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I’m very excited for this hire. I think he has a chance to be really good. He lives, breaths and sleeps basketball. Plays an exciting style and will be able to recruit elite players. He seems like a dude. I think he’ll be known as D square to me. Go Hoosiers.

I'll stand my ground on this. IF it's not Brad then it's another BIG name.

Drake Basketball the five years immediately before Darian Devries: 15-16 9-22 7-24 7-24 17-17 Darian Devries at Drake: 24-10 20-15 26-5 25-11 27-8 28-7 --------------------------------------------------------------------- West Virginia Basketball the year before Darian Devries: 9-23 West Virginia Basketball in Devries' first year, and without their best player: 19-13

I’m traveling with family. Shopping in Indy with my wife might be more expensive than hiring a coach

Great day for Brad Stevens to come home!

ok guys...... He's winning the press conference...... That man is motivated to win. I'm quickly warming up. Getting pumped up to see what his recruiting chops will look like.

Regardless of whether you wanted anyone else or not it’s time to get behind an actual college basketball coach leading the program you are invested in. No need to call out anyone on stuff that didn’t end up happening or playing the I told you so card. IU program has moved on and so should this message board. You don’t have to love or even like the hire. He has time to show what he can do at the next level. College basketball lifer and grinder. One happy mailman right now

This has been the wildest coaching search i've seen. a lot of misinformation all around and too many twists to keep up with. If it ends up being DeVries, we are getting ourself a hell of a coach. WVU this year was 20th in overall defense, and 9th in the country in defending the 3P, he also really emphasizes 3s over 2s (WVU attempted 849 3s compared to IU's 632). His brand of basketball is modern, and very different than Archie/Woody ball we are accustomed to. He'd also bring his son, and most likely Stone, Amani, and Powell with him. He knows how to work the portal. Not sure why people are questioning whether or not he'd be a good hire - i'm guessing because everyone wanted the grand slam hire, myself included. But he'd be the best hire since Sampson

Some really interesting comments made by the 247sports WVU staff in their reaction podcast: They confirmed that DeVries had been in talks with Indiana in some form or another for over a month. They believe (but can't confirm) there was contact between Dolson and DeVries in the Bahamas (one of them even insinuated that DeVries may have known IU was going to open up and he'd be candidate, and that's why he elected to shut down Tucker DeVries for the season to preserve eligibility after just 8 games -- zero proof to this, but interesting he'd even suggest it). DeVries had given Indiana a hard yes last week, and was waiting for tournament results to finalize and sign. Once IU and WVU got snubbed, things were set in motion rapidly Sunday evening, and by Monday Dolson and DeVries met to finalize the contract. This wasn't the expected timeline, but it worked out perfectly for Indiana -- and better for WVU in the long run, since they can get going on their coaching search before the tournament begins. Iowa was never really in the picture; they wanted DeVries, but not only were they way too late to the party, they lacked the firepower to contend with IU. It was also noted that Iowa lacks the NIL support that WVU has, so it would've been a pretty tough sell for Iowa to pry him away regardless; Iowa being "home" for DeVries was likely their main selling point. Once it became clear DeVries wasn't even entertaining an offer from Iowa, they knew he was gone. They felt they could compete with Iowa to keep him, but not Indiana. They also anticipate nearly the entire roster to follow the head coach and/or assistants (wherever they end up). That about sums up the portions relevant to Indiana. They rambled on a bit about what coaches they'll target, the new landscape of college basketball, the future of non-B1G/SEC power conference programs, etc. I'll add this: the tone of the podcast was pure dejection. They had felt like they had their guy for the long haul in Morgantown, and had been extremely excited for the future with DeVries. They sounded incredibly bummed to lose him. I almost felt bad for them lol. I suppose that's how we'd feel if Cignetti packed up and headed out of town to take the Texas job or something after one year.

Just my opinion, but ready to move past the Stevens talk. Let’s talk about our new coach! I’m excited and ready to watch some good basketball again. Really curious to see how he does at IU with top level talent (if he gets them). Seems like he recruits well, so ready to give him time and watch how things shake out. Lets ride!

We hired a guy who flipped Drake, flipped WVU, who had a top three transfer class in his first year, who has a top 25 high school class for next year, and continued having a decent year after losing his best player and from a P5 school. and people are pissed. Anyone who thinks it’s not a solid hire is living in fantasy land

I'm actually with Rabby on this one. There's a chance we could hear something today. If not today, tomorrow. If not tomorrow, the next day. If not the next day, the day after that. If not the day after that, then the day after that. But I do think before the calendar changes to April, we will have a coach.

New poster here, looking forward to seeing what our new coach can get done in B-town. I kind of look at this hire as a bit similar to Kelsey at Louisville. Maybe not the first choice, maybe not the big name, but might just be what the program needs right now. Happy to turn the page from the Mike Woodson era and more than willing to get on board with our new coach. Looking forward to hanging out here more!

if it's DeVries, I implore you all to give him a chance before jumping to conclusions. let's see his product on the floor and what he can do in year 1, i think he will surprise the doubters but that's just my opinion. i will be celebrating with some very old, very expensive bourbon. i feel like for the first time in years, we have a legit coach who understands the current landscape of CBB

Trilly and I don't always agree but we agreed earlier tonight that the DeVries stuff feels VERY agent driven

Again, fake news from Trilly.

Before the announcement Christian Watford had posted some tweets lobbying for Will Wade. But since the announcement he's posted several tweets supporting the DeVries hire.

I'm cautiously optimistic. I was hoping Dolson had a bigger fish, and I had become partial to McCollum. But at the end of the day I had said consistently that I wanted IU to hire a real, legit college basketball coach that is a grinder, is a winner, and has a history of building culture and identity. I think we've got that with Devries. I'm not 100% sure, but I think we do. I also remember watching Drake in their conferences championship game last year and thinking, "i wish IU played like that and i wish we had players like that (Tucker Devries and a couple of their guards)"

If you are melting down on DeVries, I don't know what to say. SOLID coach.

Getting a sitting young Power 5 coach would be a good look for IU. DeVries would be a solid choice and I believe he was on my original list of coaches I wanted IU to seriously look at. If it’s him then IU will have an actual college basketball coach running their program again. Get this wrapped up Scott I got some First 4 to focus on tonight

Got a text from my brother-in-law from someone who works at the Clark County Airport. That employee talked to Ned Pfau. "Put it this way, you'll know soon. Within 24 hours soon." That has to be someone not in the tournament right? Sent from my SM-G981U using BtownBanners mobile app