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I’ll never understand not playing with the Wilson NCAA ball all season. Everyone is so shocked by it every March and the fix for that seems very, very simple.

At practice this week. Note his choice of wristband:

I think so. Normally you'd need more than two years, but the title cemented the whole improbable turnaround story in the CFB history books for the rest of time.

ESPN has Wilkerson in their 2nd round mock draft tonight. They describe 1 of his weaknesses as “having a narrow build.” Uhhh…..you can find stuff to be concerned about but in no universe is that 1 of them.

……… He’s already guaranteed a statue correct?

The key is that Coach Cig doesn’t wastes people’s time. His coaches actually have time to be with their families or attack people on X lol. Whatever assistant leaves they’ll be great replacements lined up.

Love these as always, but what is up with that atrocious Adidas ball? It looks like the hideous Voight rubber outdoor ball from the 70’s.

Or you could be like Steve Pikell at Rutger… “Lose the fanbase yet you’re not done for a very long while.”

Also, this isn’t the NBA where you can fail upwards (see Mike Brown). You get fired from a mediocre program like IU, your chances of landing at a bigger gig are slim to none. What Tom Crean did at Georgia is irrelevant and does nothing to discredit his F4 at Marquette or two B10 titles at IU…literal brain dead logic there. Les Miles won a national title at LSU and won 2 games in 3 years at Kansas. Who cares?

It’s not. Lose the fan base here, you’re done. It doesn’t take long.

Where coaches go to die. Why the applicant pool gets worse every cycle. Thanks again for making my point.

Except Todd Golden didn’t do that. He recruited a bunch of 3* talent and found fits in the portal from lower level schools, took his lumps the first few years, developed the hell out of them and then BOOM. But we don’t want to do that. Win now or else.

Having near equal resources to compete is basically a minimal standard. Then getting a coach with a Vision and a plan is the next step. What did Michigan just do for 2 seasons with Dusty May? What do you want to call that? He’s not the only one. Florida under Golden. The examples go on and on if you need them. Same idea.

Overpaying for a bunch of mercenaries is very year isn’t going to change much.

So are you saying you are 'team bad hire" and not "team coach destroyed by BTBers?"

Rivals with a story indicates we haven’t offered but maintaining close contact.

They damn sure did at least once. They hired a mediocre NBA coach who deemed himself worthy of the title "King of Indiana" while preferring to smoke cigars, drink wine and play golf over working the recruiting trail. And they continued to prop him up with tons of cash for the transfer portal and NIL payouts, despite the fact that he could not coach his way out of a wet paper bag. No one else would even look at him... but IU hired him, extended him and gave him unwarranted raises.

And another coach was hired simply because he played here before some of the recruits' parents were born. Some of the searches have been, let's say, questionable. This thread sure devolved into IU's struggles to find good coaching.

Announced today transferring to Prolific Prep.

That you think coaches are run out by fans is incomprehensible.

False. Cycle one the search committee interviewed no one and we hired Mike Davis.

Yeah, it's crazy how so many of those coaches went on to great success once they got away from the glowing swamp surrounding AH. Those, not fired for blowing up the program and given a 5 year show cause penalty, have went on to stack up 0 NCAA tournament wins. That's kind of an unfair stat by me though as 3 of those 4 haven't made a single tournament since leaving IU. I guess that IU toxiciy is like herpes, once you've got it, you've got it.

Yes and the administration pre-Dolson is the reason why. Nil is our chance to battle on an nearly even playing field. They gave Woodson top 10-20 money for roster. They are giving DeVries and actually trying to win. The admin didn’t care about winning for a long time. Sampson could have been a generational coach here under the right administration. So, really we are only on Coach 2 post NIL. Can’t really count the stuff before that especially if trying to blame fans again.

You think IU hires shitty coaches on purpose? The applicant pool gets worse every cycle. Who on Earth is going to stake their career coming here just to be run out by a bunch of dumb and delusional fans who still think it’s 1985?

The only one of those coaches that had anything remotely close to success was Tom Crean. The rest earned every bit of the fanbases ire. Heck a serious program wouldn’t have given most of them the job much less 4 years