Hoosierfan2017

Yeah all the worry about the administration looking dumb if they hire Beard and he screws up, but they’ll be looking real stupid anywhere when they hire yet another doofus who sucks at the job and we’re back at it 3 years from now.

There are several others I’d try for before Beard, but other than that Pitino is totally right.

Nah the humiliation is well earned.

He would have had absolutely zero case for discrimination…

Lol no.

I think the entire fanbase is so over this season that we just don’t care anymore. The team sucks and the coach is gone in a month, so the season might as well be over already. If Ballo wants to go hide out at the Upstairs Pub or wherever he ventured off to, who cares. He’s gone in a month too regardless.

I don’t want to hire someone who flamed out at the P5 level in hopes that they can do differently with more resources. Some guys just aren’t built for the P5 level but are successful at lower levels. If we had to hire a Pitino I’d much rather go with his 72 year old dad.

Football season is way too far away.

In what world? Bennett’s worst conference record during that stretch was 12-8. Crean finished above .500 once in his last four seasons.

Yeah, idk what people are expecting out of the hire if they wouldn’t be happy with Bennett. UVA has an acceptance rate under 20%. I’m sure athletes get some wiggle room, but he wasn’t working with the same talent pool that he would at IU. NIL and the transfer portal exacerbated that. His experience at IU would be vastly different from his time at UVA. Maybe he’s still mad about IU firing his sister 20 years ago, but the people involved with that decision are all gone. Would be silly to turn the job down now for that reason.

I think that was when he first started in 2013 and they signed him to a 6 year, $22 million deal. Woj reported back in 2021 when IU tried hiring him that he was making in the high-six million to low-seven million range. In any event, he’s making enough money with Boston that IU can’t just throw money at him to get him here. He’s made it obvious he doesn’t want to be the IU coach yet I don’t think the thirsting will ever completely disappear.

He definitely makes more than $2 million. Likely a lot more than that. This article is from 8 years ago and a $2 million offer for President of basketball operations was considered a below market offer. https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/19846453/cleveland-cavaliers-offered-market-salary-former-president-basketball-ops-candidate-chauncey-billups

Ballo is example #1 of why relying on the portal is so risky. Dude started every game on a 27-9, conference winning sweet 16 team. Left that to join a team that missed the tournament entirely. Guys who do that generally don’t have winning as their top priority.

Woodson has already been fired. Do we really need to keep bumping this thread? I don’t see the point of it anymore. who am I?

IU basketball has been in hell for quite some time. Maybe a religious coach is just what we need.

He does win a bit more than our administration would like from the men’s basketball program, so I agree.

Tony Bennett?

Only Brad Stevens fan fiction allowed in here. Once the pony express delivers the contract March 2nd we’re golden.

Yeah, I just have a very hard time believing that he went from being completely powerless 11 months ago to being in “full control” now. Maybe it’s true that he was powerless, but if it was true, why believe this year will be Dolson’s decision alone?

I just think he’s getting a major pass in this situation and don’t fully buy all the “he had no power” stuff. He’s also continuing to show questionable tactics with the way the Woodson “retirement” played out. Quinn Buckner may be on his way out, but there are plenty of other folks still meddling with IU basketball. What happens when the next person steps up to the plate and tries telling Dolson what to do? I don’t see him going from being completely powerless to wielding all the power.

I didn’t. But I’m just a message board poster, not the guy paid a million dollars a year to, among other things, identify a successful basketball coach and hire him.

Who does Scott get to blame if he screws up the next basketball hire too?

Like I said, scared. Scott didn’t want to ruffle any feathers, so he brought Woodson back for year four. The yes man did what they put him in the role to do, and the guy we could’ve gotten is now sitting alone in first place 70% of the way through the conference season.

Sucks that we’ll probably miss out on Dusty because Scott was too scared to fire Woodson last spring.

He doesn’t strike me as an LA guy, and no one in LA cares about college basketball. UCLA averages 6400 fans in a 13k arena. With all the things to do in LA, it’s just not high on the priority list m. Idk what their NIL is like, but it wouldn’t surprise me if it wasn’t great either https://www.si.com/college/ucla/news/bruins-david-singleton-iii-pauley-pavilion-01jkrvkx03tr