KzooHoosier82

It’s pretty rare players return. In this case we don’t have a coach so it’s mildly understandable but the timing is suspect, especially if we don’t make a quick hire. Armaan will get exploding offers and may not have the luxury of waiting to see who we hire.

Not to mention that block they called when Suggs threw his elbow into a defender’s jaw. It’s been a one sided affair all day

They are hugely benefiting from a complete dumpter fire of a game from Oklahoma’s Manek, who I thought was supposed to be pretty good. Kruger should have sat him midway through the first half and kept him there.

This is my first time watching Oklahoma and this Austin Reeves kid is incredible. I hope this is what Lander will grow into

Imagine if Garza went to a good team instead of Iowa. I can’t remember a more lopsided team than these guys. You can’t have two guys doing 90% of the scoring and also play zero defense

Gene is an absolute stand up guy. I bartended one summer at the Lonestar Steakhouse in Lafayette because I needed take a summer course at the local Ivy Tech that wasnt offered on campus. Gene would come in every Wednesday night with the same to-go order totaling $85 and tipped $100. Every reciept he got from me had a written “Go Hoosiers!!! note on it. He’d chuckle every time, chat for a minute and take off. As a college kid, that extra money meant the world to me. I’ll remember it all long as I live.

About Brad Stevens? Come on bro. Move on from a place you never should have been camping out in to begin with.

Oh man, he’s taking victory laps all over this fan base. Can’t blame him really, people on this board and all over the internet completely dragged him only to find out he was right.

If you’re going to make assumptions about me and be condescending at least be mildly correct. If you’re familiar with any Fortune 500 CEO change, they almost always have the new CEO in line before moving on from the current. Only in extreme cases of sudden negligence/health issues would this not be the case. Do you think if Ford were to move on from Jim Farley they would fire him and start searching? Not a chance Edit: This isn’t hiring admins at your local insurance agency. This is big league, big money athletics.

Winning cures all. If they’re smart they rest their top guys and play for a better draft position. They aren’t far from being a Finals caliber team. If the team lets Brad coach, they will be successful and the fans will be back on his side

The raise talk is simply people’s way of justifying IU getting rejected. There’s zero proof to it and no one here or with ties to IU would have that info in the first place. At the end of the day it doesn’t matter. IU is not a job Brad Stevens wants. It may not be a job any top teir coach wants. I said this about the Crean firing and echoed it again when the Archie firing was eminent...you don’t fire the guy you have until you have the guy you want. Egos have run amuck within the IU top brass...I fear this will be a very humbling process.

They seem like a very poorly coached team. Turnovers, second chance points and zero solid offensive sets. Purdue is simply not taking advantage and these Mean Green kids are finding ways to score

You’re 100% wrong. I never said anything negative or derogatory to/about anyone. Perhaps you need to reread my posts and direct your vitriol where warrented. As for me, I’m done discussing this with you.

It’s also a discussion board so if you don’t like criticism don’t post your fantasies and call them fact. I get that it’s fun to have “insiders” post info we all want to hear, but if I say Rob is the best PG in IU history, you and the other mods aren’t going to echo your statement when everyone tells me I’m an idiot.

“I don’t know why you guys keep asking me this. My answer is the same. I’m the head basketball coach of the Boston Celtics and my focus is to turn this season...nothing else”

There was simply no need for him to rub our noses in it like that. Absolutely uncalled for

Lol oh man. Billy D all over again.

Just ignore him. It’s not worth the aggravation just to scoop potential news a couple days in advance

Win/Win sounds like

That’s not a thing. People are getting way ahead of themselves and the “it’s done” noise is just that at this point.

Why? So you can read about how everything is or isn’t happening? You’ve never learned anything from Sam Story you couldn’t assume or guess yourself. If you’re gonna be a groupie, find someone with talent

Tracy is Brad’s agent. Did they somehow leave that out? If so, it’s bad info

Well that’s not good. My guess is they gave up on the idea of coming back then and sold it. I wasn’t aware. Can’t imagine they’d go to the trouble of selling it and buying another one for as limited amount of time as they’d have there....doesn’t mean he wouldn’t like to now though. I’ve met a handful of people who have homes on that lake, never been myself, but they are all addicted to it...Never stop talking about it. They all have their regular friends/family and their lake WaWa friends/family like it’s two separate worlds.

I’m not saying it isn’t possible but no one on message boards or even within the IU program would have that kind of access into Tracy’s mindset/lifestyle preferences. Seems more likely that all the “wife wants this/that” was born from misguided assumptions/wishful thinking than actual fact.

I didn’t realize Tracy isn’t from Indiana so unless she developed some strong connection to it from her college and post grad days, the notion that she would push for this move appears to be misguided speculation. She went home and got her law degree in Cleveland to be closer to her mom when she was dying of cancer. It’s not likely she has family in Indy. That said, Brad’s “happy place” is their Lake Wawasee vacation home which they kept so that’s not nothing.