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You didn’t ask me….but I’ll play anyways 1. Chris Beard (Win right away) 2. Bruce Pearl (Win right away) 3. Josh Shertz (Win in 2-3 years and builds winning program) 4. Greg Tonagel (Maybe the best coach on this list) 5. Dusty May (50/50 guy. Hire him bc he’s probably the best we can get at this stage in the game)

Like his politics or not, he’s been right about a lot of things and probably is not far from the target with the current situation. This is coming from a guy who absolutely despises Dan Dakich. I cannot stand people who boldly display their narcissism. I feel like he does more to divide the fanbase than unite it. But over the last few years, I catch myself being more and more pissed that he’s right about things.

Truth.

Amen!!

Interesting hearing his philosophy on how many guys he likes to play and why. Will be music to many people’s ears in here. the entire interview is great but his comments about his rotations starts around the 5:05 mark. This is a Chris Beard level guy without the baggage. Personality seems big enough to be able to win at IU. He checks every single box for me personally.

If that was the case, Woodson’s never gets hired after Stevens negotiations fall apart.

Gut feeling says by start of next season we have none of the names you listed.

The Woodson hire was all we needed to see to understand whether this administration….. 1. Is serious about winning 2. Is even capable of identifying & attracting an elite coach We don’t need another hiring cycle to figure out what the likely scenario is. There’s going to be noise of some big name that will get all of our hopes up (not saying those reports of engagement are false bc I believe the rumors surrounding Stevens) then once the hire is announced it’s going to be Dusty May. We all know it. Everyone else in the college basketball world knows it too. Worst kept secret. He’s going to win the press conference and convince all of us that he’s the savior, bc we are all desperately waiting for one, and he’s at best a 50/50 burger. I’ve tried so hard to on board with May. I’ve heard all of the arguments for why he can win here and when I watch his team, nothing convinces me that he can come here and win in the B1G. This postseason will do a lot for me personally. If he makes another deep run or makes the 2nd weekend, then I’m in. I often think of hypotheticals, like, “what would Kansas do right now?” Or “what would Kentucky do if they were in these same exact shoes?” Would they hire Dusty May? I don’t think so. I think they would go and pluck a guy like Dan Hurley, Scott Drew, or Tommy Lloyd. They aren’t taking a chance on a guy that’s a maybe at best. ESPECIALLY after they’ve been starving for a winning coach for over 20 years. The argument has been beaten to death but IU doesn’t behave like a blue blood in any way shape or fashion. We are aren’t a top 3 program in our own conference anymore. If the Indiana, Purdue, Wisconsin, Michigan State, Michigan job all open at the same time, I do not believe that Indiana would be considered by the top candidate. They would have 20 years ago, but that ship has sailed. I know this will get under a few people’s skin but prove me wrong. I’m open to being convinced that I’m wrong.

I stand corrected

I agree. This is the reason the next hire will get botched as well. I’d rather Whitten handle it. She couldn’t possibly do any worse than Dolson, Glass, and Greenspan have.

I think you're spot on. The job requires high energy and a ton of effort from the head guy. Woody isn’t that guy. This is 100% a retirement gig for him.

It’s been a common occurrence for the last 3 coaches. Each time half of everyone calls out that it’s a fluke and the other half ridicules those people for being negative after a win. Rinse repeat. We’re trapped in an endless time loop of ****.

This is likely where the issue lies imho.

Yup. He’s finna blow up.

Wow… ok.

My two favorites!

How old is he?

I’ll be honest….I don’t recall ever seeing much hate for Leal. I’ve seen people say they didn’t think he was good enough to be getting minutes on a team that contends. I personally feel we could have played him a lot more. His shooting and winning past was something we have been missing. Defense can always come along with more minutes. Plenty of teams in college basketball win with guys just like Anthony Leal.

Leal should get whatever he wants for free tonight. Dude deserves it. Hope to see more of this the rest of the way through.

Why do we have to stop the game to check if it’s a 3? So ******* dumb!

Such an awful possession.

Watching Houston makes me sick. We had our guy…. Hate that things went the way they did. Understand he was culpable. He would have built us into an absolute behemoth.

I’d love to actually hear past coaches jump on a podcast and tell all. I’m sure that’s not possible, as most places will likely have them under an NDA.

It was Jeff Meyers. And he was an asst in Beilein’s staff at Michigan.

Agree with most of this. Especially the very last question. I firmly believe no high profile, proven winning coach would want anything to do with this program. I’ve been delusional about that for awhile. Our only hope is that we can identify and hire a capable up and comer. Do I believe we have the people capable of that? NOT.A.CHANCE. I think we can put a fork in IU basketball for the foreseeable future. Prove me wrong IUBB!!!