Hoosierfan2017

A lot of the Beard angst would go away if he started winning. IU would have to weather the initial storm, but put a top 15 team together and the large majority of the fanbase would love him.

If “better than Woodson” is the way we have to sell the hire, we’re in trouble.. Don’t let it get past Beard/Wade/Collins, imo.

Oh I wholeheartedly believe he’s a legit candidate. Nothing would be more “IU basketball” than hiring him. We’re a joke of a program, and Dolson is an empty suit who does whatever the IU basketball overlords tell him to do. We thought the Mike Woodson chatter was a joke, and then Dolson hired him, raised his salary for making the NCAA tournament, and then brought him back for a completely undeserved fourth season. *cue the responses that it wasn’t Scott’s fault because he had no power 12 months ago but suddenly has complete control*

If we really can’t get a top coach, won’t hire Beard, and end up with Brad Freaking Brownell, just end the program, bulldoze Assembly Hall, and build Coach Cig a football palace.

“I load my schedule with easy non conference games and then go .500 against real teams. Why isn’t that enough?!”

He’s a textbook narcissist. 41-39 in conference with one of the biggest NIL budgets in the country. His woe is me campaign is disgraceful. If he didn’t want to get fired then maybe he should’ve put in a little effort.

Think of all the times he had to step away from the fellas lounge for a few hours to haphazardly pace along the sideline during IU’s games. The big bully Scott Dolson even made him go to a high school basketball game once last year.

Would’ve been more entertaining if they gave Woodson a mic and let him make an *** out of himself, but this was the better approach.

Woodson could’ve left on day 1 and it still would’ve been too late.

Scouting for Cody Zeller

My view is only hire Beard if you can’t get another coach as good or better than him. If you strike out on those guys then hire Beard. He’s a good coach who apparently really wants the job, and that quality is really important to me in a hire. If we pass on Beard to hire a Brownell or a McCollum then I’ll be annoyed.

Hes not

Hes been to the round of 32 three times at a school that quite literally has never made the NCAA tournament before he got there. I hate the “imagine what he’d do with IU’s resources” take as much as anyone, but he’s the one guy I think it actually applies to.

It’s not about Bob Knight connections, it’s about the Bob Knight mentality/mindset. Bob Knight was many things, but he wasn’t soft, he wasn’t a pushover, and his teams weren’t either. That’s what a “uniquely Indiana” culture is. A full-on Knight mentality wouldn’t work today. But all you have to do is watch the Pitino video from earlier this year and St. John’s results to see that it still works today. Teams take on the personality of their coach.

You’d have to get very far down the candidate list before vetting him would make sense. If IU gets that far down the list, well, that says everything about the state of the program.

I’m sure McCollum knows his X’s and O’s, but I just have no interest in hiring a guy who has to learn every other aspect of the job on the fly. Can he schmooze with donors? Can he handle the egos that come with recruiting million dollar teenagers? How does he handle 15k hostile road crowds? Plenty of guys across industries are stars at lower levels but can’t cut it at the very top. In no circumstance should a school of IU’s brand and NIL funds have to gamble on McCollum being a guy who can.

Mike Woodson the coach is about as far away from Bob Knight culture as one can possibly get.

I’m taking a Chris Collins or even a Brad Brownell before I’m taking a McCollum.

There isn’t a “uniquely Indiana” culture. The Indiana culture was really just Bob Knight culture. The past 25 years have shown that IU is just another school without Knight. So, if you want to bring back that culture, bring back a coach with a Bob Knight mentality. Not saying that’s the perfect move to make, but that’s Beard.

You’re allowed to do whatever you want in college athletics and basically always have been.

He didn’t. He’s taken consistent steps up since taking over IUP in 2011. Why do people keep comparing McCollum to Cignetti? The comparison only somewhat makes sense if you ignore everything pre-2011 for Cignetti, and even then it doesn’t.

Cignetti played P5 football and had decades of P5 assistant experience before he ventured off on his own, including at Alabama. McCollum has never experienced any situation comparable to IU basketball in his career.

McCollum hasn’t even proven that he can make it to the tournament most years. There are plenty of people who are superstars at lower levels in their fields but can’t chop it at the highest level. There’s an enormous difference between where McCollum spent the last 14 years and Indiana University basketball. Dude’s team was playing in gyms the size of 1A Indiana high school gyms.

When McCollum goes to back to back D1 national title games that comparison will make sense.

The other four names would make me very happy.