AKHoosier

First shoe to drop with Missouri announcing Kim Anderson stepping down. Could be an interesting couple of days.

I predict this board will straight-up crash if we hire Donovan. No way can it handle all the lurkers who will have to sign up as posters and regular posters at the same time.

Furthermore, it would make the conference collectively sh1t their pants, not to mention any school that makes an effort to recruit the Midwest. We'd instantly have the best coach in the B1G.

Man, can you imagine the impact of IU hiring Donovan, especially if it was announced in the next few weeks? It would dominate headlines, even during the most important time of the year in NCAA basketball. Everyone - coaches, media, recruits, players, casual fans - would take notice. I'm getting way too giddy about this possibility.

He's still employed by Indiana University to the tune of $3M per year. He's doing his job. Fred Glass isn't going to take away his corporate credit card and change the locks to Cook Hall just yet.

Thread may be getting too long for the servers to handle. I click on the "take me to first unread message" icon and it goes right to page 260 or so.

If this had been the third time in 4 years Collins had made the tournament at Northwestern, after previously having taken them to a Sweet 16 and a few top-4 B1G finishes, then yeah I say go for him as one of the top choices. But that's not the case. He limped into the tournament during the worst B1G year ever and still has yet to really beat anyone good. Great coach for Northwestern, he'll be a legend there forever. But it's still way too early to take a gamble on him. He honestly reminds me of Tim Miles and how some fans wanted him on the short list after he took Nebraska to the tournament a few years ago. Since then? Nothing. Hard pass.

Yeesh. No way does he deserve talk like this. I mean the guy isn't Sampson.

I chose Sean Miller, hope for Billy Donovan, but won't be surprised to see the headline in one week saying "Breaking: Indiana fires Crean, hires VT's Buzz Williams".

And even Zeller, who grew up not an hour or two from Bloomington, stated his main reason for choosing IU over UNC/Butler was because of the players and coaches. I vividly remember watching his interviews after he committed to IU, and the press would specifically ask him about how much IU's history and tradition played into his decision, to which he gave lip service saying "yeah it was a factor," but he would always say his relationship with Crean and the players on the team was his primary reason for choosing IU. The same reason Tyler Zeller DIDN'T choose IU, because the relationship with the players and coaches under Sampson was way different, yet the prestige and tradition of IU was no less esteemed historically.

Thank you. He's a good coach that a lot of programs would be lucky to have. However, after 9 years (really 6) of data, it's clear he can't maintain the consistency that IU should experience. Just time to move on.

Now this is certainly a good way to start a Saturday morning. I hope Donovan left Phoenix after OKC's loss last night and said, "Screw this, I'm going to Indiana."

I had a feeling this was going to happen with Wisconsin. Once other B1G coaches had some more game tape available to scout against Greg Gard, he lost his element of surprise he enjoyed a bit last year. As soon as Bo Ryan's guys start to cycle out of there, he's going to have an even rougher time. They should have had an outright title this year.

I find it hard to believe any insider who calls himself "Crean my pants" or "BTownInsider"

He also broke the news that Sampson had been cheating before it was made public.

I can't get past the timing of Billy Donovan's Florida house going up for sale. Why do this now? Why do this 2 months before your offseason is going to start? If this had been done in October, that's one thing. But the end of February is entirely different.

They did found and open the very first Catholic high school in Gainesville, and I believe his kids went there. Not sure how old his kids are now though.

To be fair, Purdue was terrible during most of Davis' tenure. The Gene Keady days were winding down, and the past few years' Purdue teams have been much better than anything Davis had to deal with. And also, we do not measure success by beating Purdue. That's how Purdue measures their success (beating IU).

Now this is my favorite rumor I've heard yet, I don't even care if it's true or made up or whatever.

I feel like, at this point, pissing in the wind would be more productive than reaching out to Brad Stevens.

Swanigan, Dawson, Bluiett, and Lyles were never coming here. Great players from the state who everyone would love to have, but they were not coming to Indiana. It's tough to call them "misses".

So then Donovan simply isn't interested?

Pretty glad we missed out on Jaquan Lyle as well. Crean seemed to put in quite a bit of time with him too. Talented player, but I'm glad we missed.

Sounds like there's dissent among the insiders over there regarding our chances with Donovan. Hickory says dream on, 0708 says there's a real chance. I doubt he'll be our next coach ultimately, but I'll keep hope alive until he files a restraining order against Fred Glass.

I guess he has done well, averaging 11 ppg this year, 12 last year, and 11 the year before. I do know earlier in the year he wasn't even starting, and Marquette wasn't even very good, so I was basing it off that. He certainly would have helped us the past few years, that's for sure.