed were inadequate in some meaningful way (talent &/or mentality).
 
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yes, the 2015 class was poor. but to claim that matta was poor with overall character evaluation reeks of someone who will take every shot possible at our ex-coach, regardless of whether it is justified or not. if there is one area where matta shined, it was signing quality kids. did he have a perfect record? of course not. does any coach who is in the profession for over a decade have a perfect record? of course not. expecting perfection and then bashing the coach when perfection is not attained is a "you problem."

if this is how it will be under ho1tmann, find another board. you know what i mean. everything good under ho1tmann doesn't have to be compared to something bad under matta. it gets old. yet i'm confident that this is how it will be with you. you're going to take every opportunity to tear down a coach who did very good things for ohio state and paint him as a failure.

i'm not sure why i'm even responding to a poster who said aaron craft (right after he committed) should have been happy just to put on a buckeye uniform. you outed yourself as a trash fan when you made that trash comment.
 
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OSU_Buckguy said:
it's interesting how some whine and whine about matta being a poor talent evaluator whose players didn't develop. well, gee... i guess that means he must have been a bonafide brilliant x's and o's coach. oh, wait... the same ones who whine about his talent evaluation, player development, and character evaluations also claim he sucked as an x's and o's coach. considering that, i'm amazed we ever won a game with such a pathetic coach. :roll1:
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Well Matta was in fact fired for his poor recruiting combined with underachieving on the court. He went 4-20 against top-20 RPI teams 2014-17, didn't finish any season in the top-25 those 4 straight years in spite of getting a top-10 salary, and blamed transfers for losing by saying he got rid of problems and kept solutions (prior to what would be his worst season). From 2011-17 he had OSU 14th in the B1G in terms of having the most 1-way guarantee games and the fewest nonconference regular season tourneys with 2 or 3 games at neutral sites. He did not deserve to keep his job.
 
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DZ83CK said:
From 2011-17...
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from 2011?

2011: regular season conference title; final four
2012: conference tournament title; elite eight

listen, i'm not claiming that the last four seasons weren't poor. they were. and as poor seasons go, 2013 and 2014 were pretty good poor seasons. 2015, 2016, and the diminished outlook were why he was ousted. the decision was understandable; although, i didn't agree with the decision so much as i did the timing.

regardless, you seem all too eager to disregard completely any good that matta did. you do know he did whole heckuva lot for ohio state, don't you? we wouldn't have a quality coach like ho1tmann if it wasn't for matta.
 
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Matta was great for a while, just wish things were different over the last several years. Yes the scheduling critique is not as significant. But if he ever gets healthy & back into coaching, people aren't doing him any favors if they let him believe he did nothing wrong. Recruiting was subpar for 7 classes, that is what he needs to change his approach to dramatically.
 
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Ohio State men’s basketball | Former Buckeyes guard Austin Grandstaff no longer on DePaul’s roster
When Austin Grandstaff quit the Ohio State men’s basketball team after 10 games during his freshman season, the guard wound up transferring to Oklahoma. Then he transferred to DePaul, where he spent the last two seasons.

Now, Grandstaff appears to be out of basketball. The Texas native no longer appears on DePaul’s roster, and a team spokesman confirmed to The Dispatch that he is not with the team. It is not immediately clear if he remains in school, and a message to Grandstaff was not returned.

On his personal Twitter page, Grandstaff does not identify himself as a basketball player. Instead, it directs viewers to an email address related to “Features & Booking” regarding his career as a musician and a pinned tweet advertises his first concert, which will take place Sunday.

Grandstaff is listed on iTunes as a “Hip-Hop/Rap” artist and released a five-track E.P. called “Growth E.P.” on July 17.

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OSU_Buckguy said:
i guess when you score points in only five games during your second season at your third collegiate stop, you decide to give crappy auto-tuned hip-hop a shot instead.
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Late to the party but the E.P. is called “Growth.” Ironically, the E.P. has five tracks. So I guess, after each game he scored, he went back home and made a track. “Growth” is, as you mentioned, scoring in five games at your third college stop. Baby steps.
 
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