HoosierTrav

My 10 year old son is a HUGE Celtics fan. He was born on St. Patty’s Day and has always been enamored with anything related….. Shamrocks, leprechauns, the color green, etc. His favorite basketball player is Larry Bird. He will sit and watch Bird highlights all night. He thinks he’s going to be “like Larry Bird but go to IU and stay this time.” The IU side of things is the only influence he gets from me, as I’m a Pacers fan through and through.

This always happens around coach hiring cycles. We get an influx of outside posters who are here to feed off of the info. When things don’t pan out they get vitriolic. That usually dies down early into the offseason and this site gets back to its original core of posters (+/- a few new faces) that get along just fine. just have to bite down on the leather for now.

Exactly how I see it. If we hire McDermott, I’d be pretty optimistic, overall.

I think we need to beat OSU by a good margin and yes, win 1-2 in the B1G tourney.

If they would switch Leal and Goode, they can throw the ball down in the post and kick out opposite wing to a wide open Goode as soon as the post double comes.

Reneau is god awful tonight

“Built in NIL”

I’m worried that we will lose him to another NBA job or even the Butler job. If he would leave the Boston Celtics for IU, then I think it’s fair to say he could get the pull in another direction. I don’t see Brad as a 15-20 year guy.

Not disclosing information like this could have extremely damaging effects on the deal overall. If Brad knew he was leaving, those conversations would have had to have happened at this stage of the sale. Otherwise it could kill the entire deal. Not trying to sound pretentious here but I have some experience dealing with M&A. High profile acquisitions like this come with extreme due diligence. The buyers will want to have stability for the transition. Losing the league’s top front office executive may be perceived as potential instability. Unless the new owners have their own guy lined up, it’s likely they’ll want him to stay so things continue to run smoothly. None of this means “therefore he wouldn’t leave”. It just means that at this stage of the process, his intentions would have to be made clear. It can really complicate things.

Agree with you here. I believe he’s the straw that stirs UConn’s drink.

Appreciate your optimism but I respectfully disagree.

I meant to include IU profs statement in that rebuttal. He said McCollum’s ceiling is Bennett. So i wasn’t basing that on nothing. Just improperly cited. In disagree that his results at d2 and now year 1 in d1 mean jack squat. It’s an indacator of future success. Now he’s done it at multiple levels. we will just have to agree to disagree bc it doesn’t seem like we will find common ground here. That’s ok.

No doubt. But this is worse than any mike Woodson year. In addition to that, his comments about the fans booing the other night should raise major red flags. This is one of the issues we’ve complained about with Mike Woodson. The true fans fiasco. Cronin, imho, is an awful fit for the IU job. I think he’s a good coach. I don’t think he’d be good here.

Here we go again with the pace argument….. pace is not a determinant of success in college basketball. It’s not. Efficiency is. If McCollums ceiling is Tony Bennett then sign me up. Thanks for proving my point that McCollums ceiling is higher than Cronin’s. And your comment that he was “buried in D2 without sniffing D1 until recently” is absurd and shows your ignorance towards the matter. He was approached multiple times by D1 schools and was selective in choosing Drake. He wasn’t buried in D2….. he completely dominated it.

What do you mean? They just had lost their coach (Devries) and roster!!! Highlighted by the fact that he had to start 4 D2 transfers…..And again, pace being used against him without any useful context, whatsoever. They get more shots than their opponents and are far more efficient than their opponents. They shoot almost exclusively 3’s and shots at the rim. With Cronin we know our floor. We also know we aren’t getting an elite coach. After his recent comments, I don’t think he handles the fishbowl well. He’s beating Miami earlier when they had Larranaga, and has road wins at Vanderbilt and Kansas State. What he’s doing this season alone is far more impressive than what Cronin is doing at UCLA. With Cronin we are very likely a continuation of the current iteration of UCLA… that’s fine. But that’s not what we’ve all been hungry for. We’ve been wanting a climb back to being elite. Our fans simply don’t get it. We think that we are going to go steal an elite winning coach from another school. That’s not happening! That line of thinking is what cost us Dusty May. Whoever takes the shot first is going to reap the rewards. I’m lukewarm on Cronin btw. Wouldn’t be upset, wouldn’t be thrilled. I’d bet my house that we’ll be hiring a new coach inside 5 years.