Hoosierfan2017

I don't mind settling for Brad. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners mobile app

We'll have to make sure to take away your phone before sending you on airport duty that day haha.

I'm not going to believe any sources until the source is my eyes reading the ESPN notification telling me Donovan is our next coach. I hope we announce our guy by April 1st because I can't imagine all the "sources" we would hear about on April Fool's Day.

Alford 40% Bennett 20% Donovan 15% Archie Miller 10% Sean Miller 5% Fife 5% Holtmann 4.9% Stevens 0.1% Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners mobile app

Didn't want to play in Yogi's shadow after doing so in high school.

Extend Painter! That would be wonderful.

Was it super busy? I would go every now and then. Most times that I would think about stopping I would see the giant line of people and keep on driving lol.

Yeah I think so. I just checked out their Twitter and it looks like they're building the new one now. If it's done in time for Billy's visit to Btown Fred can slip him the contract papers while he's sidetracked by a nice banana split.

Not the Chocolate Moose anymore :(

Not to mention the insane COL. A coach's salary is going to go a lottttt further in Bloomington than DC. I've visited a couple times and I loved the tourist spots, but it's not a place I would want to live.

Troy's from Hampton, VA but Oladipo was a DC kid. They even mentioned him in the article and completely ignored the fact he went to IU lol.

That article makes Crimson Quarry look Pulitzer Prize worthy. "IU fans are unrealistic and they lose their in-state talent to Duke and Kentucky, let's talk about all the talented DC kids in the NBA that didn't go to Georgetown. What a great job!"

Sink the Biz for the board on Coach Bennett!

I think $3 million more a year hitting his bank account would give him a lot of happiness.. Hopefully enough to pry him away at least.

Crean just has a personality that really irks me. He's incredibly arrogant and deflects blame. "I don’t think there’s any question that I had earned it (the extension)." "There’s got to be a partnership and it’s got to last through thick and thin. If it was all about winning and losing, I’d probably have gotten a different contract a year ago." Like really man? You had one really good year after two bad ones and there's "no question" you deserved an extension? Glass wanted to wait to see if you could be consistent, and you showed this year that you can't. Idk what else he wanted Glass to do to show they were on the "same page." He paid him a top-ten salary and gave him the conference's highest recruiting budget. Ugh. Tom Crean's one guy I'm not sad to see leave.

I think the wider net would help fix some of the problems that people have with his offense. If Billy doesn't want to come here I hope we make a strong push for him. Played basketball at a high level, relatively young, great defense, recruits well, runs a clean program, postseason success. I don't see much to dislike.

Idk what the admission requirements for athletes at either school are, but here are the overall numbers. UVA: 28.9% acceptance rate Middle 50% rate for SAT scores: 620-720 Critical Reading 630-740 Math 620-720 Writing IU: 78% acceptance rate Middle 50% rate SAT Scores (Critical Reading and Math 1110–1300

I can't speak for any other student but I'm one that would be thrilled with Bennett. He recruits well and his team's play great defense. Consistently getting to the tournament is the key to tournament success and he does that. I don't care how many points we score if we win. If Donovan isn't interested we better be going all out for Bennett.

Only Alford knows for sure why he handled it the way that he did. If he were to be named our coach I would want him to discuss the situation at length, explain why he did what he did, express remorse, acknowledge his mistakes, etc. Glass knows about the incident so if he were to pick Alford I would expect that the two would have discussed what went on. Glass laid out his expectations for our next coach so I don't think he would bring in Alford if he was uncomfortable about the Pierce incident.

I don't think that if Alford truly knew that his guy was guilty of what he was accused of that he would've done the things that he did. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt that he's not that terrible of a guy that he would work so hard to keep a guy he knew was a rapist out of jail to win basketball games. I think he went to bat for someone that he honestly believed in and got burned because he trusted the wrong person. He deserves criticism for the way he handled it, but imo saying "he defended a rapist" implies that he knew Pierre Pierce was guilty, didn't care, and still defended him. Maybe that really was what happened, but all the reports make it seem like he believed Pierce was innocent.

Alford didn't defend a rapist. He defended a man he believed to be innocent who ended up being a rapist. Maybe that's just semantics to you, but it's a key distinction imo.

Not a clue, I just follow her on Instagram haha. If it's who I'm thinking of I can see why the players would be interested in making her acquaintance

I think I know who this source you're talking about is lol

Those interviews did a good job of reminding me why I dislike Crean.