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Scott made the safe decision for his own career. I’m not going to fault a guy for taking the self-preservation route. Dolson’s gotta eat too. But I’m also not going to have any faith in the guy after that either. Sure, he did what they told him to do and hired Woodson as a fresh new AD. What’s the excuse for retaining him for a fourth season when he allegedly had Pearl/May lined up? Pearl has the #1 team in the country, and May has the #1 team in the conference. Combined with IUFB in the playoffs, Buckner wouldn’t have been able to do anything but shout into the clouds. Dolson again made the safe decision for his pocketbook, not the best decision for IU basketball. Now both coaches are likely out of the picture along with BS.

I’m not ignoring football, but he’s not hiring a football coach. Everything basketball-related has been a disaster during his tenure. He’s got good PR with the “I wasn’t allowed to do my job” stuff, but at the end of the day, he’s the AD. The buck stops with him. The “they didn’t let me do my job” stuff just tells me he’s a yes men who’s afraid to make waves.

My criticism of Dolson is a sum of all the basketball decisions he’s made during his tenure as AD. He’ll get some benefit of the doubt when he proves himself capable.

What makes something credible info though? I don’t even know who some of these guys popping up are. When one comes out of nowhere swinging that Brad Stevens is coming, and then hours later Stevens comes out and says he’s not a candidate, it doesn’t paint the best picture:

It has absolutely nothing to do with the other candidates being butthurt and everything to do with wasting time on a lost cause when he could’ve been cultivating relationships with other candidates. Last time he allegedly thought Stevens was a done deal, had no backup plan, and ended up with Mike Woodson.

No but if he makes another atrocious hire then he deserves blame for thirsting after Brad to the detriment of other candidates. If you swing for the fences you better not strike out.

Just hire Chris Beard and get this over with. We’d be rolling by this time next year.

A hire like that would probably be enough to kill my remaining interest. It’s already on life support. I can’t do another of these cycles.

But but Scott had no choice!

So, either all the stuff about Scott wining and dining Brad over the past year was fake news, or Scott spent all that time and energy but still couldn’t close the deal. Hope it’s the former, but I’m fully prepared for Scott to hire another dud.

Bad day for Isaac Newton.

All the public evidence pointed to this exact result, so it shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone..

Good to get the pie in the sky candidate out of the way. Now we can focus on realistic candidates. Do folks prefer Micah Shrewsberry or Randy Whitman?

Zion Williamson confirmed Brad to IU.

If we gave Brad a deadline that’s a good sign that Scott knows what he’s doing. We can’t sit back and wait for Brad to make a decision. He either wants the job or he doesn’t. Schools like Michigan are looking to lock their guys up now that they know we have an opening. If the deadline passes then Scott needs to make a hard pivot to Dusty. I understand that there are limits on what you can do during the season, but it needs to be conveyed to Dusty that we’re prepared to back up the brinks truck the second we’re allowed to do so. I’m that confident in him now.

Gonna rebrand my salary as NIL so it can be tax free too..

My answer on a lot of guys is “would like to do better, we’ll probably do worse.” McCollum is one I’m not thrilled at all about, though. He’s a huge risk that IU shouldn’t have to take.

To clarify one thing on my end, I don’t think people are just making up rumors. At least not on here. I feel like pushback against “inside information” is often seen as an attack on the people posting it. I don’t think folks are coming onto btownbanners and posting fan fiction. I think they’re told things by people they know, and then they let us in on that information. Sometimes people get bad info. Other times good info becomes bad info because life happens and circumstances change. We’ll see how this all shakes out.

Well, believing that we were getting Brad Stevens last time and then seeing the “Mike Woodson has been hired as the next IU basketball coach” notification was as big a gut punch as you can get for something like this. If I don’t believe it this time around then the gut punch won’t be as bad.

Yes, I live my life not believing every rumor I hear from anonymous sources on the internet. It hasn’t hurt me yet. This is an exact repeat of four years ago. If it ends differently and we actually get Brad Stevens? Great! We’ll all be happy. But if it ends the same way, hopefully that’ll be the end to the Stevens rumors and people can finally move on.

I’ll believe Scott Dolson can hire a great basketball coach when he actually goes out and does it. Everything basketball-related decision during his tenure has been a disaster.

We “had our guy” last time too and then ended up with Mike Freaking Woodson… I really hope Dolson actually has other guys lined up this time. Otherwise, come on down Coach Randy. We’ll become one last multi-million dollar payday for retirement age former Hoosiers.

Let’s hope Dolson actually knows what he’s doing this time and doesn’t end up striking out like he did in 2021. Hope he’s not relying on the Stevens prayer again.

I don’t really like the players either.