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Didn’t he go to 3 straight sweet 16s out of his 5 years at ucla so far? The other 2 years he had 1 bad year and 1 where the season got cancelled. This year is TBD on where his team ends up after his ucla team is announced for anther tourney selection. That sweet 16 game they lost to the Zags was a really good game

Coaching Candidate watching guide Ohio st/Michigan- 1pm (May) Drake/Bradley -2 pm(McCollum) and this should be game of the day Creighton/St Johns- 3pm (McDermott)

For such a simple question this is a very complex answer from an IU fan perspective. For the old timers that have seen IU in its prime and know IU can and has done better then where they are currently they want a home run hire that gets them back to that point in IUs history as fast as possible. Watching the decline of a once proud and storied program has been very difficult and honestly sad to watch. Hard to accept the results that IU isn’t even a top half program in the B1G what alone what they are nationally. IU results wise is just another program closer to Kansas St than they are Kansas. Ius younger fans just want to see IU actually make the tourney on a consistent basis. If you are a 20 year old fan you have seen IU play in the second weekend only 3 times in your lifetime and never in an elite 8. All they want I’m guessing is a coach that consistently makes the tourney so at least they got a chance of making it to sweet 16s. IU as a program is in a really uncomfortable spot if you are a fan of the program. Whoever Dolson ends up going with will possibly be the most important hire IU basketball has made in a while. 2 back to back complete failures put more pressure on the program to get it right. Play it safe and hire a top coach that will bring stability back to a program that has underachieved for far too long or take a gamble at a higher risk option that could turn out to be the face of your program for the next 25 years. Glad I’m not the one making the choice. Either way I will be in here supporting whoever it is when they are hired

https://x.com/casualbigten/status/1890993674412061091?s=46 lol

Both

For some people he isn’t worth getting excited about but for others he might

That’s up to each person as to what they feel is acceptable or not. For you sounds like you won’t accept a coach like Cronin. For others they might be ok with what he has done elsewhere and bring stability to a program that hasn’t competed consistently at the top of the B1G for over a decade

See you tomorrow or even in about 5 hrs when you are back in here posting. Or when you create a new account and post from it Mods put a disclaimer in this thread that the information in here may or may not turn out to be true and it’s up to the individual poster to decide

The program you are invested in hired a coach with 0 college basketball coaching experience the last time. Are there better options than Cronin? Yep. All day everyday. Would he be an upgrade for a program with 1 winning conference record in the last 9 years? Yep. All day everyday.

I’m with you. Anytime I see Brownell as a serious candidate I tell myself I’m sure I would get behind him like I have every coach including a coach that had 0 college basketball coaching experience when hired

@Scotty Rrunning over there to tell them you said that

He turned them all down like he did IU

I will post this in here as well as the college basketball thread tomorrow games that might interest some in this thread St Johns/Creighton Bradley/Drake

Posting on another board about BTB to get them to come check out the place. Thanks for bringing more clicks to the site

Whoever the new coach is going to be needs to fix this asap. Makes life easier for your team when building a resume

Ius problem once again is losing home games to tourney quality teams. It’s was a problem in the Archie era and continued in the Woody era. Easy way to miss the tourney is not taking care of your home games

Time for some MWC.

IU has lost 4 straight home games and plays Purdue next Last time IU lost 5 straight home games was? Maybe the Crean early years?

How is watching Ius marquee home non conference game looking in person? From the side TV it looks like they are about to go 0-12 in the SEC

It’s the internet. People are going to react about everything

Can’t speak for anyone else but me personally I don’t let anything bother me on a free message board. I’ve told people on here the last cycle 0 chance Stevens will come to IU. Only difference is I don’t give a crap if people want to fantasize about Stevens or any other candidate. It’s a free message board where random posters can post whatever they want

It’s only exhausting because you let it get to you. Why do you care what random people post on a free message board. Who cares what “insiders” say. You don’t believe it so it should not effect you when they post something.