Hoosierfan2017

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.

I’m sure he is, but this is probably the most important hire in post-Knight IU basketball history. IU has a golden opportunity to make a splash given NIL. The pressure to succeed immediately will be immense. Now isn’t the time to take a risk on a D2 coach with one season of D1 basketball under his belt.

Ugh please no McCollum. I was hoping that was just message board hopes.

We see lots of “imagine what they’d do with IU’s resources” about various random coaches, but Beard’s P5 results at schools without IU’s resources get cast aside. He’s 11-5 in the NCAA tournament. Never lost in the first round. The one time he was at a school arguably comparable to IU in UT, he had a great team assembled by year two. I see no reason why he can’t do extremely well on the court at IU with the millions of dollars we have in NIL. Just look at what he’s doing at a non-basketball school in year 2 in a better conference now at Ole Miss.

His Texas team his second year was really good. Was 7-1 with two non conference wins over elite eight teams (Creighton and Gonzaga) at the time he was fired. Texas ended up finishing the year 29-9 and made the elite eight. Obviously Beard didn’t lead them there, but Rodney Terry’s results since then suggest it was the players and not his stellar coaching that got them there… Beard assembled that team. And criticizing him for Ole Miss is silly. Hes T-5th and 10-7 in the best conference in the country in his second season at a school that doesn’t give a crap about basketball.

Only Beard and his then fiancée know what happened that night. Was it a one time thing? Was this something he’s done before? Is he the stereotypical 1950s partner who slaps his partner around when his dinner is a few minutes late? We don’t know. Sometimes relationships are toxic and people do regrettable, uncharacteristic things in them. I think I read on here that his partner also had a past history of DV, but I could be mistaken. It’s not hard to imagine a set of circumstances that would lead to a drunken fight between partners. It doesn’t excuse his actions. We have free will. He could’ve chosen to remove himself from the situation. He didn’t, and he’s faced the consequences for that decision. The backstory doesn’t matter to some and I understand that, but I do think it’s important when you’re assessing the likelihood of it happening again. And if people think it’s disqualifying on its own and it doesn’t matter whether he’s likely to do it again, I have no problem with that view. I’m not clamoring for Beard as the #1 option. If we can hire someone as good or better, awesome! I’ll just be highly frustrated if Dolson passes on Beard to hire a Brownell.

You’re not missing anything on the video. The tweeter posted the back story and it’s a complete nothing burger. All it tells us is that Chris Beard was absolutely hammered around Christmas 2020, which everyone already knew he liked to do.

Lol for real. If I’m looking for input on a basketball coach (or many other things), the college professor bloc is probably the last place I’m looking. The fact they’re trying to remove Whitten says it all.

Well, if Chris Beard got into a late night drunken DV fight with my wife at his house I’d certainly have some questions..

I hate the “Indiana University - Bloomington” moniker. I keep it Indiana University on my resume.

Interviewing Beard would actually give me some confidence in Dolson for once. When you have a great coach begging for the job, you gotta at least meet with him.

I just want my gut feeling when I hear the hire to be a good one. I don’t want a coach you have to talk yourself into.

Well, you do fall within one of those categories Tom…

If I was a betting man, that’s where I’d put my money.

Seems like we’ve got three main categories here: (1) good coaches who’d take the job but IU won’t hire (2) good coaches who don’t want the job (3) unproven or underwhelming coaches

Stranger things have happened, including paying $10 million to hire Mike Woodson.

I appreciate the sarcasm, but I’ll be glad once the head coaching search is over. Either Brad ends up the coach or we can finally put the Brad Stevens hopes/conspiracies to bed once and for all.

It’s because the “positive” things are stuff like Cody Zeller catching an IU game while his wife is on tour nearby or Brad Stevens visiting his son at college in the same state as IU. Stuff completely divorced from IU’s head coaching search.

But when you combine this with Cody Zeller’s wife being on tour on the west coast at the same time IU is playing out there, it’s pretty compelling evidence..

Not the place to discuss, and this is probably a troll post, but I could absolutely see the IU donors having this mentality. Wouldn’t be the first time.