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I don’t think he was in many people’s top 5. He got fired and no schools have hired him even as an assistant since. if the new coach wants him as an assistant great, but that is all.

Sols really? On what universe would Fife be a candidate? Would argue against Alford as well but Fife, as head coach?

What are the GM/support staff rumors?

Lies spewed? Come on. Message board comments are almost always speculative. What we think or what this “expert” said. Even people saying it will be this guy aren’t lying if wrong. It should go without saying that every post is someone’s opinion.

Wasn’t that the one year where we finished higher in the BT than preseason expectations? At one point we had one of the top defenses in the country. Going into year 2 he had momentum and expectations rose and from the on we underperformed. Year 2 we were projected to win the BT and still came in second but he needed success in the tournament to help seal the deal and that was a flop.

This is certainly a fair take. If the whale decided they wanted to coach college again I am hopeful he can build a staff to help with that transition. A completely different game than the one he left. He seems more willing to seek and accept help than woody did though.

Was at an Andy Mohr dealership on the Westside of Indy several years back and the salesmen looked very familiar. We got to talking in-between car talk and then it hit me that this guy looked like Randy Witman. Turns out this was his brother and after i asked if he was related he then showed that he was wearing some slacks that had a Cleveland Cavaliers logo on it. Randy gave him a bunch of stuff after he was fired from the Cavs. He even brought Andy Mohr in to try and close the sale but we did not buy the car. Hopefully Andy does not try to put us into a used Cavs coach.

Doom and gloomers come back. Still 2 guys i hear at the top of most lists.

interesting that someone outside of our IU sphere is thinking it will be stevens. Not just that we want him but it will be him.

So not sure this was the intent, but Mar 7 is one day before senior day. Rememeber last senior day when Woody was making a lot of friends with his comments? Should a leak of Stevens occur then, that would be interesting timing.

"familiar"?

Good catch, I missed the business days part.

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.