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Gotta love Leal. Always looking for a positive outcome.

I'm liking it better all the time. I assumed he was headed for Iowa and we would hire McCollum, who I really liked. This might be a safer hire. Regardless, we will be in a better place than we have been for several years. He is young enough that he can build a consistent winner for a long time. In spite of what some think, there is no s,ure thing out there. I think we are going to be happy.

I didn't think we earned a spot and would have gotten in because they needed x number of teams. The good news is that this hopefully means the search ends sooner and we can begin building our future.

Like my mother used to tell me, I choose to say nothing about this whole thread.

Good Guys - 81 Quacks - 74

I appreciate the things that various people bring to the discussion, but logically it never made sense to me that Stevens would take a step back and coach in college again. And I think we value the IU job more than others do. Money isn't everything. We can't necessarily buy our way into a successful big time coach. I think our best bet is to find and hire the next great coach from a lower level. Nobody wants to hear it but our basketball program is not that much better than our football program was a year ago. Look what the right coach did for football and basketball is an easier turn around. We should not be afraid to take a chance.

As a graduate of IUPUI, my master's says IU, but most of my classes were in Indianapolis, I really wanted IUPUI to be Indianapolis University. I thought it was a travesty that that Indiana Central was allowed to have that name. It should have been a public university not a private one. Ok, I'm done with the rant.

There was a time when none of that would matter. This is not that time. We have a female President and I don't see her hiring a guy with those allegations. I don't know what happened and only his girlfriend and him do, but once that is out there prudent people walk away.

Good Guys - 79 Nuts - 69

Obviously I know absolutely nothing. But logically thinking, I don't think successful high major coaches are leaving where they are to come to IU. If you look at it from an unbiased viewpoint why would they. I think our best option is to find the guy, like Cignetti, who is ready to take the next step and hire him. Looking at the last few years, not many big time coaches have left where they are to go somewhere else. I love IU but we are better in our own mind than we are outside the bubble. Let's find the right guy ready to move up and have success for the next 20 years.

The Leal and Goode's - 79 Another random west coast team - 72

Are we going to cause another Purdue coach to get fired?

You just killed my buzz.

The bubble team - 79 Random west coast team - 68

Always love a "Shrodinger's cat" reference. Best take on the coaching search I have read.