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The 10 day part is probably the difference. What would happen in 10 days to allow for news to leak to someone like Goodman?

I may not have the right poster but I was on another site mostly during the Billy Donovan "hire" and am pretty sure you had a post on here that said you saw a bunch of black SUVs pull up and guys with briefcases got out and were in AH. Was that you? If so, any idea who they were or was it a joke I took for reals by mistake. Either way, I think that was when i switched over here full time.

I had forgotten part of this story from last time until Goodman's name came up today. I never saw this confirmed but it was rumored on around March 20th/21st that we had offered the job to Thad but he failed a physical. There were a lot of rumors about this and then Goodman tweets out this photo and we all discussed Matta's foot, that wrap and whether it was clear he was fine or still had problems. Would be curious to hear if we actually did offer him the job or not. Was this an effort by Dolson to not end up with Woody that did not work out? Anyone else remember this? The rumors were refuted by someone at IU but I would too if it looked like Woody did not have Dolson's support.

He just read my post last night lol.

So perhaps as early as when our season ends? How likely is it we make the BT tournament? Limited space right?

Saying he is not an innovator seems inconsistent with your earlier comment about being a great coach.

Going to be a long month. Why did we push so hard to get good ol woody retired so early? Even if it is not Stevens, it will take a long, probably longer amount of time before we hear anything. Like I said, I want to believe but I also really like the idea of getting May.

I would like to believe but it seems the day (2 weeks, Mar 1st then end of BTT) we will know keeps sliding back. Would love to have been on the AAU call or to know that we indeed scheduled games because we have our guy. But the changing date. Unless Dolson knows for sure Stevens is coming I start ramping up my efforts for May. Can’t let second choice get away. Especially since I have May right there with Stevens.

We hired a pretty meh women's soccer coach here whereas ND has a very strong looking program. I could understand that

What is the evidence or idea here?

I have seen message board comments to him not interested in leaving TX but not sure i have seen anything that reaches "all accounts". What have you seen to suggest this?

Hey buddy, we know what you mean. Would you stop thinking about a fit and threatening to leave? Geesh.

Pearl has said he does not see himself coaching in his 70's so that is likely the reasoning.

I kind of think you should have waited a little longer.

Which school did he get the all time single season wins at?

Really? There was enough discussion on here and on twitter for that to have gotten to Goodman. Given that we apparently went after him before and if Goodman knows him why not reach out to check for a comment. Goodman may know that Stevens was not likely to go back to college and could have done this to laugh at IU or could have felt he was somewhat close last time and was looking for a story. There was enough smoke for him to at least check it out

Other than this year he has not had great years there at New Mexico right? In the BT seems he had 1 good year with several years in the bottom quartile. Probably one to watch but can’t see him make this jump this year.

To be fair, I think he still wears wooden shoes so let’s appreciate him even being on this page.

Painter almost left Purdue during one stretch and during another he stunk but he changed his recruiting and has been pretty strong with that. This stretch had some pretty lean years but perhaps he survived 13-14 because he had some strong recruits coming in 14-15

Feel like I walked in on the middle of a conversation but am missing the first half or who you are responding to

Way back when Mark Turgeon was at Wichita State he was a darkhorse candidate of mine. I felt somewhat vindicated that he kept rising up but once he got to Maryland he did not seem to reach that top tier of coaches. His results at Maryland during a time when the BT was pretty strong were not bad. Would hope for more of a splash but this is intriguing

Haven’t been a Cronin fan and he is still not tier 1 for me, but the primary complaint I had about Crean was that he was not consistent. Frequency in the tourney could allow for a deep run occasionally but Crean was not consistent at all. Cronin seems far more consistent and his FF team suggests he has upside. He would be in the group after BS/May and big names likely not to come (TJ, Oats, Few and Drew). Next tier would include a combination of coaches like Cronin, Buzz and McDermott (solid winners who get you in the tournament most every year) vs the next great one group like McCollum, Gates, Byington vs the Baggage group including Beard, Goldon and Pearl (age and son in waiting?). if you miss on BS and May then I interview most from the three groups and see which you think can get it done here. If I felt like I had to win right away regardless you might take one from the baggage group. If we cannot afford another miss because the coach is a screwup then you might decide you need the steady Eddie and choose a safe pick from middle group. But if Cig and football buy you some time and you think one of the next great ones you can help become great with support staff (like we tried with woody which he ignored) and $ resources NIL then you could go that route. I could support any of them but really order the first 2 (and assuming the “won’t come” group really won’t come.)

So assuming this happened and the job discussions did occur to some extend there is no way I can think of know that Brad would tell only Goodman he wasn’t coming here. He would also have told Dolson, thanks but no thanks. If the latter happened when do we see signs Scott is moving on

Have read 2 articles about him now but do you think his manic like fear of a level set for fan expectations would be too much for him here?

1) sometimes all you can do is laugh even if you have bad news. A supplier increases his price to me Friday morning and while I it pissed us off and I worked all day to replace them there were a lot of times where we just had to laugh. 2) Maybe they don’t believe Brad is a no 3) Maybe they felt they had to go after Brad and were worried he might string them along too long. If he is a No perhaps they we just as happy with choice 2.