prodigal hoosier

Cignetti's foot has to be so tired from delivering so many @$$ kickings. On behalf of all Hoosier fans and all past incompetent administrations, I'm sorry you weren't hired 30 years ago. To Mr. Dolson: Just build the man a statue already. Also, a major pay raise has been earned along with staff increases. For those interested, here are his contract details: https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/college/indiana/2023/12/13/indiana-football-curt-cignetti-contract-27-million-iu-six-seasons/71911438007/

Dedicated IU Faithful: "Mr. Dolson, it's been a woefully long time since the basketball program has shown any semblance of a return to prominence; could you at least give us some minor reassurance regarding your plan to replace Archie Miller to make IU relevant again in light of all these conflicting 'insider sources,' player transfer portal entries and social media reports claiming to know what's going on?" Scott Dolson: "Well, you know, my plan has a lotta ins, a lotta outs, a lotta what-have-you's... And uh, a lotta strands to keep in my head, man. Lotta strands in old Dolson's head. Luckily I'm adhering to a pretty strict, uh, coaching candidate regimen to keep my mind, you know, limber."

This was explained to me once by some long time Indiana residents: generally speaking, people in Louisville consider themselves as part of Indiana, just as people in Evansville consider themselves as part of Kentucky. And yes, that is meant as a left handed compliment to Evansvillians....

    I haven't watched Stone a great deal, but his numbers the same as TB's with one having a better FG% and the other having 2 more ppg (and a 1 game suspension!) Draft Xpress has Stone a mid round #1, just wondering what the difference is between him and TB, other than 10#'s and 1 inch, that makes one a 1st round pick and the other not.

I said previously I thought it was premature as his record is identical to Lynch's so far (plus 3 B10 teams went bowling this year at 5-7, so I assume we would've too although I don't know our APR offhand), but 4 years on top of his remaining two isn't too bad so long as the buyout isn't  expensive.  This next season is the make or break in my opinion: .500 teams feasting on cupcakes and losing in the postseason isn't acceptable - this isn't basketball after all.....   

How is he supposed to recruit if his contract doesn't even last until the recruits are IU-bound? IU football just made a bowl game. Let's keep this guy forever.[/quote]   I'm impatient I guess and have a low tolerance for sustained sub par performance (Thanks Coach Crean!). Other high profile programs have no problem hiring and firing coaches on the eve of bowl games, or even mid season, every year and seem to do just fine recruiting. I suppose I want us in the 100M olympic dash when we are still in JV level track as a program success wise, but we certainly shouldnt be chomping at the bit to extend at this very minute.

Seems premature to me. Another bowl game next year would warrant discussion of an extension. So far Wilson is Lynch 2.0: Lynch overall 19-30 .388, B10 6-26 .188, one bowl game appearance Wilson overall 20-40 .333, B10 8-32 .200, one bowl game appearance (and hopefully win)

Is it too late to reach out to April? Seems like he would be a better use of a scholly than DD or HP at this point.

Im trying to digest what this means for Cal. Stevens and Billy have been direclty pursued and hired by the NBA. Cal sh*t the bed in his NBA stint but has arguably done more than those two since then. He hasn't been pursued as aggressively. Aside from the rumors two years ago, is he content to stay at the college level like Izzo or is he seen as a joke to pro teams except for the occasional Cavs type owner who likes to play Dan Snyder with his team?

Yahoo has the story, sounds like Durant is personally involved in the effort.

At least we can remedy our size problems next year with those two seven footers coming in. Oh, wait, never mind...

OP is spot on. Until we sack up and go make an offer a top guy can't refuse, we will be rolling the dice with mediocrity hoping a deep run materializes from a bubble team every year. Football is a little different but UM went and got Harbaugh, O$U got Urban, pUKe was fed up several years ago and got Teflon John, UN¢ snagged Roy, UL got slick Rick, etc. Those coaches were considered impossible to get at various points but look what happened. Saying we shouldn't pursue a top guy because we may not get one is garbage too. It reminds me of the opening scene in the movie 'Miracle' where Herb Brooks is mocked for saying he wants to beat the Soviets: "That's a pretty lofty goal Herb...". His response is " Well, that's why I want to pursue it". Seems apropos for where we are now.

Bo knows Crean, Bo owns Crean

Serious question: have we held a team to less than 45% shooting this year? Tonight is over 70% so far, and i can't read call the last good defensive percentage we have held a team too. That is mind blowing: 70%! Not a tourney team giving up numbers like that.

I think this thread is mislabeled and should've been titled "Unbalanced Recruiting" instead. I'm a big critic of Crean and don't think he is the guy to get it done long term, especially given the constant positional roster holes from unbalanced recruiting. But I have to defend him somewhat on missing out on that big list of targets posted before. A lot goes on behind the scenes that we will never know about which ends the recruitment of kids pretty fast. Lyles being "bought and paid for" is a good example. Not wanting to give a kid's high school coach/handler/dad an asst coaching job is another (Whitehead). Not being able to lower admit standards for guys who can't get even a failing SAT/ACT score is one too (Lyle). Character issues come up as well. If you think IU should be doing those things, then you absolutely should be pissed about missing out on some of those kids. IU isn't perfect but the program isn't as willing as others to get its hands dirty. That said, the seeming inability to look two years down the road and say "huh? I guess we don't have a 5 or a 1 in the pipeline so I guess we need one" is very troubling. But to think we missed out on guys we never wanted because of Crean is not a fair criticism.