"To Hell With Greg Mattison" thread.
To hell with Greg Mattison.
As if I needed another reason to hate Ohio State.
When I worked for the football program in the 90s, I got to know him up personally. He was a fine coach, but he was the biggest asshole on the entire staff. Arrogant, entitled, soulless, opportunistic egomaniac. When he arrived from Texas A&M (where he coached the "Wrecking crew") he acted as if he was the savior, then jumped to rival ND when Lou Holtz retired. He treated support staff and players who weren't stars like chattel, and treated ex-players with indifference when they would come back to visit.
(yes, I know most college coaches have some degree of egomania, but his was another level, even on a staff with some massive egos - e.g. Cam Cameron, Les Miles)
November 26th, 2019 at 10:14 AM ^
Our defensive ends were playing hurt, and most of the passes that OSU threw took approximately .75 seconds to get the ball out to a receiver. When we did bring pressure, like on the first TD to Olave, OSU dialed up the precise counter-move to inflict maximum possible pain.
I mean, for sure, screw that guy, but there were legit reasons why our pass rush had little impact last year.
November 26th, 2019 at 10:18 AM ^
Plus the Suckeyes doubled our ends & we couldn't win any one-on-one battles in the middle.
November 26th, 2019 at 11:10 AM ^
yes. DT pressure has been non-existent since Hurst graduated.
November 26th, 2019 at 10:35 AM ^
Indiana sabotaged our OSU game last season. They showed OSU how to beat us, and then injured Winovich with a cheap shot. Mattison had nothing to do with that.
Mattison's worst crime, and role in the OSU debacle, was mailing it in for his last couple seasons. D-line recruiting took a dive, some guys left, and the ones who stayed didn't develop. Rashan Gary's game was so stunted the NFL drafted him as a linebacker (it actually kind of makes sense, he's extremely rangy for his size and can take on strongside blocks like a DT). Dwumfour learned considerable rush D and Kemp picked up whatever pass rush he's had this year from Nua's first offseason with them. D-line went from a stocked position of strength to dangerously depleted in a shockingly short span of time with Mattison in charge. That certainly had an effect in the OSU game.
I'm getting kind of sick of it, really. First D.J. Derpin' and then this guy. If you wanna go elsewhere, fine, but my style isn't to mail it in. I do my job until my last day, and I don't make the money he does.
November 26th, 2019 at 10:50 AM ^
Was remembering that hit on Chase Winovich while watching the IU game. Happened right in front of us. Glad we repaid them in spades this year in their own stadium.
The only good thing about the TV broadcast was occaisonal cuts to Tom Allen looking pissed.
November 26th, 2019 at 10:52 AM ^
The only thing I disagree with here is that Indiana showed OSU what to do. I believe the OSU coaches were bright enough to figure out that they could outrun Watson all day long, without IU showing them anything. What IU did do, though, is show US where and how Michigan could be hurt.
Everything else, thought, spot on. So you get the +1 anyway!
November 26th, 2019 at 11:20 AM ^
When Barrett got hurt in the 2016 game and Haskins came in, OSU's offense laid the blueprint for 2017.
November 26th, 2019 at 11:43 AM ^
You have your years wrong! Barrett got hurt in 2017, and Haskins finished that game. 2018 was all Haskins...
November 26th, 2019 at 11:23 AM ^
I agree that OSU figured on their own that they could pick on Watson.
I mean that IU showed that our DTs were pedestrian enough to be single-blocked. That's rather unconventional, but it worked.
The guy supposedly left for a pay raise and a promotion, but what makes that weird is that I don't see much evidence he did any work at all in his last couple seasons here. So many linemen were unhappy with the program.
November 26th, 2019 at 12:54 PM ^
D-line recruiting took a dive? Then how do you explain program savior Aubrey Solomon's decision to don the maize and blue forever?
/s
November 26th, 2019 at 10:49 AM ^
I think Day having worked with Brown had a lot more to do with OSU destroying Michigan's offense than any sort of bad action by Mattison. However, I agree 1000% that Mattison guided Harrison to OSU.
November 26th, 2019 at 11:40 AM ^
People forget that Ryan Day tried to poach Don Brown from us... and was turned down!
Greg Mattison was the backup plan (and perhaps good for us via addition-by-subtraction).
November 26th, 2019 at 11:39 AM ^
How would he even do that though? Now, the Zach Harrison thing I do buy.
November 26th, 2019 at 10:11 AM ^
You spelled Gorge Fattison wrong. Change it.
November 26th, 2019 at 10:16 AM ^
Fuck him right in the ear.
November 26th, 2019 at 10:20 AM ^
How about, HEY GREG.....
November 26th, 2019 at 10:21 AM ^
More like GERG Mattison.
November 26th, 2019 at 10:26 AM ^
This reminds me of so many pro-mattison posts over the years before he bolted (again). Please refrain from putting sports coaches on pedestals. Less than 1% deserve it.
November 26th, 2019 at 10:28 AM ^
And he has valgus (aka sideways) knees.
November 26th, 2019 at 10:28 AM ^
I call bullshit.
So a coach leaves? Maybe he did not get along with Harbaugh. Maybe he agreed to stay on for a couple years after essentially being demoted when Harbaugh arrived?
Maybe he wanted out of Ann Arbor?
I do not think Mattison WENT to Michigan or grew up here, thus, a job is a job.
November 26th, 2019 at 10:45 AM ^
Jack Harbaugh (Jim's dad) gave Mattison his first coaching job. Carr brought him to Michigan. John Harbaugh (Baltimore Raven's HC) gave Mattison his first NFL job, and made him DC of a Super Bowl winning team. Hoke brought him back to Michigan from Baltimore because they were old friends from Carr's staff. Jim Harbaugh kept him on because they (Harbaugh's/Mattison's) have been old family friends since Jack first hired him 87 years ago.
His experience with Michigan, and specifically the Harbaugh's, makes his departure for OSU very different from any other assistant coach leaving for a promotion. It's a disgusting slap in the face to the Harbaugh family. Fuck that guy all the way to hell.
November 26th, 2019 at 10:56 AM ^
Amen and F him even more for the drop off in defensive performance. No one puts 100% into their current job when they're looking for another one. Who knows how many weeks he was in discussion with Bucknuts. It's weird enough they wanted to hire him, I think there were some conversations happening.
EDIT: I shouldn't say "no one" gives 100% while jobhunting. Bad statement. It's observeable in some of the coaching turnover we've had.
November 26th, 2019 at 11:32 AM ^
Yes. This move was a 100% ego based. He is clearly at the end of his career and has made a lot of $$$ over the past 30 yrs. F that guy.
November 26th, 2019 at 12:05 PM ^
I wonder if you’ll feel the same way if/when rural meijers takes another coaching job. I ask this because yes we all know you’re an osu troll.
November 26th, 2019 at 10:29 AM ^
When I was on the team Mattison would be walking on the treadmill every morning at 5am with a towel around his neck.
WHY DID YOU HAVE THE TOWEL GREG?? YOU WERENT EVEN SWEATING!!
FUCK THAT GUY
November 26th, 2019 at 10:43 AM ^
Dr, Is that the worst you got? (Cuz I really don’t know). He left twice for a promotion. I like everything I have seen second hand. (He didn’t apologize for the spike). Does he schmooze for the camera? The Wolverine wrote him up as a recruiting guru in the 90’s and it seems he helped pull Woodson out of Ohio.
I didn’t like Bo in the 70’s because my track friends found him difficult. I later adjusted my opinion.
November 26th, 2019 at 11:01 AM ^
Meh, it’s thanksgiving week and I’m thinking about all the food I’m going to eat. I can only get so mean.
November 26th, 2019 at 11:47 AM ^
Then I suspect you weren't a very successful OL? I mean, those guys are usually the meanest SOB's around!
(Witness the Spanellis-ing of the ND DL that got rolled back - literally - 20 yards!)
November 26th, 2019 at 12:34 PM ^
Good for you. I value your opinion/experience. We share a view of a certain coach that may have called the best game of his career last September against the Wolverines.
November 26th, 2019 at 10:33 AM ^
If you leave Michigan for a bitter rival, you're a turd.
If you do it twice, you're a really shitty person. That's just a slap in the face. Fuck Mattison. Again.
November 26th, 2019 at 10:59 AM ^
And yet Michigan contacted Northwestern and Iowa about the availability of their head coaches
November 26th, 2019 at 11:16 AM ^
That doesn't even begin to resemble the "bitter rival" situation.
November 26th, 2019 at 10:39 AM ^
In a few days we're all going to live Greg Mattison's bitch ass again...
Because we are going to steamroll his soft ass defense
Fuck Ohio St
Go Blue
November 26th, 2019 at 10:43 AM ^
Fuck you too Al Washington.
November 26th, 2019 at 12:29 PM ^
I’ll give Al a pass. Seemed like he struggled with it more than GM, and he was going back where he grew up and didn’t have the same ties to Michigan.
November 26th, 2019 at 10:46 AM ^
I sat next to him on a plane one time and he seemed quite charismatic and nice, which make sense knowing his reputation as a recruiter.
November 26th, 2019 at 10:47 AM ^
Isn't it funny how they're a god until they leave. Everyone loved, loves Zach Novak but he fits right into this category off the court.
November 26th, 2019 at 11:48 AM ^
No, nobody ever thought Mattison was a “god”
November 26th, 2019 at 10:48 AM ^
Rufus X, any other personal experiences with coaches from that time? I haven't heard that GMat was as asshole before.
November 26th, 2019 at 10:48 AM ^
Been waiting on this thread. Fuck Mattison. I hope he gets the karma he deserves on Saturday.
November 26th, 2019 at 10:54 AM ^
To hell with Greg. He can get his beer in Columbus forevermore. No bar in Ann Arbor should ever pull a tap for that turncoat.
November 26th, 2019 at 10:56 AM ^
little known fact, his full name is Greg Benedict Arnold Judas Iscariot Ephialtes Mir Jafar Mattison.
November 26th, 2019 at 11:02 AM ^
Yeah, fuck that guy.
November 26th, 2019 at 11:20 AM ^
It would be so sweet to watch osu with him on the sideline in his first year taking an "L". The cherry on top, it would be.
November 26th, 2019 at 11:22 AM ^
There are no more Swag Mattisons
November 26th, 2019 at 11:35 AM ^
Fuck Greg. He could have easily gone anywhere else, retired, whatever. But this destroyed his chance at having a legacy anywhere.
November 26th, 2019 at 11:46 AM ^
I actually forgot he was there
November 26th, 2019 at 11:46 AM ^
I believe it, fuck that guy
November 26th, 2019 at 11:59 AM ^
I have no ill will towards him as a man. But in looking at him as a football coach, all I see is a traitor.
I'm sure he and the Borens spend their weekends together talking about OSU's all-important family values.
November 26th, 2019 at 12:00 PM ^
I once met Don Brown's family at Animal Kingdom in Disney World as one of them commented on my "M" hat before briefly exchanging pleasantries. Animal Kingdom is the best there is and so is Don Brown.
In conclusion, f*** Mattison.