you would think that if Archie's dream job was OSU, he would have not taken the IU job, knowing on how thin ice Matta was
But they announced in like March that matta was coming back so while it was known his seat was very warm, nobody seemed to know he'd get fired in June.
And I don't know if TOSU is really Archie's dream job this is a UCLA fan base who will say anything to convince themselves Alford might leave. Remember the claim on why Sean wouldn't take the job is friends with Matta, and Sean's dad has issues with TOSU. Archie has the same dad, and is also friends with Matta, and it's come out that Matta is very upset with the TOSU AD so would seem unlikely Archie would take that job either.
Basically TOSU fell off when it came out during the football investigations that some of the same boosters involved with football players, were involved with basketball players. It's been awhile but TOSU had a verbal from Luke Babbitt and his dad was relocating to Ohio, with a job when suddenly Babbitt decommitted and virtually everyone recruiting him dropped him cold. It was because boosters had arranged for a job for the dad in Ohio(Luke's grandparents lived there) and it was discovered during the football investigations. Everyone recruiting Luke assumed he might not be D1 eligible so they backed off and he wound up at Nevada.
Essentially from that point on their recruiting got worse and worse because the NCAA ordered them to completely disassociate a number of boosters from TOSU athletics. Football survived just fine, new boosters I assume, but basketball didn't recover from that.
