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- The health issues were caused by a back surgery in 2007, he said when he stepped down at Ohio State, resulting in a condition known as drop foot. It causes your foot to drag on the ground when you walk; Matta had to wear a brace to hold his foot in a normal position so he could stand and walk.
Jun 5, 2017 · Matta, 49, fought this battle to the end: to sign prospects, to win games, to perform as he had from the day he was hired at 32 to become the head coach at Butler, to keep the job that had...
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Apr 3, 2022 · Thad Matta was building a Hall of Fame-caliber coaching career when he was forced to step away from coaching at Ohio State in 2017 due to health issues: >> Two Final Fours. >> Five Big Ten...
Jun 5, 2017 · Matta, 49, has struggled with back and foot issues for several years after surgery to help his back problems in 2007 resulted in a permanent disability in his right foot.
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Cast aside the farfetched pro dreams of a modest basketball player and, the truth is, Matta always knew he would be a coach. He grew up in Illinois, the son of Jim Matta, a revered high school basketball coach. Matta grew up in the locker rooms, the winning ones where players couldn't wipe the smiles off their faces. The losing ones where, sometime...
Before he would be coach, Matta would be a college player. He was a two-year starter for Butler in his three seasons at the school. He led Butler in assists (100) and 3-point field goal percentage (.433) during the 1987–88 season. He led the team in free-throw percentage (.872) in 1988–89. All the while, his dreams of coaching grew bigger and he ma...
On April 8, 2000, exactly 14 years to the day that Matta first visited Butler on a recruiting trip with his father, he was named Butler's head coach. It was surreal. "We drove over to Indianapolis and walked into Hinkle Fieldhouse," Matta told the Indianapolis Star in 2000 of that recruiting trip. "I turned to my father and said, 'This is home.' It...
Matta made his head coaching debut Nov. 18, 2000, inside Hinkle facing Eastern Illinois. With 11:08 left in the first half, Matta got a technical foul. He laughs about it now; Butler won 90-73. But that technical is still one of his favorite memories of that single season he coached at Butler before leaving for Xavier after leading the Bulldogs to ...
Barbara Matta, a board member of A Kid Again, which provides free adventures to families with children who have critical conditions, would come home from a long day of volunteering. She would look at her husband and she knew deep in her soul that Matta needed to be back on the sidelines. "I called him the other day and he had a recruit coming in," ...
Matta has been pondering what he wants for the Butler program that is now his to lead. "This is a completely different job than when I was here in 2000. Butler's a different university," he said. "I think the biggest goal I have is to get this program back to relevance." Relevance in the Big East. Matta was so entrenched in his job at Ohio State, i...
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Thad Michael Matta (born July 11, 1967) is an American college basketball coach who is currently in his second stint as head coach of the Butler Bulldogs men's basketball team, having been head coach of the Bulldogs for the 2000–01 season.
Apr 7, 2022 · This condition causes Matta to drag his foot when he walks, and his health situation reportedly played a role when he and the Buckeyes parted ways five years ago.
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