Magnanimous

During our last few coaching searches I have casually, half-heartedly, and with some curiosity, thrown this guy’s name around as someone to consider as a wildcard coaching candidate. He was incredibly dominant at the D-2 level with an .800 winning percentage and won four national championships. He’s also young, only being 43. Naturally, most people on this board scoffed at the idea. Division 1, let alone Indiana, is a whole other animal than coaching D-2; he needs to prove himself elsewhere first; if we’re going with a lower-level coach then it needs to be Michael Lewis because “he gets Indiana basketball”; etc. It made sense to be dismissive at the time, but I remained intrigued. Anyway, Drake finally pried him away this season, so we’re now getting a chance to see him coach in the Missouri Valley Conference, but with this still being pre-conference basketball he hasn’t been coaching against MVC teams. Instead he’s 6-0 already and racked up double digit wins over Miami and Vanderbilt. I know our season is just getting going, but assuming we continue to see the results we’re expecting out of Woodson, I hope that we seriously keep an eye on this guy as an actual coaching candidate. He’s going to get his chance at a P5 program very soon at this rate, and if Cig’s success at football shows us anything it’s that maybe it’s the unconventional guy from a smaller school who consistently wins that we’re looking for. Here’s his wiki page if you want to see his resume. That head coaching record section is something else - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_McCollum

What should I get a second master’s degree in at Iowa so I can root for Ben McCollum? I kid!

Would be a nice get for us, but objectively speaking, this whole system is bulls#!t. Commit to a program and then threaten to transfer to renegotiate your NIL?

Now seeing Texas is getting Sean Miller.

Iowa bound.

Congrats to Purdue on their two game win streak against High Point and McNeese State.

I was the biggest McCollum fanboy and am pulling for Drake in the tournament, but if he ends up at Iowa…

The 2010 tournament was the ultimate what could’ve been: - Armon Bassett led 14 seed Ohio over 3 seed Georgetown - Xavier went to the SW16 with Jordan Crawford and Tu Holloway - West Virginia went to the F4 with Devin Ebanks

Found their form a bit this last minute.

Looks straight up like Ollie (plus 10 inches).

Melts your heart, doesn’t it? It’s like Navy football being coached by Coach K.

Disagree. Their defense would keep them in most games and their (very efficient) offense would pick it up a bit in pace. They’re intentionally slow then pick their spots.

Saying this terrible pun over and over is the only way I’ll learn to pronounce his name correctly by next season.

I’m not excited, but I’ve been wrong before.

Rich Rod, who was born in and played for West Virginia, leaving WVU for Michigan and then crawling back to them with open arms 18 years later proves this bozo completely wrong. They’ll take anyone.

The Big Wink It was a dark, humid night in western Florida. Magnanimous arrived at the airport in typical fashion. He carried on, no need for luggage where he was going. It had been a long weekend, the kind you don’t tell your mother about. The kind of nights that fly by but stay with you a while. His phone buzzed. Flight has been delayed. Damn, now what was he going to do? Kill some time he supposed. He made his way to the Florida Breeze, a regular joint for regular fellas. Barkeep passed him a shandy to kill the time. Not a dame in sight. His phone buzzed again. Another delay? Not this time. Just three words and an emoji that would make your spine chill on the warmest nights. “We got him ;)” said the source, listed in his contacts as Mr. Wink. We got him. He paused for a moment. Did this actually mean what he was hoping for? Mr. Wink knew what kind of information Magnanimous was waiting on. So he responded with “Brad or Ben?” A delay…buzz…”;)” Another pause. “So which one?”…”You’ll be happy either way, but I’m hearing it’s B”… “B? Who the hell is B?” Nothing. He asked again. Nothing still. Not delivered. Mr. Wink’s phone died after writing B. But B was enough because he knew what this meant. Indiana had got him. And whether it was Brad or Ben, BTownBanners needed to be told. So Magnanimous lived up to his username and flaunted his intel in front of everyone for three full days…

I’m a sucker for classic film noirs and that was just too much fun. This whole experience feels very Maltese Falcon-esque. Half this board is acting like Peter Lorre at the 2 min mark.

At least you pluralized one wins. I like the optimism!

Same. And I think unless he flames out at Iowa (if he even goes there), he’ll be replacing Self at Kansas in a few years.

He’ll be fine. But I wanted McCollum for no other reason than I found him four years ago and wanted to see it happen. The dream is dead. Back to the balcony for dear old Magnanimous. Btw, I made up the whole big wink bullsh!t because my flight was delayed four hours Saturday night. Thanks for entertaining me these last few days. I’ll ban myself now.