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OK so I didn't miss anything last night. Wonder why it has been so quiet. I haven't been able to get much info from people close to the situation since Feb 14 morning. Even when I do they will never use the candidate by name.

So glad they pre-retired Woody. We’d all be sweating bullets right now if they hadn’t. Instead, we can all just focus on cheering for the team while the coaching search continues. Turned into a pretty awesome situation really. Here’s hoping the team shows up Saturday with some real intensity.

You made me do this.

Nothing has happened that has changed my mind. Probably believe a little more these days.

100%. For all the BS about IUBB HC being Woody’s “dream job” it was nothing of the sort. It’s his dream TITLE, but that he’s been miserable in the college game is clear as day.

I don’t want to hire a coach with meh results in hopes that he’ll do better with more resources. I want a coach who has done well in his current job. I don’t throw Collins in there as much because he’s at a P5 school with Ivy League admission standards, but Brownell is the definition of mid. 5 tournaments in 15 seasons, which is even fewer than IU during that period. No thank you.

And if that is the case, we're still getting an amazing coach and it's a huge improvement on day 1.

I hate it when those pesky National Championships inflate your record.

You think USPS doesn’t know how Pom works? go sell crazy elsewhere. We’re all full up here.

this post will be met with skepticism, which is understandable. but it won't be Stevens. 100% confident on that. Dolson's current list is 3, he doesn't have his "man", but any of those 3 would be really strong hires. has plans D and E as well, names we've all heard but hope it doesn't get to them. Nothing announced until late march at the earliest. deep talks with 1 candidate in particular, a name i think would be just about universally liked, but nothing signed and won't be until his team is done - Jackal

It’s quiet because trying to choose between Pitino, Collins and Turgeon is freakin hard.

Mark Turgeon logging onto BTownBanners.com begging for IU fans to hear him out, lol

That is going to make for one long commute to Bloomington.

can we stop acting like Tyme is an insider who knows anything? he's clearly connected to the current staff but is not connected within the athletic department he also missed on a lot of recruitment predictions this offseason because he was being fed sunshine and rainbows by whoever his staff source is, but deleted his tweets so people couldn't go back and call him on his BS

I actually have a little second hand knowledge on this, and I would estimate NW is the tightest admission standard for athletes in the P5 . Second would be Stanford but they seem to be willing to make exceptions for athletes at times in a way NW doesn’t. In the 00s there used to be a story about a duke assistant (before Colins and I forget who) that interviewed for the nw job. They gave NW admissions the blind resumes of several players to see if they would accept them. NW admissions said no. Those players turned out to be former Dukies like Laettner, Grant Hill and Bobby Hurley. Obviously guys that got into Duke. Said coaching candidate turned down the NW job. Collins can coach his butt off. Not sure if he’d be successful at IU, but there’s no doubt that guy is a good coach. Just looking at his record in a vacuum is a mistake, imo.

Uh oh. This news is going to need to be factored in. (jk… mostly)

McCollum. I have said that for over a month. He was contacted early on. I know someone there. There were multiple discussions. We did talk to him about his wants and needs. I don’t know anything on the IU side though.

Last day of the month let's go. Let's get the Brad train up and running this morning.

Hypothetical: a contract was signed and the new coach contacts his friend (Goodman) to ask a favor. Send out a vague message that I am not a candidate for the IU coaching position. Scott and I have agreed to give you the heads up hours before making any official announcement. You can say I was not a candidate because I had already accepted the position and we needed to keep a low profile to allow Woodson to bow out gracefully.

I definitely know how it works. I also know that actual results on the court matter as well. If you think Kentucky started out being fine with Pope I’m not sure what to tell you. You want people to believe that Kentucky went into last coaching cycle being fine with a coach that at the WCC level didn’t win and conference championship or conference tourney. Lost as a 6 seed (conference season was shortened) to an 11 seeded ucla team, missed the next 2 tourneys. Moved to the Big 12 where they gamed the NET and smashed a bunch of terrible teams early to inflate their predictive metrics (I know a little about metrics) and then held on for dear life in the Big 12 conference to get a 6 seed in the tourney where their proceeded to lose in the first round to Duquesne that had to win their conference tourney just to make it. I love mark Pope as coach but for anyone to say that Kentucky of all places were fine bringing him in as their first choice as coach is mistaken

Pat Kelsey at college of Charleston and Mark Pope of Utah valley and BYU were better options? I’m guessing IU fans will takes their chances like those 2 schools did and hire down a level instead of hiring a coach that hasn’t coached in 4 years

I've heard you're going to be really happy with the next coach. I've heard Scott got his guy, and many different versions of that.

He said Connor Essegian to IU was a done deal multiple times, doubled and tripled down on it, then it was announced literally that day he was going to Nebraska and he deleted all his tweets on the topic. He blocked me for asking why he got it wrong lol. He blocks anyone who questions or dissents with his BS.

A coach in his 60s when he took his first college coaching job of his career. I think it’s as simple as that. All he knew as a coach was the NBA game. When you have spent 30 + years coaching in a entirely different sport and think you can come in the college game and because it’s below the NBA you think you can just step in and pick it up right away is the wrong approach. Not just Woody almost every nba guy that has come into the college game has failed. I don’t think they know just how much of a grind being a college basketball coach really is. Listen to any college basketball lifer talk and they say it takes part of your life away in the business. You have limited life outside of being the coach. It never stops. Ego of being from the NBA and thinking the college game is inferior probably has something to do with it as well. You want to be successful in college you have to put the work in and grind. Bottom line Woody didn’t want to grind and now we are looking for a grinder to lead this program back. Hopefully Otzelberger doesn’t sign an extension and wants to grind in Bloomington

Let. It. Go.