8bucks

Seems to have a long background focusing on basketball

Definitely a hot name for that job

Here is their roster. Drew has been there since 2022 and the only recruit from Indiana has 54 points for the year. Surely there should be some Cincinnati caliber players he could have landed. https://gobearcats.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster

I think it makes sense to have a coach with a strong Indiana AAU/HS connection so Drew makes sense. Murphy would seemingly be a good add but the remaining assistants will determine if this is a strong or just good staff (on paper).

What makes it a strong staff? Murphy has good rep with Alabama but despite Drew being well regarded with AAU here he is at low major that is not killing it. What am I missing.

Listed as a 3* right? Is that stale or does he offer something beyond his ranking.

Remember how we all were trying to convince @Stuhoo that little Pitino was a good coach but he wouldn’t buy it.

This part of coaching, even being a little humble, I would excel at. Week one, I could hit a few places every day, get some great food, drink great company. I would kill this part of being the coach. The rest, well, maybe better to have someone else

I wasn't really referring to staff and/or players. More name recognition and positive draw to the school is what I'm talking about. It drew him and maybe a good fan base but he had to bring in D2 players. DeVries could be just what we needed and may have great success here but no reason to throw shade at McCollum. Biggest questions for him are what does he do to sustain success at this level.

If he generally had us in the top 4 of the BT, got us to Saturday generally in the BTT and had good to really good results in the NCAA fans would worry much about style?

Definitely not discounting what McCollum has done with what he has. He just didn't have to build it from nothing. To build something like that it takes planning and deliberate execution of those plans. I like that we have a guy that has shown the ability to do that. What exactly did he inherit? Didn’t he have to bring in around 9-10 players. Did he inherit a staff or did he have to bring that too.

You heard back then. Would love to get the back stories from them. Can you ask if they can help get my signed Archie ball replaced lol.

Can you imagine if we hired him? He already had most of this board against the idea and with this performance it would have been a meltdown

which podcast

Would not have been a good day to get a cavity filled.

to be fair, he probably wont keep talking if others drop it too. How about some thoughts on DD?

Was Woody in there when he said this

I missed the presser, is this where that came from?

I remember pretty clearly, and consistently you would say that the chances of getting Stevens were way less than 50%, maybe even as low as 20%. I kept thinking come on bump that up some. What people fail to understand is that people with inside information can only give you their interpretation of the status up to that point. I used to run the mile, was above average but not awesome, and in the city championships (indy) I was going into lap 4 when my good friend yells at me from the side of the track, "you are right behind kk". KK was our best runner and would eventually come in 1st or 2nd for the city every year. To that point i had been head down trucking along probably thinking of some girl and had not given the race a ton of thought. When my friend told me this I look up and in front of me was this kid from Cathedral that was really good and sure enough KK. The 3 of us leading the pack going into the final lap. Now, if there were city mile insiders reporting back, they would have accurately said 8bucks was in contention for the championship. If it only ended there, unfortunately my mind started asking why I was running so close to KK and amazing you aren't tired. Oh wait, is that tired I feel? I did not win... There did seem to be a lot of smoke this time around. From many others and there seemed to be a time when our #1 big fish went away and we successfully pivoted to a second big fish. No idea if that was the case as reading the clues were not my strong point. So it did feel as if a big fish were likely but it seemed so many were hung up on the idea that if we dont get him all the info shared was false. There is a process to the story and I tend to think you guys had some information up to the end but the end went a different way.

Heck I don’t come to town often but I believe you enough to use them.

I get that but given that hiring an up and coming coach/assistant has become the standard for schools who previously won a championship when replacing a coach (UK. Lville, UNC, Duke, Nova, UConn, Syracuse) who would you have wanted? You have to find your guy and help make them great.

Any good games on YouTube we can watch to get a feel for hoe he coaches and his son plays?

This part nudged him ahead of McCollum for me. Shows he can recruit at this level too

Listen Vader, our banter is very pointed

What announcement?