Chris Holtmann is the new head coach of the Ohio State men’s basketball team. That is cool and good, because Holtmann seems cool and good, and if everything goes well Ohio State fans will forget that the first half of this coaching search, the one in which we spent the middle of this week furious that the decidedly uncool Greg McDermott from Creighton might become the next head coach.Which caused us to spend several hours Wednesday night griping on Twitter about something that didn’t end up happening. It was dumb and ridiculous and you would really hope that in the two months that Gene Smith had to think about this, he would’ve come up with a better plan than “let’s wing it!” It seems to have all worked out in the end, but in more of a Wacky Races kind of way instead of a Mission: Impossible kind of way. Which…
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